Marketing Strategies

Founded in 2007, Rakuten Viki is the leading video streaming platform for Asian entertainment. 

A new year brings with it new trends and opportunities in digital marketing. After a tough year where we all had to find new ways to navigate this new world, we are introducing the 2021 digital trends and uncovering possibilities in the digital marketing space to stay ahead of your competition and have a productive year.

Making New Year’s resolutions is a time-honored tradition. The turning of the page on our calendars represents an opportunity to start fresh, to build on our successes from the previous year and to make resolutions to improve upon our shortcomings.

People are spending more time at home and because of that, they’re also spending more time streaming video online.

A recent consumer study by Rakuten Advertising revealed that 57% of global consumers have indicated that they will shop both in-store and online this peak shopping season.

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced brands and marketers worldwide to get creative when it comes to allocating budget, promoting products and offers, and appealing to rapidly changing consumer attitudes and behaviors.

Mobile in-app tracking allows advertisers to track conversions that occur on an advertiser’s mobile app, effectively allowing an advertiser to extend their campaigns to account for a mobile app user and ultimately to help them get a clearer view of their overall affiliate program.

In 2019, our affiliate product team released features that expanded an advertiser’s ability to create variable commissioning structures for their offers.

The consumer journey is more complex today than ever before.

Health and safety are top of mind with all of us during the COVID-19 pandemic. In our personal and our professional lives, just about everyone has had to make adjustments.

Just because you’ve stopped starting all your emails with “Happy New Year” doesn’t mean you should stop exploring new digital marketing strategies.

Digital ad spending in the travel space has grown exponentially over the past five years. eMarketer projects that travel advertisers in the US will spend $12.97 billion on digital advertising in 2020, more than double the $5.95 billion they spent in 2016. This post reveals how travel marketers can leverage affiliate marketing to increase bookings.