Akero announces Unibuddy partnership
You can now plug peer-to-peer campaigns into your marketing tech stack thanks to Akero’s new partnership with Unibuddy, the live student connection platform.
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Three reasons why you should embrace omnichannel marketing
Omnichannel marketing is a term that has been on the landscape for several years now, yet it is only recently that it has finally settled in as an accepted term. Whether or...
Don’t miss out on any of your budget - here are your quick, tactical Clearing wins
Clearing is here and this year, it’s bigger and more disruptive than ever. With the pandemic throwing students’ plans into disarray, and a huge four-in-10 now considering...
Top tips to increase conversions this Clearing
In the lead up to Results Day, it’s vital to not only think about your advertising but also what happens when your hard-won awareness translates into a form submission.
We’re finalists in the AI & Machine Learning Awards!
We’re extremely pleased to announce that Akero has been shortlisted for Most Innovative AI Solution in this year’s Computing AI & Machine Learning Awards.
Taking advantage of the lockdown online learning boom
In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, we all knew that the education sector would be impacted by the changes, and straight away we began to see that online learning was...
It’s time to Test and Learn
In order to maximise advertising performance, it’s crucial that we know which parts of our strategies are working well, and which areas we need to perfect. This can be...
Akero shortlisted for Global Software Innovation at the Global Digital Excellence Awards
Now, more than ever, we need to celebrate the wins where we find them. And we’re extremely excited to announce that Akero has been shortlisted in the Global Software...
An Open Letter from The CEO
I was a student when civil unrest arose in response to the vicious beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers. Then the question we all asked ourselves was “how...
How the right applicant nurture strategy could turn a deferrer into an enrolled student
Online course promotion 101
It goes without saying that the world of education has had to evolve drastically in the first six months of 2020.
Announcing Slate CRM & Akero Advertising Partnership
More than 1,000 US colleges and universities are now able to plug digital advertising straight into their CRM with the launch of Akero and Slate’s partnership.
Get in the game - the advertising potential of esports
Gen Z and their successors Gen Alpha are demographics that are playing by their own handbook when it comes to content and consumption. The era of pure promotion and...
4 things every student marketer needs to consider when thinking about landing page optimisation
As results day is going ahead, now is such a pivotal time in the year for institutions to attract students. So it’s important to make every message count. This means that...
Akero highly commended at Drum Search Awards
During lockdown, it’s easy to feel like every day is the same, blurring into one long week. So it’s important, every now and again, to come up for air, remind yourself what...
How COVID-19 has impacted our online presence across platforms
The way people spend their time online has changed drastically following the coronavirus outbreak, with social media usage through the roof as users seek to remain connected...
The resurgence of desktop browsing
An intriguing byproduct of this lockdown has been how it has impacted our browsing behaviour, particularly our device preferences, which have shifted substantially. The...
The power of a captive audience and the effects of India’s lockdown
While the path of an international student in 2020/21 is still somewhat unknown, to cease advertising completely is definitely not something we’d recommend. Students are...
Advertising in the Time of COVID-19
With stringent social distancing measures being implemented pretty much everywhere, media consumption among students has gone almost entirely online. The higher education...
Social media in times of social distance: Insights powered by Edurank
So much of what we rely on to remain the same, day in and day out, has shifted. But one thing that hasn’t completely jolted is students’ loyalty to social media. A generation...
The recipe to reassuring
As we move into the next stages of the COVID-19 outbreak in the UK, we are beginning to get some form of clarity of where things will go this year and potentially in the...
