Meta has just rolled out an ad-free subscription model in Europe, stirring the pot for place marketing professionals. We explore the effects and what it could mean for place marketing strategies.

What Talent Wants: Capturing What Europe’s Workforce Looks For in Jobs & Locations provides insights from nearly 650 European-based talents who recently relocated about what drove their decisions on where to move.

Success stories capitalize on a fundamental source of credibility – social proof. Here’s how to build them correctly.

Leads are often the defining metric in IPA marketing, but what about brand awareness? We propose a framework for measuring the latter.

Leads are the primary metric that investment promotion agencies are using to justify marketing spend. So does lead capture work?

Artificial intelligence is undoubtedly one of the most promising technologies of our era with its capacity to enhance automation and streamline processes across various sectors. But just how good is it? Here’s our view.

Are you early in your talent attraction journey? Here are 5 insights to set your investment promotion agency on the right path.

How can cities and countries gain credibility among executives and talents with their messaging? Here’s a framework to start.

Platforms are prioritizing content that keeps users from clicking out, which can hurt your website metrics. Here’s what zero-click is and how to work with it.

The Benelux region forms the 3rd largest source market for FDI projects in Europe, but often sits much further down on the priority order for EDOs. Here’s why you should think differently about the region.

When is the last time you evaluated your IPA's digital reputation? The strength of a city or country’s online reputation can make or break its success in place marketing. Here’s how to start.

Our team has reviewed hundreds of websites for economic development agencies. Here are the common SEO issues impacting how executives and talents are finding your location.

Alignment between sales and marketing is lacking in the investment promotion industry. Here’s how to fix that.

Winning Strategies in Investment Promotion Marketing provides insights from nearly 250 European-based executives involved in making location decisions.

The last of our four-part series on insights from our own site selection process focuses on selecting our future location.

OCO Global, a technology enabled advisory firm focused on trade, investment and economic development, and DCI, marketing specialists in economic development, talent attraction and tourism, bring together more than 80 years of combined agency history and 250 experts from around the world. Based in the Netherlands, C Studios is led by DCI veteran Steve Duncan as managing director and offers the full spectrum of digital marketing strategy and demand generation services.

This is the third of a four-part series on insights from our own site selection process for C Studios, where finding information we needed became a challenge.

This is the second of a four-part series on insights from our own site selection process for C Studios, which shows IPAs have a lot of work ahead to be “discovered.”

As we reviewed locations for our C Studios joint venture, our parent agencies DCI and OCO engaged in our own site selection process. What we found from the other side of the curtain was revealing. This four-part series shows what we learned, starting with how perceptions drove early decisions.

Building an economic development marketing strategy for digital advertising can be overwhelming, with a wide range of advertising channels and platforms available to showcase your brand.