MAKING YOUR BUSINESS BETTER
Marketing Strategies Unique To Your Industry
At cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer, we’re known for the largest news audience in Northeast Ohio. But we are also digital marketing and media experts. Whether as a full-service agency or as consultants to your in-house staff, we’re proven leaders in digital marketing, with world-class creative, cutting-edge digital services, and the know-how to drive your growing business into the future.
Reach Your Audience Beyond Our Site And Newspapers
Expert Audience Targeting, Direct or Programmatic
We don’t just find audiences on our own site or newspapers. Our team uses print and digital strategies to reach your audience wherever they may be, on any device they are using. We equipped to serve your most global strategy or a tiny, geographically specific audience, wherever they are.
We Serve Growing Businesses, Large and Small
With specialties in Healthcare, Travel, Education and Retail
Education
Student Recruitment, Retention, and Enrollment Yield, or Alumni Engagement and Advancement, or Both
What We Do
HERE'S HOW
Lead Generators
We grow businesses we partner with, and marketing isn’t the only way. Lead Generation is a specialty, using data you already have to create your next best customer.
Lead Generators
We grow businesses we partner with, and marketing isn’t the only way. Lead Generation is a specialty, using data you already have to create your next best customer.
Business Consultants
Not every business needs a marketing agency, but most need services that will make their marketing more effective or efficient. Our professional team is filled with knowledgeable media strategists, able to adjust recommendations to match the needs of our clients. We are product agnostic, driving performance of your marketing with your KPIs as the measuring stick for success.
Media Specialists
A multi-channel approach is often best in advertising and media. Serving the right message to the right person at the right time is truly a science, and must appear in your audience’s natural internet and real-world travels in a highly curated and personalized way.
Analytics and Insights
Using data to your advantage and helping your campaigns achieve your goals is what we do. With the largest audience in Greater Cleveland, we know first-hand what drives audiences to action. Add to this expert tracking and reporting, and you will quickly find you have more information to make decisions than ever before.
Differentiator: Reporting, Insights, and Analytics
Making Your Marketing Work, with Insights
It isn’t enough to have attractive creative, or post on Facebook every day. Real strategy is rooted in business intelligence, which begins with data. Advance Ohio is the leader in first-party consumer data, which means we understand what your customer needs to be convinced to take action. Let’s chat!
OUR EXPERTISE
Case Studies
Camp for Autism Patients Full in 3 Weeks
Our primary goal in marketing this facility was to fill camp registrations. Our campaign, slated to run until the camp’s registration deadline, was paused after…
Mayoral Race Uses Social Display, OTT for Results
By 2022, the stage was set for a rematch. Our firm was employed by The Committee to elect Sheldon Neeley to provide media services leading…
Healthcare Organization Grows to 5 Locations
Catherine’s experienced an immediate lift of 40% in organic site traffic, and 60% in direct site traffic. This experienced also refined the geographies from which…

What is Chat GPT?
Chat GPT has the first-mover advantage but isn’t the only game in town. If this technology interests you, now is the time to jump in and play with all the AI products out there.

Understanding What Converts An Audience
Look deeper to understand how creative performance can drive downstream decisions about messaging your audience.

Strategy Question: Programmatic or Direct Impressions?
Great targeting means fewer wasted ad dollars spent on non-converting leads.
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Grow Your Business
This is the new MLIVE MEDIA GROUP.
Our business is making your business smarter.