{"id":1489,"date":"2018-01-15T18:14:32","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T22:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adbiblio.com\/blog\/?p=1489"},"modified":"2023-02-08T12:44:27","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T16:44:27","slug":"ss-case-study-the-newcomers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adbiblio.com\/blog\/ss-case-study-the-newcomers\/","title":{"rendered":"S&#038;S Case Study: The Newcomers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We get to advertise a lot of really unique and empowering books here at AdBiblio, and this one was no exception. When Simon and Schuster came to us with <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/books\/The-Newcomers\/Helen-Thorpe\/9781501159091\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Newcomers<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, we were thrilled to help share this enlightening book with readers. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Newcomers<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> follows the lives of twenty-two immigrant teenagers throughout the course of the 2015-2016 school year at South High School in Denver, Colorado. In order to really document their journey, author and journalist Helen Thorpe spent the whole year charting the students\u2019 progress in <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">an English language acquisition class. It is an intimate look at refugee teens\u2019 lives, and a powerful book that will open the eyes of anyone reading.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1491\" style=\"align: center; margin-left: 200px;\" src=\"http:\/\/adbiblio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/59932-newcomers-adbiblio300x250.gif\" alt=\"59932-newcomers-adbiblio300x250\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To reach the right audience, we focused on a wide range of those who might be drawn to<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The Newcomers <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013&nbsp;from those in occupations such as teaching ESL, &nbsp;therapy, and social work \u2013 to liberals and activists with a strong interest in immigration and emigration. In addition, we added in our powerful parallel genre targeting to reach those with a strong interest in similar immigration-related memoirs like <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Nation of Nations: A Great American Immigration Story<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by Tom Gjelten and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Where the Wind Leads: A Refugee Family&#8217;s Miraculous Story of Loss, Rescue, and Redemption<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by Dr. Vinh Chung.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1494\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" src=\"http:\/\/adbiblio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/TheNewcomers-PsychologyToday-1.png\" alt=\"TheNewcomers-PsychologyToday\" width=\"571\" height=\"357\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We included both native and banner ads to reach the targeted audience, with some of the top performing sites being <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BBC, The Guardian<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bustle<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The campaign included both native and banners ads &#8211; with the banner portion ending with a .08% CTR, &nbsp;and native wrapping up with a&nbsp;great CTR of .22%. Counselors, Teachers and those with a strong interest in politics were the strongest group of readers to interact with the ad!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1495\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" src=\"http:\/\/adbiblio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/TheNewcomers-Native-USAToday-1.png\" alt=\"TheNewcomers-Native-USAToday\" width=\"436\" height=\"273\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To read more about Helen Thorpe&#8217;s journey with these students, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/books\/The-Newcomers\/Helen-Thorpe\/9781501159091\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">get your copy here!<\/a> And t<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">o set up your own AdBiblio campaign today, &nbsp;you can find me here \u2013\u2013&gt; &nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"mailto:marybeth@adbiblio.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">marybeth@adbiblio.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">! <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We get to advertise a lot of really unique and empowering books here at AdBiblio, and this one was no exception. When Simon and Schuster came to us with The Newcomers, we were thrilled to help share this enlightening book with readers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168,31,165],"tags":[29,49,74,11,10,97],"class_list":["post-1489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult","category-case-studies","category-ya","tag-case-study","tag-memoir","tag-non-fiction","tag-publishers","tag-publishing","tag-simon-and-schuster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adbiblio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adbiblio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adbiblio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adbiblio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adbiblio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1489"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/adbiblio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4261,"href":"https:\/\/adbiblio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions\/4261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adbiblio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adbiblio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adbiblio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adbiblio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}