What this book covers
Simon Kingsnorth places paid channels within a broader digital strategy. The fourth edition's value for an agency owner is its breadth: it helps connect channel recommendations with the client's objectives and customer experience. Use it when several specialists have produced competent plans that still need to become one coherent programme.
Bring it to your work
Put one paid campaign alongside the wider marketing plan. Identify dependencies on customer experience, content and measurement that the campaign team cannot solve alone. PMC editorial prompt, not a quoted book exercise or tested outcome.
Access and review scope
The selected reference is the fourth-edition paperback from November 2025. Earlier editions are separate edition records, not additional books. Publisher description, contents and bibliographic details reviewed; full book not read. Emerging-technology coverage does not establish investment priority or current interface accuracy.
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Edition & source notes
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- Reference edition
- Fourth edition; paperback
- Format
- paperback
- Reference edition date
- 3 November 2025
- ISBN-13
- 9781398622067
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Reading context: Fourth edition, 2025.
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The selected reference is the fourth-edition paperback from November 2025. Earlier editions are separate edition records, not additional books.
Publisher description, contents and bibliographic details reviewed; full book not read. Emerging-technology coverage does not establish investment priority or current interface accuracy.
Source facts and reading prompts prepared with AI assistance. The named authors and linked publishers retain credit for the original work. Source verification is separate from an assessment of current platform tactics.
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