
Blogging Via Google Glass? Yep, New Plugin Makes It Possible
Google I/O conference, or perhaps coverage of our upcoming SMX West conference, involves some live blogging … from Google Glass. Yep....

Google: Gmail Image Change May Improve Open Rate Data, But Will Strip Other User Data
Google announced today that it’s going to start serving images sent to Gmail users from its own servers, not from the sender’s servers....

Gmail Changes To Show Images: Good Or Bad News For Tracking Email Marketing?
We’ve published an updated story with information from Google about what today’s change means for tracking email marketing. Please see...

Google AdSense Now Enables Publishers To Set Custom Ad Sizes
Google will determine the number of text ads that appear in an ad unit, and may change the results for a given impression. According to...

YouTube To Make $5.6 Billion In Global Ad Revenue This Year
analysis performed by eMarketer, YouTube will make $5.6 billion in gross ad revenue in 2013. Of that figure, YouTube will see $1.96...

Auto-Generated Vs. Pro-Designed Display Ads: How Much Does Creative Matter?
test by Dispop, a self-serve display platform that enables advertisers to crowdsource display ad creative from graphic designers. The...

Google Tests Social Ads, Turns Google+ Posts Into Display Ads To Show Across The Web
Brands can take content posted on Google+ and turn photos, videos and even Hangouts into display ads. Rather than have the ads served...

Google Glass’ 3rd Tour Stop Is Austin, TX, Next Weekend
The public is invited to get a hands-on experience with Glass and visit with Google’s “Glass guides” to ask questions and learn how Glass...

Google Automatically Creates New Orkut Accounts For Any Logged-in Google User That Visits Orkut.com
If you have a Google account — and who among us doesn’t? — you might want to be careful about visiting Google’s other social network,...

Burger King’s 64 YouTube Ads Turn Pre-Roll On Its Head With A Laugh
The ads directly acknowledge how annoying they are. Two young guys sit around a Burger King table and lament the fact that the male...

Mobile Anchor Ads Now Rolling Out For Google AdSense Publishers
introducing mobile anchor ads for AdSense publishers to help monetize mobile traffic. The ads are 320×50 banners that appear at the...

EU Privacy Complaint Takes Aim At Google’s ‘Shared Endorsements’ Ad Content
Simon Davies has filed a formal privacy complaint in 14 European countries against Google’s expanded “Shared Endorsements” ad program....

Google Quietly Debuts Viewable Impression CPM Bidding In AdWords
received MRC accreditation for its Active View product to measure impressions by viewability. The company then stated that it would be...

Location Sharing Along With Photo & Video Backups Arrive On The Google+ iOS App
This weekend, Google updated the Google+ iOS app that allows for full resolution backups of all photos and videos as well as a...

BI Report: Google Glass Will Sell 21 Million Units By 2018
new Business Insider (BI) analyst report out this week. “Despite the clunkiness and awkwardness of the early beta version of Glass, we...

Google Testing New AdSense Ads With Logos
Here is a screenshot @netmeg sent to Barry Schwartz yesterday: These ads also feature the large blue round arrow “button” to encourage...

German Court: Google Privacy Policy Violates Consumer Rights
report from IDG news service. Google has had trouble and been criticized in Europe since consolidating its many privacy policies into one...

Google Launches Plastic “Wallet Card” To Revive Payments Initiative
launched with very high expectations in September 2011. Its key personnel left (or were ousted) and it has effectively been blocked or...

What’s Going On Beneath All Those Social Media Interactions?
Google captures many images which contain data that can’t be easily deciphered by machines, such as scans of old manuscripts and...
























