
Privacy issues may be hurting smart speaker market growth
Privacy concerns are starting to weigh on adoption of smart speakers and may even be dampening usage among existing owners, the latest...

Google Nest Hub Max: A new weapon in the smart home battle against Alexa
As expected, Google introduced a new 10-inch screen smart display at Google I/O. Google smart displays and speakers have now been...

Google App Actions expands with four new categories
App Actions, first previewed at last year’s Google I/O, is expanding with built-in intents for four new App Action categories: health and...

Privacy could be hurting Facebook Portal sales
When Facebook’s smart display was released last year, it received mixed-to-positive reviews. However, a substantial number of them also...

Adobe: 47% of smart speaker owners using device in shopping process
Adobe. And it supports the narrative that smart speakers are an important, emerging commerce channel. Adobe surveyed 1,000 US consumers,...

Report: Google Home beats Amazon Alexa in Q1 global device shipments
According to a new quarterly tracking estimate from Canalys, Google shipped more smart speakers in Q1 2018 than Amazon. Globally, the...

Voice agents and interfaces will require many new marketing strategies
The base of Amazon Echo, a smart speaker home of voice agent Alexa Every new marketing delivery system — such as TV, websites, social...

Voice search: Content may be king, but context is queen in the new voice-first world
In 2016, Google said that 20 percent of all mobile queries were voice searches. Since that time, the number of virtual assistants in US...

Google Assistant comes to iPhone, adds alerts, hands-free calling & more
Google Assistant was one of the stars of Wednesday’s keynote at I/O 2017. It’s gained a number of new features and expanded beyond its...

Why the future is all about PASO — personal assistant search optimization
Personal assistants (PAs) aren’t just digital assistants that can be used to perform routine tasks. They’re also the future of SEO....

Cortana comes to Android’s lockscreen, Siri does some new tricks
Earlier this year we reported that Cortana was coming to the Android lockscreen. Now it has officially launched. Here are some of the...

Your guide to using Google Assistant and the Google search app on Android & iPhone
Google Assistant has now come to Android phones beyond Google’s own Pixel. It’s a significant change to how Google’s previously offered...

Alexa, can you acquire new customers for marketers?
The family of Amazon Alexa devices “Alexa, order ketchup.” “Okay. Would you like me to re-order Heinz –“ “Sure.” “– or would you like to...

Digital assistants, conversational search and the future of local
Traditional search has us conditioned to speak like cavemen: choppy sentences, verbs optional. But that’s all starting to change with the...

SEO without search results is here with Google Assistant, Home and Amazon Echo. Here’s how to surviv
On the first full day that we had a Google Home in our house, we interacted with it 473 times over the course of the day. Four hundred of...

[Podcast] Marketing Land Live #34: Google Home vs. Amazon Echo with USA Today’s Jefferson Grah
Google’s first in-home speaker/assistant, appropriately called Google Home, is now arriving for those who placed the first orders last...

Will usability issues hinder Google Assistant, the star of Google’s new Pixel phone?
Google Pixel smartphone over one of the many competitors out there, including the iPhone? Google’s betting big that the new “Google...






















