
Is Deep Linking The New Digital Marketing Battleground?
In a mobile-first era with sinking conversion rates (due to cross-device tracking challenges) and high levels of distraction, most of our...

Google’s Waze Trials Carpooling Service In Tel Aviv, Israel
According to the Jerusalem Post and Reuters, Google’s Waze is testing a carpool service in Israel. Named RideWith, it will match riders...

Mobile App Push Notifications Drive 90-Day Retention Rates By As Much As 180%
For opted-in users, push notifications drove the average 90-day retention rate by 180 percent, with a 27.6 percent retention rate for...

Google Addresses Fat Finger Ad Clicks On Mobile
The other day, I became some poor advertiser’s worst enemy. I accidentally clicked on an ad in an article like the one on the left above...

Is Google’s Mobilegeddon Scaring Website Owners Into Bad Design Decisions?
“We aren’t worrying about our mobile traffic right now.” At my company Conversion Sciences, this is what we’ve heard from many — if not...

Report: Time With Apps Growing But Number Of Apps Used Is Not
While time spent with apps has grown dramatically, the number of apps used by people on a monthly basis has not. That’s according to new...

Google: YouTube Has Been The Cause Of Declining CPCs This Whole Time
Last quarter, Google reported that clicks to Google sites (Google.com, Gmail, Maps, YouTube) increased by 25 percent year-over-year...

Mobilegeddon Hits & Misses
It has been more than a month since Google’s mobile update occurred, and many marketers are moving on to the next thing, having not seen...

Google Says Micro-Moments Are The New Path To Purchase
Last month, when Google announced several mobile-centric updates for AdWords — shiny image-based ads for car manufacturers and hotels,...

Another “Market Abuse” Android Complaint Filed Against Google In Europe
Disconnect makes privacy and security apps. The company says that Google removed its new app from Google Play because it allegedly...

Button Platform Extends The Value Of Apps With Selective, Contextual Linking
Google and Facebook are racing to make the mobile app world safe for “deep linking.” The idea is that mobile apps should emulate and...

Google Announces Major Ads Push To Court App Developers
In a sign of the heated competition for the billions developers now devote to app install and engagement ads, Google is making app...

Report: Google Had $12 Billion In Mobile Search Revenue, 75 Percent From iOS
Yesterday the New York Times writer Farhad Manjoo exposed part of a Goldman Sachs report about Google in which the firm estimated that...

Google Confirms “Buy” Button Is Coming To Search Ads
Google has just confirmed the report that it will enable “buy now” buttons on some mobile ads. In an interview at Re/Code’s Code...

Store Visits And Offline Spending Data Will Drive Massive Mobile Ad Growth
Lack of clear ROI has held many advertisers back from investing more in mobile. That’s all about to change as increasing amounts of data...

The Mobilegeddon That Wasn’t. What Happened?
Google’s April 21 mobile-friendly update, generally referred to as “Mobilegeddon” was announced a few months ago. Fear and anxiety spread...

[Report] European Mobile Carriers Consider Targeting Google By Blocking Mobile Ads
The Financial Times reported Thursday that several European mobile carriers plan to block advertising as a way to stand up to the likes...

Millennial-Mobile “How-To” Searches Explode On YouTube
Google says that “how-to” searches on YouTube have grown 70 percent year-over-year, adding that “more than 100 million hours of how-to...

Facebook Instant Articles: A Slippery Slope For Google To Do The Same, Hurting The Web?
Today, Facebook announced Instant Articles, a way for publishers to post stories directly on Facebook. We’ve known this would be coming,...
























