
Apple’s move to kill cookies isn’t a crisis — It’s an opportunity
cookie-blocking to a whole new level and will drastically impact a brand’s ability to maintain direct relationships with its customers....

Apocalypse for online search? Here’s how marketers can thrive
When Google launched in 1998, the big knock against it was that it would be excruciatingly difficult to monetize the traffic because all...

All the devices Google announced Oct. 4 at its ‘made by Google’ hardware event
In San Francisco on October 4, Google held its “Made by Google” hardware event. This comes in the wake of Apple’s recent iPhone X launch...

With Snap Accelerate, Snapchat pursues mobile startups that built Facebook’s ad biz
A newly public company with mounting concerns over the viability of its advertising business, Snapchat in 2017 resembles Facebook in...

Organizing your company to win in mobile
One reason is that they’re not organized well enough to address mobile. For many companies operating in the mobile space, something still...

Tracking the Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) Project
AMP isn’t quite a household acronym yet, but it has big implications for virtually everyone with web access. The Accelerated Mobile Pages...

Retailers, get ready: It’s the most mobile time of year
Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales cycle, followed immediately by December’s holiday shopping frenzy. This holiday season is set to be...

How Valassis used bots on Facebook Messenger to drive offline auto sales
Bots are often discussed as a kind of magic solution for marketers: scalable, customizable and attractive to millennials. Some of that is...

Body Shop and Urban Airship turn mobile wallets into brand and social engagement tool
Mobile wallets remain underappreciated and underutilized by retailers. Mobile wallet passes are more lightweight than full-blown retail...

Report: Amazon readying launch of Alexa-powered smart glasses
According to a report in Financial Times, Amazon is working on “smart glasses” powered by its intelligent agent, Alexa. The report says...

To mobile consumers, impatience is a virtue: How the on-demand economy is reshaping micro-moments
Impatience is a virtue. This just might be the mantra for today’s connected consumer. They live in an on-demand economy where, with a few...

Apple debuts iPhone 8 and $1K iPhone X with ‘Face ID’
Most of what was announced today has already been written about at length because of leaks. So the drama that used to come with Apple...

Google Analytics adds feature to unify users to Google AMP Cache pages & non-AMP pages
As more site owners have adopted AMP for speeding up mobile pages, measurement has lagged. That’s quickly changing. A visitor who went to...

Google responds to Apple’s Intelligent Tracking Prevention with AdWords tracking update
Starting this month, Google is making changes to the way it captures and reports on conversions in AdWords in the response to Apple’s...

Report: Only 1% of exchange location data useful for offline attribution
Location data has become a kind of Swiss Army Knife for digital marketing. It can be used for audience targeting and segmentation, for...

Branch now offers its Deep Linked Email solution on a majority of ESPs
Let’s say you open an email on your phone about a new travel package to Italy. You click on a link in the email, and it takes you right...

Yelp introduces custom (local) audiences for national advertisers
Roughly two years ago, Yelp phased out its display ad unit for national advertisers. Earlier this week, the company introduced a new...

Google Home partnership with Condé Nast’s Vogue offers new model for publishers
In what is sure to be a model for other publishers, last week Google and Vogue magazine announced a partnership that offers “behind the...

It’s Amazon vs. Google as we enter a new era of online-to-offline commerce
The major advantage that traditional retailers had over Amazon was the availability and immediacy of stores. You could see and touch...
























