
Report: Engagement with branded content on mobile 63% higher vs. PC
It’s now well established that people spend more time with their smartphones than they do with their PCs. The obvious implication of that...

Mobile vs. desktop: Are you optimizing both experiences?
according to ComScore. This is a trend that will only become more pronounced over the next 10 years, as both business and personal users...

5 reasons to keep doing mobile SEO even though ads are everywhere
“Why would we continue to pay any attention to organic search on mobile when Google is only showing ads?” she says. “I just read a report...

Pinterest acquires mobile ad tech talent, but not the tech, because content
Pinterest has acquired the team — but not the technology or any other asset — from mobile ad-tech company URX, the social network/visual...

Maximizing your mobile impact
d8nn / Shutterstock.com Whenever people talk about mobile search, one of the first things that always comes to mind is location,...

Go ahead and swing at mobile, marketers — even if you miss
Let’s get something straight today that every major league baseball player already knows: It’s impossible to hit a home run if you...

Echo/Alexa device lineup now outselling Kindles for Amazon [Report]
Yesterday, Amazon reported better-than-expected quarterly earnings: $29.1 billion in sales and $513 million in earnings. In the earnings...

This app “Contains ads” label starts showing in Google Play store
Last year, Google began requiring developers to note whether their apps are ad-supported. This week, the company has begun rolling out a...

Twitter recategorized itself from “social networking” to “news” in Apple’s A
Twitter’s not a social network anymore; it’s in the news industry, at least that’s what its iOS app indicates. Twitter appears to have...

AdSense mobile Page-level ads now available to all publishers
Google has rolled out two new ad types for mobile AdSense publishers. Grouped under what Google calls Page-level ads, Anchor and Vignette...

Mobile-friendly redesigns: Experiment on your current site
I’ve written before about the dangers of designing a mobile-friendly website using responsive web design (RWD). To summarize, we’re fond...

Musical chairs: where do beacons fit in the retail sensor landscape?
Beacons are interesting retail technologies to watch. We already know that big brands like Macy’s and Target are testing beacons in their...

The complicated local path to purchase: 7 marketing tasks to do yourself and 7 to outsource
Today’s consumers have lots of options to find local businesses, and they use them all. There’s no fixed path to purchase — customers...

PaperG, now “Thunder,” offering cross-channel creative tools for display and social
PaperG began in roughly 2007 as an automated display ad creation tool for the small business (SMB) market. It evolved into an enterprise...

OpenX: Mobile topped 50 percent of global volume in Q1; Higher CPMs on apps than mobile web
OpenX, which operates a programmatic platform that includes an ad exchange and supply-side platform, reported Tuesday that more than 50...

How to tailor your app display ads to targeted segments
Segmentation is picking up steam as one of the biggest digital marketing buzzwords of 2016, and it’s proven to be highly effective in...

US digital ad revenues top $59.6 billion in 2015, up 20 percent to hit another high
Another year, another record and double-digit growth for digital advertising in the US. Digital ad spend topped $59.6 billion in 2015, a...

Google News gets AMP’ed with new carousel feature, more stories in the feed
Google is adding a new AMP carousel and more AMP-enabled content to its mobile News site and apps. The horizontally scrolling carousel...

5 must-do push notification best practices for mobile marketers
Burning and churning. If you had asked me a year or two ago, those aren’t words I would’ve used to describe the status of your average...
























