
Android Closing Gap In Mobile Ad Revenue, Up 3 Percent In Q3 To 41.8 Pct. [Report]
Opera Mediaworks released its 2014 State of Mobile Advertising report today. The report encompasses 90 percent of the top Ad Age global...

U.S. Programmatic Ad Spend To Top $10 Billion In 2014 And Double By 2016 [eMarketer]
Programmatic — automated digital ad buying — is on fire in the U.S, with adoption rising quickly this year. New data from eMarketer pegs...

Holiday E-Commerce Sales Expected To Rise 8 – 11 Percent This Year
E-commerce sales are expected to rise between eight and 11 percent this holiday shopping season. That’s the word from Shop.org, which...

A New Click Through Rate Study For Google Organic Results
Advanced Web Ranking has released a study showing fresh data on the click-through-rate from Google’s organic search results. The data was...

Gigya Survey: 77% Of Consumers Say They Have Used Social Logins
Driven by a strong preference for convenience and a limited wariness about privacy, U.S. consumers have sharply increased their use of...

86 Percent Of Online Retailers Expect Holiday Sales Growth In 2014
Coming off an estimated 12 percent growth during the 2013 holidays, online retailers are expecting even fuller stockings this holiday...

U.S. Online Display Ad Spending Grew 6.2 Percent In Q2 [Kantar]
Online display advertising had a strong showing in the second quarter of 2014. The sector grew 6.2 percent in Q2, outperforming the...

Here’s What 2.7 Billion Social Shares Say About Content Marketing
Campaign reach is one of the linchpins of successful content marketing. With the right media relations approach, your content marketing...

We’re Watching More Video Online, But Nowhere Near As Much As We Watch TV [Nielsen]
There’s no questioning the rise in online video viewing, but U.S. adults are still watching a lot more video on their television sets...

Survey Of 500+ Publishers Reveals How They Want To Be Pitched
Several months ago, I read an interesting study on publisher outreach. The writer had surveyed 100 bloggers in the food/parenting niche...

The Shelf Life Of A Mobile Ad: Shorter Than You May Think
When a user loads a webpage, they aren’t doing so with the intent of clicking on an ad. Yet, millions and millions of users do just that...

Pinterest Tops Social Media User Satisfaction Survey, But The Bar Is Low
There’s good news and bad for the social media industry in the latest American Customer Satisfaction Index Customer released Monday. The...

Reports Show Paid Search Spend Is Up Over Last Year
Second quarter reports coming out from the large search marketing firms this week point to continued growth in paid search investment in...

Report: Social Sharing On Mobile Devices Surges 30% In Second Quarter
Adding to the evidence that 2014 is a mobile tipping point, social data and sharing tool provider ShareThis reported today that sharing...

Mobile Ad Revenues To Surpass Newspapers, Magazines, Radio This Year — Forecast
According to a new forecast from eMarketer, total media spending in the US will see its largest increase in a decade reaching $180.1...

4 Data-Driven Tips For A Successful Mobile Marketing Plan
With the 2013 mobile e-commerce market valued at $43 billion and mobile traffic making up nearly 50% of site visits in the first quarter...

5 Key Trends To Watch (And Use) In Mobile/Location-Based Marketing
As more and more users do more and more on their smart phones and tablets, understanding the needs and wants of prospects and customers...

Tablets Vs. Smartphones: Online Engagement Patterns Present Opportunities
Two of the overarching goals for online marketers are maximizing the reach of their campaigns and increasing engagement levels. While...

Interactive Content: The Successor Of The Landing Page
I’ve written about marketing apps and their role in the 4th wave of content marketing in my past two columns, describing some of the...
























