Here’s our recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on Marketing Land and other places across the Web.
From Marketing Land:
Ranking All-Time iOS Apps: Facebook Most Downloaded, Pandora Top Grossing App Annie released a report that presents the most downloaded iPhone and iPad apps and games “of all time.” The company also ranks the apps that have generated the most global revenue to date.
Google Could See Big Lift In TrueView Adoption: Folds Video Ad Campaigns Into Main AdWords UI In a major update, advertisers will be able to manage and report on their YouTube video ads alongside other AdWords campaign types.
Do Your Vendors Play Well Together? 4 Keys For Harmonizing Your Marketing Applications A bevy of disparate marketing applications can leave many marketers feeling isolated. Columnist Erik Bratt discusses how to get vendors to work together and why it will result in a better customer experience.
Are You Attribution-Ready? If you want maximize the return from your marketing programs, attribution is a no-brainer. Columnist Eric Dezendorf has some tips on how to become attribution-ready.
LinkedIn Messaging Gets Overhaul For A More Casual Chat Experience With Connections Lightweight conversations have made their way to LinkedIn thanks to the new messaging experience. Now with 100% more GIFs, Stickers and Emojis!
Twitter Ads Are Now Available Pretty Much Everywhere Twitter extends access to its self-service ad dashboard to more than 200 countries and territories. Company also reports it has about 100,000 active advertisers.
Hyper-Personalization: How To Use Data To Build Loyal Customer Relationships Columnist Josh Manion believes retailers can learn a lot from Starbucks, which skillfully leverages data in order to gain customer loyalty and build its brand.
Content Marketing Platform NewsCred Announces $42M Funding Round Company has raised almost $90 million in all, says its customer base has doubled and recurring annual revenue has tripled in the past year.
Google Declares War On App Install Problem It Helped Create Google will penalize sites that use big ads to convert mobile users to install apps. But the same users finding those ads annoying might have issues with Google’s own pushing of apps in search.
Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:
Bing iOS App Gets A Refresh With Updates To Bing News & New Bing Interests Feature
Data-Driven ROI & Avoiding the Creep Factor — September 10 Webcast
Google Brings YouTube TrueView Campaigns Into The AdWords Fold
Google Search For “Fun Facts” Serves Up Random Q&As Via Dynamic Answer Box
Cut AdWords Certification Time In Half With These Study Guides For Shopping & YouTube
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Analytics
Birst Unveils Networked BI to Transform Enterprise Analytics, www.martechadvisor.com
Blogs & Blogging
Business Issues
Content Marketing
8 Essential Tweaks to Supercharge Your Content Marketing Efforts, smallbiztrends.com
A Simple Content Formula to Build Trust in Innovation, www.marketingprofs.com
How to Choose Content Topics That Get C-Suite Attention, contentmarketinginstitute.com
Is Long Form Content Still Viable Today?, blog.crazyegg.com
Is Your Content Stuck in Review? How to Move Forward During Client Delays, blog.hubspot.com
Storynomics: How to Create a Story That Inspires, www.convinceandconvert.com
The Best Social Media Advice For Content Marketers, heidicohen.com
Conversion Optimization
How to Create a High-Converting Landing Page, www.jeffbullas.com
Need to Increase Conversions?, www.usertesting.com
Our 10 Best Landing Page Tips & Tricks Ever, www.wordstream.com
Copywriting, Design & Usability
Empathy: The UX Pro’s Secret Weapon, www.usertesting.com
Five Things to Consider in a Website Redesign, www.verticalresponse.com
Hey Designers: Stop Being An Afterthought, www.smashingmagazine.com
The Fonts and Colors for Shareable Social Media Image, www.searchenginejournal.com
Domaining
Apple Inc. Registers .org “News Publisher” Domains 87 Days AFTER Announcing Publicly, www.thedomains.com
Here comes .Sex, domainnamewire.com
E-Commerce
10 powerful examples of upselling online, econsultancy.com
8 Tips for Creating a Buyer-Centric Website, www.webinknow.com
Amazon’s ‘Dash’ button now effectively free, www.reuters.com
Apple exec move shows that luxury is getting serious about e-commerce, www.retaildive.com
Growth secrets of e-retailers in the Top 500, www.internetretailer.com
Optimizing Instagram for Ecommerce: 10 Tips, www.practicalecommerce.com
Paypal Launches New Branded Site on Paypal.Me, www.thedomains.com
The CEO of Asos steps down 15 years after founding the online-only fashion retailer, www.internetretailer.com
What Changed for Facebook E-Commerce Advertisers During the Holidays?, www.adweek.com
What’s the Toughest to A/B Test on Ecommerce Sites?, www.getelastic.com
Email Marketing
Did You Know This About Email Subject Lines?, smallbiztrends.com
Email Benchmarks 2Q15: Engagement Is Higher Than Ever, www.marketingprofs.com
The Anatomy of a Successful Fundraising Email, blogs.constantcontact.com
The Goldilocks Principle and email frequency: Finding just right, myemma.com
General Internet Marketing
B-to-B CMOs: It’s Time to Own the Customer Experience, adage.com
Five Ways to Get Your Message Through to an Overloaded Audience, www.marketingprofs.com
How to Leverage Account-Based Marketing (ABM), blog.marketo.com
Multicultural Marketing Is Now Mainstream, www.cmswire.com
Top 3 Mistakes Brands Make with Influencer Marketing, www.convinceandconvert.com
Internet Marketing Industry
CloudCraze Partners with Salesforce to Enable eCommerce Buy Button for Community Cloud, www.cloudcraze.com
Next stage for Socialbakers, www.socialbakers.com
MarTech
4 Marketing Automation Lessons I’ve Learned in the Past Year, www.silverpop.com
The Future of MarTech: Opinions from 14 Practitioners, www.martechadvisor.com
Mobile/Local Marketing
Apple Adds More Publishers for Its News App, recode.net
Data Is King, But Mobile Will Decide Who Rules, adexchanger.com
Mobile Experience: If You’re Not Testing, You’re Not Trying, www.cmswire.com
Mobile to exceed desktop in ad spend this year, www.retaildive.com
More Shots Of BlackBerry Android Phone Leak Online, techcrunch.com
The Path to Mobile Audience Engagement is Paved with Data, www.adweek.com
Social Media
5 Tips to Getting Your Brand Started on Snapchat, simplymeasured.com
Facebook Fights Back Against Rising Allegations That It Is ‘Closed’, adexchanger.com
FTC issues new social media and endorsement guidance, www.mobilecommercedaily.com
Google Small Business Presents Social Media Month, googleandyourbusiness.blogspot.com
How the visual evolution of social media has affected brands, econsultancy.com
How to Gain 500 Instagram Followers in 7 Days the Honest Way, www.socialmediaexplorer.com
Instagram’s interaction rate for branded posts plummets as competition grows, www.mobilemarketer.com
It’s time to take social media marketing out of the silo, www.internetretailer.com
Snapchat Hires A New Growth Lead, techcrunch.com
Video
16 Top Video Marketing Tips, www.reelseo.com
More than Engaging: Quantifying the Effectiveness of Videology’s Platform, www.nielsen.com
Racing videos, expensive cars and fans drive auto content on YouTube, digiday.com
Snapchat gets 4 billion video views per day, www.businessinsider.com
What I Learned from Getting YouTube Certified, simplymeasured.com
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