Jul 22, 20146 min read

Marketing Day: Apple Posts Q3 Numbers, “Christmas in July” Checklist & Nike On Top

Here’s our daily recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on

Marketing Land and other places across the web.

From Marketing Land:

Apple Posts Record Q3 Revenue Numbers In June Earnings Report Apple has released their third-quarter financial earnings this afternoon, reporting $37.4 billion in quarterly revenues and $7.7 billion in quarterly net profit. These numbers are up from the numbers posted in Q3 2013, which were revenue of $35.3 billion and net profit of $6.9 billion. The revenue numbers are a record for their June quarter […]
Facebook Continues “Getting Started” Ads Series With Introduction Of Custom Audiences Continuing its effort to demystify its self-serving advertising process, Facebook published a how-to post about its Custom Audience targeting feature today. The post, Facebook’s second installment in its “Getting Started” series aimed at small businesses, describes how marketers can upload customer lists from existing phone or email contacts or data from a website or mobile […]
IAB Study Highlights Brand Awareness And Context For Native Ad Success As publishers make more in-feed (also known as in-stream or native ads) inventory available, the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and Edelman Berland conducted a study to look into what tends to make these ad campaigns successful. Many of the findings aren’t particularly surprising, but the study reinforces the importance of context that advertisers need to […]
Bad Data: Gaps In Tag Implementation Hinders Top Retailer Sites [Study] Despite the fact that half of Internet Retailer 100 companies use a tag management system compared to just 18 percent of those ranked 501-600 on the list, their tag deployment rates — and thus, data quality — were slightly worse than those of the latter group. The key reason? Faulty implementations. Several of the elite […]
Infographic: A “Christmas In July” Digital Marketing Checklist Christmas and the holiday shopping season is just around the corner — that is, if you’re a digital marketer. That’s because to be ready for holiday shopping when consumers are, you need to be preparing months ahead of time. Like now. Below, Gareth Bull of Bulldog Digital Media has put together a six-month action plan […]
Nike’s “The Last Game” Takes The No. 1 Spot On YouTube’s List Of Top Ten Ads In June Last week, YouTube released its top ten ads for June, with Nike’s World Cup themed “The Last Game” taking the top spot. Adidas’s World Cup related “House Match” ad also made the list, ranking No. 3. In light of Father’s Day, three dad-themed ads made it into the top ten list as well, with appearances […]
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 good: consumer satisfaction with social networks is increasing. The bad: it’s still among the lowest-ranked business categories. The social media category scored 71 on ACSI’s 100-point scale, up 4.4% over 2013, fourth worst of […]
Facebook Maintains Top Position In Social Logins [Gigya] Facebook maintained its position as the Internet’s leading identity provider in the second quarter, accounting for 55% of social logins on desktop and mobile platforms, according to data released today by customer management firm Gigya. It’s an increase of two percentage points over the first quarter. Google+ remained in second place at 27%, dropping one […]
Opening Mobile Wallet Opportunities For Marketers There is a lot of buzz about mobile wallets — mostly, the challenges facing mass adoption of mobile payments. This has left many marketers to wonder how they will be able to implement innovative mobile payment technologies into their mobile/brand strategies. While the industry focuses its attention on m-payments (and lack thereof), marketers who want […]
ICANN Parks The Domain Registry Of America, Termination May Be Coming If you’ve ever registered a domain name, you’re likely acutely aware of the Domain Registry of America. The company is notorious for the incessant mailing of deceptive renewal letters that essentially trick users into renewing with the Domain Registry of America (DROA) (many times at a much higher price) instead of renewing with the company […]
MarTech: Technology Management As A Marketing Discipline As marketers, we’ve had a slightly conflicted relationship with technology. The culture, philosophy, and mental models of marketing have been largely driven by “soft science” — psychology, sociology, anthropology, economics — and an even broader notion of “art.” We pride ourselves on the power of creativity, design, and language to affect people’s emotions, perceptions, and […]
Rakuten’s Quarterly Report Shows Growth On All Fronts, With Mobile Commerce Up 87% Based on its 2014 2Q results, Rakuten Marketing has experienced year-over-year growth on all fronts, including mobile, search and affiliate marketing. The company reported mobile phone orders in its affiliate channel have increased 87 percent in the US. Rakuten also saw international mobile commerce growth, with the UK up 117 percent, Canada 197 percent, Japan […]
Italian Privacy Police Give Google 18 Months To Make Changes European privacy regulators have been critical of Google’s unified privacy policy since it was announced in early 2012. They have demanded various changes, including more disclosures to users, to bring the law in compliance with EU and individual country rules. Italy is the latest country to issue what amounts to an ultimatum to Google to […]
Facebook Drives Nearly One-Fourth Of All Referral Traffic [Shareaholic Report] Facebook, the king of social media referral traffic, is strengthening its reign, according to social analytics and publishing firm Shareaholic. In June, Facebook generated 23.39% of the total share of visits to Shareaholic’s network of 300,000 websites. That total, a gain of 10.09% and 2.14 percentage points since March, is the highest Shareaholic has ever […]