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:
Google Brings Estimated Cross-Device Conversions To Display Ads With users engaging on multiple devices throughout their day, marketers face attribution challenges in understanding how (or if) their media is working. Google is one of the players trying to solve this problem for advertisers running campaigns across its platforms. Today, Google started rolling out estimated cross-device conversions for display ads across the Google Display […]
MMA: Mobile Spend Could Reach $220B Within Decade Mobile trade group the MMA released a document today that argues mobile marketing spending could — indeed should — reach something like $220 billion within the decade, on a global basis. The US component of that would be roughly $70 billion under the formula used by MMA. The report and MMA broadly define “marketing” to […]
MINI Community Car Contest Solicits Design Ideas BMW’s MINI, ever the awesome advocate of brand customization, has launched the MINI Community Car contest. The brand is urging people to “get hands-on and design their dream MINI.” The contest calls for people to submit their design ideas — basically wraps — for a MINI. A contest website supplies all the details and templates […]
Chartbeat’s Attention Minutes Metric Accredited By Media Rating Council Real-time analytics firm Chartbeat, one of the leading advocates for dumping the page view for attention minutes as the primary measurement of digital success — and therefore advertising currency — announced this week that its metrics have been accredited by the Media Rating Council. The accreditation by the MRC, which sets standards for the measurement […]
The Promise Of Programmatic: Elevating Creative To Connect On Every Impression [#awxi] So, is programmatic “The Wave of the Future or the Latest Shining Object”? The consensus among panelists tasked with that question here at Advertising Week: it’s both, and marketers and agencies need to embrace the future. Programmatic “allows us to get much better creative in because math determines the best winners much faster and better […]
Orchestrating Content Marketing On A Global Scale Columnist Rebecca Lieb discusses the necessary ingredients for a successful global content marketing initiative.
In Native Advertising, Brands Win When They Know The Audience [#awxi] If there’s one key to success in native advertising, it’s knowing your audience. That was one of the themes that came up repeatedly Monday during an Advertising Week panel titled “Make the Logo Smaller – How Brands Win When Advertising Takes a Back Seat to Content.” “Over the decades, our editorial team has learned what […]
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Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Affiliate Marketing
Start Me Up! Acquire: starting a new affiliate business, econsultancy.com
Analytics
Social Content Analysis Tips; Marketers can’t read your mind, www.webanalyticsworld.net
The Big Problem With Cross-Platform Measurement: Who Pays?, adage.com
Blogs & Blogging
The “Big 3” of Your Next Blog Post, www.searchenginejournal.com
The Super-Simple Method Smart Bloggers Use To Write Great Content, www.firepolemarketing.com
Thinking of Rebranding Your Blog? Read This., www.problogger.net
Using Visual Content to Increase Blog Engagement, www.problogger.net
Business Issues
eBay Inc. to Separate eBay and PayPal into Independent Publicly Traded Companies in 2015, update.ebayinc.com
Microsoft Announces Windows 10, TechCrunch
The new MSN arrives, blogs.microsoft.com
Content Marketing
10 Content Marketing Lessons from The World’s Fastest Growing Websites, www.jeffbullas.com
6 Tips for Sequencing Your Marketing Content, www.clickz.com
6 Ways to Reinvigorate Your Stale, contentmarketinginstitute.com
8 Proven Social Media Hacks You Can Use for Content Marketing, tribes.no
Adapting Your Marketing Strategy To Avoid Content Shock, blog.visual.ly
From Content Marketing to Marketing Content, relevance.com
How to Optimize Your Content Marketing Strategy for More Leads, unbounce.com
Conversion Optimization
6 Ways Social Proof Can Increase Conversions On Your Site, blog.crazyegg.com
Everything You Need to Know About the Psychology of the Call to Action, blog.kissmetrics.com
With Atlas Online-to-Offline Conversion Tracking Goes Mainstream, screenwerk.com
Copywriting, Design & Usability
Designing for iOS versus Designing for Web, www.usertesting.com
Display & Contextual Advertising
Building the next generation of display ads for a multi-screen world, adwords.blogspot.com
Is It Time To Kill The Banner Ad?, www.adexchanger.com
Mobile-Focused Display Ads Coming, www.ppchero.com
Domaining
When Hackers Steal A Web Address, Few Owners Ever Get It Back, www.huffingtonpost.com
At GoDaddy, CEO Blake Irving Searches for a New Domain, streetfightmag.com
Phishers prefer free ccTLDs to new gTLDs, domainincite.com
E-Commerce
5 Ecommerce Content Marketing Ideas for October 2014, www.practicalecommerce.com
Email Marketing
4 Email Plugins That Will Grow Your List Today, www.convinceandconvert.com
How to Capture More Email Leads With Social Media Contests, www.socialmediaexaminer.com
Moan, Moan, Moan – All You Ever Do Is Complain!, blog.returnpath.com
Return Path Awarded Patent for Inbox Placement Monitoring, blog.returnpath.com
Stay away from these email villains!, www.reachmail.net
General Internet Marketing
Digital Marketers – Are You Burning Bright or Burning Out? Here’s How to Flame On!, www.toprankblog.com
Getting To Grips With Digital Marketing – In-House or Outsourced?, www.koozai.com
What’s Next in B2B Marketing?, www.annhandley.com
Internet Marketing Industry
Amobee Launches First Multi-Screen 3D Experience for Advertisers, www.amobee.com
Brandwatch launches new social media command center technology, www.brandwatch.com
CoxReps Launches Gamut, Offering Broad-Spectrum Support to Publishers and Advertisers, www.gamut.media
Introducing Adobe Experience Manager Communities for Learning, blogs.adobe.com
Publicis Groupe Acquires Ambito5, www.adweek.com
Socialbakers Becomes First Company to Add Benchmarking for your Facebook Ads, www.socialbakers.com
Mobile/Local Marketing
XE 21.3 Quietly Rolled Out Last Week, Glass Almanac
7 Big Challenges That Threaten Mobile Advertising’s Meteoric Growth, www.adweek.com
A Three-Step Guide to Mobile Messaging, www.marketingprofs.com
Mobile Affects Purchases Way Before the Store, www.emarketer.com
Mobile tools are shortening the sales cycle for big companies, www.internetretailer.com
There Are More Bugs In Mobile Than… Particles In The Universe!, www.smashingmagazine.com
Reputation Management
Five handy tips for finishing off 2014 with your reputation in tact, www.trackur.com
What is online reputation management and should you use it?, econsultancy.com
Social Media
11 Facebook Marketing Tools to Help You Optimize Your Page, blog.bufferapp.com
14 Tools to Streamline Your Social Media Marketing, www.socialmediaexaminer.com
3 Techniques That Will Double Your Social Media Content with Half the Effort, blog.kissmetrics.com
5 Ways to Boost Your Twitter Engagement, www.socialmediaexaminer.com
Are You Guilty Of Making These 10 Twitter Mistakes?, marketingthink.com
Clickthrough rate continues to rise as reach drops on Facebook, www.insidefacebook.com
Facebook launches EMEA Client Council, www.insidefacebook.com
Facebook Reviews Should Be a Part of Every SMB Review Plan, blumenthals.com
The most used Twitter Hashtags – August vs September, blog.similarweb.com
The One Trend Social Media Experts Avoid, www.vocus.com
The Social Media Advertising Guide for Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, blog.bufferapp.com
Top 20 Facebook Promotion Apps to Improve Your Engagement, upcity.com
When to Create a New Hashtag – and When Not To, www.dexmedia.com
Who Can Challenge Facebook In The Deterministic New World Order?, www.adexchanger.com
Why All Your Employees Are Social Marketers of the Future, adage.com
Your social media strategy plan: Where do you START?, www.businessesgrow.com
Video
10 Things You Need to Do When Getting Started on YouTube, blogs.constantcontact.com
How To Attract Attention To Your YouTube Channel, www.touchstorm.com
Using Awesome Video to Debut and Display Your Products, smallbiztrends.com
Watch Time: A Guide to YouTube’s Most Important Ranking Factor, www.reelseo.com
What’s Going On With This Whole ‘YouTube Stars’ Phenomenon?, adage.com
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