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:
Lacoste Uses Instagram, Vine & Interactive Mobile App To Introduce New Tennis Racket, Fashion Line The fashion brand shows off its new tennis-inspired line with a social media campaign and content marketing initiative.
The Role of Data Analytics in Successful Retail Acquisition Campaigns This past summer, the Gartner Group surveyed people some 215 people who are responsible for the digital-commerce strategies within their companies; 59 of the respondents represented retail companies.
Life Beyond The Click: Email In 2015 Columnist Dela Quist contends that email’s potential to impact brand awareness and favorability is getting short shift — but says that will change in 2015.
Ericsson Seeks To Block iPhone In U.S. In Latest Patent Dispute Patent litigation is heating up again. Earlier this week, Apple was hit by a half-billion dollar jury verdict over iTunes. Now, Swedish wireless networks company Ericsson is trying to block the iPhone from being imported into the U.S.
Google Buys TLD “.App” For $25 Million In Record-Breaking ICANN Auction Google outbid companies like Amazon.com for exclusive rights to the top level domain.
What Advanced Social Analytics Teach Us About The Long-Term Impact Of Super Bowl Advertising How does Super Bowl advertising impact brand perception? Columnist Rick Miller shares insights from social data about Loctite, Nationwide Insurance and McDonald’s.
What You Don’t Know About Location Targeting And Attribution Will Hurt You Roughly 15 years since I started writing about digital marketing, I’m still amazed that large numbers of marketers still don’t fully understand the importance of location and location-based targeting.
Twitter Triples The Size Of The Abuse Support Team & Adds Doxing Reports The attack on Twitter abuse (especially on sensitive personal data) is being elevated in 2015 with extra staff, better reporting & tools.
Best Brand Tweets On The Dress: White & Gold Or Blue & Black? What color is THAT dress? Brands join in the conversation that’s obsessing Twitter.
Is A Google+ Breakup Coming For Photos & Hangouts? Google SVP Sundar Pichai signals that the company is thinking of the social stream, photos and communication as separate areas.
Snickers Asks People To Share Who They Are When They’re Hungry With $50,000 Meme Generator Contest The candy brand created a meme generator and is asking people to craft their alter egos — and prize money is at stake!
Brands Ride The #Llama Drama There was a live-televised llama chase in Arizona … you can guess want happened next.
Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Analytics
5 Pointless Marketing Metrics You Can Stop Tracking Today, blog.hubspot.com
IBM Forms Partnership With Juniper on Data-Networking Analysis, www.bloomberg.com
The Top 10 Big Data Challenges, www.getelastic.com
Blogs & Blogging
Google won’t ban adult content on Blogger after all, www.engadget.com
Business Issues
Apple Opens Up ‘iWork for iCloud’ to Everyone, No Apple Device Required, www.macrumors.com
Content Marketing
7 Dos and Don’ts for Writing Your Company’s Story, www.verticalresponse.com
7 Step Content Creation Strategy for Epic Content Marketing, www.jeffbullas.com
How The New York Times Creates Different Content for Engagement Versus Clicks, www.adweek.com
How to Interview and Hire the Right Content Marketing Manager for Your Company, www.thesaleslion.com
Conversion Optimization
How Customer Expectations Can Affect Your Conversion Rate, blog.kissmetrics.com
Copywriting, Design & Usability
Beauty By Design: The Intersection Of Data And Digital Art, techcrunch.com
Design Principles: Dominance, Focal Points And Hierarchy, www.smashingmagazine.com
Display & Contextual Advertising
Domaining
Many “Dress” Domain Names Registered, www.domaininvesting.com
The IANA transition in a nutshell, domainincite.com
E-Commerce
A viral photo of a dress could mean big online business for a UK retailer, www.internetretailer.com
eBay Commerce Network SKU-Level Bidding Out of Beta, Increases Advertiser Control, www.rimmkaufman.com
Five ways that retailers are joining up their marketing, econsultancy.com
M-commerce grows 45% for QVC in 2014, Internet Retailer
Email Marketing
Making Emails Human with Data & Design, blog.movableink.com
General Internet Marketing
How Cards Are Quietly Transforming The Web, techcrunch.com
How to Make Your Brand Matter, www.ducttapemarketing.com
Why Every Business Needs an Online Leader, medium.com
Why Marketers Need to Rethink Influencer Targeting, www.convinceandconvert.com
Internet Marketing Industry
LazBro and Opt-Intelligence Partner to Launch Email List Growth Tool For IBM, www.prnewswire.com
Mobile/Local Marketing
5 Steps to Ace Mobile App Marketing, www.searchenginejournal.com
Chinese Internet Giants Get Into the Mobile Game, www.wsj.com
Got an Android app? Not indexed? Uh oh., www.internetretailer.com
Is Your Mobile Advertising Focused on Apps? (It Should Be), www.marketingprofs.com
OMG: BuzzFeed’s mobile app strategy, digiday.com
Q4 2014 mobile site performance benchmark report, www.mobilecommercedaily.com
Six thoughts on Google’s ‘mobile-friendly’ search announcement, econsultancy.com
Tim Cook Says Apple Watch Could Replace Your Car Keys, And That’s Just The Start, techcrunch.com
What Programmatic Advertising Means for Local Media, streetfightmag.com
Social Media
How Facebook Is Helping Suicidal People, time.com
10 Key Things Marketers Need to know About Snapchat’s Discover, contently.com
3 Customer Trust Factors To Boost Your Social Media Results, heidicohen.com
4 Key Strategies for Smarter Social CEOs, www.adweek.com
5 Key Things Marketers Need to Know About Facebook Cinemagraphs, contently.com
5 Steps for Successfully Measuring Social Media ROI, smallbiztrends.com
5 Ways to Increase Organic Reach on Facebook, www.searchenginejournal.com
Audience Profile: What @Hurley’s Top Tweets Can Teach Us, simplymeasured.com
Brand Advice From Generation Z Social-Media Influencers, adage.com
Facebook stops defining gender for its users, www.theverge.com
Facebook’s Inventory-Ads Rollout Foreshadows An Ad Tech Ecosystem Reset, adexchanger.com
How @MTV Asks Fans for Favorites Then Shares Them on Twitter, simplymeasured.com
How Marketers Use Social to Promote Events, www.emarketer.com
March Madness Marketers Should Study the NBA for a Winning Instagram Strategy, www.adweek.com
Marketers win through an always-on mix of organic and Promoted Tweets, www.Twitter.com
Pinterest’s new monetization rules inflict pain on ‘pinfluencers’, digiday.com
SeatGeek, Ticketmaster leverage Twitter to boost ticket sales, Internet Retailer
Social Media Image Sizes Guide 2015, www.blogherald.com
The 2015 Guide to Facebook Engagement, www.amyporterfield.com
The Science of Posting on Social Media, www.adweek.com
Victoria’s Secret Runs Snapchat Ads Between People Articles, Ad Age
Wake-Up Call from Facebook: TV Ad Pricing Needs to Change, adage.com
Why You Need to Say Goodbye to Fake Followers, blog.tailwindapp.com
Video
3 Rules for Better Video Marketing, www.convinceandconvert.com
TubeMogul Talks Programmatic Direct In Video, As Q4 Revenue Rises 64%, adexchanger.com
Video Advertisers Increase Cross-Device Campaigns, www.emarketer.com
Vimeo Finally Adds Chromecast Support Via Its iOS App, techcrunch.com
Why net neutrality is great for video providers, digiday.com
YouTube’s subscription service struggles to take off, digiday.com
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