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:
Facebook Beats Estimates With $4.04 Billion, Mobile Nearing 80 Percent Facebook announced second quarter earnings this afternoon. The company posted revenues of $4.04 billion and beat analyst consensus revenue estimates for the quarter by about $50 million. Earnings per share also beat estimates but relatively narrowly. The bulk of quarterly revenue came from advertising ($3.82 billion) with a small amount ($215 million) from payments and other […]
Yahoo Introduces Livetext, A Silent Video Messaging App Yahoo joins crowded mobile messaging space with Snapchat-like chat app for iOS and Android devices.
Search Ads In Google Play Store Go Live Globally Also announced: “Android first app opens” conversion tracking and impending rollout of Universal App Campaigns.
Trade Shows Deliver ROI for BKA Content BKA Content offers high-quality writing services for enterprise companies, small/medium businesses and SEO/Marketing agencies. It specializes in creating all kinds of content, including product descriptions, category pages, blog posts, press releases, social media posts, Web pages and SEO content. What sets BKA Content apart in the market is that the company includes customized managed services […]
Ad Blocking: A Binary Solution To A Complex Problem Blocking ads is akin to stealing music or movies, argues columnist Rob Rasko, but the only way to fight back is to educate consumers.
Why You Should Quit Coding Emails Why spend all your time fixing bugs in your weekly newsletter? Columnist Andrew King believes a good template system can decrease the hours you spend testing and fixing errors.
Baidu’s Q2 Profit Falls, Company Diversifying Away From Search Earlier this week, Baidu announced Q2 2015 earnings. Total revenues grew 38 percent year over year to $2.67 billion. However, profit was down 2.5 percent to $559.6 million. The company is moving away from revenue reliance on search, which is becoming less profitable as usage shifts to mobile devices. Indeed, Baidu said that mobile drove 50 percent […]
Google Database Sets Foundation For Ad Tech’s Master Blacklist Of Bad Bots The Trustworthy Accountability Group is piloting the program to block fraudulent ad traffic from data center bots at their source.
Yelp Earnings: 51 Percent Revenue Growth, But Outlook Disappoints Yelp announced Q2 2015 earnings this afternoon. The company had quarterly revenues of $133.9 million, which represented 51 percent year-over-year growth and handily beat analyst expectations. However, earnings-per-share were below expectations, and guidance was lowered, causing the stock to fall in after-hours trading. Yelp said that reviews grew 35 percent from 61 million to 83 […]
Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:
With Windows 10, Bing Ads Anticipates 10 To 15 Percent More Search Volume By September
Search Ads In Google Play Store Rolling Out For All Android App Marketers
What To Do When Content Marketing Fails To Improve SEO Performance
Bid To Position In “Real Time” With This Open-Sourced AdWords Script
Google Translate App Adds 20 More Languages To The Instant Visual Translation Feature
Etsy Boosts Search For Better Content Discovery, User Engagement
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Affiliate Marketing
Payment issues turn off clients, Netimperative
Analytics
Blogs & Blogging
Business Issues
Building a product engineering culture at Pinterest, Pinterest Engineering
Complicated Twitter CEO Search Includes Adam Bain, Jack Dorsey, Others, recode.net
Content Marketing
Five Brands That Successfully Tapped Into the Power of Bloggers Outside Their Industry, MarketingProfs Article
Conversion Optimization
The Ultimate Guide to a High-Converting 404 Page, 3qdigital.com
Copywriting, Design & Usability
Constructing CSS Quantity Queries On The Fly, Smashing Magazine
How to Game Friction for Better UX, UX Magazine
Display & Contextual Advertising
Digital Ad Spending in France Nears €1.5 Billion in H1 2015, eMarketer
Why In-Banner Video Won’t Die, AdExchanger
Domaining
New gTLD .Tech Enters Early Access Period (EAP) Today With 40+ Pioneers, thedomains.com
Verified Domains to Provide Domain Name Background Checks, domaininvesting.com
E-Commerce
Chinese consumers go online to slake their thirst for imported goods, internetretailer.com
Google Fixed the Worst Part About Grocery Shopping, time.com
Nike’s e-commerce site comes back online after being down for almost a day, internetretailer.com
Pricy fakes spur luxury retailers to fight online fraud, internetretailer.com
Email Marketing
10 Things You’re Missing Out on by Using a Personal Email Account to Do Your Email Marketing , Constant Contact Blogs
Mobile Is Not for Blast Marketing, Marketo
The What, When, and Who of Successful Emails, Constant Contact Blogs
General Internet Marketing
Internet Marketing Industry
MarTech
21 native ads for marketing geeks that will shock you, Chief Marketing Technologist
Amazon Takes On Product Hunt, Shopify With Launchpad, An All-In-One Marketing And Sales Portal, TechCrunch
Kinetic Social Launches Creative Studio To Cater To Brands’ Creative Content Requirements, MarTech Advisor
What is marketing automation and why do you need it?, Econsultancy
Mobile/Local Marketing
B2B Mobile Marketing for Demand Generation? Yes! Examples and Quick Tips, Online Marketing Blog
Beacons and Mobile Wallets, eMarketer
Reputation Management
Analyzing Reputation.com New Lead Generation Form for CRO, ignitevisibility.com
Social Media
12 best social campaigns and stories from July 2015, Econsultancy
A whole new Twitter for Windows, Twitter Blog
Are Your Tweets Protected Intellectual Property?, SocialTimes
Facebook is testing out LinkedIn-style profile tags, The Verge
INTERACTIVE: Pinterest and Instagram – what works, what doesn’t?, Majestic Blog
The PR Stunt That Shows Social Media Isn’t Always Magic, webpresence.tv
Vine’s Quiet, Stealthy Pivot, Fast Company
Video
Start Smart, Scale Up, and Stand Out With Video, contentmarketinginstitute.com
Why YouTube Will Be Better Off Without Google Plus, reelseo.com
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