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 Passes Milestone: 1 Billion Users In A Day CEO Mark Zuckerberg reports that the social network was used by more than 1 billion people on Monday.
Facebook Signals That It Will Start Cracking Down On Video Piracy Responding to criticism of rampant “freebooting,” the social network says it’s testing a new system to improve its video matching technology and create a stronger barrier against pirates.
Wistia Video Marketing Platform Launches Enterprise Plan For Large-Scale Businesses Starting at $300 a month, the new plan offers video analytics, unlimited hosting and integration with HubSpot, Marketo and Pardot.
Google Debuts New In-App Interstitial Designs For App Install And Text Ads The new designs are available on AdMob via AdWords and DoubleClick Ad Exchange.
IDC: Smartphone Growth Slows, Apple Watch Now #2 Wearable After Fitbit China’s stock market crash has inserted fear and doubt into the global economy over the past week. A faltering Chinese market could also have a major impact on hardware device sales, especially smartphones.
Burger King’s Call For A One-Day Truce With McDonald’s Is Rebuffed McDonald’s is losing the social media burger war after declining Burger King’s McWhopper olive branch.
BuzzFeed Strikes First Global Agency Deal With WPP’s GroupM The non-exclusive partnership will give WPP agencies access to data, creative teams and preferential media pricing.
Just Having A Mobile-Friendly Site Isn’t Enough To Ensure It Shows In Search If you think having a mobile-friendly site is all you need for mobile SEO, think again. Columnist Bryson Meunier explains how businesses can go beyond just being mobile-friendly.
Account-Based Marketing: Back To Basics Worried that your advertising isn’t working or that your website is weak? Then it’s time to start using account-based marketing, advises columnist Peter Isaacson. He lays out three key components to get you started with ABM.
Twitter B2B Top-Dog Targeting: Thursday’s Psychographic Hot House Ever had a product or service to promote to the C-Suite within a large corporation and wish you could reach the CEO, CFO, CMO or all of the above?
Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Analytics
4 Things to Analyze Before You Partner With an Influencer, simplymeasured.com
5 Crazy Simple Steps for Tracking Your Social ROI, www.socialmediaexplorer.com
How Can We Really Measure The ROI of Optimization?, conversionxl.com
Blogs & Blogging
10 Strengths of a Tantalizingly Good Blogger, www.searchenginejournal.com
How to Turn Bloggers (and Other Influencers) Into Your Brand Champions, www.marketingprofs.com
Business Issues
Content Marketing
12+ Ways to Use Web Analytics for Better Content Marketing, contentmarketinginstitute.com
5 Content Marketing Ideas for September 2015, www.practicalecommerce.com
5 Ways That Fortune 500 Companies Will Leverage Content Marketing In The Future, www.adweek.com
How US sports leagues use content marketing to increase fans and drive business, econsultancy.com
Poor Sales Enablement Will Get Your Content Manager Fired, www.cmswire.com
Semantic Correlation in Google Means Brands with the Right Strategies Build Better Content, www.rimmkaufman.com
Why Personalization Is the Next Wave of Content Marketing, www.convinceandconvert.com
Conversion Optimization
6 Landing Page Tips and Tricks, www.silverpop.com
How to Set Up and Run an A/B Test, blog.returnpath.com
Copywriting, Design & Usability
6 Essential Trust Signals For Your Website To Follow, www.koozai.com
Craft a Perfect Logo with Tips from Most Recognized Brands, smallbiztrends.com
What Marketing Can Learn From User Experience, www.marketingprofs.com
E-Commerce
E-Commerce Is Coming to Car Dashboards. Identity Thieves Too, adage.com
PayPal raises prices for U.S. merchants, www.internetretailer.com
There’s still time for web retailers to profit from back-to-school promotions, www.internetretailer.com
Email Marketing
10 steps to email success at Christmas: part two, econsultancy.com
Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL): FAQ, sendgrid.com
How to Choose the Right Colors and Fonts for Your Emails, blogs.constantcontact.com
The Pros, Cons, and Costs of the Top 5 Email Marketing Platforms, contently.com
Will GIF-Powered Emails Get More People RSVP’ing for Events?, www.adweek.com
General Internet Marketing
3 Visual Trends Marketers Need to Know About, contently.com
Authority Marketing: How To Measure Up In Front of Customers, smallbiztrends.com
Plotting Your Global Marketing Success, www.cmswire.com
Internet Marketing Industry
MarTech
Better Customer Marketing Data with Smart Technology Use, www.ducttapemarketing.com
Localytics and Marketo Integrate Mobile and Web Marketing Automation, www.martechadvisor.com
Mobile/Local Marketing
App-Install Ads Are A Mainstay Of The New Mobile Economy, www.forbes.com
Digesting Yelp Photos Just Got Easier: Now Browse by Category, officialblog.yelp.com
How Hospitality Brands Balance Global and Local in Their Marketing, streetfightmag.com
How Marketers Can Survive in the War on Mobile Ad Blocking, blog.kissmetrics.com
Huawei brings online smartphone brand Honor to Europe, www.reuters.com
Siri serves saucy answers when asked about Apple’s upcoming event, digiday.com
Why Apple Watch Rings the Death Knell of the ‘Mobile’ Marketing Channel, www.marketingprofs.com
Reputation Management
The Lion Killer Faces Huge Online Reputation Issues, www.searchenginejournal.com
Social Media
4 of the Biggest Changes to Facebook Ads in 2015, www.komarketingassociates.com
8 Ways to Use Google+ Hangouts for Your Business, www.socialmediaexaminer.com
A Daily, Weekly, Monthly Social Media Checklist, blog.bufferapp.com
Facebook and Google Want You to Do More With Those Photos, blogs.wsj.com
Facebook Might Drive More Traffic than Google: Should You Care?, simplymeasured.com
Five seriously creative Snapchat campaigns and their results, econsultancy.com
Getting Your Fans and Followers to Share Visual Content, www.compukol.com
How To Change A Twitter Handle, www.hiregun.co
Insta-Ads: Facebook Brings Instagram Ads to Life, www.searchinfluence.com
Is Instagram About to Become the Traffic-Driving Platform of CMOs’ Dreams?, contently.com
LinkedIn Pulse: 9 Lessons & Changes in LinkedIn Publishing, www.smallbusinessideasblog.com
LinkedIn Sending Out “Connections in the News” Emails?, www.adweek.com
You can now post full-size landscape and portrait photos on Instagram, www.theverge.com
Video
How Buzzfeed is Taking Over the World – One Video at a Time, www.reelseo.com
Marketing via Periscope and Meerkat, www.adweek.com
NFL’s Twitter Video Deal Came And Its Deal With Facebook Went, techcrunch.com
The UK may require social networks to add warnings to autoplay videos, digiday.com
Why live streaming is important for Facebook, digiday.com
YouTube’s New Gaming Platform Already Looks Like a Big Hit With Advertisers, www.adweek.com
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