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:
How Much Of Your Content Marketing Is Effective? Feb 25, 2016 by Digital Marketing Depot Brands are spending the time and money to publish more content, but that begs a crucial question: How effective is it? Contently partnered with Adweek and surveyed 745 marketers to find out.
Marketing Land Live #2: Google Drops Right-Side Ads, Closes Compare & More Feb 25, 2016 by Matt McGee Join us at 12:00 p.m. ET Friday for our second weekly live video show, and join the conversation with the #HeyML hashtag.
Ad Tech Firm AdTheorent Launches Public Version Of Its Internal Attribution System Feb 25, 2016 by Barry Levine Called Barometric, the service uses street addresses of homes as the consistent ID across devices and into physical retailers.
Nielsen Will Start Measuring Snapchat Ads Feb 25, 2016 by Tim Peterson Nielsen measurement means brands will be able to more accurately compare their Snapchat and TV campaigns.
Canvas: Facebook’s Immersive Mobile Ad Experience Launches Internationally Feb 25, 2016 by Tamar Weinberg Facebook has launched Canvas, giving marketers the ability to improve the mobile advertising experience with native immersive ads.
Meet the MarTech Speakers: Rohit Prabhakar Feb 25, 2016 by Marketing Land How a path to medical science veered into a corporate plan for marketing technology
MarTech Landscape: What Is Predictive Analytics? Feb 25, 2016 by Barry Levine Big data and machine learning are making computer-generated forecasting a common marketing tool.
Brand Bidding & PPC Optimization: Best Practices For Brand Bidding (Part 3 of 8) Feb 25, 2016 by Lori Weiman Columnist Lori Weiman continues her series on brand bidding by discussing best practices for creating and optimizing successful branded PPC campaigns.
Twitter Enhances Embedded Timelines Feb 25, 2016 by Tamar Weinberg Twitter’s updated embedded timelines will give website owners and visitors a richer user experience.
Google’s New SERP Layout: The Biggest Winners & Losers Feb 25, 2016 by Larry Kim What has been the impact of Google’s new desktop ad layout thus far? Columnist Larry Kim uses data to show who has benefited and who has suffered from the change.
Seeking $1.7 Billion In Back Taxes, France Is Latest To Go After Google Feb 25, 2016 by Greg Sterling Billions are at stake in Europe’s flurry of tax collection efforts against US companies.
Google Launches AMP Listings; Here’s How They Look Feb 25, 2016 by Barry Schwartz AMP is now out in the wild in the mobile Google news carousel. Try it yourself now.
3 B2C Strategies You Can Eliminate When Doing Account-Based Marketing Feb 25, 2016 by Peter Isaacson Columnist Peter Isaacson outlines three mass marketing tactics that you should say goodbye to when planning your Account-Based Marketing strategy.
How To Get Started With Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) Feb 25, 2016 by Paul Shapiro Google is currently rolling out accelerated mobile pages in its mobile search results, but how can you get in on the action? Columnist Paul Shapiro explains how you can mark up your mobile pages for a better mobile user experience.
Your 2016 Mobile Marketing Playbook Feb 24, 2016 by Digital Marketing Depot In recent years, more than 30 billion phone calls were made to businesses from mobile searches. According to independent research advisor BIA/Kelsey, that number is projected to increase by more than twice that amount by 2018, with calls projected to reach an astounding 73 billion.
PlaceIQ & Acxiom Use Location Data To Measure Offline Impact Of Addressable TV Feb 24, 2016 by Greg Sterling Location analytics are being used in an expanding number of ways to measure the real-world impact of digital and traditional media.
Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Analytics
As Messaging Takes Over The World, Marketers Need Better Metrics, adexchanger.com
Metrics Overload? How to Streamline Marketing Data, smallbiztrends.com
Metrics that matter: Marketing benchmarks and stats to create extraordinary results, www.martechadvisor.com
Turning on the Light in Content Analytics’ Dark Room, contently.com
Blogs & Blogging
4 Blog Best Practices for Small Businesses 2016, www.blogherald.com
5 Things to Do after You Hit “Publish” on Your Next Blog Post, www.problogger.net
Amazingly Effective Optimization Techniques For Your Blog, smallbiztrends.com
What Should You Write About on Your Company Blog?, www.ducttapemarketing.com
Business Issues
Apple’s Other Court Showdown to Watch, www.wsj.com
France seeks 1.6 billion euros in back taxes from Google, www.reuters.com
Marissa Mayer tries pushing Yahoo in New York, nypost.com
Microsoft Agrees to Acquire Xamarin, Wall Street Journal
Content Marketing
8 Tips for Content Marketing Success, www.copypress.com
Content Consumption Cycle: Seen-zone Vs. Appreciation, www.blogherald.com
Create amazing content to get amazing links and social love, www.cornwallseo.com
How to Create How-To Content That Doesn’t Suck, contently.com
How to Keep the Creative Content Spark Alive, www.convinceandconvert.com
Why (and How) Marketers Need to Become Content-Efficiency Experts, contentmarketinginstitute.com
Why Content Personalization Is Not Web Personalization (and What to Do About It), conversionxl.com
Yes, You Need to Feng Shui Your Content, www.cmswire.com
Conversion Optimization
How to Text Your Sales Prospects to Increase Conversions, www.marketingprofs.com
Copywriting, Design & Usability
10 Most Common Web Design Mistakes Small Businesses Make, usabilitygeek.com
Cognitive Psychology for UX: 7 Gestalt Principles of Visual Perception, www.usertesting.com
How to Get a Logo Accepted: Eight Steps To a Better Design Workflow, www.smashingmagazine.com
E-Commerce
Accelerate Digital Commerce with Content Management, www.cmswire.com
These Are the 2016 Digital Trends Consumers Love, www.adweek.com
What are sticky ecommerce elements?, econsultancy.com
What HTML5 Means for Ecommerce Merchants, www.practicalecommerce.com
Email Marketing
How to Better Manage Email Unsubscribes, blog.movableink.com
The Perfect Email Is Short, Simple, And Not Too Emotional, www.fastcoexist.com
Why email will never die, myemma.com
General Internet Marketing
How to Create a List Building Blitz Campaign, www.amyporterfield.com
How To Master Real-Time Marketing, blog.newswhip.com
Is Your Digital Marketing Strategy Red Carpet Worthy?, www.toprankblog.com
The Dangerous Data Leak That Is Costing Marketers Their Jobs (And How to Fix It), blog.kissmetrics.com
Internet Marketing Industry
Major Upgrades to SDL WorldServer and SDL TMS Increase Translator Productivity and Enhance Localized Experiences, www.businesswire.com
Rakuten Marketing Makes its Foray into Social Advertising with Acquisition of Product-Intelligence Company Manifest, marketing.rakuten.com
Return Path and Civis Analytics Partner to Bring Unprecedented Insights Into Consumer Behavior, returnpath.com
Rocket Fuel Names Rex Jackson as Chief Financial Officer, rocketfuel.com
The Only Intent-Driven Account Based Marketing Just Got Better With Madison Logic and HG Data Uniting to Help Marketers Predict Install-Based Users Currently In-Market, www.marketwired.com
MarTech
3 Ways to Survive the Crowded Marketing Technology Arena, www.martechadvisor.com
Big Tech Firms Are Ready for the Internet of Things, Even If Marketers Are Not, www.adweek.com
Four Ways ‘Straight Talk’ Will Spark a Revolution in Ad Tech, adage.com
Marketing hated IT, and IT hated marketing – and that wasn’t right, chiefmartec.com
Mobile/Local Marketing
Automattic Adds AMP Support to WordPress.com, Releases Plugin for Self-Hosted Sites, wptavern.com
How Location Data Can Make or Break Your Business, www.convinceandconvert.com
How Mobile-Friendly Are B2B Websites?, www.emarketer.com
How publishers are using Google AMP across Europe, digiday.com
The piece of code that could make or break a mobile advertising program, www.mobilecommercedaily.com
WordPress Sites Now Support Google�s AMP To Make Mobile Pages Load Much Faster, techcrunch.com
Social Media
10 Chrome Extensions That Guarantee Better Results On Your Social Media Marketing Efforts, blog.crazyegg.com
4 Little-Known Tools to Curate and Publish Content, www.socialmediaexaminer.com
6 Things BuzzFeed Does Better Than Anyone Else on Social Media, simplymeasured.com
Advertisers :( cannot use new Facebook ‘reactions’ to target viewers, www.reuters.com
Facebook Is Killing Instagram Engagement With The Advertising Ramp Up, locowise.com
Here’s Why You’re Failing By Ignoring LinkedIn As a Content Platform, www.adweek.com
How Instagram polices its growing ad business, digiday.com
How NASCAR Creates Exciting Fan Experiences on Social Media, www.convinceandconvert.com
Mark Zuckerberg Rips Facebook Employees for Defacing “Black Lives Matter”, blogs.wsj.com
Nearly Eight-in-Ten Reddit Users Get News on the Site, www.journalism.org
Overcoming Obstacles When Branding with Social Media, www.compukol.com
Snapchat Inks Nielsen Deal and Signals That It’s Taking Ad Performance Data Seriously, www.adweek.com
Social Media Celebrity Endorsements That Paid Off, www.searchenginejournal.com
Which Instagram Photo Filters Are the Most Popular?, www.adweek.com
Video
Blur moving objects in your video with the new Custom blurring tool on YouTube, youtubecreator.blogspot.com
New York magazine gets serious about video, especially on Facebook, digiday.com
The Official Twitch Blog Introducing Chat Replay, blog.twitch.tv
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