Jul 23, 20146 min read

Marketing Day: Facebook’s Q2 Revenue, Shelf Life Of Mobile Ads & App Reviews By Shatner

Here’s our daily recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on

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From Marketing Land:

Facebook Continues Expectation-Beating Streak With A $2.9 Billion Q2 Facebook’s financial winning streak continued today, as the social network reported $2.91 billion in revenues for the quarter ending in June. Analysts had expected 2.81 billion, so this marks the ninth consecutive quarterly report that Facebook has beaten Wall Street expectations. Earnings per share were $0.42, also beating the expected $0.32. Facebook’s stock, which closed […]
Most Consumers Reject In-Store Mobile Tracking — Or Do They? The large majority of consumers have not had any experience with indoor location or indoor marketing on mobile devices. However there are already more than a dozen surveys asking how consumers feel about having their in-store movements tracked. Having read every single one of these surveys and conducted several myself I can tell you the […]
How Spirit Airlines Embraced Brand Hatred And Won Spirit Airlines is a brand people love to hate. Perhaps you’ve seen one of the many tweets trashing the brand for charging fees for just about everything. Many brands offer up bland, apologetic statements when they run afoul of people’s expectations. But not Spirit Airlines. Spirit Airlines proudly stands behind its “cheap seats” approach to […]
Get To Know: North Lake Tahoe Convention & Visitor Bureau CMO Andy Chapman As the Chief Marketing Officer for the North Lake Tahoe Convention and Visitor Bureau and the North Lake Tahoe Resort Association, Andy Chapman has lived in Lake Tahoe for more than 20 years and is happy to call it home. While Chapman’s day job is spent promoting the North Lake Tahoe region to traveling consumers […]
Live @ SMX East: How BuzzFeed Mastered The Art Of Viral Content Everyone likes to talk about creating a buzz, but few have mastered the art of making content go viral like Jonah Peretti, founder of BuzzFeed, the wildly popular social news and entertainment website that has scored huge successes with quizzes, listicles and even long-form content. Peretti also co-founded the Huffington Post, and is well-known for […]
6 Common Mistakes Of Acquisition Marketers New customers are the lifeblood of any business, and often the most expensive area of investment. Brands often build complex processes and campaigns to drive new interest, and measure it to the point of conversion. Yet, despite its importance and the extent of the investment, there are six errors that are repeated time and time again. […]
Target By Operating System & Browser Type With New Facebook Advertising Behavior Types It’s pretty clear that Facebook is leading the way in digital ad targeting, and will for quite a while. While Google is struggling with mobile and socially-driven demographic/interest targeting, Facebook keeps on releasing the hits. The newest release is key for those marketers looking to promote plugins/extensions or specific programs/apps by OS. One of the […]
LinkedIn To Acquire Bizo In A Deal Valued At $175 Million In an effort to build out its marketing and mobile products, LinkedIn announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Bizo, a B2B marketing technology provider. According to the announcement, the deal is valued at approximately $175 million. Founded in 2008 by Russell Glass, Bryan Burdick, Donnie Flood, Mark Dye, Lee Byrne and Yonatan […]
The Shelf Life Of A Mobile Ad: Shorter Than You May Think When a user loads a webpage, they aren’t doing so with the intent of clicking on an ad. Yet, millions and millions of users do just that every single day. However, this isn’t just a numbers game — intelligent marketers (like those who are reading this article) are looking to get the most out of […]
William Shatner Boldly Goes Into Facebook Mentions App For Celebrities, Calls It “Ill Conceived” Actor William Shatner is exactly the type of celebrity Facebook is catering to with the launch of the Mentions app last week. Active, engaged and social media savvy, Shatner has a Facebook Page with nearly 800,000 likes. He even seems to run the page and his other outspoken social media efforts himself, unlike many celebs […]
Microsoft Reports $23 Billion In Revenue For Q4 2014 Microsoft posted its Q4 2014 revenue earnings report this afternoon, with $23.38 billion generated during the last quarter of its fiscal year. Noting it had completed the acquisition of “substantially” all of the Nokia Devices and Services in April, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella claimed the company is: Galvanized around our core as a productivity and […]
Email Deliverability: 4 Horrible Myths On The Rise As email deliverability continues to evolve, the myths surrounding it continue to persist: confusing “delivered” with “inbox placement,” insisting that the best time to send is at 6:00 a.m. on Wednesday, and avoiding the word “free” in all caps are oldies, but still goodies. Here are some other myths I hear more and more today. […]