Feb 22, 20134 min read

Marketing Day: February 22, 2013

Here’s our daily recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on Marketing Land and other places across the Web.

From Marketing Land:

Marketing Biz: B2B Ad Targeting, Elasticsearch & ID Card Checkout This week in marketing was short on drama and long on the future. We saw innovative search applications, new ad targeting capabilities and identity advances. This is … Marketing Biz. Elasticsearch Closes $24M Series B Round and Exceeds Two Million Downloads Milestone Elasticsearch is on a mission to organize data and make it easily accessible. […]
Sprint Beats Verizon As US Carrier With Most Samsung Galaxy S3 Web Traffic Samsung has sold more than 20 million Galaxy S3 handsets to date around the world. Accordingly, the Galaxy S3 is the most popular Android handset and has eclipsed all other Android phones in the market. That’s in part because of Samsung’s aggressive, multi-million dollar global advertising campaign for the device. It’s a very nice phone […]
Facebook Confesses: Our Page Analytics Have Been Screwed Up, Fix In Progress Facebook is notifying Page owners that a bug in its analytics system has affected both the reach and impressions data that’s been showing in Page Insights — and it impacts both paid and organic numbers. Logged-in Page owners should see an alert at the top of their Page the next time they visit, which points […]
Google Glass – The “Rear-View Mirror For Your Eyes” – To Sell For Under $1,500 Later This Year Can you feel the frenzy building over Google Glass, the smartglasses that Google announced last year? Earlier this week, the company invited non-developers to pitch why they should get a pair. Today, over at The Verge, news they’ll be for sale later this year for less than $1,500, along with an in-depth look at the spectacles in […]
Who’s More Excited Than Google About Glass? Facebook. Among the things you might never have expected to hear: Google’s Sergey Brin helping Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg try on a pair of Google Glass glasses. That happened yesterday, as Zuckerberg expressed that he couldn’t wait to get a pair of his own. The surprising encounter happened thanks to the recent Life Sciences Breakthrough prize. The project was founded […]
Bloggers Take Heed: Affiliate Marketing Keeps You In The Driver’s Seat Those of us who have been in the affiliate space for a while know that the industry is predicted to grow to $4.5 billion by 2016. Meanwhile, did you know that there continues to be a steady rise in the amount of active bloggers? According to Nielsen data, there are 6.7 million people publishing blogs […]
Amid Recent High-End Hacks Twitter Beefs Up Security With DMARC Technology If you manage a Twitter account, you likely know the endless phishing attacks that come with the territory. Twitter has long been the target of various scammers who do their darnedest to make their email appear to be official Twitter messages. Well earlier this month Twitter began using a new technology, DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and […]