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:
Google AMP carousels are multiplying! Jan 23, 2017 by Barb Palser Columnist Barb Palser says the growing number of single-source AMP carousels in Google search sweetens the deal for AMP-enabled publishers.
5 more brands launch Super Bowl LI ads: Hyundai, Turbo Tax, Lexus, Avocados from Mexico & Mr. Clean Jan 23, 2017 by Amy Gesenhues As game day nears, more and more advertisers are releasing teaser ads and official Super Bowl spots.
Are you writing too much content? Jan 23, 2017 by Jacob Baadsgaard Contributor Jacob Baadsgaard says great content doesn’t have to do with word count — it’s about giving your audience what they’re looking for.
Amplero enlists machine learning to leverage influencer marketing Jan 23, 2017 by Barry Levine The optimization platform’s new feature makes tested offers to customers who have lots of friends and followers.
Brandwatch now offers three-year searches of Unlimited Historical Data Jan 23, 2017 by Barry Levine The UK-based social intelligence firm is employing the Twitter Decahose, offering what it says is the fastest tool for historical searches of online news and conversations.
How audience profiling, based on real-time online customer interactions, reveals the faces in the crowd Jan 23, 2017 by Giovanni Strocchi Contributor Giovanni Strocchi explains how audience profiling built on first-party data can help marketers get to know their audience on a personal level and predict their needs.
Announcing the Stackie & Hackie Awards for MarTech San Francisco 2017 Jan 23, 2017 by Scott Brinker I’m excited to kick off the third year of The Stackies, which will culminate in an opening awards ceremony at the MarTech Conference in San Francisco, May 9–11, 2017. Of course, like all agile marketers, we believe in improving with each iteration. So we’ve tweaked and expanded the competition this year.
Women’s March a reminder of the incredible viral power of Facebook Jan 23, 2017 by Greg Sterling The event, which probably wouldn’t have been possible without Facebook, was the largest protest in US history.
Survey: Mobile devices eclipse PC usage and, in a surprise, drive more conversions Jan 23, 2017 by Greg Sterling Fluent survey of 2,773 US adults asked about a range of mobile behaviors and usage patterns.
Twitter forces people to follow @POTUS, @FLOTUS & @VP accounts Jan 20, 2017 by Danny Sullivan Did you transition away from the official accounts for the US President, Vice President and First Lady? There’s a good chance Twitter made you follow them again.
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Analytics
Civis Analytics adds surveys so brands can better understand themselves, venturebeat.com
Google Is Developing a Cloud-Based Measurement Service for Advertisers, www.adweek.com
Metrics and KPIs Used for Marketing Performance Measurement, www.marketingprofs.com
The Consumer Affinity War: Protecting Your Brand With Analytics, www.cmswire.com
The Open Garden Movement: How it Optimizes your Targeting, Analytics and Performance, www.martechadvisor.com
Blogs & Blogging
Generate New Blog Post Ideas: Yes You Can!, heidicohen.com
How to Come up With More Than Enough (Great) Ideas for Your Blog, www.problogger.net
How to Grow Blog Traffic and Leads With Compounding Posts, www.marketingprofs.com
Medium vs. WordPress: Battle of the Blogging Platforms, www.cmswire.com
Business Issues
Content Marketing
5 Content Marketing Trends That Will Change SEO In 2017, www.searchenginepeople.com
Fake News Impacts All of Us: Here’s How Content Creators Can Adapt, www.cmswire.com
How to Produce 300 High-Quality Articles a Year: An 8-Step Process, contentmarketinginstitute.com
The 7 Traits of Successful Content Marketers, contentmarketinginstitute.com
The Art of Seductive Content Marketing, www.copyblogger.com
Trust Your Customers to Raise Their Hands: How to use non-gated content to more than double high-quality leads, sherpablog.marketingsherpa.com
Conversion Optimization
How to Build a Compelling One-Page Story for Your Landing Page, blog.crazyegg.com
Optimization Across the User Journey: the intersection of SEM and CRO, 3qdigital.com
Copywriting, Design & Usability
5 Easy-to-Digest Resources to Finally Understand Site Speed Better, www.internetmarketingninjas.com
5 Writing Principles That Will Make Your Content Go Viral, www.jeffbullas.com
50 One Page Website Templates for Your Business, smallbiztrends.com
The Differences Between Enterprise and Consumer UX Design, www.uxmatters.com
E-Commerce
8 Ways to Encourage Ecommerce Customer Loyalty in 2017, www.practicalecommerce.com
Abandoned Shopping Cart Rates Are Soaring – And It’s All Our Fault!, smallbiztrends.com
Amazon is 800-pound gorilla in the room that consumers love, www.mobilecommercedaily.com
Ditch averages to find your next e-commerce conversion breakthrough, www.internetretailer.com
Why incomplete website content leads to lost sales, www.internetretailer.com
Email Marketing
10 Types of Triggered Email Marketing Campaigns (and How to Use Them), movableink.com
Building an Email List From Scratch, www.verticalresponse.com
How to Design Emails to Drive More Action, blogs.constantcontact.com
Nobody Complains About Spam Anymore – or Even Bothers to Unsubscribe, www.martechadvisor.com
General Internet Marketing
6 Digital Marketing Strategies You Need To Know, www.ppchero.com
MarTech
4 Ways to Make Chatbots a Brand Advantage, www.martechadvisor.com
Blockchain marketing: how the technology behind Bitcoin could change marketing, chiefmartec.com
How AI will transform mobile, apps, and marketing, www.tune.com
Mobile/Local Marketing
It’s Not Just Millennials That Tap into Mobile for Social, www.emarketer.com
Top mobile predictions from 76 influencers in 38 seconds (or less), www.tune.com
Social Media
19 Facebook Marketing Predictions for 2017 From the Pros, www.socialmediaexaminer.com
4 Golden Rules for Social Selling on Instagram, www.socialmediaexplorer.com
Facebook ads drove more shoppers to buy over the holidays, www.internetretailer.com
How to Create Viral Content for Social Media on a Consistent Basis, blog.bufferapp.com
Snapchat quietly updates its guidelines to prevent fake news on its Discover platform, qz.com
Snapchat Spectacles: A Full Review and 5 Tips to Take Great Snaps, blog.bufferapp.com
What You Need to Know About Facebook’s Business Pages Layout, www.searchenginejournal.com
Video
10 B2C Brands Crushing it with Instagram Video Content in 2017, www.toprankblog.com
10+ Best YouTube Plugins for WordPress to Improve User Engagement, www.wpexplorer.com
How Marketers Can Use Experiential AI to Jump Start Video Marketing, www.martechadvisor.com
How one family used YouTube to build a home and rebuild their lives, youtube.googleblog.com
Report: VR and 360-Degree Marketing Videos Can Generate Brand Favorability, komarketing.com
Twitter just can’t let go of Vine, launches an online archive, techcrunch.com
Where to Put Marketing Videos on Your Website: 7 Places to Consider, www.thesaleslion.com
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