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 Gives Page Admins Quick View Of Reach & Click Stats Saving a trip to the Insights tab, Page administrators now can see basic performance statistics on each post at the Page level.
Google Gives Hangouts Its Own Place To Hang Google launches a dedicated desktop page for its free communication tool.
US E-Commerce Sales Jump 14 Percent, Account For 7.2 Percent Of All Retail Overall retail sales ticked up just one percent year-over-year, according to latest US Commerce Department report.
Return Path Adds Send Time & Subject Line Optimization Tools To Its Email Marketing Platform The company says beta tests of the new send time optimization capability increased read-rates by 25 percent.
New Wipes Let Parents Smear Baby Poop All Over Unsolicited Child Care Advice The UK brand makes its American debut by reassuring parents that they, not the so-called experts, know their baby best.
The Trump Factor: What Your Business Can Learn From Donald Trump’s Wild And Wacky Campaign For President Brands should take a page from Donald Trump and other candidates who are using social media to capture the attention of their audience, says columnist Jason Warnock.
Your Online Presence Is Failing: Here Are 4 Reasons Why Is your online presence is failing to drive sales? Columnist Mary Wallace lays out four reasons why and what you can do about it.
The Generational Content Gap: How Different Age Groups Consume Content Columnist Kerry Jones shares recent research about online content consumption preferences and habits across different generations.
In Google’s Android-Candy Universe, “M” Is For Marshmallow Someday, in a museum, there will be an exhibit of all the statues representing all the different versions and flavors of Android. The latest — Android 6.0, or “M” — is being called “Marshmallow.”
Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Affiliate Marketing
Rewarding Influence within the Affiliate Channel, blog.affiliatewindow.com
Blogs & Blogging
5 Keys to Creating a Blog Post That’s Pinterest Perfect, blog.tailwindapp.com
9 Habits of Bloggers Who Have Huge Audiences, www.problogger.net
How to use big data to find sponsors for your blog, www.convinceandconvert.com
Business Issues
BuzzFeed gets $200M from NBCUniversal to expand its reach to TV, www.buzzfeed.com
How Many Stars Would You Give the TSA? Review Federal Agencies on Yelp, officialblog.yelp.com
Kik Receives $50 Million Investment From Tencent, blog.kik.com
Meet OnHub: a new router for a new way to Wi-Fi, googleblog.blogspot.com
Pinterest Adds Twitter’s Nipoon Malhotra to Boost Product Monetization, www.adweek.com
Reddit Names Marty Weiner, Founding Engineer At Pinterest, Its First CTO, techcrunch.com
Content Marketing
4 Quick Wins Until Your Content Marketing Kicks In, www.verticalmeasures.com
5 Places to Get Content Creation Ideas From, www.blogherald.com
6 Content Marketing Lessons to Learn from Monopoly, www.komarketingassociates.com
How to Tap Into Emotions and Boost Your Content Marketing, www.jeffbullas.com
Increase Content Marketing Success With Helpful Headline Tips & Tools, contentmarketinginstitute.com
Conversion Optimization
5 Ways to Instantly Improve Landing Page Conversions, www.searchenginejournal.com
Bayesian vs Frequentist A/B Testing, conversionxl.com
Surprising CRO Lessons from a Workout Routine, blog.crazyegg.com
Copywriting, Design & Usability
From Russia With Love: Behind The Responsive Redesign of Kremlin.ru, www.smashingmagazine.com
Is Above the fold Really Dead?, vwo.com
The Difference Between UX And UI Design, usabilitygeek.com
Domaining
Sorry Google The .XYZ Registry is Not For Sale, www.thedomains.com
US gives ICANN an extra year to complete transition, domainincite.com
E-Commerce
Amazon set to launch new ‘Amazon Flex’ package pickup service with Prime Now in Seattle area, www.geekwire.com
Building eCommerce Brand Evangelists, www.goinflow.com
Designing A Basic End-To-End Facebook Ecommerce Strategy, www.ppchero.com
Ebay Names CMO Following Split From PayPal, adage.com
Key ecommerce statistics from Ofcom’s Communication Market Report 2015, econsultancy.com
Mobile commerce is now 30% of all U.S. e-commerce, www.internetretailer.com
One Way To Compete With Amazon In E-Commerce: Personality, www.fastcompany.com
Some big retailers ignore their apps but at what cost?, www.mobilecommercedaily.com
The state of retail mobile apps in 5 charts, digiday.com
What Global Opportunities for Online Retailers Look Like in 2015, www.marketingprofs.com
Where Do Digital Buyers Start Their Online Shopping Journey?, www.emarketer.com
Why Online Marketplaces Will Continue to Beat Word-of-Mouth Platforms in the Battle for Local Business, streetfightmag.com
Email Marketing
4 Emails That Will Increase Customer Engagement, www.verticalresponse.com
4 Ways to Prepare for Holiday Email Marketing Now, www.practicalecommerce.com
Five Tips for Increasing Email Engagement and Improve Inboxing, www.marketingprofs.com
Got a Marketing Email Like This? RUN!, www.internetmarketingninjas.com
Keeping Email Marketing Relevant for Today’s Consumer, www.martechadvisor.com
Supercharge Your Subject Lines, blog.returnpath.com
General Internet Marketing
Can ‘generalist’ marketing agencies still deliver high quality services?, blogs.constantcontact.com
Inc. Mag’s Revenue Survey: Ad Tech And Marketing Firms Make The Cut, adexchanger.com
Marketing Tips to Finish 2015 on a High Note, blog.marketo.com
Internet Marketing Industry
MarTech
How to Survive in a World Being Eaten By MarTech, www.cmswire.com
Mobile/Local Marketing
4 Ways Enterprise Mobile Repeats Intranet Mistakes, www.cmswire.com
App Developers Fight A Saturated Market, adexchanger.com
How the Apple Watch changes consumer shopping behavior, www.mobilecommercedaily.com
Study Says 80% Of Apple Watch Users Are Already Using Apple Pay, techcrunch.com
These are the 25 most popular mobile apps in America, qz.com
Using Personalized Data and Mobile to Score With Fans, adage.com
Social Media
Facebook Updates Business Manager, www.adweek.com
How to Optimize Your Tweets for Search, www.socialmediaexaminer.com
How To Use Twitter Cards To Drive Engagement, authoritylabs.com
How’d They Do That? 7 Techniques of Successful Social Media Sharers, blog.bufferapp.com
My Social Media Story: What Seems Like the End is Often the Beginning, dannybrown.me
New Facebook SDK with Updates to Help You Prepare for iOS 9, developers.facebook.com
The 10 most popular back-to-school trends in 2015, blog.pinterest.com
The Science of Instagram: How to Get More Likes, www.marketingprofs.com
Twitter says to accelerate push for content partnerships in Asia, www.reuters.com
Two Reports to Dig into Facebook Multi-Product Ad Results, 3qdigital.com
Video
5 ways brands are using Periscope, digiday.com
Jun Group Aligns Mobile Video Ads With Premium Publisher Content, adexchanger.com
Most-Popular Instagram Video Creators, www.reelseo.com
Seven ways you can achieve more with video, econsultancy.com
Using YouTube Analytics to Optimize Videos, www.lunametrics.com
Video marketing: a must have in your content marketing mix, blog.impactana.com
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