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 Photos: Now With Unlimited Storage For Your Photos & Video As expected Google splits its photo product from Google+ and hopes to do for photo storage with Gmail did for email.
Instagram Will Give Carousel Ads A Global Push Starting June 1, the company will make the ad unit available in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Germany, France and Brazil.
Google Announces Major Ads Push To Court App Developers New tools, integrations and formats unveiled in Google I/O keynote.
Twitter Launches Auto Amplify To Simplify Creation & Purchase Of Video Clip Ads Twitter gives advertisers self-service access to its video clip advertising product, according to a story in Forbes.
Google Photos, Android Pay, App Campaigns, Offline Maps & “Now on Tap” Some Of Many Google I/O 2015 Keynote Announcements Moves seek to strengthen Google in some areas where it’s behind Apple while others push it even further ahead of its arch-rival.
Data Exposes Scandalously Low Adoption Of Conversion Optimization Tools Should you invest in optimization tools? Columnist Brian Massey dishes out data on how many businesses are using them and whether that gives them a leg up.
Report: Google Had $12 Billion In Mobile Search Revenue, 75 Percent From iOS Yesterday the New York Times exposed part of a Goldman Sachs report in which the firm estimated that roughly 75 percent of Google’s mobile search revenue was generated by users of iPhones and iPads.
Why These Email Marketing Tactics Are Important For The Presidential Campaigns (And Your Email Campaigns, Too) In the first of this four-part series, columnist Tom Sathers reveals three key factors in determining a successful email marketing strategy.
Apple, Google And PayPal Jockey For Position In Mobile Payments Among the anticipated announcements at Google I/O is a revamped and reinvigorated payments strategy.
Google Confirms “Buy” Button Is Coming To Search Ads Buttons will enable consumers to shop right from Google.
California Milk Processors Target Hispanics With $2,000 Scholarship Contest The “Got Milk?” brand is partnering with Latina mom bloggers to spread the word about the bilingual art contest.
Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:
AdWords Dimensions Tab Now Features Both Ad Group & Campaign Detail Reports
Coming Soon: “Now On Tap,” An Expanded Version Of Google Now That Works In Apps & Mobile Browsers
Google’s New Universal App Campaigns Push App Promotions Across Search, YouTube, AdMob, Display
How A “Good” AdWords Campaign Structure Can Hinder Advanced Insights & Strategies
3 Ways To Turn Your Data Into Stories To Earn Authoritative Links
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate Marketing: Manage In-house or Outsource?, www.practicalecommerce.com
Publisher Stories: Deepak Tailor, LatestFreeStuff.co.uk, blog.affiliatewindow.com
Blogs & Blogging
6 Ways to Grow Your Blog Audience, www.socialmediaexaminer.com
A 4-Step Blogger Outreach Tool for Identifying Influencers, www.convinceandconvert.com
Why Pet Bloggers Are the Next Big Brand Influencers, www.convinceandconvert.com
Business Issues
Content Marketing
7 Tips We Learned Analyzing 75 Content Marketing Examples, contentmarketinginstitute.com
9 Content Marketing Trends You Ignore At Your Own Risk, pushingsocial.com
Eight surprisingly interesting examples of finance content, econsultancy.com
Exposing The Generational Content Gap: Three Ways to Reach Multiple Generations, moz.com
How Automation Will Change Content and Native Ads, www.emarketer.com
What is Brand Storytelling?, smallbiztrends.com
Why You Need to Create Long, Evergreen Content, www.searchenginejournal.com
Conversion Optimization
Building Conversion Strategy with Time and Empathy, www.searchenginejournal.com
Charm, Convert, Retain: A Marketer’s Guide to Dating, blogs.constantcontact.com
This Cognitive Bias Will Help You Create More Persuasive Landing Pages, unbounce.com
Copywriting, Design & Usability
Five reasons your customer experience initiative is going to fail, econsultancy.com
Modals on Mobile: How to use them wisely, uxmag.com
What is responsive web development?, www.branded3.com
What Is The Next Frontier For Human Computer Interaction?, usabilitygeek.com
Domaining
.berlin CEO prime suspect in ICANN data breach, domainincite.com
All 32 NFL Teams Register a .Football Domain, But Only 10 Colleges Do, www.thedomains.com
FTC to ICANN on .Sucks: Yeah, we told you this would happen, domainnamewire.com
E-Commerce
3 ways to keep mobile shoppers from ditching app shopping carts, www.mobilecommercedaily.com
Amazon launches free same-day delivery for Prime members in 500 U.S. cities, www.geekwire.com
Amazon Plans to Add Its Own Line of Food, www.wsj.com
Feed Your E-Commerce Engine Great Content, www.cmswire.com
Is your online store a ticking time bomb? Five ways to slow down the clock, www.internetretailer.com
Nabbing that second online order is key to cementing a customer relationship, www.internetretailer.com
Three tips for creating a successful e-commerce brand, www.internetretailer.com
Email Marketing
11 quick tips for email marketing that get results, blogs.constantcontact.com
5 Ways to Get More People to Read Your Emails, www.verticalresponse.com
GoDaddy Announces Launch of Email Marketing Initiative, www.martechadvisor.com
How Allen Edmonds Boosted Email Click-Throughs by 300%, blog.movableink.com
How to Add Live Website Content to an Email, blog.movableink.com
Thanks to you, Inbox by Gmail is now open to everyone, gmailblog.blogspot.com
The A/B and Cs of Email Campaign Testing, blog.crazyegg.com
The Power of List Hygiene, blog.returnpath.com
General Internet Marketing
40+ B2B Marketing Statistics and Benchmarks to Inspire Performance Throughout 2015, www.komarketingassociates.com
Twitter’s Got It Right: Why CFOs Can Oversee Marketing, adage.com
Internet Marketing Industry
Nielsen Launches Digital Ad Ratings in China, www.nielsen.com
Sublime Skinz announces $5M raise from France’s ISAI, venturebeat.com
MarTech
Ad Tech And The Customer File: State Of The Courtship, adexchanger.com
The Platform is the Easy Part, www.cmswire.com
Mobile/Local Marketing
A Murky Road Ahead for Android, Despite Market Dominance, New York Times
Deconstructing the App Store Rankings Formula with a Little Mad Science, moz.com
In Canada, Mobile Drives Significant Gains in Time Spent with Media, www.emarketer.com
Local Advertising: It’s all About Full-Funnel Attribution, blog.biakelsey.com
Social Media
4 Steps to Go Above and Beyond in Social Media Customer Service, www.wordstream.com
A Four-Step Social Media Strategy That Pays Off, www.martechadvisor.com
Advertising is Integral to the Future of Snapchat, www.adweek.com
Another Online Marketing Opportunity is Knocking: Hello #HashtagSearch, blog.kissmetrics.com
Building a scalable machine vision pipeline, engineering.pinterest.com
Don’t Want to Babysit Social Media? Use These 4 Tools, 3qdigital.com
Facebook Instant Articles: Love ‘Em or Hate ‘Em?, www.cmswire.com
Facebook is testing a new tool to lock down user logins, www.theverge.com
Getting Started with Facebook Local Awareness Ads, www.clixmarketing.com
Give Your Facebook A Facelift: Social Media for Dermatologists and Plastic Surgeons, www.searchinfluence.com
How Fortune 500 Companies Engage Job Seekers on Twitter, www.marketingprofs.com
Measuring and Driving Social Media Success with Aetna’s Lauren Vargas, www.stonetemple.com
Slideshare is the digital marketing secret weapon, www.convinceandconvert.com
This is Evan Spiegel’s refreshingly simple description of Snapchat, qz.com
To capitalize on social media, companies rethink their products and services, econsultancy.com
True Impact of Social Media Marketing for Business, www.toprankblog.com
Want to Party With Tinder? Swipe Right on Its Sponsored Post, www.adweek.com
What $5 Per Day Will Buy You on Facebook Ads, blog.bufferapp.com
Why you are unsure how to advertise on Twitter, www.convinceandconvert.com
Video
Business Insider Doubles Down On Video, adexchanger.com
Facebook Video’s Five Key Metrics for Measuring Success, simplymeasured.com
GoPro and Google are partnering to make 360-degree virtual reality videos, qz.com
Video: The Contender Takes the Marketing Title, www.marketingprofs.com
YouTube A to Z #HappyBirthdayYouTube, youtube-global.blogspot.com
YouTube’s Bethany Mota Redefines Being a Celebrity, blogs.wsj.com
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