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:
Preview: The Marketing Land #HashtagBowl Live Blog With Guest Digital Luminaries Here’s what you can expect when you tune in Sunday to our live coverage of the Super Bowl ads and more.
Facebook Is Using Humans To Improve News Feed Quality In a sign that the algorithm is not enough, Facebook has put together a team of 600 people to interact with Facebook and then answer detailed questions about their experience and preferences.
Help Wanted: We’re Hiring An Associate Features Editor Applications are now being accepted for a new, full-time position on our growing editorial team!
Google AdX, OpenX & Rubicon Project Remain Top-Rated Programmatic Sellers Casale Media is out, LinkedIn is in the top 20 on Pixalate’s January Seller Trust Index.
Visa To Highlight Future Of Online Payment During Super Bowl With First ‘Shoppable Halftime Show’ The financial services company seeks to highlight the ease of purchasing with Visa Checkout.
Imgur Tool Simplifies The Process Animating Videos Into Gifs A new tool from media hosting powerhouse Imgur makes the creation of animated GIFs unbelievable easy.
Native Advertising Budgets Will Rise In 2015, Say Marketers Still, most marketers devoted just up to 5 percent of their budgets last year to native ads.
Web Searcher Experience: Is Delight Overrated? We hear talk about “delighting” your website visitors, but what role should this factor play in your planning? Contributor Shari Thurow weighs in.
Facebook Will Be Used More Than Twitter During Super Bowl [Survey] Online survey by Salesforce Marketing Cloud’s found that 66% plan to use Facebook on their second screen on game day, compared to 56% for Twitter.
Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Analytics
5 Content Metrics Every Marketer Needs to Analyze, www.ducttapemarketing.com
Problem Solve First, Mine Data Later, smallbiztrends.com
Blogs & Blogging
Blogger Intervention: 3 reasons why no one is engaging with your content, sherpablog.marketingsherpa.com
Give a Deal to Blog Readers, www.domaininvesting.com
Business Issues
Apple, Google and Amazon Reach “Freemium” Agreement, www.wsj.com
Content Marketing
Content Curation: How to Easily Find Great Content to Share, www.socialmediaexaminer.com
Five Strategies to Boost Customer Retention with Content, relevance.com
Incorporate Quizzes Into a Content Marketing Strategy, www.ducttapemarketing.com
Conversion Optimization
5 Best Practices For Testimonials That Lead to Increased Conversions, www.techwyse.com
5 Practical CRO Predictions for 2015, blog.crazyegg.com
How Long Should I Run An A/B Test For?, www.impactbnd.com
The Perfect Execution of Conversion Rate Optimization, www.quicksprout.com
Tracking Conversions Across Subdomains with AdStage, blog.adstage.io
Copywriting, Design & Usability
8 Steps to Building Features Your Users Actually Want, www.usertesting.com
BBC, Guardian and Metro’s responsive makeovers: Who did it best?, digiday.com
Domaining
Amazon staffing up for new gTLD launches, domainincite.com
How to Pick the Right Domain Name, fizzle.co
E-Commerce
Amazon Prime Membership Should Come With a Warning, time.com
Amazon’s Q4 revenue grows 22% in North America, www.internetretailer.com
Emerging Ecommerce Technologies That Will Change How We Market, www.internetmarketingninjas.com
Facebook leads in social logins on retail sites, www.internetretailer.com
Gap merges e-commerce and marketing in a new executive position, www.internetretailer.com
Mobile Web beats apps for detail-oriented shoppers, www.mobilecommercedaily.com
Switching to New E-Commerce Site, www.searchenginejournal.com
Email Marketing
Disposable Email Services Product to be rolled out on Discard.Email, www.thedomains.com
Email Marketing Lessons for Startups from 4 Real Success Stories, www.iblogzone.com
How Welcome Emails Increase Engagement, www.verticalresponse.com
Using Exit Overlays to Incentivize Email Signups, blog.getresponse.com
What’s the Best “Tone of Voice” for Email Customer Support?, www.dexmedia.com
General Internet Marketing
5 Brand Parodies That Won the Super Bowl, contently.com
A few numbers to know before kickoff, www.adknowledge.com
The Beginner’s Guide to Podcasting, blog.kissmetrics.com
Internet Marketing Industry
Mobile/Local Marketing
Android Shipped 1 Billion Smartphones Worldwide in 2014, blogs.strategyanalytics.com
Android users are diluting tablets’ sterling m-commerce rep, www.internetretailer.com
Are Mobile Apps a Threat to the Web?, www.distilled.net
Are We There Yet? The Rocky Road To Mobile Measurement, www.cmo.com
Consumers Still Slow to Buy In to Mobile Payments, www.emarketer.com
Don’t believe the unbelievers (Part 2); Google Glass has succeeded through Glass at Work, 9to5 Google
Google CFO Calls Glass A Case Where The Company Needed To “Pause” And “Reset”, techcrunch.com
Prototyping iOS And Android Apps With Sketch, www.smashingmagazine.com
Technology and touchdowns: How mobile is changing the game, www.mobilecommercedaily.com
The State of Mobile Commerce, www.getelastic.com
Social Media
Kafka at LinkedIn: Current and Future, engineering.linkedin.com
3 Tips for Incorporating Data Into Your Social Media Strategy, www.semrush.com
37% of Female Fans Will Tweet About Super Bowl Ads, www.adweek.com
5 Key Facebook Marketing Trends For 2015, heidicohen.com
5 Social Planning Mistakes That Marketers Make, simplymeasured.com
5 Tips for Writing Promoted Tweets That Drive Conversions, blog.hootsuite.com
6 Steps To Start Your Social Media Campaign, www.searchenginepeople.com
8 Common Facebook Mistakes Social Media Managers Need To Avoid, blog.hootsuite.com
Are You Ready for the “Geosocial” Revolution?, streetfightmag.com
Jack Dorsey really, really approves of Dick Costolo as Twitter CEO, qz.com
Let Your Humanity Shine in Social Media, www.convinceandconvert.com
Making Pinterest – A look behind search guides, engineering.pinterest.com
Pre-Released Super Bowl Ads Draw Attention on Twitter, simplymeasured.com
Reddit complied with 64% of U.S. govt. data requests in 2014, according to its first transparency report, VentureBeat
Victoria’s Secret sharpens social targeting, chats up Cosmopolitan fans on Snapchat, www.mobilecommercedaily.com
Vine Introduces Vine Kids, techcrunch.com
What $4.5 Million Could Buy If Spent on Social Ads Instead of Super Bowl Spots, www.adweek.com
Which NFL Teams Are Winning (and Losing) on Twitter?, www.marketingprofs.com
Video
At Complex, video is everyone’s job, digiday.com
How Marketers Can Influence the YouTube Autoplay Feature, www.thesempost.com
Red Bull & Nike: Building Solid Video Strategies, www.socialbakers.com
Will Weak Deals Stifle Independent Content Creation on YouTube?, www.adweek.com
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