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:
NFL Teases Its Own Super Bowl 50 Ad With Launch Of “Super Bowl Babies Choir” Video Feb 1, 2016 by Amy Gesenhues In line with its “Football Is Family” campaign, NFL’s spot includes groups of Super Bowl babies singing along with Seal.
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Heinz “Wiener Stampede” Super Bowl Ad Launches Brand’s #MeetTheKetchups Campaign Feb 1, 2016 by Amy Gesenhues Today, Heinz released both its official 30-second Super Bowl spot and an extended version of the ad.
Telenor Acquires Tapad For $360 Million Feb 1, 2016 by Ginny Marvin The mobile carrier aims to bring Tapad’s cross-device expertise to emerging markets in Europe and Asia.
Facebook: News Feed Algorithm Now More Influenced By User Feedback & Surveys Feb 1, 2016 by Matt McGee Company reminds Page owners that asking for likes and clicks isn’t a good long-term visibility strategy.
No-Hype SEO: A Realistic Formula For Making SEO Work For Your Business, Part 2 Feb 1, 2016 by Daniel Faggella In part 2 of his two-part series on simplifying your SEO efforts to achieve results, columnist Daniel Faggella shows how you can turn visitors into leads — and leads into sales.
3 Reasons B2B Marketers Must Embrace Mobile… Now Feb 1, 2016 by Patricia Hursh Have you optimized your B2B website for mobile search? If not, columnist Patricia Hursh explains why you must work to become mobile-friendly immediately.
Cutting Through The Hype: 5 Points To Drive Value From A Data Management Platform (DMP) Feb 1, 2016 by David Booth Are you getting all you can out of your data management platform? Columnist David Booth discusses what you should focus on to ensure successful results.
Can You Make Online Reputation Damage Disappear? Yes, There’s Hope. Feb 1, 2016 by Chris Silver Smith Suffering from online reputation damage? Columnist Chris Silver Smith reveals some ways to help mitigate it, or even make it disappear entirely.
Martech Landscape: What Is An Ad Exchange? Feb 1, 2016 by Ginny Marvin How do ad exchanges work, and do they differ from ad networks or supply-side platforms?
Workflow Automator Zapier Takes Another Step Toward De Facto Marketing Automation By Adding “Multi-Step Zaps” Feb 1, 2016 by Barry Levine A user can now chain together an unlimited number of business applications to automatically conduct pre-defined steps.
MarketingZoom Launches Site For Buying And Selling Marketing Jan 29, 2016 by Barry Levine The Portland, Oregon-based company wants the site to fill the need of companies looking to buy and sell local marketing opportunities.
Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:
Google Search iOS App Adds “I’m Feeling Curious” To 3-D Touch
Valentine’s Day Searches Start Now: When They’ll Peak Depends On The Category
Google Expanding Candidate Cards, Will Also Offer Primary Voting Reminders
Frederick Douglass Google Doodle Opens Black History Month Celebrating Revered US Abolitionist
7 Ways Small Businesses Can Leverage Third-Party Apps for Local Search & Marketing
Google’s Fake Locksmith Problem Once Again Hits The New York Times
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Analytics
ComScore Completes $768M Merger With Rentrak In Bid For Cross-Screen Measurement, adexchanger.com
The top result marketers look at when measuring engagement, www.retaildive.com
Blogs & Blogging
15 Tips to Help Keep Your Blog Secure from Threats, www.blogtyrant.com
Take It To’s blogging platform helps creative professionals showcase and share their work, venturebeat.com
Business Issues
Announcing Yahoo’s new Head of Global Public Policy: April Boyd, yahoopolicy.tumblr.com
Google Fiber may be looking to add phone services, www.washingtonpost.com
Google Is Hearing Facebook’s Footsteps, www.wsj.com
Italy Pursues Google for Around $327 Million in Back Taxes, Wall Street Journal
Marissa Mayer to Make Case That Yahoo Can Be Turned Around, adage.com
Content Marketing
4 Tips for Honing Your Content to Reach Gen Z, www.convinceandconvert.com
5 Tools to Manage Your Freelance Content Team, blog.marketo.com
Content Marketing is NOT a Game of Traffic, contentmarketinginstitute.com
Do Content Marketers Need Editorial Independence?, contently.com
How to Grow Your Site Revenue, www.searchenginejournal.com
The 3 Traits of a Great Content Marketing Mindset, contently.com
The In-Depth Guide to Content Promotion, blog.crazyegg.com
What Is a Content Marketer?, www.copyblogger.com
What’s it Take to “Go Viral?” 11 Traits to Give Your Idea Wings, moz.com
Which Types of Content do B2B Tech Buyers Respond To Most?, blog.kissmetrics.com
Why User Generated Content is Taking the Content Marketing Space by Storm?, www.martechadvisor.com
Why Your Content Marketing Campaigns Fail, www.searchenginejournal.com
Conversion Optimization
3 Foolproof Ways to Ruin Your Conversion Rate, www.problogger.net
How to Use Influencer Marketing to Boost Conversions, www.jeffbullas.com
Copywriting, Design & Usability
Not all responsive designs are created equal, www.internetretailer.com
To Block or Not to Block: Can UX and Digital Advertising Be Friends?, www.usertesting.com
Display & Contextual Advertising
Eye-Tracking Study: How Consumers View Display Ads, www.marketingprofs.com
What are the advantages of RTB for buying display advertising?, econsultancy.com
Domaining
Which Self-Driving Car Domains will Win?, domainnamewire.com
E-Commerce
Amazon captures a third of visits to top retail websites, www.internetretailer.com
Are online sales much higher than reported?, www.internetretailer.com
Crawl Your Ecommerce Site with Python, Scrapy, www.practicalecommerce.com
E-retailers cut clicks to check out and make it easier to return in stores, www.internetretailer.com
Is Logistics About To Get Amazon’ed?, techcrunch.com
Email Marketing
Cold Emails Are Killing Deliverability. Earn Permission Instead!, blog.crazyegg.com
Cracking the Code on Gmail Ads: My 7 Best Tips, www.wordstream.com
Email Marketing Helps B2B Companies Boost Ecommerce Activities, www.emarketer.com
How to Be Sure You’re Doing Everything You Can to Build Your Email List, blogs.constantcontact.com
How to Ensure that Your Emails Are Read, www.compukol.com
General Internet Marketing
Four Practical Segmentation Tips for B2B Marketers, www.marketingprofs.com
The ANA And The 4A’s Clash Over Media Transparency Guidelines, adexchanger.com
What a CMO Looks Like When He Knows His Super Bowl Ad Was a Total Waste, www.adweek.com
Internet Marketing Industry
AWeber Launches “Ask Me About Email Marketing” Podcast, blog.aweber.com
ChoiceStream Announces Matt Rosenberg as Chief Marketing Officer, www.choicestream.com
MarTech
Adtech isn’t in trouble — it’s just misunderstood, venturebeat.com
Does Twitter Have What It Takes To Be An Ad Tech Contender?, adexchanger.com
Mobile/Local Marketing
7 Ways Local Merchants Can Use Messaging Apps for Marketing, streetfightmag.com
Messaging Apps Are The Next Frontier, adexchanger.com
Social Media
Twitter Execs Lash Out After Being Called “Social Media” By Facebook, www.buzzfeed.com
How Facebook tracks and profits from voters in a $10bn US election, www.theguardian.com
15 alternatives to Facebook’s Parse, venturebeat.com
2016 Facebook Marketing: What You Must Know To Succeed, heidicohen.com
4 Social Platforms That Could Steal Super Bowl Ad Spending Away From Twitter, www.adweek.com
9 Productivity Tools for Social Media Marketers, www.socialmediaexaminer.com
A Roadmap for Success at Twitter: Copy Facebook, www.adweek.com
Facebook and Twitter: Users Process Mobile Content Faster, adage.com
How to Create a Conversion-Based Facebook Campaign, simplymeasured.com
How Twitter could be 10X bigger, 100X more profitable, and 1000X more awesome, venturebeat.com
Snapchat Challenges Twitter And Facebook For Sports Talk, techcrunch.com
This is Why You Should Use Emojis to Boost Engagement on Social Media Ads, www.adweek.com
Twitter experiments with trending tweets in the timeline, venturebeat.com
User acquisition via social platforms, www.mobilecommercedaily.com
Watch What You Tweet!, smallbiztrends.com
Which Social Media Network Is Right For Your WordPress Site?, www.wpexplorer.com
Why Duplicating Tweets is a Good Strategy, www.adweek.com
Will Ads on Instagram Reduce Organic Reach?, www.practicalecommerce.com
Video
YouTube Wins Another Round In German Copyright Tussle, fortune.com
Facebook Live Streaming Examples from Business Users, smallbiztrends.com
Here’s How to Link from Inside Youtube Video: Build Traffic from Youtube, www.internetmarketingninjas.com
Programmatic’s Long Struggle With Mobile Complicates The Future Of Video, adexchanger.com
The Fine Bros Backlash and the Problem with Licensing Video Content, www.reelseo.com
Three Trends That Dominated Social Video in 2015, www.socialbakers.com
U.S. Politics and the Late Night Talk Show: Who is Winning on Social Video?, www.reelseo.com
Virtual Reality Is an Immersive Medium for Marketers, www.emarketer.com
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