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:
As Google Enters Auto Insurance Market, Comparison Sites React; Agency Partner Raises Financing Partners and competitors alike hoping Google will bring more awareness of comparison shopping for insurance, spreading the benefits.
How 3 Businesses Use Pinterest To Learn What Their Customers Covet By asking new customers to share Pinterest links, Stitch Fix, Homepolish and Heather Cleveland Design gain insight they couldn’t get without the social bookmarking service.
Gmail Sponsored Promotions: Everything You Need To Know To Succeed At Direct Response With GSP, Part 1 Now that GSPs are available to all advertisers, columnist Susan Waldes shares what she’s learned from participating in the lengthy beta.
You’ve Got Mail! (LinkedIn Is Positive Of It) Sponsored InMail Upgrades Now Serve 100% Deliverability LinkedIn’s Sponsored InMail adds rich targeting features and will not only display to active prospects for superior deliverability.
All Your Marketing Data Belongs To Google & Facebook — Will You Keep It There? Columnist David Rodnitzky weighs the pros and cons of trusting Google and Facebook with your marketing analytics data.
The Content Battleground: Performance Above The Noise Columnist Jim Yu discusses the challenges marketers face when it comes to measuring content performance and value.
Reports: Twitter Has Acquired Periscope Streaming Video App Startup is still in private beta but is reportedly working on a mobile app similar to Meerkat.
Will Google Now Come To Apple Watch? Google Says Nothing To Announce Apple held its big Apple Watch event this morning, showing examples of various apps sending notifications and alerts from the iPhone to the device. So what about Google? Its Google Now notifications are ideal for smartwatches — in fact, they’re a core part of Google’s own Android Wear. Will those come to Apple Watch? “We […]
Nielsen Study: Twitter TV Conversation Is Bellwether For Audience Engagement Nielsen finds that Twitter activity during television shows highly correlates with neurological reactions of study participants.
Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:
Everything Search Marketers Need To Know About Gmail Sponsored Promotions, Part 1
Bing Partners With NCAA, Will Predict March Madness Games & Help Fans Complete Brackets
Prediction: Apple Will Not Renew Google As Safari Default Search Engine
The Next Generation Of Structured Data: Taking Markup To The Next Level
Google Analysis Shows Over 80% Of HTTPS URLs Not Displaying In Google’s Search Results
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Analytics
Social’s Significance in Marketing’s Big Data Lifecycle Gives a New Twist to TMI, www.socialmediatoday.com
The Magic of Universal Analytics: Strategy, Implementation Tips, www.kaushik.net
The State of B2B Digital Marketing Analytics, www.marketingprofs.com
The Year of the Predictive Marketer, www.cmswire.com
Blogs & Blogging
5 Advanced Techniques I Use To Make Money On My Blog, www.problogger.net
5 Great Ways to Drive More Traffic to Your Blog, www.blogherald.com
6 Methods to Create Quality Blog Content, www.goinflow.com
Business Issues
HBO web-only service to debut in April on Apple devices first, www.internetretailer.com
Paul Feig’s “Other Space” Premieres on Yahoo, yahoo.tumblr.com
Pioneering Tech Blog GigaOm Is Shutting Down, techcrunch.com
Content Marketing
10 Reasons Your Editorial Calendar Sucks (and How to Make It the Best), www.convinceandconvert.com
6 Foolproof Methods For Creating Top Content on Any Topic, blog.bufferapp.com
A Step-by-Step Guide to Get Your Content Marketing Program Off the Ground, contentmarketinginstitute.com
Brand Storytelling 101: The Essential Elements, www.searchenginejournal.com
Content Marketing Isn’t Really about Content At All, www.verticalmeasures.com
How to Set Goals for Your Content and Weave Them into What You Create, www.copyblogger.com
Why Branded Content Is Poised to Take Over, www.adweek.com
Conversion Optimization
5 Key Elements For Creating a Compelling Call To Action, www.jeffbullas.com
CRO Plugins You Can Install In Under 30 Mins, blog.crazyegg.com
On-Site Must-Haves That Boost Conversions, www.marketingprofs.com
Wayfinding Conventions: Design Your Landing Pages to Guide Visitors to Action, unbounce.com
Copywriting, Design & Usability
Continuous Input In Mobile Devices: Pain Or Gain?, www.smashingmagazine.com
Responsive Web Design is a must for any brand that is serious about digital, www.internetretailer.com
Tools for Mobile UX Design: Task Flows, www.uxmatters.com
Domaining
Owners bullish on domain name values in 2015, domainnamewire.com
Why Won’t URLs Die?, medium.com
E-Commerce
Ecommerce Personalization Similar to Dating, www.practicalecommerce.com
Ecommerce trends in 2015: video presentation, econsultancy.com
How Michael Kors markets to online millennials, www.internetretailer.com
Louis Vuitton: analysis of the luxury online customer journey, econsultancy.com
Nearly half of digital shoppers at the top 10 retailers are mobile-only, www.internetretailer.com
Email Marketing
3 Email Marketing Best Practices for Small Businesses, blogs.constantcontact.com
Build Customer Trust by Sending These 6 Emails, www.verticalresponse.com
First CASL Violation Filed, blog.returnpath.com
General Internet Marketing
5 Must Have Tools For Modern Growth Marketers, wilsonpeng.com
6 Things That Make Modern CMOs Stand Out, www.cmswire.com
Agility Will Rule in the Era of Engagement Marketing, blog.marketo.com
Study: Despite Benefits, Marketers Slow to Adopt Virtual Events, www.intercall.com
The Real Reason Every Marketer Should Attend SXSW, www.adweek.com
Internet Marketing Industry
BlueConic Delivers Unparalleled Marketing Outcomes by Synchronizing Data Across a Siloed Ecosystem, Business Wire
CCDR Media Launches Click-to-Call Product, Market Wired
Digilant Announces the Global Launch of Fully-Customizable, Page-Level Targeting Data Solution, www.digilant.com
IAC Hires David Siegel As CEO Of Finance Website Investopedia, techcrunch.com
Teradata Unveils its Digital Marketing Center, www.teradata.com
Vibes Wants To Close The Loop On Mobile Marketing, www.forbes.com
MarTech
Avoid Impulse Buys when Shopping for Marketing Technology, www.cmswire.com
The striking parallels between marketing automation and software engineering, chiefmartec.com
Where Marketing Tech Trends Of 2015 Overlap With Programmatic, www.mediapost.com
Mobile/Local Marketing
4 Mobile Innovations That Are Hastening the Decline of Desktops, www.adweek.com
5 Lessons from David Ogilvy That Still Work for Mobile App Marketing, blog.kissmetrics.com
7-Eleven stirs up beverage purchases with new in-app loyalty platform, www.mobilecommercedaily.com
Are Security Concerns Holding Back Mobile Payments?, www.emarketer.com
Google Calendar for iPhone. It’s about time., gmailblog.blogspot.com
Location Isn’t Just Where You Are, streetfightmag.com
Mobile App Onboarding: How To Do It Right, usabilitygeek.com
Starbucks to expand mobile-ordering service across the Northwest, www.internetretailer.com
Social Media
3 Ways to Use Facebook Groups for Business, www.socialmediaexaminer.com
4 Ways to Dramatically Improve Your Social Media Photos, www.convinceandconvert.com
44 Social Media Tools Recommended by the Pros, www.socialmediaexaminer.com
5 Instagrammers from 5 Continents You Need To Know, www.adweek.com
Brand Yourself: Applying Strategic Branding to Personal Social Channels, www.adweek.com
Brands have more followers on Google+ than on all others together, www.searchenginepeople.com
Discover Agile Social Media Marketing, www.blogherald.com
How Frozen Drove Disney’s Big Year on Social, www.socialbakers.com
Social Selling 101: Discovering High-Value Prospects, www.martechadvisor.com
State of Enterprise Social Marketing Report 2014 Takeaways, smallbiztrends.com
The Problem With Twitter’s New Abuse Strategy, www.adweek.com
Twitter Opens Hong Kong Office To Make Money In China, techcrunch.com
U.S. judge revokes bail for missing man accused in Facebook fraud, Reuters
Video
Video Posts Double Organic Reach on Facebook, contently.com
What brands and publishers need to know about Meerkat, Digiday
Why Aren’t More Brands Embedding Their Own YouTube Videos?, www.reelseo.com
YouTube’s Competition; TV Targeting Lagging, adexchanger.com
YouTube’s Unofficial Film School Is Reinventing the Studio, contently.com
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