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 Test Lets Users Pick Which Pages’ & Friends’ Posts Appear At Top Of News Feed Test for some mobile users gives them the option to override the algorithm to make sure they see posts from their favorite people and Facebook Pages.
Facebook: Smartwatches Are “Absolutely” An Advertising Opportunity Even without an Apple Watch app, Facebook ad exec says company sees smartwatches and wearables as an advertising venue.
IAB Reports Nearly A Quarter Of U.S. Adult Population Watches Original Digital Video IAB’s 2015 Original Digital Video Study shows the number of U.S. consumers watching digital content is up 13 percent over last year.
Facebook Strengthens Native Ad Tools For Audience Network Placements Today Facebook’s native ads received a big upgrade with the addition of new templates, an ad manager and horizontal scrolling capability.
Beer Brand’s #TweetAt12 Campaign Offers Free Beer To Those Who Tweet At Noon Synchronize your watches! With a new contest, Fuller’s London Pride is rewarding tweets and raising awareness of its daily quality check.
Prudential’s Marketing Leader Aims To Make Life Insurance More Relevant In Today’s Market Get To Know: Prudential Executive VP of Product and Marketing Mark Hug
Stop Building Marketing Platforms For Marketers Columnist Jim Williams believes the marketing platform of the future needs to be focused on buyers, not marketers.
What Google’s Mobile-First Rules Mean For Your Marketing Strategy Columnist Josh Manion explains why Google’s update should encourage marketers to move beyond the mobile Web into native mobile apps.
Mobile Video Advertising Revenues Much Higher Than Impression Share — Report You might still think of Opera as a browser company. However a number of strategic mobile advertising acquisitions over the past few years have transformed the company into a global advertising business.
Succeeding In Mobile Display Advertising: Little Messages That Pack A Big Punch Mobile advertising comes with a plethora of challenges. Columnist Rob Rasko wants your help in understanding mobile marketing effectiveness.
Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Analytics
Marketers Share Data Externally, Whether or Not They Want To, www.emarketer.com
More Metrics That May Lead You Astray, blog.returnpath.com
What’s Your Level Of Confidence In The Data?, adexchanger.com
Which Social & Mobile Metrics Should You Be Paying Attention To?, www.adweek.com
Blogs & Blogging
12 Things You SHOULDN’T Do on Your Company Blog, www.searchenginejournal.com
How to Get Google to Send You 119,717 Visitors Every Month, www.blogtyrant.com
What Should Go into Your Blog’s Branding Strategy, www.martechadvisor.com
Why Startups and Bloggers Both Fail at Blogger Outreach, blog.thesocialms.com
Business Issues
Doing more on diversity, Official Google Blog
comscore Acquires Analytics Firm Proximic, www.martechadvisor.com
Google has dramatically expanded the number and type of schools it recruits from, qz.com
LinkedIn gets most of the Bonus FAR real estate capacity in Mountain View’s North Bayshore, www.bizjournals.com
Silicon Valley Slams EU Web Regulation Plan, www.wsj.com
Yahoo Style’s Joe Zee Talks Snapchat, Food Mags and Chrissy Teigen, www.adweek.com
Content Marketing
48 Content Writing Examples, Tools, Tips and Resources, contentmarketinginstitute.com
Are These 4 Common Legal Mistakes Putting Your Content at Risk?, www.copyblogger.com
Content Marketing Strategy: Context, Context, Context, www.cmswire.com
Internal Content Curation: What Most Marketers Miss, heidicohen.com
Super Meta Infographic: Why Infographics Are Content Marketing’s Secret Weapon, contently.com
Conversion Optimization
2 Digital Advertising Praxes To Convert Users, www.searchenginejournal.com
How To Beat Google’s New Mobile Update With Conversion Rate Optimisation, www.webpresence.tv
What can the German football team tell us about conversion optimization?, econsultancy.com
Copywriting, Design & Usability
Explaining The Perfect Website Design to Non-Designers, www.blogherald.com
Domaining
Congress to put .sucks on trial, domainincite.com
E-Commerce
3 Bad Ecommerce Customers You Should Fire, www.practicalecommerce.com
Alibaba Results: What to Watch, blogs.wsj.com
Another cross-border e-commerce provider is acquired, www.internetretailer.com
Former Apple Retail Boss Ron Johnson Unwraps eCommerce Site “Enjoy”, blogs.wsj.com
How to Leverage Storytelling for eCommerce Success, blog.crazyegg.com
New Research from Invoca Reveals Key Drivers in Omni-Channel Path to Purchase, www.martechadvisor.com
Two Retail Veterans Take Aim at Amazon’s E-Commerce Reign, mobile.nytimes.com
Email Marketing
3 Tips to Wake up NonResponders & Boost Email Open Rates, www.verticalresponse.com
How to Build Vendor Relationships and Increase Sales with Email Marketing, blogs.constantcontact.com
Mobile Email: Everything You Need To Know & Then Some, amyafrica.com
Top 4 Reasons We Open Marketing Emails, www.usertesting.com
General Internet Marketing
Audience Behavior Transcends TV Viewership, www.sharethis.com
Digital Marketers, It’s Not All About You, www.cmswire.com
MarTech
29 marketing tech “unicorns” worth $1 billion+ each, chiefmartec.com
Mobile/Local Marketing
19 must-have features for mobile product pages, econsultancy.com
5 Ways a Mobile-First Strategy Can Integrate Online and Offline Marketing, www.adweek.com
6 Tools Restaurants Can Use to Offer Mobile Ordering, streetfightmag.com
App Annie Buying App Data Provider Mobidia, recode.net
Does Anyone Use Social Sharing Buttons on Mobile?, moovweb.com
How to use mobile phone data for good without invading anyone’s privacy, qz.com
Local Advertising to Go Programmatic, www.emarketer.com
Mandatory Mobile: Taking CRM on the road, www.martechadvisor.com
Marketers getting more adept at mobile targeting, but challenges loom, www.mobilemarketer.com
Road to in-store mobile payments is bumpy for Apple Pay, www.mobilecommercedaily.com
Social-Local Landscape: Are Snaps the New Check-in?, blog.biakelsey.com
Understanding the role of influence in cross-device transactions, blog.affiliatewindow.com
Why Mobile Commerce Is Not eCommerce 2.0, www.getelastic.com
Social Media
11 Terrific Twitter Profile Designs for Inspiration, www.jeffbullas.com
33 Social Media Groups and Chats You Should Know About, blog.bufferapp.com
4 Reasons Marketing Shouldn’t Control Social Media, www.convinceandconvert.com
5 Social Media Reports to Help You Crush Any Meeting, simplymeasured.com
Are Facebook Ads Getting More Popular with Small Business?, smallbiztrends.com
Don’t Boost Your Facebook Posts, www.blogtyrant.com
How #brands can #hashtag like #champs, digiday.com
How The UN Uses Twitter To Bring The World Together One Tweet At A Time, www.socialbro.com
How to Develop a Social Media Brand Standards Guide, www.searchenginepeople.com
IBM, Facebook Form Product Innovation Partnership, adage.com
Social Media is the Next Big thing for Networking, blog.similarweb.com
The Secret Language of Emojis on Instagram, www.adweek.com
Twitter Scrambles for an Ad Fix as Nielsen’s Promoted Tweets Show Up in Porn Feeds, www.adweek.com
Video
3 Ways to Justify Your Native Video Budget, www.adknowledge.com
4 Video Marketing Tips for Healthcare Marketers, www.toprankblog.com
6 Ways to Use Live Streaming Video for Business, www.socialmediaexaminer.com
Celebrating Moms on YouTube, adwordsagency.blogspot.com
Meerkat Launches Developer Platform To Differentiate From Periscope, techcrunch.com
Reddit launches a video division to create original content, www.theverge.com
Why Banning Periscope is Stupid, www.convinceandconvert.com
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