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 Is Testing “Saved Replies” To Help Pages Manage Customer Service Messages A small group of Pages have access to a tool that enables businesses to create, save and send canned responses to people asking questions within Facebook.
Big Data Gets Bigger With The Apple Watch And The Internet Of Things As wearables and the IoT produce new insights about customers, columnist Josh Manion takes a look at what it means for marketers and how to manage the data.
Before Leading Mobli’s Marketing & Branding Efforts, This CMO Developed Algorithms Get To Know: Mobli Media Inc. CMO Irit Singer
Digital Forecast: A Data-Protection Storm Is Brewing In Europe As regulators debate the new cookie law for Europe, columnist Rob Rasko explains who wins and who loses and how the expected outcome will affect some U.S. companies.
Google Says Micro-Moments Are The New Path To Purchase New data shows consumers use mobile devices more often, but in shorter periods of time, to research and buy.
Report: 89% Of Marketers Have Problems With Cross-Channel Marketing, Data Linkage Is The Biggest Culprit A new study shows that data linkage is again the biggest challenge to marketers and their cross-channel marketing efforts.
SMX East Agenda Is Up – Secure A Spot Today & Save $300 Get ready for three days of innovative search marketing tactics you won’t find anywhere else but SMX East.
Best YouTube Video Ad In Last 10 Years? Turkish Airlines “Kobe Vs Messi: The Selfie Shootout” For its #10YearsofYouTubeAds contest, users were asked to vote on their favorite video from a list of 20 finalists.
Instagram Turns Up The Volume On Its Ad Plans In the coming months, the visual social network will open ad buying to more businesses and enable Facebook targeting. It also is adding new direct response ads.
WWF Taps Those With Nearly Extinct Family Names To Save Nearly Extinct Tigers The wildlife advocate uses unique data to help people empathize with a species in danger of disappearing.
Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:
Google On The Buy Now Button: We Have No Intention To Be A Retailer
Google Researching AI Technology That Counts Calories By Analyzing A Photo Of Your Food
SMX Advanced 2015 Live Blog: Keynote Conversation With Jerry Dischler, VP AdWords
Tools, Tools Everywhere! Which SEO Tools Are Worth Your Time?
Technically, You Can Have Completely Different Content On Mobile Says Google
Google: We Are Working On Making The Penguin Update Happen Continuously
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Affiliate Marketing
FTC Updates Guidance on Disclosures of Affiliate Links, www.amnavigator.com
Publisher Spotlight: Bargain Buys For Busy Mums, blog.affiliatewindow.com
Analytics
Act-On Promises Deeper Analytics in Data Studio, www.cmswire.com
IRCE: A Deep Dive Into The Amazon Data River, adexchanger.com
Blogs & Blogging
50+ Awesome WordPress Shortcuts To Boost Your Productivity, www.wpexplorer.com
6 Decisions That Changed My Blogging Career. One Still Scares Me., www.blogtyrant.com
8 Ways to Stop Your Blog Crashing as Soon as it Gets Popular, www.problogger.net
How To Create Traffic Driving Roundup Blog Posts Efficiently, www.searchenginepeople.com
Business Issues
BuzzFeed Names Longtime PepsiCo Exec as CMO, adage.com
Facebook Data Center in Altoona, Iowa, Getting Third Building, www.adweek.com
NFL Yahoo Partner to Deliver First-Ever Global Live Stream of an NFL Game, yahoo.tumblr.com
Whitman Paints a Vague Picture of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, bits.blogs.nytimes.com
Content Marketing
11 Things Every New Content Marketer Should Know to Crush This Field, contentmarketinginstitute.com
5 Reasons Content Marketing is More Than Just a Fad, www.jeffbullas.com
Content Marketing for Generation Z, www.koozai.com
Content Marketing is a Waste of Time (11 Steps to Make Sure it’s Not), www.ryanhanley.com
For the Love of Good Content, www.distilled.net
FTC: Publishers Will Be Held Responsible For Misleading Native Ads, adexchanger.com
How to Generate Content Ideas Using Buzzsumo (and APIs), moz.com
Respect Digital Rights or Watch User-Generated Content Backfire, www.marketingprofs.com
The Evolution of Public Relations Through Content Marketing, www.toprankblog.com
Why You Need to Start Creating Visual Content, blog.kissmetrics.com
Conversion Optimization
How to Measure Conversion Values from Twitter, Facebook, www.practicalecommerce.com
How to Reverse Engineer a Landing Page, blog.crazyegg.com
Copywriting, Design & Usability
12 Grammar Mistakes You Don’t Know You’re Making, blogs.constantcontact.com
Establishing Your Company’s Credibility in 15 Seconds or Less, www.usertesting.com
Fitting After Effects Into A UX Workflow, www.smashingmagazine.com
Domaining
Best Domain Extensions When a .COM is Not Available, www.searchenginejournal.com
Is the Defending Internet Freedom Act pro-crime?, domainincite.com
E-Commerce
Amazon Debuts Free Shipping on Small Goods, No Minimum Order, Bloomberg
Amazon Rolls Out A New Product Page Design, www.marketingwords.com
Bigcommerce Bolsters Enterprise Shipping Capabilities with ShipperHQ in Advance of Holiday Season, Business Wire
Non-mobile shoppers seem happier online, www.internetretailer.com
Email Marketing
5 Next-Gen Emails from Lenscrafters, eHarmony, and More, blog.movableink.com
6 Ways to Grow Your Email List on Your WordPress Site, www.wpexplorer.com
72 new template designs that’ll make email marketing easier than ever, myemma.com
A Page from Airbnb’s Email Marketing Playbook, unbounce.com
How to Build a Call to Action Button for Your Email, www.verticalresponse.com
Keyword Effectiveness in 10 Common Subject Line Types, blog.returnpath.com
General Internet Marketing
The long-awaited moment when online advertising eclipses TV is near, qz.com
This is Your Brain on Emojis. Here’s How to Use Them in Your Marketing, blog.bufferapp.com
What SMBs Look for in Digital Marketing Solutions, www.marketingprofs.com
Internet Marketing Industry
Eyeview’s Accelerator Auto Solution Bridges Gap Between Tier 1 Branding & Tier 2 Regional Communications, www.prnewswire.com
Gamut Partners with Forensiq to Combat Fraudulent Inventory, gamut.media
Kahuna Bets Big on CMO to Accelerate Its Leadership in Mobile Marketing Automation, www.marketwired.com
Sprinklr Acquires Leading Location-Specific Text Analytics Software Company NewBrand, www.businesswire.com
Tremor Video Adds 100 Publishers to its SSP in 100 Days, www.businesswire.com
MarTech
Can’t Marketing and IT Just Get Along?, www.emarketer.com
Choosing a technology partner can be like picking a mate, www.internetretailer.com
How to Sell Me a Marketing Platform, www.cmswire.com
Mobile/Local Marketing
comScore Launches Mobilens Plus for Insights into Device Usage, www.martechadvisor.com
How smartphones are solving the online/offline commerce quandry, digiday.com
Inside the Local Services Land Grab, streetfightmag.com
Opener For iOS Lets You Open Web Links In Your Apps Instead, TechCrunch
Walk a Mile in Mobile Consumer’s Shoes, www.cmswire.com
What is driving mobile loyalty?, www.mobilecommercedaily.com
Social Media
4 Tips to Combat Facebook’s Latest Algorithm Update, www.convinceandconvert.com
5 Brands on Instagram That Succeed With Influencer Marketing, www.socialmediaexaminer.com
5 LinkedIn Features B2B Marketers May Be Missing Out On, www.komarketingassociates.com
Budweiser’s Twitter Mentions Jumped 525% After FIFA’s Sepp Blatter Quit, www.adweek.com
Facebook Testing Categories for Page Notifications?, www.adweek.com
Google+ Collections Just Skyrocketed My Views by 700%, www.lunametrics.com
How KTM Beats Its Competition with Great Instagram Content, simplymeasured.com
Influencer Q&A with @Clorox: How a 102-year-old brand uses Vines to connect with consumers, www.Twitter.com
Pinterest and Instagram get serious about getting shoppers to buy, www.internetretailer.com
Pinterest has a better chance building a big commerce business than Facebook and Twitter do, qz.com
Report: How Are CFOs Using Twitter?, www.adweek.com
Small Businesses’ Social ROI Struggles Won’t Stop, www.emarketer.com
The State of Chinese Social Media: What You Need to Know, adage.com
What Twitter Can Be., lowercasecapital.com
Video
12 Slides That Every Video Marketer Should Read Right Now, www.reelseo.com
A new tool for artists and their teams, youtubecreator.blogspot.com
For Effective Digital Video, Put Brand Front and Center, www.emarketer.com
Online Video Revenue to Pass DVDs This Year, Theaters Next, adage.com
Showtime to Introduce Video Streaming Service in July, adage.com
The clever Hotels.com workaround for muted Facebook video ads, digiday.com
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