Here’s our daily recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on Marketing Land and other places across the Web.
From Marketing Land:
Applause.com Launches Analytics Tool For Mobile Apps Mobile app developers have a new tool to quickly see how users have rated their apps — and their competitors’ — on both the iOS and Android platforms. Oh, and it’s free, too. It’s called Applause, and it’s a new tool just announced by uTest, the same company that previously created Mobile AppGrader. Applause has […]
BlackBerry 10: What Marketers Need To Know Now Back in the day, they called them Crackberrys. The first real viable mobile email devices were compellingly addictive. Like, say, an iPhone or Android device is to most consumers now. It’s their pocket watch, their security blanket. And now, the company newly renamed BlackBerry has set the stage for its devices and operating system to […]
Pew: 72 Percent Of Smartphone Owners Used Devices While Shopping In Stores It’s not news to say that smartphone and feature phone owners use their devices as an active part of in-store shopping. Previous surveys have revealed that more than 80 and even 90 percent of smartphone owners do this. Now a new Pew survey (n=1,003) finds that 58 percent of all mobile phone owners use their […]
Apple iPad Loses Some “Shipments Share,” Still Dominates Web Traffic Research firm IDC has released a preliminary global estimate of tablet market share for Q4. The figures are all based on shipments, which are typically not the same as device sales to end users although in some cases shipments do predict sales. According to these numbers, Apple’s dominant position in the market declined from 51.7 […]
Facebook Sponsored Results: An Under-Explored Opportunity About six months ago, Facebook introduced yet another type of ad for advertisers to try: the Sponsored Result. Marketers can serve Facebook users searching for Pages, Applications, and such with ads in the Search bar. As Facebook says, the goal of Sponsored Results is “… help [Facebook users] better find and discover the brands, products, […]
Facebook: 500,000 Pages Have Used Promoted Posts, 70% Become Repeat Advertisers Facebook touted the success of its Promoted Posts product and the general success of ads in the News Feed during its earnings call today, in which it announced Q4 financial figures that beat analyst estimates. During the earnings call, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg announced that almost 500,000 Pages have tried Promoted Posts, the ad product […]
Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Affiliate Marketing
Affiliates in Nexus Tax States, Reverse Geo-Target In-State Traffic, www.amnavigator.com
Analytics
From Zero to Remarketer in No Time Flat, www.distilled.net
How to Track User Engagement with Forms, www.seerinteractive.com
MVCs: five metrics for identifying your most valuable customers, econsultancy.com
Blogs & Blogging
5 Attributes of a Successful Blog, Heidi Cohen
Authy releases a WordPress plugin enabling two-factor authentication to better protect against hacking, thenextweb.com
Overcome Basic Guest Posting Challenges, www.zazzlemedia.co.uk
Business Issues
Twitter Ups Its Game in Super Bowl Ads, www.cnbc.com
Facebook Nabs Brunswick’s Buckley for Top Communications Job, All Things D
Content Marketing
4 B2C Examples of Great Visual Content for Storytelling & Customer Engagement, Online Marketing Blog
7 Ways to Get an Endless Stream of Infographic Ideas, avalaunchmedia.com
Content marketing strategy: an A-Z guide to success, econsultancy.com
Why Red Bull and Patagonia Are Winning the Content Race, www.mackcollier.com
Conversion Optimization
How to Optimize Contact Forms for Conversions, www.quicksprout.com
Copywriting, Design & Usability
9 Things that Will Drive Your Web Designer Nuts, Small Business Trends
Display & Contextual Advertising
Google Fends Off BrightRoll in $7.6 Billion Video Market, Bloomberg
Why Google Loves Remarketing, blog.traffick.com
Domaining
Email Marketing
Drawing on shoppers’ past purchases boosts e-mail returns for an online bookseller, Internet Retailer
Marketers say e-mail is important, but their contact data is often bad, Internet Retailer
Why Your Emails Must Be Mobile-Optimized, www.networksolutions.com
General Internet Marketing
The Great Site Migration (or Trying to Turn Lemons into MobileMoo), www.sugarrae.com
Mobile/Local Marketing
Mobile Spurs Digital Coupon User Growth, eMarketer
Other Items
Asia is both top and bottom of the world Internet speed league, royal.pingdom.com
Senators look to extend ban on Internet taxes, thehill.com
Social Media
11 Sorry Excuses for Content That You Shouldn’t be Sharing, www.jeffbullas.com
Instagram: Instahype or a Good Content Strategy for You?, contentequalsmoney.com
Small Firms Say LinkedIn Works, Twitter Doesn’t, Wall Street Journal
Twitter Generates Leads 9 Times More Than Facebook And LinkedIn, Forbes
Can social media personalities “scale?”, www.businessesgrow.com
Does Your Content Play By Facebook’s New 20 Percent Rule?, socialfresh.com
Facebook introduces Cards, a universal gift card you can send anyone, VentureBeat
How to Conduct a Social Media Competitive Analysis, www.swellpath.com
Popular App.net mobile client Netbot goes free to help ‘spur adoption’ of the service, thenextweb.com
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