Mar 15, 20133 min read

Marketing Day: March 15, 2013

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:

Marketing Biz: Speed, Attention & Sunsets Marketing themes this week were speed, attention and sunsets. Not the pretty kind, but the ones where products you love are going to be retired and executives at high profile companies ‘move on to other things.’ This is … Marketing Biz. CDN.net Launches as First User Customizable Global CDN for Everyone “Today’s rich content demands […]
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg Highest Rated CEO In US, Apple’s Tim Cook Falls To 18th According to Glassdoor company review data, Mark Zuckerberg has the best employee-approval rating of any CEO in the US. Last year he wasn’t among the top 25. By the same token, last year’s top CEO, Apple’s Tim Cook, has fallen from number 1 to number 18 on this year’s survey. Glassdoor’s company review surveys ask […]
FTC: If Your Tweet Is Sponsored You Must Disclose It Earlier this month the FTC updated its online advertising disclosure rules. They’re intended to protect the public from online promotions that may be “deceptive or unfair” in the absence of clear disclosures that they’re compensated advertising. Advertising and promotional messaging on social and mobile media are at least partly responsible for the update of the guidelines, which […]
Samsung Introduces Galaxy S4 With Nary A Mention Of Android Or Google At a Broadway-style premiere this evening at New York’s Radio City Musical Hall, Samsung unveiled its heavily anticipated Galaxy S4 handset. The event had the hype and production values of an Apple product launch. But, what barely seemed in attendance was any idea that the S4 is an Android phone or contains Google services. Samsung […]
Samsung Launches The Galaxy S4 Samsung formally unveiled the latest in its Galaxy S line-up of smartphones, the Galaxy S4 (or officially, the Galaxy S 4). The phone features a 5″ screen without getting larger than the Galaxy S3 plus an array of features that seemingly put Samsung’s own brand ahead of Google and Android. For more about the lack […]
Report: #Hooray, Hashtags Coming To A Facebook News Feed Near You To date, Twitter has owned the market on real-time, crowd-sourced information. Whether it’s during the Super Bowl, Television, or cultural events — users flock to Twitter (and hashtags) to see what’s happening. Our own Danny Sullivan summed up the current Facebook/Twitter experience masterfully in the article “For Social Media Viewing, Twitter Is Live TV, Facebook Is […]
Facebook’s 558 Million Video Views In February Is Its All-Time High [comScore] Facebook reached a new high last month with almost 558 million video views, according to comScore’s February 2013 US Online Video Rankings. For the month, Facebook was second with 61.2 million unique video viewers — well behind Google/YouTube’s 150.6 million uniques. Facebook’s 558 million video views was third overall, way behind Google/YouTube’s 11.3 billion and […]