Mar 31, 20145 min read

Marketing Day: March 31, 2014

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:

Introducing “Creative Of The Day,” Marketing Land’s Daily Look At Great Digital Advertising Creative Like many online publishers, we do our fair share of calling out companies when they make mistakes with their online marketing, because there’s value in learning from the mistakes of others. But we also know there’s great value in covering the flip side of that coin. That’s why we’re launching Creative Of The Day — […]
Advertisers Keep Spending More On Paid Search In Q1, CTRs Jump 23 Percent YoY Paid search in the U.S. saw another quarter of positive growth in Q1, rising 8 percent year-over-year according to IgnitionOne’s latest quarterly report, which looks at paid search performance of campaigns across its management platform that’s used by major brands and agencies. Paid search clicks rose a modest 5 percent and click-through-rates (CTR) were up […]
Eat24 Sends Facebook Funny “Break-Up” Letter Over Decline In Post Views Frustrated Facebook marketers might have found their patron saint. Eat24, a take-out food delivery app, has announced that it is deleting its Facebook page with a very funny Dear John letter to the social network. Dear Facebook, Hey. It’s Eat24. Look, we need to talk. This isn’t easy to say since we’ve been together so […]
Stock Video Provider Dissolve Mocks Itself With “This Is A Generic Brand Video” Video After finding Kendra Eash’s “This is a Generic Brand Video” on McSweeney’s literary website, the stock video provider Dissolve couldn’t resist turning Eash’s words into an actual generic brand video, mocking the very services it provides. From the company’s website: The minute we saw Kendra Eash’s brilliant “This Is a Generic Brand Video” on McSweeney’s, […]
FTC: Brand-Incentivized Pins On Pinterest Potentially “Deceptive,” Require Disclosure Eric Goldman alerted us this weekend (via Twitter) to an FTC ruling that may have a significant impact on the way that brands interact with users on Pinterest. The FTC determined (see embedded letter below) that a Cole Haan “Wandering Sole” contest that asked users to pin/re-pin images of Cole Haan products in exchange for […]
Google Fined For “Non-Cooperation” In Indian Antitrust Inquiry The Google antitrust drama keeps migrating east. First the US FTC settled its investigation of Google without any significant penalty or restrictions. More recently, the long European antitrust inquiry appears to be “essentially” over, with a settlement built on the presentation of “rival links.” Google is also in the midst of an antitrust, anti-competition investigation in India. […]
Media Ratings Council Ushers In “Viewable Impression” As Currency Metric For Display Ads In a major milestone, after a year-and-a-half-long review process, the Media Ratings Council has lifted its November 2012 Viewable Impression Advisory for Display Advertising, effectively raising the start flag for publishers to begin selling digital display advertising based on viewable impressions. The announcement “means that—as of today—for brand advertising, agencies can and will expect guarantees […]
Trying to Build Android Brand, Google Mandates “Powered By” Label According to multiple sources last week, Google is now requiring a “powered by Android” indicator on all devices that use the Android operating system as a precondition of gaining access to Google Play. Geek.com was the first site to confirm the new mandate. The branding must be displayed as the phone boots up. There are […]
Are Your Content Channels Working Together? 8 Steps To Find Out Look at any brand today and you’ll probably see a steady output of digital content, from videos to websites to microsites to social media campaigns. At this point in the digital age, most companies have gotten the message: content is king and digital, social and mobile are the most popular parts of its kingdom. Yet […]
Get To Know: Simply Measured’s VP Of Marketing Michael Walton As the Vice President of Marketing for Simply Measured, Michael Walton confesses to being a proud data geek. While leading his company’s marketing efforts, Walton has helped Simply Measured double its revenue and increase its number of customers fivefold over the last year. A leading social media analytics and measurement solution, Simply Measured currently supports more […]
How Even Time-Challenged SMBs Can Upkeep Social Channels Many small business marketers avoid social media marketing because of the expectation that it will take too much time. However, we’ve seen clients benefit from as little as two hours a month on social media. Such benefits include: Facilitating communication with clients, vendors, job seekers and customers Increasing organic visibility by getting more content out […]
Social Media Via Google Glass: Florida Agency Has An App For That A number of independent hotels are due to start using Google Glass later this year as part of their content development and social media marketing efforts. Tambourine, a Florida-based agency that specializes in hotel and tourism-related marketing, is working on Glassware that will help its clients develop and distribute visual content — photos and videos […]