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:
MTV VMAs Set Record For Most Tweeted US TV Show (Excluding Sports) Awards show draws 21.4 million tweets, only 4 million fewer than than the 2015 Super Bowl.
Wearables Game Changer: Android Wear Now Compatible With iPhone Google just changed the rules for wearables. It has introduced Android Wear for iOS. The caveat is that right now it’s only available for one smartwatch, the LG Urbane.
4 Ways Marketers Can Rip A Page From The Sales Playbook To Be More Effective Sales and marketing don’t have to be at odds with one another. Columnist Steve Olenski discusses what marketing teams can learn from sales to benefit the whole organization.
How To Banish Bad Bots From Your Site Analytics One study estimates that bots account for 56% of website traffic — and it’s likely their influence is skewing your analytics. Columnist Ben Goodsell outlines the threat and explains how to mitigate it.
Headache Or Opportunity? The Profusion Of Marketing Data As the marketing industry continues to shift, marketers need to connect the data dots and learn how to integrate their martech and adtech, advises columnist Scott Vaughan.
3 Steps To Better Holiday Insights With Cohort Analysis If you’re not making use of cohort analysis, the pending holidays may be reason enough to jump on board. Columnist Jordan Elkind tells you how to get started.
With New CEO Aboard, Lands’ End Seeks To Reinvent Itself With Fall Campaign For its fall effort, the 50-year-old retailer unveils a two-pronged approach aimed at expanding its portfolio while holding onto loyalists.
Yahoo: The Decline Of The Mobile Browser Is A Threat To Search Earlier this week Yahoo held its second Mobile Developer Conference in New York. This was the East Coast version of its inaugural developer conference held in San Francisco earlier this year.
Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:
Bing Predictions Tackles The NFL, Likes The Broncos, Colts, Packers & Seahawks
Driving Growth With Marketing Automation – September 9 Webcast
Yahoo Follows Google In Building Out Local Search Marketing Reseller Program
India A Second Front In Google’s Antitrust Battles With Foreign Regulators
“US Tennis Open Results” Google Logo Delivers Search For Start Of Today’s US Open Tournament
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Analytics
Stuck in the Digital “Dark Ages”? Get on the Path to Data Enlightenment!, blog.returnpath.com
Why Marketers Today Must be Driven by Data, www.martechadvisor.com
Blogs & Blogging
27 Reasons People Aren’t Reading Your Blog Posts, www.jeffbullas.com
Advanced Ways to Promote a Blog Post, www.searchenginejournal.com
How to Revive A Dead Blog, pushingsocial.com
Business Issues
AOL Acquires Photo And Messaging Startup Kanvas Labs, techcrunch.com
Apple, Cisco Unveil Business Partnership, www.wsj.com
Google Starts Deprecating Web Hosting Support In Google Drive, TechCrunch
U.S. International Trade Commission clears Microsoft of patent infringement, www.reuters.com
What to Expect When You’re Expecting an Apple Car, www.wsj.com
Content Marketing
10 Content Promotion Opportunities You Might Be Missing, www.convinceandconvert.com
5 Powerful Ways to Keep Building Authority Once Your Content Has Matured, www.copyblogger.com
Are You Missing The Most Important Audience for Your Content Marketing?, contentmarketinginstitute.com
BuzzFeed Just Became a Content Marketing Tech Company, contently.com
Expert Content Marketing Advice: 13 Tactics To Improve Your Results, heidicohen.com
Get Smart About Intelligent Content, www.cmswire.com
Master Content Marketing with These Tips from Our Community, smallbiztrends.com
Why You Should Sell a Story and Not Technology, www.martechadvisor.com
Conversion Optimization
13 Ways to Get More Opt-Ins From Your Content, contentmarketinginstitute.com
8 Conversion Mistakes Your Site`s Making and How to Fix Them, blog.crazyegg.com
How to Utilize The Psychology of Persuasion to Increase Conversion Rates, blog.kissmetrics.com
Copywriting, Design & Usability
A Beginner’s Guide to Digital Experience, www.cmswire.com
Mastering the Art of Writing Sexy Bullet Lists, www.marketingwords.com
Domaining
Google Buys ABCAlphabet.com, Alphabet.kr: Domain Costs Are Mounting, www.thedomains.com
What Do Big Brands Pay To Protect & Buy Domains?, www.thedomains.com
E-Commerce
Alibaba, JD.com Target Rural China for E-Commerce Growth, www.wsj.com
How to make it easier for shoppers to buy on mobile devices, www.internetretailer.com
How to Reduce Shopping Cart Abandonment by Optimizing the Checkout, company-enterprise.myshopify.com
Online shoppers around the world flock to U.S. sites, www.internetretailer.com
U.S. e-retailers should look to Latin America for growth, www.internetretailer.com
Email Marketing
“Spam King” Faces Hard Time, Fines, smallbiztrends.com
4 Easy Ways to Grow Your Email List Using Mobile, blogs.constantcontact.com
A Simple, Effective Approach to Email Marketing, www.compukol.com
Email Is The Last, And Ultimate, Social Graph, techcrunch.com
Reduce Spam Complaints by Listening to Them, blog.returnpath.com
What Your Unsubscribers Can Tell You About Your Email Marketing, blogs.constantcontact.com
General Internet Marketing
50 Ways to Fail at Influencer Marketing, www.toprankblog.com
How Marketing Funnels Work, blog.kissmetrics.com
The next battle in the programmatic wars: direct response vs. brand advertising, digiday.com
Internet Marketing Industry
GoDaddy Expands Online Store Offering with More Than a Dozen New Features, aboutus.godaddy.net
Why Maker Studios Chose This Agency for Its Ad-Buying Service, www.adweek.com
Sprinklr Integrates with the Instagram Ads API, www.sprinklr.com
Mobile/Local Marketing
Getting Banned From The App Store Was The Best Thing That Happened To Us, techcrunch.com
Google Tips Off Developers on Apple Security Workaround, Ad Selling, recode.net
How to Use Mobile Messaging to Engage with Consumers, adage.com
The Impact of Mobile on B2B Purchases, www.socialmediatoday.com
The Surreal Emotional Cadence Of Tech Notifications, Illustrated, techcrunch.com
Top Free Android Apps July (USA), blog.similarweb.com
What App Developers Want to See In The New Apple TV, www.fastcompany.com
Why Investing App Install Ads is a Must for Mobile App Marketers, www.martechadvisor.com
Social Media
5 Top Social Marketing Lessons From British Small Businesses, www.adweek.com
7 Science-Based Reasons to Use Emoticons, www.searchenginejournal.com
8 Ways to Effectively Manage Your Facebook Marketing, www.socialmediaexaminer.com
9 Social Media Marketing Tool Tips From the Pros, www.socialmediaexaminer.com
Facebook engineers: Going mobile-first is not as easy as it looks, www.zdnet.com
Facebook’s Post-Roll Video Ad Test With the NFL and Verizon Quietly Ends, blogs.wsj.com
How to Build Facebook Traffic, www.internetmarketingninjas.com
How to Use Pinterest to Grow Your Store Sales, smallbiztrends.com
Introducing Google+ Collections on iOS, plus.google.com
Nearly all B2B companies use Twitter and LinkedIn to increase brand awareness, www.internetretailer.com
The Complete Guide To Holding A Facebook Sweepstakes, www.razorsocial.com
The founders of two Facebook-acquired startups are leaving the company, qz.com
The One Thing Missing From Your Twitter Profile Strategy: Pinned Tweets, www.adweek.com
Twitter Is Testing Funky New Photo And Video Editing Tools, techcrunch.com
Why Developing a Twitter Strategy is More Important Than Ever, www.convinceandconvert.com
Will Social Media Give TV a Run for Its Money in the 2016 Election?, streetfightmag.com
Video
8 Brands That Live Stream Video for Innovative Marketing, www.practicalecommerce.com
How to Use Periscope to Drive Business for Your Brand, www.socialmediatoday.com
Interactive Video: The New Content Marketing Must-Have, www.adweek.com
Online Video: How Consumers Use Resources to Shop, www.reelseo.com
This Entrepreneur Uses Periscope As A Growth Hack, smallbiztrends.com
We Hate Autoplay Too: 3 Experts on Landing Page Video Best Practices, unbounce.com
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