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:
Pinterest Makes Major E-Commerce Push With “Buyable Pins” Pinterest will give U.S. users the ability to purchase directly on the social discovery network later this month.
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Lithium Technologies Will Plug Klout Data Into Its Online Communities By incorporating Klout profiles on service and support sites, company aims to help brands activate influential experts.
Another “Market Abuse” Android Complaint Filed Against Google In Europe According to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) app developer Disconnect Inc. has formally complained to European regulators that Google is abusing control of Android.
Social Video Chart: Your At-A-Glance Guide To 7 Major Platforms A side-by-side feature comparison of the seven major social video players — YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Vine, Snapchat and Tumblr.
Game Of Internet Marketing Thrones: Who Will Sit On The Iron Throne? Which behemoth will win the war for online marketing dollars? Columnist David Rodnitzky breaks down the strategies of the biggest players and their odds of winning.
InMobi And Rubicon Project Add Mobile Video Inventory To Native Ad Exchange Companies aim to bring scale to programmatic buying of video and native advertising across mobile.
Digital Marketing Integration: The Impact Of Cross-Channel And Content How do you build a successful integrated digital marketing plan? Columnist Jim Yu outlines five steps to put you on the right path.
3 Reasons Why It’s Time To Recognize Identity As The New Marketing Discipline If marketers want to truly be effective and understand their customers, they need to take identity more seriously, believes columnist Mike Sands.
Survey: 99 Percent Of Consumers Will Share Personal Info For Rewards, But Want Brands To Ask Permission Consumers repeatedly say in surveys that they want more personalization — but also more privacy.
One Million Twitter Followers? @Caitlyn_Jenner Clears That Hurdle In A Record 4 Hours Jenner’s account, launched at the same time as a Vanity Fair cover story about her transition, zooms past @POTUS as the quickest to reach that follower milestone.
Google Drops Google+ Promotion From Gmail, Search & Other Google Services Google takes another step away from the days of heavy promotion of the social network on other Google products.
Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Analytics
Engagement Metrics: Listen for the Sound of Customers Leaving, blog.returnpath.com
How Brands Can Use Biometric Data in Ways That Go Far Beyond Fitness, www.adweek.com
Listen to the Voices of your Data for Great Analytics, www.webanalyticsworld.net
Blogs & Blogging
Fashion Bloggers Are Making And Breaking Brands, www.socialbro.com
Business Issues
AOL Debuts Makeover That’s All About Mobile Video and Social-Friendly Content, www.adweek.com
Medium budget cuts and restructuring, www.businessinsider.com
Content Marketing
A Recap of the First Annual Content Marketing Conference, www.verticalmeasures.com
Create Valuable Content With Company-Wide Collaboration, www.convinceandconvert.com
How to Get Great Content From Your Colleagues: Five Rules for Success, www.marketingprofs.com
How to Make Branded Content That Can Resonate With Millennials, www.adweek.com
How to Systematically Create an Annual Editorial Calendar, www.ducttapemarketing.com
How to Write Better Titles Using Data-Driven Strategies, www.searchenginejournal.com
Measuring Inefficiency in Your Content Marketing Production Processes, customerthink.com
Stop Thinking Content, Start Thinking Resources, contentmarketinginstitute.com
Conversion Optimization
5 Tips to Create an Irresistible Call to Action, www.jeffbullas.com
Conversion Rate Optimization – Be Found Online, befoundonline.com
Uncovering Conversion Landmines Through Mystery Shopping, www.ppchero.com
Copywriting, Design & Usability
There is No Fold, unbounce.com
Web Design Resources for Non-Designers, www.seobook.com
Domaining
ICANN Announces Phase One Results from Multiyear Consumer Study on the Domain Name Landscape, www.icann.org
Why do people try sell domain names on eBay?, domainnamewire.com
E-Commerce
8 Questions before You Choose an Ecommerce Platform in 2015, www.practicalecommerce.com
A guide to survival in Amazon’s e-commerce jungle, www.internetretailer.com
Retail Industry Reigns for US Digital Ad Spending, www.emarketer.com
Targeting “Where to Buy” Pages for Large eCommerce Sites, pointblankseo.com
UK e-commerce delivery volume increases 11% in April, www.internetretailer.com
Yelp Adds eCommerce for Local Boutiques, smallbiztrends.com
Email Marketing
3 Email Marketing Tips For Beginners, www.goinflow.com
60+ Fantastic Email Newsletters Everyone Should Know About, blog.bufferapp.com
Canadian Consumers Prefer to Stay Connected with Email, But Are Small Businesses Taking Advantage?, blogs.constantcontact.com
Why Email Marketers Need to Think APIs, Not Big Data, blog.movableink.com
General Internet Marketing
How will digital marketing evolve in the next 10 years?, econsultancy.com
Internet Marketing Industry
Act-On Announces Data Studio to Provide Customers With Deeper Analytics and Visual Discovery on Data, press.act-on.com
Genesis Media Launches Cost Per Viewable Impression to Connect Consumer Attention Online, www.prnewswire.com
Netvibes Delivers Programmable Intelligence With Newly Launched Dashboard of Things, www.marketwired.com
OnBase Integrates with TriZetto Applications to Provide a Comprehensive View of Member and Provider Content, www.onbase.com
Purch Closes $135 Million Investment to Expand Commerce-Driven Digital Publishing Model, www.prnewswire.com
Tapjoy Launches Integrated Attribution Program for Mobile Tracking Partners, www.prnewswire.com
MarTech
Can’t Marketing Tech Vendors And Agencies Just Get Along?, adexchanger.com
Mobile/Local Marketing
7 Time-Saving Apps Every Business Owner Needs, www.verticalresponse.com
Apple to give developers tools to speed up slow-load Watch apps, www.internetretailer.com
Avoid falling into the app-fatigue trap, www.mobilecommercedaily.com
Carpe Diem! The Clock Is Ticking on DAA Mobile Principles, thedma.org
Do Wearables Have a Place at the Point of Sale?, www.emarketer.com
Four Quick Tips for a Winning Multiscreen Strategy, www.marketingprofs.com
Great Britain’s Small Businesses Haven’t Optimized for Mobile, www.emarketer.com
How Walgreens adapts to the many devices consumers use, www.internetretailer.com
Mobile Fraud: It’s Time To Start Paying Attention, adexchanger.com
Mobile Optimization Tips for Digital Marketers, www.toprankblog.com
Why Cross-Device Matching Will Transform the Mobile Advertising Industry, streetfightmag.com
Social Media
5 Tools to Plan and Post Social Media Content, www.practicalecommerce.com
6 Ways to Use Google+ to Increase Your Visibility, www.socialmediaexaminer.com
60% of Social Marketers Say Measuring ROI Is a Top Challenge, simplymeasured.com
8 Quick Tips for Working with Social Media Influencers, simplymeasured.com
85% of Marketers Fail to Reach SlideShare’s Gigantic Audience, blog.kissmetrics.com
88 marketers you should follow on Twitter, www.convinceandconvert.com
Facebook Opens Third Artificial-Intelligence Research Hub in Paris, blogs.wsj.com
Facebook Responds to Protest Over Real-Name Policy, www.adweek.com
Facebook Tests “Saved Replies,” A Tool That Lets Pages Respond To Customers With Canned Messages, TechCrunch
Harnessing the Voice of the Customer in Social Media, www.socialmediatoday.com
How Much Longer Will Facebook Be Relevant?, www.adweek.com
How Pinterest, Twitter and Nextdoor Think about Small Business, streetfightmag.com
How The Financial Brands Of Tomorrow Will Tweet, www.socialbro.com
How to Create Customized LinkedIn Backgrounds, www.socialmediaexaminer.com
Instagram Adds Clickable Ad Types, Facebook-Level Targeting, adage.com
LinkedIn Publishing: Build Your Influence with Customer Facing Media, www.jeffkorhan.com
Pinterest Marketing 101: The Basics, www.swellpath.com
Social Media Experts To Follow On Twitter (That Manage Their Own Accounts), www.searchenginepeople.com
The Most Followed Twitter Accounts by NYSE Companies, www.marketingprofs.com
Why Some Businesses Can Generate Social Media ROI, www.searchenginejournal.com
Video
Four Reasons Why Brands Should Unlike Facebook’s Video Ads, adage.com
Genesis Media Teams Up With Moat For Video Viewability, adexchanger.com
Industry Survey: Most Media Professionals Reject Standard Definition Of Video Ad “View”, sqad.com
Return Of The YT Channel: Moving YouTube Channels Between G+ Pages In 2015, www.searchinfluence.com
The "Before and After" of YouTube Advertising, www.adknowledge.com
Vimeo Now Lets Creators Launch Their Own Subscription Video-On-Demand Channels, techcrunch.com
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