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:
Not Just A Boon For Amazon: Prime Day Effect Felt Across The Web Retail activity lifts seen on other marketplaces and retailer-owned sites during Wednesday’s deal day.
With 7.6 Million Shares, Huffington Post Is Top Publisher In June On Facebook [Report] HuffPo also a leading Twitter publisher, but BBC tops NewsWhip’s list of most retweeted publishers.
Online #BearStare Game Has Fun #DroughtShaming Californians Into Saving Water Californians enduring the drought may be familiar with drought shaming, but Energy Upgrade California hopes to replace this trend with the “Bear Stare.”
Check Out Who’s Speaking At MarTech Europe: Register By 31 July To Get The Lowest Rates Taking place 20–21 October in London, MarTech is a vendor-neutral forum to exchange ideas with and learn from your fellow marketing technologists and digital innovators.
Top 10 Video Creators Across YouTube, Facebook, Vine & Instagram: BuzzFeed Takes The Cake BuzzFeed Video and BuzzFeed Food generated a whopping 1.2 billion video views across the four social networks in June.
Dissecting Ongoing Content Investment By Marketers Most marketers would agree that content marketing is critical to success in the online arena, yet few believe they can accurately measure ROI from content marketing efforts. Columnist Nathan Safran explores this discrepancy.
A New Cross-Channel Frontier: Attribution Columnist Roger Juntilla discusses the challenges of achieving attribution and what marketers can do to remedy the gaps in our understanding of it.
Report: Android Crushing App-Download Contest, iOS Drives More Revenue With a larger global audience, it’s no surprise that Android app downloads lead iOS. What’s more surprising is that iOS continues to maintain its revenue lead vs. the larger platform despite its larger download margin.
Are Branded Geofilters The Future Of Advertising On Snapchat? Contributor Nick Cicero shares what big brands are doing with Snapchat’s beta geofilters product and explores some of the seemingly endless possibilities of the format.
How To Use Video Throughout The Buying Journey To Boost Conversions And Engagement Don’t stop with a simple introductory video. Columnist Michael Litt explains how to create powerful content for every stage of the buying process.
Facebook Testing Watch Later Option For Video Viewing Facebook is adding to their video arsenal with the ability for users to watch videos at their own convenience.
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Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Affiliate Marketing
How to Use Niche Publishers to Drive Revenue, www.convinceandconvert.com
Blogs & Blogging
10 Simple Ways to Generate Blog Post Ideas, www.ducttapemarketing.com
8 Questions for a Big-Time Marketer Turned Influential Blogger, www.convinceandconvert.com
How Bloggers and Brands Create Successful Partnerships (New Research), www.convinceandconvert.com
Business Issues
Call for Passage of Innovation Act, yahoopolicy.tumblr.com
Congratulations to the new EEC MAC Board members, thedma.org
Google Hires Tech Team From Homejoy, Readies Leap Into Home Services, recode.net
Instagram Gets Lucky with Addition of Eva Chen, www.adweek.com
New Reddit rules will crack down on some hate communities, leave others standing, www.theverge.com
On First Conference Call, Google’s New CFO Is a Hit, blogs.wsj.com
Content Marketing
5 Tools That’ll Make You an Amazing Headline Writer, contently.com
Content Marketing Experts Reveal Which Brands are Pushing the Envelope, contentmarketinginstitute.com
Conversion Optimization
11 Ways to Improve Your Click-Through Rate, www.searchenginejournal.com
Around the CRO World in a Day, unbounce.com
Quick Copywriting Tweaks to Lift Conversions 30% or More, blog.crazyegg.com
Display & Contextual Advertising
Former brand marketer: banner ads suck, but they’re great, econsultancy.com
ypDisplay Reinvents Mobile Display Ads for Small Business, smallbiztrends.com
Domaining
Here’s why a New York “dot-sucks” billboard went up near Fenway Park, www.bizjournals.com
TLD Profile: .Vote, domainnamewire.com
E-Commerce
7 Ways To Improve Ecommerce Category Filters, www.practicalecommerce.com
Amazon Preps Fresh Grocery Delivery Launch in U.K., recode.net
eBay sells its eBay Enterprise e-commerce technology business, www.internetretailer.com
Retail Ecommerce Sales Near $50 Billion in Latin America, www.emarketer.com
Why store visits are not conversions, www.mobilecommercedaily.com
Email Marketing
4 Benefits of Using Your Smartphone to Run Your Email Marketing, blogs.constantcontact.com
Benefits of Email and Social Media Integration, www.reachmail.net
How to Determine Email Frequency, for Maximum Revenue, www.practicalecommerce.com
Inbox by Gmail: Snooze to just the right time, gmailblog.blogspot.com
Matching Customer Emails To Their Twitter Profiles, www.socialbro.com
General Internet Marketing
How Account Based Marketing Can Drive Revenue for your B2B Business, www.martechadvisor.com
MarTech
Adrienne Weissman Talks Marketing Automation for Small Business, smallbiztrends.com
Top Marketing Tools For Your Business., pushingsocial.com
Mobile/Local Marketing
46% of diners have never leveraged mobile payment options, www.mobilecommercedaily.com
App Install Ads Help Marketers Cut Through the Clutter, www.emarketer.com
Call-Only Ads Are Ruining Mobile Results, www.beyondthepaid.com
How Often Americans Check Their Smartphones, www.marketingprofs.com
Messenger is being downloaded more than Facebook’s flagship app, qz.com
Nail Down A Mobile Strategy In 5 Simple Steps, www.ppchero.com
Social Media
15 brand new social networks you’ve never heard of but should definitely try, econsultancy.com
5 things brands should know about Facebook’s shoppable pages, digiday.com
Earned Media and the Journey of a Pinner, www.adweek.com
How to Use Facebook’s Upgraded Custom Audience Pixel, www.jonloomer.com
Marketers, Stop Hesitating and Start Embracing Instagram, www.marketingprofs.com
Social login adoption grows despite privacy concerns, econsultancy.com
Twitter Audience Insight to Delight, www.aimclearblog.com
Video
Agency, Entertainment Execs Set Sights on Vertical Video, adage.com
David Droga Thinks the Facebook vs. YouTube Video War is Good for Creatives, www.adweek.com
The first Periscope star shows the live streaming platform doesn’t need Twitter, digiday.com
Video Ads Account for More Facebook 2Q Ad Spend, www.adweek.com
Will Newspaper Companies Find Revival in Local Video?, streetfightmag.com
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