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:
Act now: SMX Advanced super early bird rates expire this Saturday Apr 11, 2016 by Marketing Land SMX Advanced rates increase Saturday. Register now for the lowest rates. Here’s what’s in store.
SurveyMonkey adds mobile analytics to its resume Apr 11, 2016 by Barry Levine The new SurveyMonkey Intelligence offers free and premium accounts accessing data from hundreds of thousands of participating mobile users.
Top 10 YouTube ads in March: New Always #LikeAGirl spot ranks No. 1 with 18M views Apr 11, 2016 by Amy Gesenhues The latest installment from the Always #LikeAGirl campaign generated nearly double the views of the second-ranking video ad last month.
[VIDEO] Marketing Land Live #8: Facebook Live video, Tweet length research & more Apr 11, 2016 by Matt McGee If you missed our latest episode, watch the video replay below featuring Amy Gesenhues, Tim Peterson, Greg Sterling and Greg Finn.
Reminder: April 12 webcast — “Mapping the Value of Your Customer’s Experience” Apr 11, 2016 by Digital Marketing Depot Customer Journey Mapping can illuminate your customer’s journey and help you identify more meaningful ways to connect at crucial “micro-moments.” On Tuesday, April 12, join Ethology’s strategy experts, Anthony Quiroz and Geoffrey Wilcoxson, as they go beyond “journey mapping” to recognize the many moments and connections customers have with your brand.
Visual analysis of AdWords data: a primer Apr 11, 2016 by David Fothergill Columnist David Fothergill shows how data visualization can unlock insights about AdWords performance you may not have gleaned otherwise.
5 customer-centric metrics to implement today Apr 11, 2016 by Jordan Elkind Is your company truly customer-centric? Columnist Jordan Elkind shares five key performance indicators that you should be measuring if you want to put customers at the center of your decision-making.
Streaming social: What marketers can learn from Netflix’s social strategy Apr 11, 2016 by Chris Kerns When it comes to social, marketers can learn a lot from Netflix. Columnist Chris Kerns discusses the streaming service’s social wins and what marketers can glean from them.
Test & validate your HTML5 display ads with new IAB tool Apr 11, 2016 by Ginny Marvin The industry group also updated its HTML5 for Digital Advertising Guide.
Customer service provider [24]7 ports its chat bot/live agent service to Facebook Messenger Apr 11, 2016 by Barry Levine Tag team offering is the latest sign that the popular messaging app is becoming a major channel for customer interaction.
Understanding intent through voice search Apr 11, 2016 by Sponsored Content: Bing Ads Bing and Google are looking at the future of search, and both are seeing a future that involves search engines as the intelligence platform powering digital assistance with daily life — personalized help that enables people to get more done efficiently and spend real time focused on what they care about most.
Newspapers try to block Brave browser’s ad-substitution business model Apr 8, 2016 by Greg Sterling As ad blockers try to monetize with their own ads, are they committing trademark or copyright infringement? Newspapers argue they are.
Keyword research: a key element of SEO & content marketing Apr 8, 2016 by Trond Lyngbø Many business owners see SEO and content marketing as separate, but columnist Trond Lyngbø argues that solid keyword research can and should be used to inform content marketing strategy.
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Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Affiliate Marketing
Best Affiliate Plugins For Your WordPress Website, authoritylabs.com
Think affiliate marketing doesn’t work for luxury brands? Think again, econsultancy.com
Analytics
Socialbakers Launches Predictive Analytics, www.socialbakers.com
Blogs & Blogging
Do You Know the Secret to Successful Blogging?, www.compukol.com
How and Why You Should Use Infographics On Your Blog, www.blogherald.com
How to Make Your Blog a Cybersecurity Fortress, www.problogger.net
Business Issues
Apple is going all-in on celebrities to sell new Apple TV, techcrunch.com
Facebook says it doesn’t have a gender pay gap, techcrunch.com
Marketers should be much safer from cutbacks than they used to be, venturebeat.com
U.K.’s Daily Mail Explores Bid for Yahoo Backed by Private Equity, www.wsj.com
Content Marketing
10 Mistakes Content Creators Need to Avoid, contentmarketinginstitute.com
12 Audience Considerations for Your Real-Time Content, contentmarketinginstitute.com
14 Signs You Aren’t Cut Out To Be A Content Marketing Writer, blog.crazyegg.com
5 Strategies for Optimizing Native Advertising Campaigns, 3qdigital.com
7 Influential Software Marketers Creating Great Content, www.toprankblog.com
Challenges of Content Marketing and How to Overcome Them, www.martechadvisor.com
Choosing the Words that Get Your Content Read, www.compukol.com
Get Smarter About Your Content Marketing, www.cmswire.com
How to Create Content 10X Better Than Your Competitors’, www.marketingprofs.com
Produce More Content Quickly Without Sacrificing Quality, smallbiztrends.com
Today’s specials: Unique, creative, quality content, www.branded3.com
Conversion Optimization
16 Online Tools That Will Improve Your Website’s Conversion Rate, www.jeffbullas.com
6 Copywriting Tactics to Boost Your Conversion Rates, www.searchenginejournal.com
Copywriting, Design & Usability
19 Free Website Design Tools, www.practicalecommerce.com
A Simple Exercise to Help You Write Effective Sales Copy, www.problogger.net
Breaking Out Of The Box: Design Inspiration, www.smashingmagazine.com
Moving to a UX-Critical Culture, www.uxmatters.com
The future of UX: Q&A with industry leaders, www.usertesting.com
What the Past Five Years Have Taught Me About UX Design, www.uxmatters.com
Domaining
E-Commerce
Facebook “Will Do Everything We Can” To Address Shady Dress Retailers, www.buzzfeed.com
How Is the Internet of Things Changing Retail?, www.emarketer.com
How to Master E-commerce Content Marketing, www.searchenginejournal.com
Inside Amazon’s Evolving Ecommerce Media Practice, adexchanger.com
Jeff Bezos wants to know if anyone can run Amazon, besides Jeff Bezos, qz.com
The Real Reasons That Amazon’s Alexa May Become The Go-To AI For The Home, www.fastcompany.com
Email Marketing
For Generation Z, Email Has Become a Rite of Passage, www.wsj.com
How to Optimize Your Email Campaigns With Interest-Based List Segmentation, www.marketingprofs.com
Send times, Unsubscribe Rates & Inbox Blindness, blog.movableink.com
General Internet Marketing
6 Tips for Marketers Who Want to Connect in a Meaningful Way With Millennials, www.adweek.com
The Evolution of the B2B Marketer, blog.marketo.com
Where Do You Stand With Digital Transformation?, www.cmswire.com
MarTech
Mobile/Local Marketing
Conquer the Top 10 Most Common Mobile Marketing Mistakes, www.tune.com
How to Master Cross-Device Ad Targeting, company-enterprise.myshopify.com
Weather Company’s Webster Touts the Power of Forecast Data in Local Marketing, streetfightmag.com
Reputation Management
Three Steps to Address Online Haters, adage.com
Social Media
‘I feel like my granddad with a VHS’: UK agency Gen Xers on Snapchat, digiday.com
Dear Facebook, why are Facebook Comments so unremittingly terrible?, techcrunch.com
Facebook has transformed into a platform of platforms, qz.com
How to Connect With Local Customers via Social Media, www.socialmediaexaminer.com
How to Use Facebook Audience Overlap to Improve Your Facebook Marketing, www.socialmediaexaminer.com
Influencer Marketing on Social Media: How to do it Right?, www.martechadvisor.com
The Most Successful B2B Industries on Social Media, www.marketingprofs.com
Ticketmaster Is About to Start Selling Tickets on Facebook, www.adweek.com
Time for Cleaning Up Your Social Media Accounts!, smallbiztrends.com
Twitter acquires employee feedback tool Peer, venturebeat.com
Why You Need Snapchat in Your 2016 Marketing Plan, www.seerinteractive.com
Why your social media strategy is failing, www.stonetemple.com
Video
7 lessons CEOs can learn from President Obama’s video strategy, techcrunch.com
Analysts are overlooking how much AR and VR are about to change our lives, venturebeat.com
Cure festival FOMO and watch Coachella live exclusively on YouTube, youtube.googleblog.com
Game of Thrones Red Carpet With Facebook Live, Instagram, www.adweek.com
How Publishers Can Use Facebook’s New Live Video Features, www.newswhip.com
How to Optimize Videos for Conversions, conversionxl.com
Periscope tests letting you draw on top of live video streams, thenextweb.com
Social Video Way More Important than TV for Generation Z, www.reelseo.com
Unity: 71% of Players Prefer Watching Video Ads to “Pay” for In-Game Content, www.adweek.com
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