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:
Twitter, NFL Sign Two-Year Extension To Serve More Football Video Deal means there will be more NFL content on Twitter. Twitter will take the lead in ad sales in the revenue-sharing partnership.
KIND Snacks’ Back-To-School Instagram Campaign Asks Parents To Share Summer #MomentThatPopped As parents’ minds turn toward packing snacks and lunchboxes for schoolchildren, KIND snack bars encourages families to reflect upon the best moments of summer.
4 Tips To Ensure You’re Prepared For The 2015 Holiday Retail Season It’s never too soon to start planning for the most crucial shopping season. Columnist James Green has pointers to ensure your marketing strategy is a success.
Ad-Blocking Report: Nearly 200 Million Users, $22 Billion In Lost Ad Revenue According to a new report from Adobe and PageFair, $21.8 billion in global ad revenues have been blocked 0r lost.
How To Create A “Lead-Generation Pipeline” With Your Blog (Part 1) In the first of this two-part series, columnist Daniel Faggella outlines three strategies to ensure your content speaks to your viewers to turn traffic into prospects and prospects into buyers.
Top 10 YouTube Video Ads In July: Always #LikeAGirl Ranks No. 1 With 30M+ Views July’s top ten ads generated a combined 80.9 million views, and more than 139 million minutes of watch time.
Microsoft Mobile Share Reaches Lowest Level Since comScore Tracking Began While Android continues its march as the dominant global operating system, its market share in the US is essentially flat and roughly at the same place it was in 2012.
Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:
The New Mobile Rules for Search, Social and Display — August 20 Webcast
Where Do You Go From Here? 7 Career Paths For The Search Engine Marketer
Google Map Maker Back Up In Six Countries With More To Follow Soon
Microsoft Translator App Comes To iOS & Android With Wearable Support
The Secret To More Search Advertising Revenue (Hint: It’s Bing Ads!)
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Blogs & Blogging
4 Ways Pinterest Can Help Drive Traffic To Your Blog, www.problogger.net
Blog Writing Tips: How to Craft the Perfect Blog Post, authoritylabs.com
Business Issues
Google Puts Exec Behind ‘Buy Button’ Atop Google, recode.net
Adobe joins tech industry push in increasing maternity, parental leave, www.reuters.com
Amazon adds an Illinois warehouse, www.internetretailer.com
Facebook, Google and Twitter block ‘hash list’ of child porn images, www.telegraph.co.uk
Yahoo Reclaims Iconic SF Billboard, yahoo.tumblr.com
Content Marketing
12 Time-Saving Tools for Content Marketers, www.convinceandconvert.com
7 Ways to Write Quality Content Your Audience Will Love, www.jeffbullas.com
B2C Personalization Is More Relevant Than Ever, blog.marketo.com
Content Marketing Inefficiencies Cost BtoB Companies Nearly $1 Billion, www.toprankblog.com
How to Create a Content Library in 5 Easy Steps, www.convinceandconvert.com
How to Repackage Webinars Into Lots of Awesome Content, www.internetmarketingninjas.com
Stop Wasting Your Time On These 3 Types Of Content Marketing, www.searchenginepeople.com
Using the Right Content to Drive Traffic, www.compukol.com
Why Startups Trump Large Enterprises in Content Marketing Every Time, contentmarketinginstitute.com
Conversion Optimization
Ask a CRO Expert: How Do I Know When My A/B Test is Valid?, unbounce.com
Beyond the Click: What’s Truly Driving Your Conversion Rate?, blog.kissmetrics.com
How to Increase Conversion Rates Without Touching A Landing Page, www.wordstream.com
Retargeting Tools and Tips to Skyrocket Your Conversion Rate, vwo.com
The B2B Fast Lane: Boosting Lead Gen with Live Chat, blog.crazyegg.com
Copywriting, Design & Usability
Designing Web Interfaces For Kids, www.smashingmagazine.com
Five tips for writing cliche-free travel copy, econsultancy.com
The Future of Business Web Site UX: Get Personal!, www.uxmatters.com
Who Needs UX Strategy?, www.uxmatters.com
Domaining
ICANN Gives You The Chance To Review Trademark Clearinghouse’s Performance & Get Paid, www.thedomains.com
Paul Graham Shares Excellent Domain Name Advice, www.domaininvesting.com
E-Commerce
How an e-retailer makes it easy to sort through a large assortment, www.internetretailer.com
Where’s the Ecommerce Conversation on Social?, www.adweek.com
Will Yahoo by another name succeed as an e-retail technology provider?, www.internetretailer.com
Your 10 Point Checklist to Starting an Ecommerce Business, smallbiztrends.com
Email Marketing
15 Tips for Welcome Email, www.getelastic.com
3 Tips for Getting Quality Contacts on Your Email List, blogs.constantcontact.com
3 Ways Email Marketing Is Embracing the Trends That Were Supposed to Make It Obsolete, www.adweek.com
5 Reasons Marketers Should Care About Email Fraud, returnpath.com
5 Ways Your Email Marketing App Can Work Smarter Through Integrations, smallbiztrends.com
The 10 Best (and Worst) Performing Words in Email Subject Lines, www.marketingprofs.com
The Most Important Thing to Optimize in Email Marketing, blog.movableink.com
The Science Behind Email Open Rates, www.superoffice.com
What Is Email ReMarketing?, www.business2community.com
General Internet Marketing
IoT information at work in digital marketing, www.retaildive.com
The Taxing Complexity Of Digital Advertising, adexchanger.com
Internet Marketing Industry
MediaBrix Pitches New Product, Ad-Availability In Programmatic, www.mediapost.com
MarTech
Forget MarTech Convergence, Here Comes MadTech, www.cmswire.com
Mobile/Local Marketing
89% of consumers influenced by mobile offers for back-to-school, www.mobilecommercedaily.com
Big Brands Like CoverGirl and Coke Are Finding the Perfect Moment to Deliver Mobile Ads, www.adweek.com
Google Hangouts: now simpler, faster, more beautiful, googleblog.blogspot.com
How Mobile Influences Shopping Behavior, www.getelastic.com
Understanding The Future Of Mobility, techcrunch.com
Updating Your App for iOS 9: What You Need to Know, developers.facebook.com
Reputation Management
Facebook as Reputation Management Tool, www.searchenginejournal.com
Social Media
23 Tools for Social Media Monitoring, www.practicalecommerce.com
Engage Your Instagram Following with the Right Content, www.socialmediaexplorer.com
Facebook Analytics: The Only Guide You’ll Ever Need, www.razorsocial.com
Four Powerful Tips for a Highly Effective B2B Social Media Strategy, www.marketingprofs.com
Instagram Ads vs. Influencer Marketing: Deciding What’s Best for Your Brand, www.adweek.com
My Top Instagram Tools to Quickly Grow Followers and Engagement, ignitevisibility.com
The Psychology of Social Media, blog.bufferapp.com
The Six Cardinal Sins of Reddit Marketing, www.searchenginejournal.com
Twitter May Replace Former CEO Dick Costolo on Board, www.wsj.com
Twitter Official Partner Unmetric Launches Sense App, www.adweek.com
Which Social Networks Are Best for Content Curation?, blogs.constantcontact.com
Video
Go for Short Social Videos to Get Long Trails of Brand Loyalists, www.martechadvisor.com
Mobile vs. PCs: Where Are Video Ads More Annoying?, www.emarketer.com
Should Marketers Ditch YouTube for Facebook?, www.marketingprofs.com
Why Facebook’s video theft problem can’t last, www.theverge.com
YouTube: World’s Best Resource for Modern History?, www.reelseo.com
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