Marketing Day: The Future Of Content Marketing, Twitter To Launch Auto-Play Video Ads & More
- Fahad H 
- Jan 12, 2015
- 5 min read
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:
The centerpiece online video takes a tongue-in-cheek approach to educating without lecturing.
“Customers first.” A simple concept and the North Star of modern marketing. But implementing systems and operations that deliver brilliant customer experiences in a fragmented technology environment and legacy-steeped organizations is tricky. MarTech: The Marketing Tech Conference tackles the issues head on. Hear from marketers harnessing the power of technology to produce exceptional customer experiences […]
Super Cray says that after repeated assurances by Google AdSense reps that the site was in compliance, it was denied over $500,000 in advertising earnings.
Contributor Arnie Kuenn observes content marketing’s rise and speculates as to what the coming years will bring.
Social media and content marketing are among the biggest categories for marketing technology companies, while influence marketing, performance & attribution emerge.
The number of martech companies has doubled from 2014, rising to nearly 2,000 in 2015. See them all by category!
Reported new features headed to Twitter should be well received by both advertisers, publishers and the avid video consumer.
The exchange is closing access to third party networks and non-Yahoo sites.
The insurance company for military personnel and their family facilitates social media shares and gets lots of activity.
Both Amazon and Target released holiday shopping related statistics this week. Most striking was Target’s statement that a majority of the traffic to its Target.com site was from mobile devices during November and December. The company said, “Mobile traffic made up 60 percent of Target.com traffic November through December.” In its press release the company […]
Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:
- Zomato Buys Urbanspoon For $50 – $60 Million To Enter US Local Search Market 
- Seeing Double: Yahoo, Bing Search Ads Show Duplicate Copy In Headlines And Ad Text 
- Think Small: Solve Your Mobile SEM Problem With “Micro Leads” 
- MarTech Conference Rates Increase Saturday – Register Now & Save $400 
- Report: Google Translate To Provide Real-Time Translation Via App 
- DMCA Takedown Database ChillingEffects.org Takes Itself Out Of Search Results 
- 75% Of Small & Medium-Sized Businesses (SMBs) Say Internet Marketing Is Effective 
- Google Results For “Car Insurance” Could Look Different Very Soon 
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Analytics
- How to Measure the ROI of Your Podcast, www.searchenginejournal.com 
- The Complete Digital Analytics Ecosystem: How To Win Big, www.kaushik.net 
Blogs & Blogging
- 10 Simple Hacks That Will Increase Your Blog Traffic, www.problogger.net 
- 4 Ways to Create an Engaging Blog Experience, www.socialmediaexaminer.com 
- The 10 best big company blogs in the world, www.businessesgrow.com 
Business Issues
Content Marketing
- 10 Content Marketing Myths that Could Crash Your Campaign, relevance.com 
- 13 Essential Content Marketing Tips to Convert Website Traffic into Sales, www.jeffbullas.com 
- 3 CES Trends That Content Marketers Need to Know About, contently.com 
- 4 Examples of Thinking Outside the Box with Content Marketing, 3qdigital.com 
- 5 Tips to Help Your Colleagues Become Successful Content Creators, contentmarketinginstitute.com 
- Can You Build a Content Marketing Super Brand, www.convinceandconvert.com 
- Content Marketers, Quit Selling Like It’s 2004, www.marketingprofs.com 
- Curating content – the way to ensure you have plenty to say, www.callowaygreen.com 
- How To Build A Culture of Content, www.b2bmarketinginsider.com 
- The Evolution of Content Marketing Will Include Intelligent Content, contentmarketinginstitute.com 
- This Piece of Branded Content Made Me Fall in Love, contently.com 
Conversion Optimization
- 12 Proven Ways Your Copy Can Get More Conversions, blog.kissmetrics.com 
- How to Cheat at A/B Testing (And Win), blog.crazyegg.com 
- How to Create Landing Pages That Address the Emotional Needs of Prospects, unbounce.com 
Copywriting, Design & Usability
- Does your WordPress Website Load in a Flash? (How I Got Mine to Under 1 Second), madlemmings.com 
- Hold A Kickoff Meeting Before Diving Into The Design, www.smashingmagazine.com 
- MTV’s Responsive Design Boosts Metrics on Mobile & Beyond, www.lukew.com 
- Responsive Web Design Is Not One-Size-Fits-All, www.accelerationpartners.com 
Domaining
- Amazon Wow’s Us & Beats Google and Rightside To Win The .Wow New gTLD, www.thedomains.com 
- Categorizing Top Level Domains: "nTLDs", domainnamewire.com 
E-Commerce
- E-commerce firm 3Suisses sorry for subverting #JeSuisCharlie tribute as Je3SuissesCharlie, www.thedrum.com 
- 5 Ecommerce Stats that Will Make You Change Your Entire Marketing Approach, blog.kissmetrics.com 
- 5 Tips for Buying Retail Inventory, for Ecommerce, www.practicalecommerce.com 
- Australian Retail Ecommerce Sales to Top $10 Billion in 2015, www.emarketer.com 
- Macy’s restructures as overly promotional mobile strategy takes its toll, www.mobilecommercedaily.com 
- What Do Big-Box Brands Have over Amazon?, www.emarketer.com 
Email Marketing
- 10 Do’s and Don’ts of A/B-Testing Your Email Marketing Campaigns, www.marketingprofs.com 
- 5 creative ways to grow your email marketing list, myemma.com 
- A Starter’s Guide for Gmail Sponsored Promotions (GSP), 3qdigital.com 
- Everything You Need to Know About Managing Your Email Bounces, blogs.constantcontact.com 
- How Constant Contact Measures Email Deliverability, blogs.constantcontact.com 
- How to Justify Responsive Email Design and Where to Get Help!, www.marketingtechblog.com 
- Is there a knowledge gap in email and search marketing?, econsultancy.com 
- MailChimp Holiday Email Volume, blog.mailchimp.com 
- The Often Overlooked but All-Important Email Navigation bar, blog.getresponse.com 
- Timing of Sales Email is Important, www.domaininvesting.com 
- What Consumers Dislike About Mobile Email, www.marketingprofs.com 
- Why You Should Declare Email Bankruptcy for 2015, blog.hootsuite.com 
General Internet Marketing
- Four important reasons why marketing should be personal, econsultancy.com 
- Why Transparency Is The New Marketing, www.quicksprout.com 
Mobile/Local Marketing
- 13 Innovative Mobile Commerce Apps, www.practicalecommerce.com 
- 80% Of All Online Adults Now Own A Smartphone, Less Than 10% Use Wearables, techcrunch.com 
- Agencies erase mobile boundaries, digiday.com 
- How to Get Closer to Customers with Local Marketing, adage.com 
- Mobile versus being mobile: Match Web site experience to customer intent, www.mobilecommercedaily.com 
- Top 6 Tips to Help YOU benefit from mobile marketing, whoisjonleuty.com 
- Who Should Ask for Reviews: Business Owner or Employee?, www.localvisibilitysystem.com 
Social Media
- 5 Brands That Are Absolutely Killing It on Twitter, www.impactbnd.com 
- 70% of Marketers Will Spend More on Social Media Ads This Year, www.adweek.com 
- 8 Social Media Business Apps and Tools You Should Use, smallbiztrends.com 
- Andy’s Answers: Olive Garden’s 5 steps to turn around their social customer service, smartblogs.com 
- Facebook Advertising and Spam, Deception, Value and Trust, www.jonloomer.com 
- Getting the Most From Hashtags, www.compukol.com 
- How Facebook says you should handle a social crisis, www.insidefacebook.com 
- How to Create an Account and Submit Content to Delicious, upcity.com 
- How to Create the Perfect Social Media Post, www.mediabistro.com 
- How to Make the Most of Facebook Mobile Ads, www.socialmediaexaminer.com 
- How to Schedule Instagram Updates (and Post to Instagram from the Web), www.internetmarketingninjas.com 
- How to Test Anything on Social Media, blog.bufferapp.com 
- How Twitter Users Have Migrated to Mobile, www.socialbakers.com 
- More News Feed Surveys from Facebook, allfacebook.com 
- More than 50 Facebook marketing tips for entrepreneurs, www.launchgrowjoy.com 
- Social listening in 2015: top five opportunities, econsultancy.com 
- Social Media Marketing 2015: Where Is Your Audience?, heidicohen.com 
- Twitter Looking to get Ads in Front of Non-Users, performinsider.com 
- U.S. Central Command twitter hacked, www.cnbc.com 
- Why Social Media Marketers and Brand Managers Should Care About Employee Advocacy, www.marketingprofs.com 
- Your private Instagrams weren’t as private as you thought they were, qz.com 
Video
- Six reasons to care about [interactive] video attention, econsultancy.com 
- Video content strategy: why do it & will anyone watch it?, econsultancy.com 
- Video Marketers Need to Stick to a YouTube-First Strategy, www.reelseo.com 
- Video, Audio and Imagery May Set Your Brand Apart in 2015, www.socialmediaexplorer.com 








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