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:
MarTech Landscape: What Is Header Bidding — And Why Should Publishers Care? Dec 21, 2015 by Barry Levine As an alternative to Google’s advertising waterfall, simultaneous bidding can increase prices for websites’ ad space.
Call Analytics Platforms Martech Intelligence Report Dec 21, 2015 by Digital Marketing Depot Marketing Land and Digital Marketing Depot have recently published a new Martech Intelligence Report, “Enterprise Call Analytics Platforms 2015,” that examines the market for call analytics platforms.
More Super Bowl 50 Advertisers: PayPal & Honda Gear Up, While GoDaddy Takes The Bench Dec 21, 2015 by Amy Gesenhues GoDaddy says it’s moving beyond the generic megaphone of a Super Bowl campaign to focus on a more personalized marketing strategy.
The Search For An Optimal AdWords CPC Dec 21, 2015 by David Fothergill Columnist David Fothergill explores the question many a paid search specialist has pondered: What is the ideal bid price?
Best. MarTech. Ever. This March In San Francisco. Dec 21, 2015 by Scott Brinker You can’t scroll a mobile screenful on Twitter these days without hitting several predictions for 2016. But there’s one marketing tech prediction I can offer with 100% certainty: the next MarTech conference in San Francisco, March 21-22, will be the best one yet.
Epic Content (And Results) That Didn’t Break The Bank Dec 21, 2015 by Brian Patterson You don’t need tons of money to do content marketing well. Columnist Brian Patterson shares some real-world examples of small-budget content marketing that garnered big-budget results.
Marketing Land’s Top 10 News Stories Of 2015: Snapchat Guide, That Dress, FTC Social Guidelines & More Dec 21, 2015 by Matt McGee We begin two weeks of year-in-review coverage with a look at the most popular news stories of 2015 as covered by the Marketing Land editorial team.
3 Things Black Friday Taught Us About 2016 Dec 21, 2015 by Jordan Elkind As we edge closer to 2016, it’s time to start thinking about your marketing strategy for next year. Columnist Jordan Elkind shares what marketers can learn from the Black Friday weekend.
Why Marketers Need To Move From Email Reactivation To Continued Addressability Dec 21, 2015 by Jose Cebrian Columnist Jose Cebrian explains why marketers need to think less about reactivating their inactive email subscribers and focus more on reaching that audience in other ways.
Wins And Losses From The Social Teams Of The NFL Dec 21, 2015 by Chris Kerns Columnist Chris Kerns takes a look at the social plays from the NFL to bring marketers some insights into how they can enhance their own social strategies.
Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:
Google Changes How It Logs Search Analytics Data As Of December 14, 2015
Google Search Console Analytics Report Now Shows App Install Button Data
Google Tests Markup For Managing Local Business Data For Knowledge Panel
Google Launches Knowledge Graph Search API, Promises To Close Freebase API In Future
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Affiliate Marketing
Top 5 Resources for Affiliate Marketing and Referral Content, smallbiztrends.com
Analytics
Blogs & Blogging
6 tips for coming up with blog ideas, yoast.com
6 Top Ways to Make Money Blogging in 2016, www.jeffbullas.com
A Business Blog Overview For Late Adopters, www.blogherald.com
An update on Google Friend Connect, buzz.blogger.com
Business Issues
Ericsson and Apple sign patent deal, settle litigation, Reuters
How Jack Dorsey Runs Both Twitter, Square, www.wsj.com
Microsoft Buys Talko, fortune.com
On “60 Minutes” Apple CEO Tim Cook Bats Away Car Talk, Criticisms Over Tax Picture, Low-Wage Workers, techcrunch.com
The share of Americans with broadband at home has plateaued, www.pewinternet.org
Yahoo Sports and NBC Sports Renew Partnership, yahoo.tumblr.com
Content Marketing
3 Content Tips from StumbleUpon for Reaching Millennials, sherpablog.marketingsherpa.com
Could Your Website Use Some Content Pruning?, www.convinceandconvert.com
Engage Your Audience with the Content You Write, blogs.constantcontact.com
Evaluating the Value of Positive and Negative Content, www.compukol.com
Is Viral Content Making You Sick?, contentmarketinginstitute.com
Planning Your 2016 Content Marketing Calendar, www.ducttapemarketing.com
Where Are UK Marketers Distributing Content?, www.emarketer.com
Conversion Optimization
7 Conversion Optimization Trends to Stay Ahead of the Game, blog.crazyegg.com
7 Proven Ways to Improve Website Readability and Get More Conversions, vwo.com
8 Ways to Increase Website Conversions, smallbiztrends.com
The 4 Fundamental Steps of Conversion Optimization, www.seobook.com
The 6 Biggest Website Blunders Costing You Leads, blog.marketo.com
Copywriting, Design & Usability
How Oreo Fearlessly Disrupted Itself to Personalize the User Experience, company-enterprise.myshopify.com
How readability can make sure people actually read your content, www.sjo.com
Why Design Isn’t Just Lipstick on a Pig, www.uxmatters.com
Domaining
E-Commerce
23 creative examples of hover states in ecommerce UX, econsultancy.com
6 Tips for Researching and Attracting Local Markets, company-enterprise.myshopify.com
6% of PayPal users now use One Touch quick checkouts, venturebeat.com
Amazon breaks sales records and is the go-to store for holiday shoppers, www.internetretailer.com
Why Helping Visitors Abandon Their Carts is Your Biggest Conversion Asset, blog.crazyegg.com
Email Marketing
‘Tis No Longer the Season: 4 Post-Holiday Email Ideas, blog.movableink.com
10 Quick Design Hacks for Responsive Emails, www.martechadvisor.com
4 Quick Solutions that Spawn Radical Email List Growth, www.copyblogger.com
6-Step Lead Magnet Process for Increased Opt-In Rate, www.searchenginejournal.com
Email and Social Media Marketing: How to Leverage Engagement to Drive ROI, www.martechadvisor.com
Email Opens Tilt Further Toward Mobile, www.emarketer.com
Sign-Up Forms Can Be An Important Piece of Your Email Marketing Program, www.verticalresponse.com
Your Mobile Email Marketing Checklist, www.cmswire.com
General Internet Marketing
5 Free Market-Research Tools to Read Your Audience’s Minds, blog.kissmetrics.com
5 Last-Minute Holiday Marketing Tips for Online Marketers, multichannelmerchant.com
Customer Advertising Preferences For 2016, heidicohen.com
How to Use a Brand Evangelist to Skyrocket Your Sales, blog.crazyegg.com
Why You Should Embrace Transparency Marketing, conversionxl.com
Internet Marketing Industry
Mobile/Local Marketing
Building a Nearby Photo Discovery Android App and Flurry Analytics Instrumentation, yahoodevelopers.tumblr.com
Google Might Use Online Poll To Decide The Dessert Name for Android N, www.ibtimes.com
In-app purchases done right: Why you must entertain your users — not exploit them, venturebeat.com
Mobile marketers: 5 ways to boost holiday revenue today, www.tune.com
Mobile traffic surges on Super Saturday, www.retaildive.com
Mobile’s Workplace Role Continues to Grow, www.emarketer.com
The mobile customer is the new king in retail, www.mobilecommercedaily.com
Why mobile native advertising is key in connecting with users, www.mobilecommercedaily.com
Reputation Management
The higher the stakes, the more online reviews matter, www.internetretailer.com
Social Media
15 Marketing Twitters That Won’t Kill Your Feed (or Your Soul), unbounce.com
2016 Trend: Social Media and Automation Will Combine in New Ways to Improve the Customer Journey, www.silverpop.com
A Marketer’s Guide to Social Shopping Integrations, www.convinceandconvert.com
Facebook Starts Rolling Out Support For Apple’s Live Photos, TechCrunch
How Brands Are Using A “Star Wars” Twitter Trend for Self-Promotion, ignitevisibility.com
How to Use Facebook Local Awareness Ads to Target Customers, www.socialmediaexaminer.com
New Data Proves Facebook Ads Lift Search ROI, www.wordstream.com
The Top Food Brands On Social This Holiday Season, blog.newswhip.com
Twitter Testing Ways to Reach and Engage New Audiences, www.adweek.com
Why All Your Tweets Should be Directed to Just One Person, www.adweek.com
Video
Facebook Officially Replaces Adobe Flash With HTML5 For Videos, arc.applause.com
20 Ways Brands Can Make the Most Out of Facebook Video, www.reelseo.com
6 Things Geico and Vimeo Taught Us About Making Great Preroll Ads in 2015, www.adweek.com
Google’s YouTube Uses Homer Simpson To Promote YouTube Ads, Search Engine Roundtable
Inside the Making of BuzzFeed’s Branded Video for Hyundai, adage.com
Long Form Video: Driving Engagement in Facebook’s News Feed, www.adweek.com
Premium Video Inventory: What Shortage?, adexchanger.com
This YouTube channel makes more money from paid subscriptions than YouTube ads, digiday.com
Twitter Video: The Marketing Advantage No One Is Using…Yet!, blog.bufferapp.com
Vine Adds “For You” Channel of Vines It Thinks You’ll Love, www.adweek.com
Wal-Mart’s holiday ad campaign wins in video views, www.retaildive.com
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