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:
#ThisGirlCan Campaign Inspires Women To Wiggle & Jiggle With Pride & Purpose A government effort to promote physical fitness among women takes a cue from marketers like Dove.
Top 10 Most Shared Super Bowl Ads Of All Time: Budweiser’s “Puppy Love” Only 2014 Video Ad To Make The List Ranking No. 4, Budweiser’s “Puppy Love” has earned more than two-million shares since its debut during last year’s Super Bowl.
Study: Despite “Time Spent” Gap, Mobile Web Just As Important As Apps Almost 90 percent of mobile internet time is spent in apps. This finding has been independently published by comScore, Nielsen and other metrics firms. However according to an IAB sponsored Harris poll of roughly 2,000 adults last December, the consumer public sees its mobile usage split roughly equally between apps and the mobile web. Source: […]
Twitter Wooing App Developers With World Outreach Tour Starting next week in Los Angeles, “Developer Advocates” will lead a series of meetups and seminars to help with the company’s Fabric SDK.
CES 2015: The Big Trends That Should Matter To Marketers Columnist Andrew Waber of Chitika shares his thoughts on two important trends: wearables and the connected home.
3 Steps To 2015 Marketing Success For Retail Standouts We’re over the holiday frenzy. Now contributor Jordan Elkind explains how retail marketers can start the new year on the right foot.
Holiday E-Commerce Sales Up 27% For SMB Retailers In 2014 Small and medium sized businesses saw 24% more online orders between Thanksgiving Day and Cyber Monday compared to 2013.
Facebook To Launch “Work”, The Social Solution For Company Communication Facebook’s corporate solution, ‘Work’, is launching today with the goal of becoming a communication center for corporations.
Why I’m Bullish On Content Creators In 2015 The incredible proliferation of content on the internet has devalued it somewhat, but contributor Rob Rasko believes that’s a temporary situation.
Foster Better Campaign Performance Through Superior Client Relations You may be a pro at tactical campaign management, but columnist Matt Umbro says you’ll never reach your potential unless you’re also cultivating a strong agency-client relationship.
It’s Time To Spice Up Your Email Content Columnist Andrew King discusses the benefits of value-added emails for combatting your subscribers’ post-holiday email fatigue.
LinkedIn To Launch Intra-Company Tools To Help Unify The Workplace A new suite of tools is rumored to arrive on LinkedIn that will help position the social giant as a collaborative place for co-worker communication.
Survey: Mobile Integration Makes Other Digital Marketing More Effective Social and mobile marketing are seeing significant momentum and uptake by marketers according to the Salesforce Marketing Cloud 2015 State of Marketing report released earlier this week. And mobile is increasingly seen as the keystone that holds everything together. According to the survey of 5,000 marketers in ten countries, nearly 90 percent (86 percent) say it’s increasingly important to […]
Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:
Google News Now Will Crawl & Index Images Hosted Off Your Domain Name
The B2B SEO Opportunity In Organizational Mergers & Acquisitions
Q4 Paid Search Ad Revenue Up 24 Percent YoY In The Americas [Kenshoo]
How To Leverage The Best Local Content Source For Multi-Location Brands
Google Translate App Gets Improved Picture & Conversational Translation
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Blogs & Blogging
How to Create Animated GIFs For Your Blog, www.razorsocial.com
How to Start a Business Blog in 2015, blog.getresponse.com
Introducing Hybrid Commenting (Or Why You Need to Keep Experimenting On Your Blog), dannybrown.me
Out of Blog Post Ideas? Try User Generated Content, www.jeffbullas.com
Business Issues
Apple Finally Takes iAd To Latin America, In A Deal With “Market Maker” IMS, TechCrunch
Apple, Google reach new deal to end U.S. lawsuit over poaching, www.reuters.com
Google partners with auto suppliers on self-driving car, Reuters
Yelp accused of bullying businesses into paying for better reviews, ca.finance.yahoo.com
Content Marketing
10 Content Marketing Buzzwords You’re Going to Hear Way Too Much This Year, contently.com
15 Ways You Can Beat The Content Marketing Odds, heidicohen.com
7 Best Content Marketing Tools to Use in 2015, www.searchenginejournal.com
Read Our Off-the-Rails Hipchat Debate About Snackable Content, contently.com
Conversion Optimization
The Anatomy of a Website that’s Optimized for Conversions, blog.crazyegg.com
Copywriting, Design & Usability
21 examples of retro design that made a comeback online, econsultancy.com
Web Design Faux-Pas Everybody Should Avoid, seo-hacker.com
What is material design? 10 pioneering examples, econsultancy.com
Domaining
.Buzz domain names to be featured on Wheel of Fortune, domainnamewire.com
Here’s how the new number two new gTLD got so big so quick, domainincite.com
E-Commerce
Do Social Share Buttons Help Ecommerce Conversions?, www.practicalecommerce.com
Etsy Crafts IPO Putting New York Tech Companies Back on the Map, www.bloomberg.com
How can retailers prepare their fulfilment networks for Black Friday 2015?, econsultancy.com
Non-store sales grow twice as fast as store sales during the holiday season, www.internetretailer.com
Republicans discuss a new approach to taxing online sales, www.internetretailer.com
Shopify: Changing the Face of the Shopping Industry, blog.similarweb.com
Understanding How Millennials Shop Online, www.nanigans.com
Why online retailers should care about how women use customer reviews, www.bizjournals.com
Email Marketing
15 Creative Ideas to Grow Your Email List, blogs.constantcontact.com
4 Tips to Refresh Your Email Marketing Strategy, www.verticalresponse.com
8 Ingredients of a Banging Email Marketing Campaign, www.offervault.com
Contextual Email Marketing: The Age of the Real-Time Inbox, www.getelastic.com
Email marketers should get personal with their customers, www.internetretailer.com
How email marketers tap into modern mindlessness, myemma.com
How to Get Your Email Subscribers to Take Action in 7 Simple Steps, whoisjonleuty.com
Kickdynamic: Hyper-Personalized Email Content at Open, www.marketingtechblog.com
Optimizing Email Performance Using New KPIs, blog.returnpath.com
Reach Your Customers, Increase Loyalty, and Do More Business with Email Marketing, blogs.constantcontact.com
Snooze in Inbox: Because not everything needs to be done right now, gmailblog.blogspot.com
Top 5 WordPress Tools for Email List Management, smallbiztrends.com
What is The Right Vehicle to Drive Your Email Marketing Success?, blog.marketo.com
General Internet Marketing
Are Marketers Lazy? Or is Real-Time Personalization Just Really, Really Hard?, blog.movableink.com
Worst. Marketing. Advice. Ever. Top Brands Share All, www.toprankblog.com
Internet Marketing Industry
Buzztala Teams Up With Rakuten Marketing, buzztala.com
Digilant Names Sanjay Pothen Managing Director, United States, www.digilant.com
Eyeview Debuts New Video Solutions for Retailers Dynamic Geo Fencing, PR Newswire
Viant Launches the First Advertising Cloud, viantinc.com
Mobile/Local Marketing
22% of retailers will integrate beacons this year, www.mobilecommercedaily.com
4 Reasons Location-Based Services Will Become a Thing Again in 2015, streetfightmag.com
Reputation Management
Reputation Management for Attorneys: Owning Your Online Presence, www.dexmedia.com
Social Media
Making Pinterest: Building a platform to understand search queries, engineering.pinterest.com
30-Minuted Social Media Marketing Tips, www.searchenginejournal.com
4 Important Social Media Marketing Trends, www.techwyse.com
5 Reasons to Use Social Media Even If It’s Not Driving (Free) Traffic, www.convinceandconvert.com
7 Tips for Increasing Your Click-Through Rates on Facebook, www.quicksprout.com
Are UK Teens Over Facebook?, www.emarketer.com
Facebook already has a social network in China – but nobody uses it, qz.com
Facebook Forum Promotion Strategies for Forum Owners, www.yourforumblog.com
Go for the Big Win with Your Social Media Marketing Strategy, www.searchengineguide.com
How LinkedIn Convinced Powerful Influencers to Create Content, www.searchenginepeople.com
How to Revive your Social Media Campaign, www.searchenginejournal.com
How to Schedule Retweets to Share at the Perfect Time, blog.bufferapp.com
Only 34% of Facebook Ad Sales Conversions Are Via Mobile, www.adweek.com
Snapchat’s Our Story drives emotional brand connections with personalized, crowdsourced content, www.mobilemarketer.com
The Worst Piece Of Social Media Advice I’ve Ever Heard, www.socialbro.com
Upcoming LinkedIn Products Connect Co-Workers, recode.net
What Not To Post on Social Media: 5 Questions You Need To Ask Yourself Before You Publish, blog.hootsuite.com
Why Social Media Will Never Get the Credit It Deserves, www.convinceandconvert.com
Video
A Brief Guide To Effective Online Video Advertising, blog.visual.ly
A Video is Worth 18 MILLION Words!, www.bvp.com
Avengers: Age of Ultron Trailer Is the Ultimate Test for Facebook Video Versus YouTube, www.adweek.com
Confusing Terminology Holds Back Programmatic Video, adexchanger.com
STUDY: Super Bowl Advertisers Who Release Ads Online Double Recall, www.adrants.com
Twitter, Facebook and Google Pivot to Maintain Relevance on Video, www.adweek.com
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