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:
Top 10 YouTube Ads In December: Clash Of Clans Dominates With A Combined 63M Views Jan 11, 2016 by Amy Gesenhues Video gaming company Supercell owned half the list with its ads for “Clash of Clans” taking four spots, while its “Boom Beach” ad ranked No. 9.
How Apple Could Play Spoiler For The Search Ad Business Jan 11, 2016 by Mark Ballard Could Apple disrupt business as usual for search marketers in 2016? Columnist Mark Ballard explores the possibilities.
Cut The Fat: How To Reduce Wasted Ad Spend In Your AdWords Account Jan 11, 2016 by Jacob Baadsgaard Is your PPC unprofitable, despite bringing in lots of leads? Columnist Jacob Baadsgaard explains his method for identifying and eliminating low-performing search terms.
US Display Spend Will Overtake Search In 2016 [eMarketer] Jan 11, 2016 by Ginny Marvin Spurred by growth in video and native ad formats, advertisers will spend more on display advertising than search this year.
Marriage Equality, Healthcare & Low Unemployment: How Search Marketers Can Make A Difference This Tax Season Jan 11, 2016 by Purna Virji Tax marketers, pay attention! Columnist Purna Virji discusses some developments that may impact your search campaigns this year.
The Whole Nine Yards: What The NFL Can Teach Marketers About Brand Engagement Jan 11, 2016 by Jordan Kretchmer What can marketers learn from the Steelers, Cowboys and Packers? Columnist Jordan Kretchmer discusses what these NFL teams are doing to win big with community engagement.
Yesmail Report: Email Marketers Need To Walk Before They Can Run Jan 11, 2016 by Barry Levine The survey shows that a third of marketers want email integrated with other channels, but many marketers still aren’t even collecting email addresses through websites, apps or in-store encounters.
How To Make 2016 Your Best Content Marketing Year Ever Jan 11, 2016 by Quinn Whissen Are you ready to ramp up your content marketing strategy in 2016? Columnist Quinn Whissen reveals possible improvements that can help get you ahead of the curve.
Game On: The 2016 Marketing Land #HashtagBowl Is Coming Soon Jan 11, 2016 by Matt McGee For the fifth straight year, we’ll be tracking social media visibility in Super Bowl TV commercials. Here’s what to expect from that and all of our pre-game and post-game marketing coverage.
Total Holiday E-Commerce: $69 Billion, Mobile $12.7 Billion — comScore Jan 10, 2016 by Greg Sterling Mobile devices dominated the holiday shopping season, outpacing the PC in driving traffic to e-commerce sites and being used as shopping companions in physical stores. In addition, mobile commerce also grew significantly from 2014 (59 percent), though perhaps not as much as one might have anticipated.
Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:
How Much Did Countdown Ads Play Into Advertisers’ Strategies This Holiday Season?
78% Of SEOs Believe That 2016 Is Going To Be A “Great” Year For Business
Alice Paul Google Doodle Marks 131st Birthday Of The American Suffragist & ERA Activist
Powerball Numbers? You’ll Be Surprised Which Search Engines Knew Them
What Is The Mountain Of Butterflies? Google Doodle Marks 41st Anniversary Of The Natural Phenomenon
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Analytics
The 2015 Analytics Software Market, techcrunch.com
Blogs & Blogging
11 Quick Tips to Get More Comments on Your Blog, www.problogger.net
My Issues With WordPress…and How I Fixed Them!, www.ducttapemarketing.com
The Top Blogger Plugins You Need To Know About, thepma.org
Business Issues
Apple News App Is Off to a Rocky Start, Wall Street Journal
2016 Google Tracker: Everything Google is working on for the new year, arstechnica.com
Apple Rolls Out New Betas Across Its Platforms, techcrunch.com
Apple’s music streaming subscribers top 10m, www.ft.com
Marissa Mayer and Yahoo’s plan A, B, C, D, and E for appeasing frustrated investors, qz.com
The entire New York City subway system will have Wi-Fi by the end of 2016, www.theverge.com
Yahoo’s Brain Drain Shows a Loss of Faith Inside the Company, www.nytimes.com
Content Marketing
Here’s Why Some Content Goes Viral, www.stonetemple.com
Tips to Creating Stellar Evergreen Content, www.searchenginejournal.com
Conversion Optimization
4 Hacks For Conducting Smart Landing Page Tests, blog.crazyegg.com
7 Advanced Conversion Rate Optimization Tips for 2016, vwo.com
A Newbie’s Guide to A/B-Testing, www.marketingprofs.com
How To Determine Your Next CRO Test, www.ppchero.com
Copywriting, Design & Usability
10 Rapid-Fire Tips for Writing 2,500 Words per Hour, www.marketingprofs.com
Domaining
No, Capital Letters in Your URL Don’t Affect Ranking, smallbiztrends.com
E-Commerce
Amazon to Release Portable Version of Echo Speaker in Coming Weeks, www.wsj.com
Seven ways to make ecommerce fun, econsultancy.com
The top 10 e-commerce days of the holiday season, www.internetretailer.com
Email Marketing
Email amassing? 24 more great ideas + 18 content tips, www.verticalresponse.com
Plan Awesome Content That Grows Your Email List, www.searchenginejournal.com
General Internet Marketing
5 Common Marketing Pitfalls to Avoid, www.martechadvisor.com
5 Ways Influencer Marketing Can Grow Your B2B Company, www.toprankblog.com
How brands must adapt to shifts in digital marketing, www.mobilecommercedaily.com
Pushing Back Against Push Marketing, www.cmswire.com
The 5 Traits of Successful Digital Advertisers, www.searchenginejournal.com
The Big Agenda: What Ad Industry Needs to Know About 2016, adage.com
Three Big Reasons You Aren’t Connecting With Your Brand’s Audience, www.marketingprofs.com
MarTech
Mobile/Local Marketing
2016 Mobile Marketing Trends Every Marketer Needs, heidicohen.com
How the Rise of Virtual Reality Could Impact Local Marketing, streetfightmag.com
Oracle sinks its claws into Android, andreasgal.com
R.I.P., BlackBerry OS, venturebeat.com
Smartphone sales increase 53% to bypass tablets, www.mobilecommercedaily.com
The Mobile App Divide, techcrunch.com
Social Media
Inside Pinterest and its ad sales operation, Business Insider
6 Ways to Increase Twitter Engagement, www.socialmediaexaminer.com
7 Tips For Using Twitter For Better Customer Engagement, www.adweek.com
Appeals court upholds deal allowing kids’ images in Facebook ads, arstechnica.com
Can Creative Execution Ever Catch Up To Facebook Targeting?, www.adweek.com
Grow Your Pinterest Following: 5 Simple Steps for Brands, contentmarketinginstitute.com
How B2B Marketers Use Facebook to Reach Customers, www.socialmediaexaminer.com
How to Create Audience Personas on a Budget Using Facebook Insights, moz.com
Inside Pinterest and its ad sales operation, www.businessinsider.com
Making the Most of Twitter’s New Conversational Ad Format, www.clixmarketing.com
Our 13 Best Social Media Marketing Tips Ever!, www.wordstream.com
Peach.cool is Friday’s hottest social network, www.theverge.com
Photo Evidence Shows Facebook Is Building Messenger For Mac, techcrunch.com
The right social media listening tools for the right jobs, www.searchengineguide.com
Under the Hood: A Closer Look at Mobile-First Car Shoppers, www.facebook.com
What Brands Should Know About Facebook Messenger Chat Bots, adage.com
Why Twitter’s Character Count is a Good Thing, blog.marketo.com
75% on Social Media, Focused Most on New Customers, screenwerk.com
You Already Knew Parents Post on Facebook More Than Others. Now Find Out How Much, www.adweek.com
Video
The White House Launches Official Snapchat Account, www.adweek.com
Upworthy Lays Off 14 Staffers to Focus on Digital Video, www.adweek.com
Yahoo Responds To Video Ad Fraud Allegations, adexchanger.com
Your Top 3 Video Distribution Questions Answered, contentmarketinginstitute.com
YouTube creators interview President Obama following his final State of the Union, googleblog.blogspot.com
YouTube’s CES Keynote: Four Reasons Why Digital Video Will Win the Decade, www.reelseo.com
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