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:
TrueCar To Donate $1 For Every Instagram Photo Tagged #DogsInCars The car buying information site seeks to associate its brand with fun — specifically the type of joy and excitement dogs experience when riding in a car.
Top 10 YouTube Video Ads In March: Ad Council’s Viral Hit “Love Has No Labels” Ranks No. 1 Ranked by paid views, organic views and audience retention, last month’s top ads generated more than 102 million views.
12 Ways To Make Your Most Important Brand Ambassadors — Your Employees — More Productive How do you keep your employees happy and productive? Columnist Steve Olenski offers up these 12 techniques to help get you started.
How Many Watches Did Apple Sell: 1 Million, 2 Million Or More? Apple may let the world know today precisely how many watches were ordered on Friday.
Take Programmatic Display To The Next Level There’s a reason why programmatic buying is taking over display, columnist Pete Kluge notes, but it’s still not reaching its potential.
Noteworthy, No Hype – What to Expect at SMX Advanced in Seattle Ask a search marketer what they love – and hate – about their job and you’ll likely hear “it’s always changing.”
LinkedIn’s Newest App, Elevate, Helps Employees Share Content & Helps Employers View Results A new social sharing & scheduling app from LinkedIn has a unique wrinkle: It allows employers to track effectiveness and results that employees bring the company through social media.
Click Here Or Else: The Evolution of Chain Emails The notion of “share or else” is still alive and well. Columnist Jason Warnock explains how marketers can leverage it to identify brand influencers.
Spotted: Facebook Trending News Displaying Multiple News Categories A test spotted in the wild shows Facebook’s Trending News acting as newspaper with specific sections — all while still maintaining the hottest news above the fold.
Report: Smartphones Reach Nearly 77 Percent Penetration In US On Friday comScore released its latest US smartphone market-share data (February 2015).
Boost Mobile Turns to Vine And YouTube With Creepy #ComeToData Videos The prepaid phone player knows you check your phone in the bathroom, and, in its new campaign, reassures viewers that this practice is perfectly acceptable.
Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Analytics
Data-driven marketing: What speedbumps are slowing our progress?, www.mycustomer.com
Move into the Limitless World of Clickstream Data Analysis!, www.blastam.com
Blogs & Blogging
More Blog Traffic: 6 Comment and Expensive Mistakes, www.razorsocial.com
Business Issues
Marissa Mayer Shuffles Yahoo Leadership Team, New York Times
Content Marketing
5 Ways to Use Adaptive Content, www.searchenginejournal.com
Content vs. Advertising: Is There Really A Debate?, www.toprankblog.com
Has the Content Glut Killed Content Engagement?, mackcollier.com
How Content Promotion Works, blog.bufferapp.com
How Marketers Brainstorm and Use Content Ideas, www.marketingprofs.com
Is Time Really the Problem? Break the Bottlenecks in Content Production, contentmarketinginstitute.com
Maximize Your Content Creation Efficiency, www.ducttapemarketing.com
Writing Content for a Boring Industry? No Problem, www.bruceclay.com
Conversion Optimization
4 Guiding Lights for Content that Converts, blog.crazyegg.com
Check Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself With A/B Testing, unbounce.com
Don’t Overlook Conversion Attribution, adexchanger.com
Copywriting, Design & Usability
20 Ways to Write a Call to Action, www.searchenginejournal.com
Why This Apple Guy Believes in Google’s Material Design, uxmag.com
Domaining
World Domain Day 2015 Industry Award Winners, www.thedomains.com
E-Commerce
A million sales reps will lose their jobs to e-commerce by 2020, www.internetretailer.com
Alibaba teams up with Bigcommerce to match buyers and suppliers, www.internetretailer.com
As Vertical Marketplaces Rise, Craigslist Faces Its Demise, TechCrunch
Etsy updates app for easier shopping and spending, www.mobilecommercedaily.com
What do eBay’s lagging marketplace sales mean for retailers?, www.internetretailer.com
Email Marketing
3 Ways to Come Up with Email Ideas that Your Readers Will Love, blogs.constantcontact.com
4 Lessons Game of Thrones Can Teach You About Email Marketing, www.verticalresponse.com
6 Experts Share Their Enterprise Email Marketing Strategies, blog.movableink.com
Email Hashing: What Could Go Wrong?, adexchanger.com
How to Get People to Open Your Email, www.searchenginejournal.com
How to get the best results from your growing email list, myemma.com
How to Grow an Email List, www.jeffbullas.com
General Internet Marketing
3 Marketing Hacks for the Struggling Startup, blog.kissmetrics.com
The Rise (and Fall) of the Lazy Marketer, www.convinceandconvert.com
Internet Marketing Industry
MarTech
Marketing technology is eating the customer journey, venturebeat.com
Stepping Back to See the Big MarTech Picture, www.cmswire.com
Mobile/Local Marketing
A Marketer’s Guide To Going Mobile, blog.marketo.com
Apps are key to a meaningful user-centric mobile strategy, www.mobilecommercedaily.com
First Data Wants to Turn Its Payment Empire Into a Local Marketing Juggernaut, streetfightmag.com
Is Apple Watch the Product that Defines the Wearable Market?, localu.org
Mobile Beats Desktop for Ad Viewability, www.emarketer.com
Social Media
Twitter Is Pushing Celebrities And Publishers To Stop Using Meerkat, TechCrunch
4 LinkedIn Strategies to Boost Your Personal Brand, smallbiztrends.com
5 Social Media Takeaways for Small Business Marketers from #SMMW15, blogs.constantcontact.com
7 Mistakes That Will Make People Unfollow You on Twitter, blog.kissmetrics.com
Better Branding with Hashtags, www.compukol.com
Clorox’s Twitter backlash shows perils of content for content’s sake, econsultancy.com
Community Manager vs. Social Media Manager, www.searchenginejournal.com
DNT Isn’t Dead; Twitter Closes The Data Gates, adexchanger.com
Game of Social: Brands welcome the new ‘Game of Thrones’ season, digiday.com
Hillary Clinton’s 2016 Launch Tweet Nabbed 3 Million Views In One Hour, Bloomberg
How Maybelline Used Instagram Influencers to Boost the #DareToNeon Campaign, simplymeasured.com
How to Set Up Facebook Dynamic Product Ads, www.socialmediaexaminer.com
In Privacy Policy Refresh, Facebook Tells People What Its ‘People-Based’ ID Can Do, adexchanger.com
Is Twitter losing ground for social TV engagements?, www.mobilemarketer.com
Let Your Social Collaboration Use Cases Lead the Way, www.cmswire.com
Tweet This! How to Tweet Quotes: Tools and WordPress Plugins for Tweetable Quotes, www.internetmarketingninjas.com
Twitter Phone Verification At Odds With Internet Anonymity, www.adweek.com
Understanding Audience Expansion with LinkedIn Ads, blog.adstage.io
Video
5 Quick Tips for Using Periscope, Twitter’s New Live Video Streaming App, HubSpot
7 Ways to Use Video to Boost Your Social Media Marketing, www.socialmediaexaminer.com
Agency Arms Race Grows for Video Production, adage.com
Bringing Programmatic Video Everywhere, adexchanger.com
Digital Video Better Be up to Millennials’ Standards, www.emarketer.com
How to Use YouTube Cards for Mobile Interaction, www.takeflyte.com
Periscope Proves Great for Intimacy But Bad for Sharing, www.adweek.com
VideoBlocks Launches New Stock Video Marketplace, Pays 100% Commission To Content Creators, techcrunch.com
Welcome to the Video Revolution, adage.com
Will YouTube’s Paid Subscription Constrain Video Supply?, adexchanger.com
YouTube Tests New Video Player for Desktop, googlesystem.blogspot.com
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