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:
6 New Insights About Content Marketing Hiring Trends And Job Growth Columnist Kerry Jones shares the state of the content marketing job market based on new research and insights from recruitment professionals.
Google: Data Show Users Hate App-Promotion Interstitials Google has determined empirically that interstitials don’t work and that the same call to action is more effectively presented as a mobile banner at the top of the page.
Twitter’s Event Targeting Helps Marketers Zero In On Live Audiences New ad tool will take the guesswork out of targeting people following live events on Twitter.
Act Now: SMX East Rates Increase Saturday Here’s what’s in store: 50+ sessions, keynotes and clinics featuring results-producing tactics on paid search, SEO, analytics, mobile and social media Panel discussions, single-speaker TED-style presentations and more.
A CMO’s View: AOL CMO Says Content Marketing Is About Value, Not Advertising Since being named CMO in January, Allie Kline has led the launch of Partner Studio by AOL, an in-house custom content creation division.
The Multi-Goal Magic Of Split Testing Software Columnist Brian Massey discusses the many benefits of incorporating split testing into your analytics mix — especially when you take the time to track multiple goals.
Localytics Boosts Mobile App Analytics With Twitter Partnership Mobile analytics firm can now offer app publishers a more complete look at the effectiveness of Twitter ads.
Study: In-app Ad Fraud Could Near $1 Billion Globally In 2015 Firm claims to find large number of “mobile device hijacking” instances in which mobile apps load hidden ads and simulate human activity similar to traditional botnets.
Hungry, Hungry Ad Tech: Innovation Through Acquisition As ad tech behemoths continue to gobble up the smaller players, columnist Alex LePage takes a look at the reasons behind the acquisitions.
Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Blogs & Blogging
How To Create A WordPress Blog Post, From Idea To Publish, www.wpexplorer.com
How to Write a Post that Has a Clear Call to Action, www.problogger.net
Business Issues
Yahoo Appoints Lisa Utzschneider Chief Revenue Officer, yahoo.tumblr.com
Content Marketing
4 Lessons from BuzzFeed’s Worst Headlines, www.convinceandconvert.com
4 Tips for Building the Perfect Content Marketing Sundae, www.toprankblog.com
6 Easy Ways to Adapt Your Writing Style to the New World of Content Consumption, www.copyblogger.com
7 Keys to Producing Content That Converts, blog.marketo.com
7 of the Best Tools to Aid Your Content Marketing, www.searchenginejournal.com
Ditch Your Drab Content and Give Readers What They Want, www.verticalmeasures.com
Leveraging Content Marketing to Help Your Business, www.compukol.com
Recharge Your Content Marketing: 5 Things to Do Today, contentmarketinginstitute.com
Conversion Optimization
How to Optimize Your Site for Every Stage of the Buy Cycle, blog.kissmetrics.com
The Definitive Guide to Optimizing Your Local Landing Pages, blog.crazyegg.com
Copywriting, Design & Usability
25 excellent UX examples from ecommerce sites, econsultancy.com
How To Moderate Effectively In Usability Research, www.smashingmagazine.com
Smartwatch UX Design – The Top Considerations, usabilitygeek.com
Domaining
.Brand Domain Names: Does Risk Outweigh Reward?, www.domaininvesting.com
Boston Globe Covers .Sucks & New gTLDs & Mucks It Up, www.thedomains.com
E-Commerce
At Etsy, 86% of Sellers Are Female, www.wsj.com
Millennial Shoppers Still Aren’t Mobile, www.emarketer.com
Still time to update e-commerce systems before the holidays, www.internetretailer.com
Email Marketing
49 email marketing tips for beginners, econsultancy.com
How to Make Your Emails Pop in the Inbox, www.verticalresponse.com
Inbox Placement Rates: You Can’t Measure What You Can’t See, returnpath.com
Internet Marketing Industry
Artisan & TUNE: Better together, www.tune.com
MarTech
Ad Management Tools Can Save Time, Simplify, www.practicalecommerce.com
Mobile/Local Marketing
A/B Testing Mobile Apps: Q&A with Apptimize, www.usertesting.com
Apple Store’s mobile traffic equals desktop for the first time, www.mobilecommercedaily.com
How do your apps measure up? Benchmarks in Loyalty, www.tune.com
How Healthy Is your Mobile App?, www.kahuna.com
Thousands of apps secretly run ads that consumers never see, www.internetretailer.com
Three Easy Tips for Hyper-Personal Push Notifications, www.marketingprofs.com
Understanding smartphones as an influencing device, econsultancy.com
Yahoo News Digest Comes to Android Tablets, yahoo.tumblr.com
Reputation Management
Sears Spin-Off Turns to Customers to Improve Brand Reputation, www.cmswire.com
Social Media
Can a Facebook Page Replace a Small Business Website?, www.adweek.com
Save links for later on Pinterest, blog.pinterest.com
Social Media Automation Does Not Have to Suck, www.convinceandconvert.com
The Twitter Metrics Supporting Your Ad Campaign Analysis, www.socialbro.com
Twitter’s Answers Service Gets An Update To Provide Better App Performance Tracking, TechCrunch
Which Industries Have the Highest CPMs on Facebook in Australia?, www.emarketer.com
Video
Airbnb vs. Uber: Which Brand Engages the Most Video Viewers?, www.reelseo.com
AOL embraces the skippable video ad, digiday.com
Meerkat Just Unveiled a GoPro Livestreaming Feature That Seems Awesome, www.adweek.com
Twitch is ditching Flash for HTML5, just like YouTube, VentureBeat
YouTube On Android Now Shows Vertical Videos Properly In Full Screen, www.androidpolice.com
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