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:
A Sporting July Helps BBC Remain Top Publisher On Twitter [Report] Fueled by Wimbledon, England’s success in the women’s World Cup and a deep well of content, BBC stories receive nearly 4 million tweets, one million more than runner-up The New York Times.
Report: Billions In Local “Co-Op Advertising” Funds Left Unspent Annually Ask digital agencies and marketers about “co-op advertising” and many of them have only a vague idea of what that is.
Google May Be Bringing Twitter To Desktop Search Results Twitter integration into Google’s desktop search is spotted in the UK. Up to now, it was only on mobile and in the US.
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Global Mobile Ad Revenue Up 64%; Mobile Display Ads Top Search First Time Ever [Report] Global revenue for mobile display, search and messaging ads climbed to $31.9 billion in 2014.
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Follow The Leader: How Starbucks Is Dominating Mobile Commerce Looking to step up your mobile strategy? Columnist Aaron Strout explains why you could learn a few things from Starbucks.
Why Google, Bing, Facebook, Twitter & Others Should Collaborate: A Proposition For An Online Reputation Issues Clearinghouse Columnist Chris Silver Smith explains why collaboration among internet companies is key as online reputation attacks proliferate and the costs involved in fighting them surge.
New From Buffer: The Ability To Post & Schedule Native Video On Facebook & Twitter Buffer’s feature also enables posting video to Google+ pages and links to video on LinkedIn and Pinterest.
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Headway Digital Launches NativeWay, Its New Native Ads Tool Suite New platform combines native display, video and mobile advertising solutions via programmatic buying.
XpressBuy Announces Integration With Four New E-Commerce Platforms Company says new relationships mean its buy buttons are now available to 30 percent of the top 500 online retailers.
Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:
Google Maps Plus Codes Now Searchable, Making Hard-To-Find Places Easier To Locate
Is Google Experimenting With Bringing Twitter Into Desktop Search Results?
Google Asks Europe For More Time To Respond To Antitrust Charges
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SMB Mobile Websites Saw 11 Percent Page View Gain After Mobile-Friendly Update
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Analytics
Clicks, Conversions and High-Fives: 3 Tips to Focus and Refine Your Marketing Measurements, www.silverpop.com
Viewability: A Terrible Metric, adexchanger.com
Blogs & Blogging
20 Tips for Better Business Blogging: How to Use Blogging to Generate Leads, www.problogger.net
5 Expert Promotion Tips to Rock Your Blog, seocopywriting.com
Study Uncovers a Blog Post’s Lifetime Value, corp.izea.com
Business Issues
Google is testing drones in US airspace by piggybacking on Nasa exemption, www.theguardian.com
Martha Nelson Joins Yahoo as Global Editor-in-Chief, yahoo.tumblr.com
Tinder’s Sean Rad Returns as CEO Ahead of IPO, blogs.wsj.com
Content Marketing
5 Content Marketing Problems That Keep Me Up at Night, contently.com
Buzzstarter Grabs Attention For Organic Content With Paid Distribution, adexchanger.com
Content Marketing Tips You Might Not Be Using Yet, www.searchenginejournal.com
Generate Leads with These 7 Content Marketing Campaigns, unbounce.com
How the Gamecocks use dynamic content to rally fans and boost ticket sales, myemma.com
How to Make Content Marketing Work With an Agile Team, contentmarketinginstitute.com
How to Use Periscope with Your Content Marketing, www.verticalmeasures.com
Marketing Storytellers Eye Visual Content, www.emarketer.com
The Content Marketing Pyramid: How to Generate More with Less, www.curata.com
Three Tools to Help You Generate Killer Content Ideas, www.marketingprofs.com
What Bill Gates Predicted About Content Marketing, www.convinceandconvert.com
Conversion Optimization
29 Experts Share Their CRO Wisdom, blog.crazyegg.com
3 Landing Page Mistakes Guaranteed to Kill Your Conversion Rate, www.marketingwords.com
B2B Lead Nurture Campaigns Improve Personalization, Targeting, www.emarketer.com
Copywriting, Design & Usability
Are You Losing Sales Because of Boring Copy?, www.marketingprofs.com
Follow the Lead of 7 Iconic Switches for Successful Logo Changes, smallbiztrends.com
Domaining
Alphabet website traffic soars after Google announcement… but it’s owned by BMW, www.telegraph.co.uk
Another New gTLD For Google: Buys/Registered Premium Domain ABC.Global, www.thedomains.com
Daniel Negari Talks .XYZ on Bloomberg, www.domaininvesting.com
E-Commerce
5 Reasons Shopify Rocks for SMB e-Commerce, www.clixmarketing.com
Analysts cut Alibaba share price targets as China e-commerce growth slows, www.reuters.com
Digital transformation: seven important steps for retailers, econsultancy.com
Retailers have room to improve their online cart completion messages, www.internetretailer.com
The Next Generation of Commerce, blog.acquitygroup.com
Email Marketing
Email Marketers Move to Cross-Channel, Real-Time Communication, www.emarketer.com
How Boden Increased Revenue by 2000% with Email Personalisation, blog.movableink.com
How to Improve Email Click-through Rates, www.compukol.com
Improve Your Email Click-Through Rate With These 14 Simple Tweaks, blog.kissmetrics.com
The Art & Science of Proving Email ROI, blog.returnpath.com
General Internet Marketing
Four Marketing Lessons I Learned From Working as a Line Cook, www.marketingprofs.com
How Small Businesses Can Dominate Digital, www.koozai.com
Marketing Lessons Via Savvy San Fran Chocolatier, www.aimclearblog.com
Working in B2B Marketing is Boring, www.cmswire.com
Internet Marketing Industry
Former Gartner Retail Analyst Kevin Sterneckert Joins Predictix, www.businesswire.com
Is Your Marketing Strategy Effective? Free Marketing Optimization App From MarketShare Provides Answers, www.marketshare.com
MultiView Names Digital Media Veteran Yariv Drori Vice President of Programmatic Advertising Operations, www.marketwired.com
Sizmek Partners With Screen6 to Enhance Global Multiscreen Campaigns, globenewswire.com
Zealot Networks Acquires Allscreen, www.zealotnetworks.com
MarTech
How to Avoid Marketing Automation Disaster: 6 Essential Pre-Planning Steps, www.toprankblog.com
Marketing Automation Is Changing Your Business, blog.marketo.com
MarTech Isn’t Converging, It’s Exploding, www.cmswire.com
Mobile/Local Marketing
6 Stats That Show Why Brands and Local Retailers Need to Modernize for Mobile Era, www.adweek.com
Continuity Is Key: 5 Tips for Syncing Up Your Multi-Location Franchise Marketing Strategy, www.searchinfluence.com
Global Mobile Advertising Revenue Hit $31.9 Billion in 2014, www.iab.net
How wearables hold potential for consumers and brands, www.mobilecommercedaily.com
Mobile accounts for more than half of all sales in China for Alibaba, www.internetretailer.com
Study: Local Advertisers Are Leaving Behind $14 Billion in Co-op Marketing Every Year, streetfightmag.com
Yahoo Livetext is Now Available Globally, yahoo.tumblr.com
Reputation Management
Preventing a Brand Image Meltdown With Online Reputation Management, www.searchrank.com
What is online reputation management and should you use it?, econsultancy.com
Social Media
Facebook Confirms Live Broadcasting Will Soon Open To Journalists And Verified Profiles, TechCrunch
15 Facebook Page Growth, Reach And Engagement Facts Of Summer, locowise.com
Consumers Value Social Media Presence – But Some Small Businesses Aren’t Buying In, www.adweek.com
Facebook dumped a Harvard intern after he exposed a privacy flaw, qz.com
Facebook’s Parse Open-Sources All Of Its SDKs, techcrunch.com
How Google May Use Google+ to Improve Reviews of Goods and Services, www.seobythesea.com
How To Monitor Employee Posts on Social & Why You Must, www.adweek.com
How to Optimize Your Facebook Posts With Facebook Audience Insights, www.socialmediaexaminer.com
How to Use Twitter for Remarketing, www.practicalecommerce.com
Inside Taco Bell’s Snapchat strategy, digiday.com
Launching inline actions for Tweet embeds within Twitter Kit, Twitter Blog
SEC Social Media Fan Experience: The LSU Tigers and Miss State Bulldogs, mackcollier.com
Social ad budgets should be moved over to media teams, www.mobilecommercedaily.com
Social Insights on Television Networks, www.brandwatch.com
The Story Behind Twitter Sensation Nihilist Arby’s That Every Marketer Should Read, www.adweek.com
Why Content Marketing Hubs Need Social Media Spokes, www.convinceandconvert.com
Why Social Should Have a Bigger Role in Your Next Digital Campaign, simplymeasured.com
Video
MCNs: Looking Beyond YouTube for New Opportunities, www.reelseo.com
The 3 Hidden Dangers For Marketing Teams Using Photos and Videos, librisblog.photoshelter.com
The Top 10 Online Video Sites and YouTube Channels, www.marketingprofs.com
Vertical Video Is Finally Legitimate, and Now Creatives Need to Rethink Everything, www.adweek.com
Videos on the Rise for Mobile Game Advertisers, developers.facebook.com
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