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:
Twitter’s Promoted Moments Will Get Its First Test Sunday Oct 23, 2015 by Martin Beck New native ad product will launch first with a Moment featuring “Creed,” a reboot of the Rocky movie franchise.
Retailers: How To Engage Mobile Holiday Shoppers This Year Oct 23, 2015 by Allan Haims Many retailers are still not taking advantage of the power of mobile to increase in-store sales; columnist Allan Haims explains why and how they should.
Why The MQL Is A Shackle Oct 23, 2015 by Claudine Bianchi Do you really need to measure marketing qualified leads? Columnist Claudine Bianchi doesn’t think so; she explains why MQLs might be holding you back.
A CMO’s View: Xerox CMO Shares Strategy Behind Re-Branding One Of The World’s Top Brands Oct 23, 2015 by Amy Gesenhues Charged with the launch of Xerox’s “Work Can Work Better” campaign, CMO John Kennedy shares what he’s learned and what he hopes to achieve.
Using Tech To Boost Content Marketing ROI: Dispatch From MarTech Europe Oct 23, 2015 by Ian Cleary At the MarTech conference in London, Columnist Ian Cleary summarizes a talk by Smart Insights’ Dave Chaffey on choosing the right measurements and tools for proving the value of content.
Google’s New Shopping Insights Tool Shows Retailers Product Search Intent At The Local Level Oct 23, 2015 by Ginny Marvin The data visualization tool shows search data on more than 5,000 products in US cities.
Human Intuition Vs. Marketing Data: Forging A New Alliance Oct 23, 2015 by Joshua Reynolds Human intuition and data don’t need to be at odds with one another. Columnist Joshua Reynolds explains why the most effective marketing analytics solutions make use of both mind and machine.
Amazon Reports Strong Q3 Earnings: AWS Income Closes In On North America Retail Business Oct 22, 2015 by Ginny Marvin The e-commerce giant beat analyst expectations in large part due to its thriving cloud services business.
Microsoft Q1 2016 Earnings Report: Revenue Down 12% YoY At $20.4 Billion Oct 22, 2015 by Amy Gesenhues CEO Satya Nadella remains positive, says customer excitement for new devices is increasing.
Alphabet (Google) Q3 Beats With $18.7 Billion, Mobile Search Revenues “Strong” Oct 22, 2015 by Greg Sterling Google announced revenues $18.7 billion, which represented 13 percent year over year growth vs. $16.5 billion a year ago. Revenues beat financial analyst consensus estimates of $18.54 billion. Google shares jumped in after-hours trading. Total advertising revenues were roughly $16.8 billion.
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 Auto-Post To Social Networks From WordPress, www.searchenginepeople.com
Business Issues
Content Marketing
4 Ways to Give Your Content a Boost, blog.marketo.com
If you want B2B Content to be Great, Ask Your Community to Participate!, www.toprankblog.com
The One Brief Statement That Will Refine Your Content Marketing, contentmarketinginstitute.com
Conversion Optimization
5 Landing Page Design Lessons We Learned From Analyzing a Ton of Data, www.usertesting.com
7 Ways to Snip the Spring Out of Your Website Bounce Rate, blog.crazyegg.com
Are You Offering Too Many Choices?, www.convinceandconvert.com
Your About Page Is A Conversion Gold Mine, klientboost.com
Display & Contextual Advertising
How Programmatic Display Can Give Your Clients A Boost, www.ppchero.com
Domaining
Three new ICANN directors started today, domainincite.com
E-Commerce
3 Resources to Help You Achieve Digital Commerce Success, www.copyblogger.com
Are Consumers Spooked this Halloween?, www.emarketer.com
Promo Codes: Discounts vs. Benefits, for Ecommerce, www.practicalecommerce.com
Why personalisation is the key to gaining customer loyalty, econsultancy.com
Email Marketing
How Email Tracking Can Introduce New Opportunities for Your Business, blogs.constantcontact.com
How to Ditch Your Boring Out of Office Message, www.convinceandconvert.com
General Internet Marketing
8 Guiding Principles for Today’s Product Marketer, www.convinceandconvert.com
Five ways to identify potential brand champions, econsultancy.com
Marketers Won’t Get Transparency From Partners Unless They Demand It, adexchanger.com
Prioritizing Among the Pressure: A CMO’s Guide, www.adweek.com
Stalking, Espionage, and More: The Guide to a Successful B2B Marketing Campaign, www.searchinfluence.com
The 5 Steps to Influencer Marketing in 2015, www.ducttapemarketing.com
Internet Marketing Industry
IBM Launches Data Exchange to Empower Marketers to Engage Customers in the Moment, www.marketwatch.com
MarTech
Budgets Hold Back Marketing Technology Investment, www.emarketer.com
Mobile/Local Marketing
70% of millennial women want push notifications for an immediate-use offer, www.mobilecommercedaily.com
Challenging misconceptions in location data science, www.mobilecommercedaily.com
Differentiating With Wearable Tech, www.cmswire.com
Facebook fixes iOS battery drain issue, tells everyone it’s sorry, digiday.com
Instagram and Pinterest Dominate Mobile Traffic, www.adweek.com
It’s Getting Harder And Harder For Mobile Ad Companies To Woo Developers, adexchanger.com
Social Media
Buffer Lost HALF Its Social Media Traffic This Year! But What Does It Mean?, www.wordstream.com
Facebook Touts Performance of Facebook Audience Network, www.adweek.com
How to Sync Facebook Lead Ad Contacts With Your CRM, www.jonloomer.com
Reaching Mass Audiences with Marquee, blog.business.instagram.com
So You Want To Do Facebook Advertising?, www.clicknewz.com
The Complete Guide to Twitter Polls, blog.bufferapp.com
US Mothers’ Likes and Dislikes on Social Media, www.emarketer.com
What Facebook’s major search update means for marketers, econsultancy.com
Video
ESPN videos go dark on YouTube, digiday.com
How to Plan Your YouTube Marketing Success, www.socialmediaexaminer.com
Mail Online turns to vertical video for growth, digiday.com
Sizmek Launches “The Sizmek Index Platform” to Boost the Adoption of Video Advertising, www.martechadvisor.com
YouTube Red: A Step In the Right Direction for Online Video, www.reelseo.com
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