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:
Here’s Where The World’s Largest Media Buyer Spends Its Money WPP’s GroupM spends $76 billion a year on media. All but one of the top recipients of that investment are digital media companies.
The Brand’s CMO, Its CFO And An Agency Shill Walk Into A Bar… On this Friday, we’ll listen in on a conversation that could occur while a couple of C-level execs, along with their agency rep, enjoy a few drinks at happy hour one evening.
Native Ads: Effective, But Are They Accepted By Consumers? Marketers have enthusiastically embraced “native advertising,” and there’s an emerging body of evidence supporting the proposition that it’s more effective than traditional display. The latest addition to that corpus comes in the form of a report just published by the MMA.
Measuring Accessibility In The User Experience (UX) And The Searcher Experience Accessibility in the user experience isn’t just about humans — it’s also about technology, says columnist Shari Thurow. She explains how she measures accessibility and offers some tips on developing an accessible website.
The Pros And Cons Of Responsive Design When you’re developing your web site and landing page strategy, there are three well-traveled mobile-friendly routes. Columnist Abraham Nord explains each of the approaches and details the potential consequences of following them.
Retail Marketing Strategies: Connecting The Dots As more shoppers turn to their smartphones to do product research, retailers need an all-inclusive mobile marketing strategy to reach consumers at just the right time, says columnist Allan Haims.
Instagram Moves Beyond The Square & A Few Brands Test The Waters The visual social network enables posting in both portrait and landscape orientation, good news for marketers who use the same creative content across multiple platforms.
Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Analytics
Three Ways It Pays for Marketers to Be More Data-Driven, www.marketingprofs.com
Blogs & Blogging
New Study Reveals the Lifetime Value of a Blog Post, www.convinceandconvert.com
Business Issues
Google boss warns against television repeating mistakes of press, www.theguardian.com
Google’s Secret Strategy To Recruit Engineers, www.fastcompany.com
Obama Administration teams with Apple, HP, Boeing on new wearable tech hub in Silicon Valley, venturebeat.com
Content Marketing
3 Resources to Help You Create Remarkable Visual Content, www.copyblogger.com
How to Create Content That Drives Organic Traffic, blog.kissmetrics.com
Is personalized content a marketer’s dream?, www.retaildive.com
Oops! Are You Applying The Right Advice To The WRONG Headlines?, blog.crazyegg.com
Personalize Your Messages with Mindset Segmentation, www.searchenginejournal.com
Time Puts Branded and Editorial Content Creation Under One Roof, www.adweek.com
Why You Need Content Strategy Before Editorial Planning, contentmarketinginstitute.com
Copywriting, Design & Usability
4 Content Writing Mistakes Small Businesses Make, smallbiztrends.com
E-Commerce
Amazon Curtails Development of Consumer Devices, www.wsj.com
Digital River and Mirum Join Hands for Enhancing Brand Experience Across Ecomm Channnels, www.martechadvisor.com
In New Amazon Prime Program, Not All Goods Ship for Free, blogs.wsj.com
Email Marketing
Fast email response time earns L.L. Bean high marks, www.internetretailer.com
Q&A: Answers to Your Email Measurement & ROI Questions, blog.returnpath.com
General Internet Marketing
Programmatic Advertising 101: How it Works, www.seerinteractive.com
Truth In Advertising, Winning Markets With Honesty, www.aimclearblog.com
Ad Blockers: What do they mean for publishers, advertisers, and consumers?, www.tune.com
Traditional vs. digital advertising: what’s changed and what hasn’t?, econsultancy.com
Internet Marketing Industry
Marketing is a (Buyer) Journey, Not a Destination, thecmoclub.com
MarTech
4 Creative Uses of Marketing Automation, www.searchenginepeople.com
Can witty martech wisdom fit into 140 characters?, chiefmartec.com
MarTech Convergence? Start with the Content, www.cmswire.com
Understanding the strategy behind mergers and acquisitions within the ad-tech sector, econsultancy.com
Mobile/Local Marketing
Content Blocking In iOS 9: Where Some See Doom, Others See Opportunity, adexchanger.com
Everything You Need To Know About iOS 9’s New Content Blockers, techcrunch.com
How Beacons Benefit Your Customers (and You), www.marketingprofs.com
How We Designed And Built Our First Apple Watch App, www.smashingmagazine.com
Mobile, Millennials, and Health, advertising.yahoo.com
Social Media
Facebook Business Manager: Common Issues Explained, www.jonloomer.com
Facebook must obey German law even if free speech curtailed: minister, www.reuters.com
Facebook Web Photo Uploader Adds Features That Were Mobile-Only, www.adweek.com
Instagram Contest Guide: How To Make Your Campaign A Success, blog.tailwindapp.com
LinkedIn Buys Predictive Analytics Firm Fliptop to Gear Up its Sales Solutions, www.martechadvisor.com
The traffic LinkedIn drives to publishers has dropped 44 percent this year, digiday.com
Understanding Your LinkedIn Company Page Analytics, www.verticalresponse.com
We’re committing to a more diverse Twitter, www.twitter.com
What Instagram’s New Formats May Mean for Marketers, adage.com
Video
How to Launch Your Local Video Content Strategy, localu.org
MTV Is Making Branded Periscopes for Taco Bell During This Weekend’s VMA Show, www.adweek.com
Music on Vine, blog.vine.co
Snapchat charges brands for video views after zero seconds, digiday.com
YouTube as you know it is about to change dramatically, www.theverge.com
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