It used to be that if you were doing online video, you were doing YouTube and probably nothing else. Today, YouTube is still an enormously popular outlet for video marketers, but it’s no longer the only one around. Facebook is regularly touting the growth of video watching among its users, and the company has launched…
Neirfy / Shutterstock.com Facebook owns Instagram. In case you forgot that, Instagram is becoming increasingly more like Facebook. It’s started selling ads the same way as Facebook does. It’s going to start testing an algorithmic feed just like Facebook’s. And now it’s started testing business profiles that are similar to Facebook’s Pages. A couple months…
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 will bring its logged-out ads to the mobile web in Q2May 4, 2016 by Tim Peterson With brands paying ‘nearly’ as much for clicks on ads shown to logged-out users…
Twitter’s ready to start making money from more of its logged-out audience. Sometime during the second quarter of 2016, Twitter plans to start showing ads to people who visit its mobile site without logging into a Twitter account. The social network — ahem, news company — disclosed its plan in a regulatory filing released on…
SEO outsourcing is a common practice in digital marketing, as it enables us to accomplish cumbersome or repetitive tasks that we might not otherwise have time for. It also gives access to expertise that a company may not have in-house, which is great for tackling complicated, specialist or technical tasks. At BrightLocal, we wanted to…
By 2019, it is predicted that content marketing will become a $300 billion industry. However, this content will have limited value unless it is actually found by the right audience, optimized to achieve maximum impact and measured in relation to business results. Ensuring your content is search-engine-friendly and optimized across the buyer’s journey is critical…
A visualization in EverString of a lookalike predictive segment. EverString is becoming more self-service. The San Mateo, California-based predictive marketing provider has announced the next generation of its Decision Platform, now called the Audience Platform. Its main new feature: the ability for users to upload, say, a list of 20 company accounts that have been…
“Oops, I didn’t catch that.” That’s a rough spot in any conversation, but it’s really rough when that conversation is with a computer. With a person, you can respond by asking what part they didn’t catch, and they should be able to tell you. With a bot, not so much. I ran into that problem…
With more than 500 Google algorithm updates made on average each year, how can a site owner build an SEO strategy that stands the test of time? Defining your site’s purpose and mapping out the objectives you are trying to achieve is the key to not just ranking, but creating an SEO strategy that produces…
For those who thought privacy might recede as an issue with the new pact hammered out between the US and the EU, recent news from Europe signaled something of a setback. Privacy regulators among EU member states say they want stricter rules than those contained in the EU–US Privacy Shield, the agreement intended to allow…
