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: When should advertisers consider pausing Google Local Inventory Ads?Feb 6, 2017 by Andy Taylor Retailers that sell online and in-store need to balance where to send users in their paid search…
In response to the growing popularity of searches with local intent, Google released Local Inventory Ads (LIA) a few years ago as a variation of Product Listing Ads (PLA) that include information on when a product is available at a nearby store location. Taking into account the local intent of each search query in determining…
The virtual realm is uncharted territory for many designers. In the last few years, we’ve witnessed an explosion in virtual reality (VR) hardware and applications. VR experiences range from the mundane to the wondrous, their complexity and utility varying greatly. Taking your first steps into VR as a UX or UI designer can be daunting….
During this year’s Super Bowl, some advertisers had something more substantive to say than “Buy this product.” Instead of shying away from the country’s politically charged zeitgeist, brands like 84 Lumber, Anheuser-Busch and Audi aired commercials that seized on it. Building supply company 84 Lumber produced a 90-second spot titled “The Journey Begins” that chronicled…
Hashtags were in 30% of Super Bowl 51 ads, down significantly from 45% last year. More ads used URLs than hashtags for the first time since Marketing Land has measured them, 41% in all. Twitter barely beat Facebook and Instagram as the most-mentioned social network, though neither was explicitly mentioned often. The statistics are from…
Wow, what a game! Big thanks to our insightful guests, to my colleagues and to everyone who joined us for the big game and the big ads! Check out the full write-up of our tally of social media and other online calls-to-action and stay tuned to Marketing Land in the coming days. We’ll have many…
We’re just hours away from our biggest event of the year: Marketing Land’s sixth annual #Hashtag Bowl — our look at how advertisers integrate social media and online marketing into their Super Bowl TV commercials. Our coverage kicks off at 6:00 PM ET with a live blog where industry luminaries Kerry Curran of Catalyst/GroupM, James…
A year after Amazon’s Echo starred in a Super Bowl commercial, Google Home gets its turn in the spotlight with a 60-second ad that will air Sunday during this year’s Super Bowl. It’s not Google’s first Super Bowl ad; that happened all the way back in 2010 when Google ran the well-received Parisian Love ad….
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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: FTC issues report and guidelines on cross-device trackingFeb 3, 2017 by Greg Sterling Transparency, consumer choice, data sensitivity and security are the four principles that companies must respect. Amazon Prime now…
