With less than two weeks to go before Super Bowl LI’s kickoff, brands are gearing up to take the field in hopes their campaigns will have a lasting effect that will help them reach their advertising goals throughout the rest of 2017. One of the first brands out of the gate was Intel, releasing its…
New complaints about Google’s ad-targeting capabilities may compound the company’s existing legal challenges in Europe. According to an article in The Wall Street Journal, Oracle is lobbying EU regulators to add more fuel to the existing antitrust fires Google is trying to extinguish. According to the report: A Google rival has laid out concerns to…
Email is always evolving, so marketers’ email marketing programs must always be changing as well to ensure that they’re still relevant to consumers and that they create great subscriber experiences. With that in mind, here are seven relatively easy wins to consider adding to your email marketing to-do list this year: 1. Use more retina-optimized…
Email is one of the best ways to engage with your users, especially during the holiday season. However, if you want to stand out, no matter how beautiful your emails are, you need to make sure they render correctly in your reader’s inbox, regardless of what email client they’re using. Creating responsive email is not…
Investment research firm Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) has estimated that there are now 8.2 million US homes with Amazon Echo/Alexa devices. Independently, voice analytics company VoiceLabs asserts that Google has sold somewhere between 400,000 and 500,000 Home devices since launch. Not counting Siri, Cortana and the Google Assistant on smartphones, Echo and Home together…
Yahoo released fourth quarter and full year earnings this afternoon, beating analyst expectations. The company announced $1.47 billion in Q4 revenue and $5.2 billion for the full-year. The company also said that the Verizon deal, which was supposed to close in the first quarter, will now close in the second quarter: Yahoo has continued to…
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: Google AMP carousels are multiplying!Jan 23, 2017 by Barb Palser Columnist Barb Palser says the growing number of single-source AMP carousels in Google search sweetens the deal for AMP-enabled publishers. 5…
In case you missed it, Google has launched a new type of AMP rich card carousel in mobile search results — in addition to the Top Stories carousel we’re used to seeing. The new AMP carousels appear in the main mobile results list, showcasing related articles from a single publisher. They started appearing at the…
Will the resources spent implementing app indexing for Google search be a boon or a bust for your app’s traffic? In this article, I’ll take you through a case study for app indexing at our company, the results of which may surprise you. App indexing is one of the hottest topics in SEO right now,…
Recently Facebook has taken considerable criticism (including from me) for being a conduit for fake news during the past election cycle. The quasi-utopian fantasy that Facebook was making the world “more open and connected” was shattered by the political echo-chamber effect, pizzagate and a few horrific live-streaming incidents. Yet the Women’s March in Washington DC…
