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: National Brands & Local Search: Use Insights to Drive ActionsApr 11, 2017 by Digital Marketing Depot National brands with hundreds – if not thousands – of locations face a daunting challenge….
MarTech is different in a couple of key ways that make it a must-attend experience for marketing leaders. MarTech is independent and not owned by a vendor. We don’t have axes to grind (or sales targets to meet) when it comes to any technology or platform. Speakers are selected based on their professional chops to…
Twitter is ramping up the revenue options for its live-streaming app, Periscope. A couple of weeks after inserting ads before some Periscope videos, Twitter is introducing an ad format that can appear atop a live or recorded Periscope broadcast, the company announced on Monday. Called Custom Hearts, the new ad format takes the standard hearts…
New York-based Taykey, the company that enables ad targeting based on real-time social trend data, announced its first integrations with third-party media buying platforms on Tuesday. Taykey says its data helps brands reach their target audiences while avoiding the pitfalls of fake news and inappropriate content that have recently ensared Google and YouTube’s ad networks….
Google has dominated consumer search for nearly 20 years. While this dominance continues today, there is one area of search where it is losing share rapidly: retail product search. Historically, it’s been one of Google’s biggest moneymakers, with retail search accounting for at least 25 percent of total search revenues. A recent study by BloomReach…
The landscape for the performance-minded developer has changed significantly in the last year or so, with the emergence of HTTP/2 being perhaps the most significant of all. No longer is HTTP/2 a feature we pine for. It has arrived, and with it comes server push! Aside from solving common HTTP/1 performance problems (e.g., head of…
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: Take the MarTech survey: Is marketing art or science?Apr 7, 2017 by Marketing Land The phrase “art and science” of marketing gets thrown around a lot. But what does it really…
One of the issues plaguing Facebook Ads’ system over the years has been the struggle associated with mining data and insight from the platform. Facebook has continued to enhance their system, launching an all-new Estimated Daily Results, along with upgrades to Delivery Insights. The changes not only aid in planning, but also shed light on…
There are at least 200 ranking factors in Google’s algorithm (not to mention RankBrain), which means a thorough SEO audit could lead to dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of SEO tasks. Few companies have the budget or resources to complete every potential SEO to-do item — and doing so would be an incredible waste of…
Marketing data is everywhere. With so many new consumer touchpoints – from chatbots, to in-store beacons and virtual assistants – the sheer variety and volume of data is exploding. Beyond your out-of-the box product dashboards, custom Excel spreadsheets, and basic data visualizations – are you really leveraging your data in meaningful ways? Isn’t it time…
