In mid-November, pre-empting the hellish holiday shopping season, Google unveiled a slew of new features designed to help advertisers maximize their AdWords budgets. While promotion extensions and ad variations are neat and all, the thing I’m most stoked about is the new custom intent audiences feature on Google Display Network (GDN). If you haven’t checked…
If, like me, you spend most of your days working on content-driven websites, you can feel left out of the cool kid’s party. Best practice like Agile, continual iteration, and user feedback don’t sit quite as well when serving up lots of information, rather than a killer web app. When I talk about a content-driven…
Are your AdWords campaigns working… like, really working? That might be a surprisingly hard question to answer. Anybody with an AdWords account can see if they’re getting clicks, and it’s not too hard to set up conversion tracking — but chances are that the reason you put money into AdWords was that you wanted 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: Which PPC metrics matter? Lessons from half a million keywordsDec 8, 2017 by Jacob Baadsgaard Columnist Jacob Baadsgaard shares insights from a study looking into how various paid search metrics correlate…
What do the makers of the most successful products in the world, whether digital or physical, have in common? I bet they put design and user experience at the center of everything they do. These companies recognize that the smallest detail can make or break a product. The best design ideas, though, are made not…
A week after Snapchat said that it was separating the social and media sides of its service, Instagram is making a similar move. Instagram is testing a standalone app for its private messaging feature, the Facebook-owned photo-and-video platform announced on Thursday. Called Direct, the app is being tested in six non-US countries — Chile, Israel,…
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: Instagram’s standalone Direct app can be its version of Snapchat’s new friends-only tabDec 7, 2017 by Tim Peterson Instagram’s Direct app will give people a dedicated space for their friends, similar…
Six months after launching the YouTube Director app, Google has shuttered the video ad-creation tool designed for SMBs. The following message was posted on the YouTube Director Help page: The YouTube Director for Business iOS app will no longer be available as of December 1, 2017. After that date, you’ll no longer be able to…
Even as it has hit several brand safety bumps over the past year, YouTube is poised to raise prices on premium ad inventory in the coming year. Business Insider reported this week that the video platform will increase ad rates on reserved inventory by as much as 20 percent in 2018. That’s the premium inventory…
The world is a stressful place. That’s probably why if you search for articles about dealing with stress you’ll find lots of great advice. But the problem is that most of it is pretty generic. Eat good food. Exercise. Get plenty of sleep. Those are all good general tips — but is there anything more…
