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: SEO is not dead; it’s just a shape-shifterOct 20, 2016 by Stephan Spencer Columnist Stephan Spencer talks about how search engine optimization has changed over the years, noting that it’s still…
This afternoon, Microsoft announced better-than-expected revenue of $22.3 billion, beating financial analysts’ consensus estimates, which came in just under $22 billion. Earnings per share were also higher than expected at $0.76. Net income was $6.0 billion. Microsoft stock is up in after-hours trading. Revenue rose in most of Microsoft’s business units, including its all-important Intelligent…
As people working in front of a screen all day, we often struggle to find the right balance. I’m not talking about work-life balance alone here, but of how our life that is completely virtual during the day often causes us to not take real life into account. We tend to forget that our bodies…
Google has announced big changes to its four-year-old Google Consumer Surveys product. It’s essentially splitting the tool in two: a new version specifically for enterprise-level marketers that’s integrated into the Analytics 360 Suite, and the existing consumer-level survey tool that’s been renamed and moved under the Google Analytics umbrella. Google is also promising changes in…
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 Surveys 360 joins the Analytics 360 SuiteOct 19, 2016 by Matt McGee New enterprise-level survey product sits alongside newly renamed Google Surveys, the pay-as-you-go product available to all. How Trump…
It’s time to break away from trusting expert opinions on shopper behavior and start trusting the machines. By building a unified profile of your customers’ behavior across all channels, you can create truly personalized shopping experiences. Engage your customers on their terms, rather than forcing them into a funnel. In “Trusting the Machine: Data Science…
rvlsoft / Shutterstock.com With marketers having already much on their hands, sourcing content doesn’t necessarily have to be one of them. Pinterest understands that looking for top notch graphical content can be time consuming and arduous, so they’ve announced the launch of the Pin Collective. The Pin Collective is aimed at businesses to connect with…
Icons are an essential part of many user interfaces, visually expressing objects, actions and ideas. When done correctly, they communicate the core idea and intent of a product or action, and they bring a lot of nice benefits to user interfaces, such as saving screen real estate and enhancing aesthetic appeal. Last but not least,…
Various studies appear to show that people don’t like interstitial ads. Google wants to ban most interstitials following a search click. And a recent “neuroscience” study from MediaBrix and Neurons Inc. comes to a similar conclusion. The companies used eye-tracking and other biometric techniques to test various in-app mobile video ad units for user engagement…
For most advertisers, the process for placing bids has remained largely the same for the last 15 years. It is a complex, massively time- and data-intensive chore that can exceed the capabilities of human marketing teams. This makes search bidding a perfect candidate for big data analytics and high-frequency bid automation — or Predictive Search…
