We talk a lot about progressive enhancement and how it improves backwards compatibility. But how straightforward is it to apply progressive enhancement concepts to a real-life project? When designing a rich interactive experience, it can be difficult to determine what can be implemented purely using HTML and CSS and what absolutely requires JavaScript. Through this…
In June, Salesforce announced it was buying e-commerce platform Demandware and creating a Commerce Cloud. Today, the marketing/sales tech giant launched the new cloud, which already has 1800 commerce sites spread out over more than four dozen countries, including Adidas, Lands’ End, and Pandora. Interestingly, the platform is built for physical stores as well as…
Back in March 2016, you might remember Facebook announcing that 3 million businesses actively advertise on its social network. Well, now that number is 4 million. That’s 1 million advertisers added in less than seven months. For comparison Facebook’s main current rival in the social advertising space, Twitter, claimed more than 130,000 advertisers in the…
Snap Inc.’s freshly unveiled video-recording glasses, Spectacles, are like a pair of bifocals for the future of the company that owns but is no longer limited to Snapchat. The face-cameras appear to bring into focus how Snap Inc. is preparing for the future while also trying to secure its present opportunity. Future-wise, it’s easy enough…
Soon advertisers will be able to reach users across devices with Google remarketing campaigns. This is a significant development as Google has not previously supported cross-device retargeting. For example, currently, if a user comes to an advertiser’s site on a mobile phone, the advertiser is not able to retarget that user later on a desktop,…
With the tools getting more user-friendly and affordable, virtual reality (VR) development is easier to get involved in than ever before. Our team at Clearbridge Mobile recently jumped on the opportunity to develop immersive VR content for the Samsung Gear VR, using Samsung’s 360 camera. The result is ClearVR, a mobile application demo that enables…
After a nearly two-year wait, Google’s Penguin algorithm has finally been updated again. It’s the fourth major release, making this Penguin 4.0. It’s also the last release of this type, as Google now says Penguin is a real-time signal processed within its core search algorithm. Penguin goes real-time Penguin is a filter designed to capture…
B2B intent data provider Bombora is today making its account-based surge data available directly through a self-service dashboard. Bombora collects data showing when employees of Company X have viewed web pages about, say, routers, or downloaded white papers on the topic. A firm that makes routers, for example, might want to get a list of…
If you have been relying heavily on Facebook’s average duration of video viewed metric, you’ve likely been using some inaccurate stats. Facebook has officially announced that the metric has bee over-reported due to a miscalculation. Along with the announcement came an apology for the misinformation from David Fisher, VP of Advertising & Global operations at…
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: Facebook acknowledges discrepancy that had overstated a video view metricSep 23, 2016 by Greg Finn A miscalculation in the “average duration of video viewed” has overstated the overall video performance (within…
