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…
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 your paid search campaigns to the next levelOct 18, 2016 by Digital Marketing Depot For most advertisers, the process used to place bids has remained largely the same for the…
In what could be its next-to-last earnings release as an independent company, Yahoo posted better-than-expected results this afternoon. Total revenue came in at $1.305 billion, just beating consensus financial estimates of $1.30 billion. This comes amid some uncertainty about the status of the more than $4.8 billion acquisition of the company by Verizon. The widely…
Many apps today, such as Google Now, Spotify and Amazon, make assumptions about user preferences based on personal data. They may even use this information to make decisions on our behalf, without any direct input from us. For example, Facebook tailors your news feed and Amazon recommends products — both hiding “irrelevant” information and only…
We’re growing! Marketing Land has a new sibling with today’s launch of our new editorial website, MarTech Today. As you can gather, this new website is dedicated to covering the rapidly expanding world of marketing technology, or “martech,” as it’s commonly called. Marketing technology forms the foundation of most of what marketers do today, whether…
DialogTech has integrated with LiveRamp as part of a new call data and attribution offering for display ads. The product is intended to enable marketers to optimize their display campaigns to drive more calls and to identify audiences more likely to convert over the phone. Calls have documented importance in high-consideration categories like home services…
Where you are, what you buy, and your age. These are the kinds of attributes that digital marketers commonly employ for targeting. London-based Cambridge Analytica is adding an additional layer: psychology. With U.S. offices in New York City and Washington, D.C., the company is now redirecting its psychological targeting from national security and political clients…
