Mobile applications are now a critical part of most enterprises, and there are many ways to create them, but what are the differences between these options and how do you choose between them? Do you choose to create native applications as Google and Apple intend? Do you choose to develop a mobile web hybrid application?…
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: Does the IAB’s first ad-blocking study provide the “missing stat”?Jul 27, 2016 by Barry Levine The report offers some new insights into what it will take to keep people away from…
Facebook is growing the amount of money it makes per person using its service twice as fast as it’s getting new people to use its service — and it’s getting a lot of new people to use its service. Not only did Facebook grow its daily audience by 17% year-over-year in the second quarter to…
Tomorrow Tumblr will be releasing ads across its network of Tumblrs. The good news for publishers? They’ll be getting a slice of the pie. A post on ‘Staff’, the official Tumblr blog, the soon-to-be-Verizon-owned network announced that ads will be shown across the blog network. Another piece of good news is that publishers don’t have…
One topic dominated Facebook’s second-quarter earnings call on Wednesday. Not the company’s monster quarter. Not video. Not Facebook Live. Not Instagram. Not Pokemon Go (though almost). Ad load overtook ’em all. There were at least five questions about ad load asked during Facebook’s earnings call. That level of attention to an in-the-weeds metric would have…
The first question clients and stakeholders seek answers to with any digital product and/or service today — and rightly so — is how to establish an effective user experience. We, as designers, however, know that good design and a good user experience are rarely achieved by fixating on one discipline, but rather by adopting a…
Earlier this afternoon Apple reported its fiscal 2016 third quarter results. The company had quarterly revenue of $42.4 billion, which was down 15 percent year-over-year but beat financial analyst consensus estimates. Revenue a year ago was $49.6 billion. Gross margin was down year over year partly because of the apparent popularity of the lower-cost iPhone…
Small business mobile marketing platform flok is seeking to bring chatbots to the mass of local business owners. Today, the company launched chatbot integration with its consumer app, enabling enrolled local businesses to answer common customer questions and provide information via an automated assistant. The company refers to the new chatbot functionality as an “AI…
Released in March this year, Adobe Experience Design is a new all-in-one tool that lets you design and prototype websites and mobile apps. for websites and mobile apps. XD is still in beta and available for Mac with a Windows version on track for a release later in 2016. It is bound to provide a…
Measurement-savvy execs are about as important to a digital media company today as a three-point shooter is to an NBA team. So it’s a big deal that Pinterest has snagged Snapchat’s head of quantitative ads research, Gunnard Johnson, four months after the ad measurement vet had joined the white-hot messaging app. Pinterest has hired Johnson…
