BuzzFeed Tasty remains the most popular video creator this year, earning 1.9 billion video views across YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and Vine in May. This is the fifth month in a row the food-focused video creator has earned the top spot on Tubular Lab’s most-watched video creators monthly top 10 list. In addition to its nearly…
PebblePost is dedicated to remaking snail mail into personalized marketing. Since October of last year, the New York City-based company has offered what it describes as the “first programmatic direct mail platform.” It allows user behavior on desktop and mobile websites to trigger the creation and mailing of personalized physical color mail. So, a person…
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: PebblePost’s updated platform makes direct mail more like digital adsJun 22, 2016 by Barry Levine Instead of the previous limited triggering, marketers can now set unlimited behavioral and rule-based triggers to…
Ad network InMobi has agreed to pay nearly $1 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it deceived consumers and tracked their locations without knowledge and consent. In its complaint for civil damages and a permanent injunction (below), the FTC alleged that even if consumers had denied the location services request of one of…
In the tech industry, many of us came of age during hip-hop’s rise as a dominant art form. Its spirit of individualism, bravado, and constant reinvention makes it impossible for us not to admire. Our thought leaders craft mixtapes and pour millions of dollars into apps that decode rap lyrics. The founders of my former…
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: 6 great takeaways from the Brands Talk Social Media #SocialPro keynoteJun 21, 2016 by Matt McGee Social media strategists from HTC, Microsoft, Docusign and Pabst Brewing talk about when it’s right…
Google Analytics announced that they’ve added hacked spam notifications to their alerts bar. These alerts are similar to the same messages you’d received in the Google Search Console message center, but by Google adding them to Google Analytics, it helps inform a wider webmaster base – since Google Analytics has a higher install base. Google…
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Facebook Live is paying publishers and celebrities to help promote Facebook Live. The Wall Street Journal recently reviewed a document indicating that Facebook has signed more than 140 contracts for over $50 million. Seventeen of these amount to over $1 million. No statement has been made from anyone at Facebook regarding the nature of the…
Task runners are the heroes (or villains, depending on your point of view) that quietly toil behind most web and mobile applications. Task runners provide value through the automation of numerous development tasks such as concatenating files, spinning up development servers and compiling code. In this article, we’ll cover Grunt, Gulp, Webpack and npm scripts….
