Years ago, a kid was trying to fashion a bow by cutting a twig with a knife. Upon seeing this struggle, his grandfather handed him a saw, saying, “Always use the right tool for the job!” As the kid in the story, I learned a valuable lesson in craftsmanship: When you’re picking a tool to…
Microsoft posted its 2016 Q3 earnings today, reporting $21.7 in revenue for the quarter ending March 31, 2016. In a release posted on the company’s website, Chief Financial Officer Amy Hood said Microsoft’s operational and financial discipline delivered solid results this quarter. “We remain focused on investing in our strategic priorities to drive long-term growth,”…
The Google division of Alphabet reported revenues of $20.091 billion, representing nearly all of Alphabet’s total revenue of $20.257 billion for the first quarter of the year on Thursday. Q1 2016 marks the second quarter Google’s financial numbers have been released under the Alphabet umbrella. Alphabet missed analyst expectations of $20.38 billion in quarterly revenue…
Attribution has long been the bugaboo for digital advertising. Without knowing if your ad convinced someone to do something, how do you know if the spend was worthwhile? The mobile-ad-to-physical-store connection is particularly problematic, but a number of solutions have been released in recent years — including ones this week from Sito Mobile and Go2mobi….
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: Survey finds most SMB advertisers on Facebook spend less than $50 per monthApr 21, 2016 by Greg Sterling Generating awareness the most common marketing scenario for local businesses on Facebook, says…
Another year, another record and double-digit growth for digital advertising in the US. Digital ad spend topped $59.6 billion in 2015, a gain of 20.4 percent over 2014’s $49.5 billion, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s annual report conducted by PwC. The chart below illustrates the 10-year growth in US digital advertising revenues from 2005…
Welcome to Part 7 of an eight-part series on PPC brand bidding, where I answer the biggest question facing PPC advertisers in 2016: How do I get meaningful growth numbers out of a crowded and competitive PPC market? The answer is simple: brand bidding. My employer, The Search Monitor, has been monitoring brand bidding on…
Katch, a live video sharing and storage platform, announced today that it will stop archiving live videos April 22, and is shutting down for good on May 4. Unable to secure capital, the company owners published a ‘Farewell to Katch’ announcement on Medium: “We got very, very close to a big round of funding with…
Getting engagement right or realizing the potential of the mobile channel isn’t always simple or easy. What can you do to get your mobile apps in great engagement shape? Download this white paper from Insert to learn how to use engagement features to drive interaction with your app and impact your business results. Visit Digital…
Generating awareness is the number one marketing scenario for small businesses (SMBs) on Facebook, according to a new survey from local business networking site Alignable. Among SMBs that advertise on the social site, the majority are spending only modest amounts of money. The Alignable survey polled 1,200 local businesses. Respondents were from North America and…
