A senior-level executive asked me for advice the other day. For the past 15 years, he had worked for a company that sold software to publishers and loved the challenge of helping to invent a new industry. But as the market matured and his company was acquired, and then was acquired again, he realized that…
I’m going to let you in on a secret: Marketers are human, too. Don’t tell anyone I told you. Because marketers are human, we understand the richness of the customer journey, from initial inspiration or yearning to final sale. But dealing with that complexity is not always easy. As marketers, we have more ways to…
This week, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, testified before a joint congressional committee to respond to questions arising from the Cambridge Analytica scandal and Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. The questions ranged widely across topics including users’ data privacy, hate speech policing, disclosures of usage terms, data security, and even into whether Facebook…
YouTube is closing off access to third-party ad serving and pixel tracking globally, just ahead of the date when the European Union’s sweeping privacy regulation takes effect next month. “YouTube will no longer support third-party ad serving on reserved buys in Europe beginning May 21, and it will assess whether to extend that policy globally,”…
Monthly Web Development Update 4/2018: On Effort, Bias, And Being Productive Monthly Web Development Update 4/2018: On Effort, Bias, And Being Productive Anselm Hannemann 2018-04-13T14:15:13+02:00 2018-04-13T12:19:14+00:00 These days, it is one of the biggest challenges to think long-term. In a world where we live with devices that last only a few months or a few…
Automating Your Feature Testing With Selenium WebDriver Automating Your Feature Testing With Selenium WebDriver Nils Schütte 2018-04-12T12:45:54+02:00 2018-04-12T12:25:05+00:00 This article is for web developers who wish to spend less time testing the front end of their web applications but still want to be confident that every feature works fine. It will save you time by…
Automation driven by improvements in artificial intelligence and machine learning will bring significant changes to how we manage pay-per-click (PPC) in 2018 and beyond. There’s still a role for humans to play, one of which is to use what we’ve learned from years of experience to bring an account as close to perfection as possible…
So, machine learning in AdWords is great and definitely the future. But Dynamic Search Ads? Not so much, in my opinion. In this column, I would like to talk about Dynamic Search Ads (DSAs), which are generally for people new to paid search, and I’ll share a handful of caveats. When to use DSAs Dynamic…
Oracle is boosting its marketing chops today, launching its first analytics platform and new cloud-based platforms for audience segmentation and loyalty programs. Oracle Infinity is the first web/app analytics capability for the company. It is designed to unify real-time behavioral and transactional data and allow it to be utilized in its consumer-focused marketing platform Responsys…
Sendwithus announced on Tuesday the launch of Dyspatch, an enterprise-level, cloud-based and GDPR-compliant email content management system (CMS) for transactional emails. Dyspatch is a CMS platform for email that manages workflow, including building, editing and commenting from a variety of stakeholders. When the email is ready to be deployed, it is “exposed via our API,”…
