Google has announced the first batch of Apps for Android Wear devices. There are 24 in all. They include Google Maps and Hangouts, Duolingo, The Guardan, Eat24, Pinterest, American Airlines and Glympse among others. The full initial group is below: These apps need to be installed on your Android phone before they can be installed […]
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Social media managers and analysts have one of the toughest jobs in digital marketing today. Imagine trying to be an expert in content marketing, acquisition and retention marketing, brand management, word-of-mouth, customer advocacy, paid media, reputation management and viral marketing — all across five different media channels and dozens of accounts. This is a day […]
Denny’s is quickly setting the tone for how a restaurant should engage its online audiences. The brand’s quick witted and culturally relevant social posts have resulted in a sizable amount of followers across its social networks. In less than a year, the restaurant chain has increased its Tumblr audience by 253 percent and upped its […]
If you are a Facebook Advertiser that found yourself perplexed by your most recent ad receipt you can breathe a sigh of relief as the mix-up was likely the result of a system-wide issue. This issue delivered the wrong receipts and data to other advertisers that included the ad name, clicks, impressions and amounts causing […]
While you may have the most recent Samsung or Google smartphone model to access the internet (and Facebook), you may be surprised to find that globally, you are in the minority. Worldwide, 7 out of every 10 people use simpler, feature phones when accessing the internet. This usage is mainly in high growth countries like […]
Facebook padded its lead in the battle for market share in the social login space, stopping a six-quarter slide, according to second quarter results from customer management firm Janrain. Facebook now accounts for 44% of social logins on the sites in Janrain’s network. That’s a gain of 1.5% percentage points over Q1, and the first […]
Here’s our daily recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on MarTech and other places across the web. From Marketing Land: EU’s Right To Be Forgotten Leads To Censorship Of Guardian & BBC In Google The EU’s Right To Be Forgotten removals have been happening for about a week on Google, and […]
The EU’s Right To Be Forgotten removals have been happening for about a week on Google, and now news publications are discovering the fallout. For some searches, you can’t find their news stories relating to certain people. In particular, both the BBC and the Guardian have shared examples of content that’s now been “forgotten” in Google. The […]
In a move to bolster its position in the lucrative video advertising space, Facebook today announced the acquisition of video ad tech startup LiveRail. LiveRail’s automated platform helps publishers, such as Major League Baseball, ABC, A&E Networks, Gannet and Daily Motion, serve ads on the videos that play on their sites and apps. “LiveRail also […]
Customer relationship management firm Merkle Inc. announced today it has acquired search agency RKG, creating what the two companies claim is now the largest independent search agency in the U.S. “RKG represents the best of breed in search, display, social and other digital media marketing solutions, and we are delighted to have them join the […]
Finally! A marketing campaign that’s eschewed industry obsession with shiny new objects (Millennials) and acknowledged that older demos (in this case, Gen Xers) still exist and matter. In a campaign created by Erwin Penland, Denny’s has partnered with Atari to tie its menu items to three classic Atari games: Centipede, Asteroids and Breakout. These games have been […]
Asha Sharma has served as the Chief Marketing Officer of the Seattle startup Porch.com since its pre-launch days. Working alongside other team members, Sharma helped build out the online home improvement network’s operations, business teams, and strategic partnerships – including Lowe’s. “It’s been a whirlwind,” said Sharma, “Since our September 2013 launch, we’ve grown from 25 […]
Over the past five years, the media buying world has changed dramatically. The incredible advances in adTech (Advertising Technology) and consumer electronics have opened up the doors for never-before-seen targeting and measurement capabilities. Especially in the field of programmatic and audience-based buying, we have made progress at a rate that has even outpaced consumer behavior. As I’ve […]
Mobile marketing is coming into its own. With the 2013 mobile ecommerce market valued at $43 billion and mobile traffic making up nearly 50% of site visits in the first quarter of 2014, the savviest retailers — ecommerce, brick-and-mortar and omni-channel alike — are investing in building out dedicated mobile marketing teams and capabilities. These […]
In today’s digital ecosystem, the programmatic paradigm is no longer a trend or a meme. It’s very much a keystone of publishers’ digital strategy. To that end, it’s fair to say a good amount of ink — print and digital — has been expended to outline the virtues and benefits of programmatic for publishers. Just […]
Facebook’s App Link program, an open-source, cross-platform standard for linking on mobile devices, has been widely adopted since the program was introduced on April 30 at the F8 Developers conference. Today Facebook announced in a blog post that developers had enabled more than 1 billion of the links that drive users directly to apps, or […]
Here’s our daily recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on MarTech and other places across the web. From Marketing Land: SocialBro Adds A Free Plan For Twitter Analytics & Management Twitter management platform SocialBro is now free — if you have fewer than 5,000 Twitter contacts. The London-based startup, fresh off […]
Twitter management platform SocialBro is now free — if you have fewer than 5,000 Twitter contacts. The London-based startup, fresh off its newly minted status as a Twitter Certified Partner, is offering the “Free Cloud” plan to introduce startups and small businesses to its dashboard. The plan is available to users with a Twitter community […]
Twitter’s six-second video platform Vine was updated today to include “loop counts” to show how many times videos have been viewed on the network. Loop counts are visible on the desktop version of the site and on updated iOS and Android apps that are being released today. The updated mobile apps also feature a new […]
Let’s face it, most Americans’ knowledge of Belgium doesn’t extend much further than the breakfast plate. So Waffle House was in perfect position to take advantage of today’s big FIFA World Cup game between the United States and Belgium. And the restaurant chain didn’t waste the opportunity, firing off a funny broadside this morning: We […]
If you’ve been online in the past 72 hours you’re probably aware of the controversy surrounding a piece of 2012 research conducted on Facebook by researchers from Facebook, the University of California and Cornell. The research sought to investigate the phenomenon of “emotional contagion” on a massive scale. Since the publication of the research a […]
Wendy’s is back with its popular #PretzelLoveSongs campaign. Launched last year, the campaign featured Nick Lachey touting the chain’s new Pretzel Pub Chicken Sandwich and Pretzel Cheeseburger. This year, the brand has hooked up with Boyz II Men and Jon Secada to do the same. The campaign will kick off July 7th with TV ads […]
It’s no surprise marketers are often big readers. As a book addict myself, finding out what CMOs are reading is one of my favorite questions in our Get to Know interview series. With everything from new releases like Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In to classics like The One-to-One Future by Don Peppers and Martha Rogers, it […]
Last week, comScore released data showing that time spent with mobile apps now (amazingly) represents 51 percent of all digital media time. Brands, retailers and publishers thus have a great deal at stake in creating apps that are engaging and able to retain users. Aiding in that effort, there are quite a few companies providing mobile analytics […]
As Facebook’s stock continues to trend upward, so does their advertising push. A new test feature was spotted in the wild by Matteo Gamba on InsideFacebook that shows a new ad prompt that some Page Admins are seeing. A new ad prompt is showing up on the ‘about’ tabs of Facebook pages featuring a “Promote” […]
Still haven’t tested Facebook Ads? Well, if you’ve been afraid of taking the plunge a new series of posts from Facebook can help you get your feet wet. “The Getting Started” series from Facebook is a new series of posts on the Facebook for business blog. The highlight of the posts are the very descriptive […]
A quick search of LinkedIn reveals 1,458 people in the U.S. who describe themselves as “marketing gurus” in their profile title, 221 who list themselves as “marketing ninjas” and 5,888 who are “marketing experts.” There are even 49 people who are “marketing gods,” which either means that marketing is a polytheistic creed or there are […]
What if I told you that you could recover upwards of 200 percent in lost smartphone traffic by ensuring your site’s mobile experience was implemented well? Would you make your mobile configuration a top priority? New research coming from BrightEdge shows that brands with misconfigured mobile solutions are missing out on a big opportunity. We […]
Michael Brenner has long been a recognized leader in content marketing in his role as VP marketing at SAP. Very recently, he joined content marketing technology vendor NewsCred to head strategy for that company. NewsCred is a rapidly growing content marketing technology platform that also offers licensed and original content. Clients include Bank of America, Time […]
Google has launched a new resource named CookieChoices to help publishers understand the European Union’s cookie compliance regulations. Bill Hartzer was the first to spot this, noticing Google purchasing the domain a while back and now launching this content on the new domain the other day. The CookieChoices explains the EU requirements as follows: European […]
Evidence of Twitter plans to enable users to make purchases by clicking on tweets surfaced Monday afternoon. “Buy now” buttons appeared in several tweets apparently generated by the shopping app Fancy, Re/code’s Jason Del Rey reported. The buttons only showed up on mobile devices and are no longer visible. Re/code reported that “tapping on them […]