Marketing Day: July 9, 2013
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: Yelp Platform Brings Transactions To Local Business Pages Yelp has formally announced a new tool called Yelp Platform that turns its local business pages into a platform for consumer transactions. It’s […]
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:
- Yelp Platform Brings Transactions To Local Business Pages
Yelp has formally announced a new tool called Yelp Platform that turns its local business pages into a platform for consumer transactions. It’s somewhat similar to, but not to be confused with the call-to-action product that Yelp recently began offering to advertisers. Today’s launch is narrow. It’s focused specifically on the restaurant category, and allows […] - Report: Huge Global Mobile Advertising Revenue Surge Tops $8.9 Billion In 2012
Adding weight to the mantra that 2012 was the year of mobile advertising, a new report finds mobile advertising revenues jumped 83% to $8.9 billion worldwide in 2012. The report by U.S. Interactive Advertising Bureau, IAB Europe and research firm IHS, shows growth occurred in all regions, but North America, and Western Europe saw the strongest acceleration at 111 percent and […] - +1ed Posts Now Popping Up In The Google+ Stream
Odds are that if you liked a specific post on Google+, your friends may like it as well. A new Google+ feature will now help make that sharing possible. Over the “next few days” users will begin seeing highlighted posts that others have +1ed, not that they have specifically chosen to share on their own. […] - Google Adds Google Catalogs To Lightbox Display Format
Google announced it is adding Google Catalogs to the creative assets brands can include in Lightbox ads. Google introduced Lightbox ads, which appear as standard display ads and expand when the user hovers over them for two seconds, last October. The ads feature a “hover to expand” call-to-action button. With Google Catalogs in the Lightbox, […] - Human Demand Launches Retargeting Platform For Mobile App Developers
Human Demand, a DSP and data management platform serving the mobile market exclusively, has launched a retargeting platform to help app developers re-engage users. Launched 18 months ago, the company has focused on giving mobile app developers control over and transparency into their customer acquisition campaigns on smartphones and tablets. About five months ago, Human Demand, began […] - 5 Ways To Ruin Your Social Media Portfolio
When someone called me a social media Rock Star back in 2008, I was thrilled. My first thought? “Boy, that was easy!” Yes, it was truly easy, which is what I’ve realized after all these years on social media. The thing with social media is that we marketing folks often see it as a game […] - Why Content Marketing Goes Rogue And How To Rein It In
Is your content going rogue? Do you know all the sites and social media accounts controlled by your brand or company? Who can access and update them? Who knows the passwords? How frequently is the content on each property being updated, and how do those updates conform to larger communications and brand strategies? Or has […]
Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:
- 50 Percent Of Companies Struggling With SEO Aren’t Integrating Social Media [Survey]
- Are Google’s Results Getting Too Ad Heavy?
- 4 Link-Tastic Tips From SMX Advanced
- Google: Guest Blogging For Links? You Better Nofollow Those Links.
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Affiliate Marketing
- How to Differentiate Yourself as an Affiliate Manager to Succeed, Sarah Bundy
- Surprising Example of (Toolbar) Affiliate Transparency, Affiliate Marketing Blog
Analytics
- 4 Advanced Segments you should be using to get actionable data from Google Analytics, www.branded3.com
- 40 New Data Points In Google Analytics API, Google Analytics Blog
- 56% of businesses rely exclusively on Google for web analytics: report, eConsultancy
- Video Asset Tracking Is Broken: Ad-ID Will Fix It, Ad Age
- YouTube network Fullscreen launches analytics tools for creators, gigaom.com
Blogs & Blogging
- Best Practices for Launching a Guest Blogging Outreach Campaign, Search Marketing Sage
- Guest Posting is killing Great Content, State of Search
- Is the Death of Google Reader Bad for Blogs?, www.blogherald.com
Business Issues
- Apple and Amazon stand down on ‘app store’ lawsuit, CNET
- Facebook’s Asia Director Joins Spotify, All Things D
- Feedly is sending users to other iOS RSS apps due to crippling ‘over capacity’ bug, VentureBeat
- Google to profit from self-driving cars by decade’s end — analyst, CNET
- Microsoft Restructuring Set for Thursday, All Things D
- This Is the Woman at the Heart of Everything Google Builds, Wired
Content Marketing
- 100+ Content Strategy Insights, Content Marketing Institute
- 4 Incredible Content Marketing Case Studies From SmarterContent.og, www.stateofsearch.com
- American Express Prefers “Content with Purpose” [VIDEO], Contently
- Content Strategy: Maximize Results By Following Up With Follow Throughs, www.searchenginepeople.com
- Don’t Miss the Boat on Travel and Tourism Content Opportunities, www.verticalmeasures.com
- How To Make The Most Of User-Generated Content, www.koozai.com
Conversion Optimization
- The Top 5 Most Ridiculous Excuses Not to Do CRO, www.clickz.com
Copywriting, Design & Usability
- Colour Theory: An Introduction, usabilitygeek.com
- Design Standards Let the Interface Disappear Behind the Experience, uxmag.com
Display & Contextual Advertising
- 4 Lessons from Google’s Dynamic Remarketing Ads, www.practicalecommerce.com
- 7 best practices for increasing Facebook ad engagement, Inside Facebook
- Google AdSense Testing Genie-Like Animation, Search Engine Roundtable
- Preston Smith: Small biz superhero, from one to 94 leads within 90 days on Facebook, Inside Facebook
Domaining
- CBS News Covers The Domain Aftermarket & Puts DomainAgency.com In The Spotlight, The Domains
- Political Cybersquatter Strikes Again, www.nationaljournal.com
- Sedo.com Transactions Total $1.04M Led By LiveSafe.com For $65K, The Domains
Ecommerce
- Ecommerce drives first quarter growth at Williams-Sonoma, Internet Retailer
Email Marketing
- 5 Great Examples To Implement Call To Action In Your Email Campaigns, socialmouths.com
- When You Need an RFP to find your email service provider…and When You Don’t, www.emailvendorselection.com
General Internet Marketing
- What’s on Your Marketing Bucket List?, blog.marketo.com
- Why ROI Is Often Wrong For Measuring Marketing Impact, Forbes
Internet Marketing Industry
- Havas Media Group Selects Cognitive Match to Power Data-Driven Creative Optimization, www.havasmediagroup.com
- Mindshare appoints Colin Kinsella as new CEO for North America, replacing Antony Young, www.thedrum.com
Mobile/Local Marketing
- Android distribution numbers updated for July, Jelly Bean now the most used version, 9to5google.com
- Apptimize Brings Reliable A/B Testing To Native iOS & Android Apps, TechCrunch
- Factual’s New Mobile Products Mirror How Location Evolving in the Market, Screenwerk
- Foursquare for millions more people around the world, blog.foursquare.com
- Google releases fix to OEMs for Blue Security Android security hole, www.zdnet.com
- What features are most important for mobile commerce apps?, www.insidemobileapps.com
- What Makes a Good Local Business Website?, www.seomaverick.com.au
Reputation Management
- How to Manage Your Reputation with SEO and Social Media, www.onlinemarketinginstitute.org
- What To Do If You Get A Bad Online Review, Search Engine People
Social Media
- Facebook for Android update adds folders to Home, CNET
- Company Learns That Fat-Shaming People On Twitter Will Just Lead To Lots Of Apologizing On Twitter, consumerist.com
- Proof That Bank Of America’s Twitter Account Is Moderated By Robots Or Morons (Or Moronic Robots), consumerist.com
- Google Mine: Valuable Data Opportunity for Marketers—and Less Savory Audiences, Exact Target
- Google+ helps over 1.6 million Guardian followers read (and share and debate and post) all about it, Inside AdSense
- Here’s your ROI for social media: for every $1 spent, brands earn $3, www.trackur.com
- The new generation of Twitter bots are disturbingly human, www.dailydot.com
- These 3 Marketing Experts Tell Us Why They Are Bullishly Using Google+, sproutsocial.com
- Your Social Media Marketing Initiatives Must Start With Strategy, MarketingProfs
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