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A bug at Flickr caused some people to have their private photos opened to public view over the past three weeks. Flickr said the bug only impacted a small number of users and only photos uploaded from April to December 2012. Flickr Quietly Tells Users Flickr made no post about this on its blog. Instead, […]
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: Google Launches AdWords Enhanced Campaigns To Reach More Mobile Users Google announced a new way for advertisers to create campaigns within their AdWords network. Google is calling this AdWords Enhanced Campaigns. […]
Google announced a new way for advertisers to create campaigns within their AdWords network. Google is calling this AdWords Enhanced Campaigns. The goal is to make it easier for advertisers to target searchers on all sorts of devices. In short, too many advertisers only focus on desktop users but mobile search is growing. Google is […]
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: US December Smartphone Share: The Apple-Samdroid Battle Continues This afternoon comScore released data on December US smartphone market share. The story is the same as in previous months. Android and iOS […]
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: Instagram No Longer A Mobile-Only Social Network: The Feed Makes Its Web Debut Instagram originally launched as an iPhone-only application. Then came Android, then web-profiles. Now Instagram has become a social […]
Yahoo announced fourth quarter earnings today under the leadership of Marissa Mayer. This is the first time Yahoo reported a rise in revenue in four years. The revenue was up 2% year-over-year at $1.35 billion for the fourth quarter and $4.99 billion for the 2012 year. Yahoo’s profits slipped by 22% year-over-year with $190 million […]
Fortune Magazine released their annual best companies to work for list, and Google is number one on the list again, four years running. Google took the number one spot because, as the magazine writes: The Internet juggernaut takes the Best Companies crown for the fourth time, and not just for the 100,000 hours of free […]
Kara Swisher reports Shashi Seth, a top Yahoo executive who ran Yahoo Search for almost three years and more recently was in charge of the Connections Business Unit at Yahoo is no longer at the company. Marissa Mayer, Yahoo’s CEO, reportedly sent out a memo to the Yahoo team about Shashi Seth departure. Seth posted […]
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: Gurus, Mavens & Ninja Galore: Just What Are Social Marketers Calling Themselves These Days? A recent post from B.L. Ochman on Ad Age took a look at the semantics behind the […]
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: Report: Facebook Mobile Ad Revenues Now 20 Percent Of Total According to financial analysts Facebook Q4 revenue (including payments, fees) could reach $1.5 billion. Search and social marketing platform Kenshoo says […]
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: Marketing Land’s Most Read Stories Of 2012 What were our most popular stories on Marketing Land over the past year? Below, the news stories that were published in 2012 that were […]
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: Why Instagram’s Reported Drop In Daily Users Is Probably Not Due To Terms Of Service “Revolt” Wow, big news! Instragram has lost 25% of its daily users. A “revolt” declares the […]
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: Is Google Using AdWords Express Budgets To Promote Google+? Google now offers small businesses using its AdWords Express service a way to promote their Google+ pages seemingly everywhere but on Google+ […]
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: Facebook To “Vigorously” Defend Instagram Against Suit Over Terms Of Service If you wondered whether Instagram’s apology and revised new terms of service mollified all of the user anger out there, […]
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: Santa Tracking Explained: Why NORAD & Google Show Different Locations & Gifts Delivered Formerly partners, both Google and NORAD are going head-to-head this year in Santa tracking. Already, people are wondering. […]
Apple has released their top apps of 2012 for the App Store in iTunes, you can access the list in iTunes by clicking here. The top free apps for 2012 in the App Store are: (1) YouTube (2) Instagram (3) Draw Something Free (4) Flashlight (5) Facebook (6) Pandora Radio (7) Temple Run (8) Pinterest […]
Google announced they have dropped the free version of Google Apps For Business. Previously, Google Apps for Business had two versions: (1) A free version that mimicked the same feature set and size requirements of a free Gmail account. (2) A paid version with larger storage, better support and more features. Now, Google Apps for […]
YouTube announced they have updated the iOS app they launched a couple months ago in response to Apple dropping the native YouTube app. The update brings the much requested iPad user interface support to the app, it also gives iPhone 5 users support as well. So it fills the full iPad screen as well as […]
Google announced the addition of a new ad unit, their largest ad unit to date, sized at 300×600 pixels. The new ad unit is commonly referred to as a half page unit, which Google is calling “brand friendly” ad units. Google said this ad size is one of the “top requests from publishers” last year. […]
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: Facebook Test Lets Users Share On The Go With A Mobile Web Share Button It quite surprising that mobile Facebook users haven’t been able to share articles on mobile devices. Facebook’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: Tune Out Your Friends & Tune Up Brands With Facebook’s New “Pages Feed” Sick of all your friends pictures of pets, babies and food? Facebook’s here to help. Today a new […]
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: Two Helpful Add-Ons For Measuring Video Campaign Success Even with the lean-back nature of online video, it can be a great channel for branding a product or service in the minds […]
Google announced that the number of content removal requests submitted by governments have spiked in the first half of the year. From January through June 2012, there were there were 1,791 requests from government officials around the world to remove 17,746 pieces of content, almost double the previous six-month period. Here is the chart showing […]
Business Insider has a screen capture of the reportedly soon to be released new Yahoo home page under Marissa Mayer’s new lead as CEO. Overall, I find the new look to be cleaner, tighter and a bit more organized. But one glaring omission is featuring Flickr on the options on the left. It was listed […]
Findery announced they are now open to the public, still as a beta, but open for anyone to sign up with and use. Findery originally launched as Pinwheel but had to change their name to Findery over a trademark infringement issue. Findery allows users to leave public or private geotagged notes that are associated with […]
Facebook announced they have hit a billion active users and to celebrate they released a TV ad. The TV ad goes through the events, life cycles and routines people go through on a daily basis and explores those emotions conveying how Facebook is there to help you keep track of the things that connect you. […]
Adobe AdLens is now integrated with Adobe SiteCatalyst. You no longer have to export and import data between the programs, it can now be done automatically between the two programs. Adobe AdLens helps you manage and optimize search, display and social advertising as a unified campaign. Adobe SiteCatalyst, a real-time web analytics program that helps […]
24/7 Wall Street reports Google’s Chairman and former CEO sold over $130 million in Google shares over the past week. Here is the breakdown on the shares sold over the past week or so: Sept. 24 sold 63,592 shares worth $47.33 million Sept. 26 sold 44,742 shares worth $33.69 million Sept. 25 sold 31,602 shares […]
Google has launched a new iOS YouTube app, that is now available in the App Store as a free download by clicking here. The announcement of a new YouTube app prior to the release of iOS 6 later this month, is not unexpected. As you may know, Apple decided to drop the YouTube App as […]
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: Display Advertising: Who’s Who And What’s What In This Ever-Changing Space I am sure you have heard the expression “the only constant in life is change”. If you make a living […]
Twitter is now prompting ordinary Twitter users to advertise on Twitter. About ten minutes ago, I went to Twitter.com and I was greeted at the top of my timeline with a message from Twitter to try out their advertising options. The message read, “Advertise on Twitter,” followed by “grow your followers and help them spread […]
LinkedIn announced they have made a major design revamp to the company pages. Company pages are special landing pages within LinkedIn that add more information about the companies people work at. The redesign is aimed to give the company pages a much more professional look and provide clearer and better information about the company. Here […]
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: Twitter Drops Client Source Data By Stripping Out The “Via” Tag In an effort to create a uniform, homogeneous environment, Twitter has yanked Tweet data that shows the particular Twitter client […]
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: Marketing Biz: DISQUS Challenges AdSense & Acquisio Buy ScienceOps; Microsoft Opts-Out Of Advertising Microsoft is not so quietly deciding to opt-out of advertising, while DISQUS is stealthily building an alternative to […]
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: Study — Perhaps Flawed — Finds Sharing Much Higher On Twitter & Facebook, But Why Google+ Is Still Worth The Time How popular is Google+? We could have the debate over […]
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: Report: 40% Of Top Brands Have Adopted Instagram Thanks to Instagram’s rapid growth to over 80 million users, marketers are finally getting on board the social app. A recent study by […]
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: Wither Google TV: Nearly Two Years Later, It Still Awaits Hulu Plus Did you hear the news? Hulu Plus made it to Apple TV last week. Did Hell freeze over? No. […]
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: iOS 6 Drops YouTube App; A Boon For Google? Apple released beta 4 of iOS 6, their latest iPhone and iPad OS, to developers today, and one glaring omission in the […]
Google announced second-quarter 2012 earnings today, showing a 32% increase in revenue from Q2 2011 to Q2 2011. Revenues for the quarter ended June 30, 2012 was $12.21 billion, an increase of 35% compared to the second quarter of 2011 Most of the increase may be due to the climb in paid clicks from 2011 […]
Microsoft posted their fourth-quarter 2012 earnings for the year today, boasting 7% increase in overall revenue and a 12% increase in operating income. Microsoft, for the first time in a long time, reported a net loss of $492 million due to a large acquisition. The online service department, which consists of Bing, saw a 12% […]