Prime Day 2017 was Amazon’s biggest sales day ever
Summer shopping event also gives Amazon its biggest one-day growth in Prime memberships.
Matt McGee joined Third Door Media as a writer/reporter/editor in September 2008. He served as Editor-In-Chief from January 2013 until his departure in July 2017. He can be found on Twitter at @MattMcGee.
On Prime Day, see how competitors are piggybacking on Amazon’s success
Amazon's annual summer shopping event has been a boon not only for the ecommerce giant, but for online retailers in general.
Prime Day brings a price battle between Amazon Echo and Google Home
Both companies drop the price on their smart speakers, but Amazon's aggressive discount could win the day.
Amazon Prime hits 85M member milestone, researchers say
Latest data from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners estimates that Prime membership has grown 35% in the past year.
Dex Media acquires YP Holdings to expand its SMB marketing automation platform
New company, to be called DexYP, will combine local marketing automation software with print, offline products.
LISTEN: Danny Sullivan reflects on 21 years covering the search industry
In this week's podcast, our outgoing co-founder Danny Sullivan talks about the beginnings of his career documenting the search marketing industry, how SEO has evolved and why he's stepping away now.
Why is Amazon buying Whole Foods? The opportunity of online grocery [Podcast]
In this week's show, ChannelAdvisor's Scot Wingo explains why the world's top ecommerce company is spending billions on a grocery store chain.
Google’s mobile-first index likely not coming until 2018 at earliest
At SMX Advanced, Gary Illyes says Google will "communicate a lot" before rolling out the mobile-first index.
What marketers need to know about the Apple WWDC announcements [Podcast]
In this week's show, our crew explains what Apple said this week about ad targeting and autoplay blocking in Safari, the new HomePod device and more.
Social bookmarking pioneer Delicious heads to the dead pool
Recently acquired by Pinboard, the site will stay online but will stop taking bookmarks on June 15.
The Path to CMO with SAP Ariba’s Alicia Tillman [Podcast]
In this week's show, our "Path to CMO" series continues as we visit with SAP Ariba's Alicia Tillman to learn about her marketing career and ... selling tickets to a beach?
Yandex opens its content recommendations platform to all publishers
Media companies, content creators will have access to push material directly into the Yandex Zen recommendations feed.
Behind the scenes of the Martech 5000 Landscape [Podcast]
In this week's episode, Scott Brinker and Anand Thaker take us through the process of creating this year's martech landscape and, more importantly, what it means for the industry.
[Podcast] The Google I/O 2017 recap: Lens, Assistant & more
In this week's episode, we recap some of the bigger news and announcements from Google I/O 2017, with audio from the company's main keynote on Wednesday.
Google Assistant comes to iPhone, adds alerts, hands-free calling & more
Google's virtual assistant gains a number of new features and expands to Apple's iPhone as competition for Siri & Cortana.
Amazon says push notifications are coming soon to Alexa-enabled devices
The opt-in-only alerts will be tested in select skills before Amazon opens the feature to all developers.
Mayur Gupta: Marketing needs ‘someone to orchestrate the symphony’ (MarTech Conference)
At MarTech Conference 2017, Spotify executive urges marketers to better manage the collision of art and science.
Google’s rocky road: Fake news, extremist videos & bad search results [Podcast]
In this week's podcast, we discuss Google's efforts to combat hyperpartisan and extremist content, fake news and misinformation on YouTube and in its search results.
Someone reposted your Page’s Facebook video? You can now take some of their ad $
Facebook Rights Manager now gives copyright owners new options for dealing with copyright violations, including taking some of the offender's ad revenue.
Amazon beats expectations in Q1 2017 with 23% jump in revenue
Company reports $1.48 earnings per share, smashing analyst expectations of $1.13 EPS.
Amazon launches self-serve marketplace for subscription-based sellers
Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Dropbox among initial group of companies offering products and services via 'Subscribe with Amazon' platform.
Facebook’s F8: Everything you need to know [Podcast]
Our crew is back from F8, and we talk about the biggest news, the most under-the-radar news and more from Facebook's annual developer event.
Google Analytics is adding a new home page
The new post-login landing page replaces Audience Overview and offers a snapshot of curated data from several reports.
Local search ranking factors: What’s working in 2017 [Podcast]
In this week's episode, we chat with Darren Shaw about the just-released Local Search Ranking Factors survey and discuss what marketers need to know about local SEO in 2017.
Just released: 2017 Local Search Ranking Factors survey results
After taking a year off, latest version of survey again features educated opinions from almost 40 local search experts.
From the Editor’s Desk: Why we cross-post articles across our websites
In our latest column, Editor-In-Chief Matt McGee introduces Marketing Land's new home page and explains how and why you'll sometimes see the same headline on two of our sites.
The Path to CMO with Taco Bell’s Marisa Thalberg [Podcast]
In this week's show, our "Path to CMO" series continues as we visit with Taco Bell's Marisa Thalberg to learn about her marketing career and ... weddings at Taco Bell?
Bing has a chatbot answering local search questions
Skype-powered chatbot is showing up as an assistant to help searchers learn about restaurants in the Seattle area.
Amazon launches a metrics dashboard for Alexa skill developers
Developers can see how often their skills are used, how many people are using them and how successful consumers' "utterances" are.
Newest perk for Amazon Prime members? NFL football livestreams
Amazon reportedly spends about $50 million to livestream 10 games, five times more than what Twitter paid in 2016.
April Fools’ Day 2017: Play Ms. Pac-Man, Amazon Echo’s Petlexa, Google Gnome & more
The annual day (or days, as has become the case) of pranks from major search/marketing/tech companies is underway.
The hype and reality of artificial intelligence [Podcast]
In this week's Marketing Land Live, we chat with Scott Brinker about the current state of artificial intelligence -- what's fact, what's fiction, and what do marketers need to know?
Amazon’s newest idea: Online grocery orders delivered directly to your car
Company has two AmazonFresh Pickup physical locations in Seattle where employees are testing grocery delivery via drive-in service.
SMX West: What Google’s exact match changes mean for AdWords advertisers [Podcast]
In this week's Marketing Land Live, listen in to clips from the "flash session" at SMX West as our panel answered audience questions about Google's dilution of exact match keywords.
About.com CEO: What we’ve learned in pivot from one-site-fits-all to several vertical sites
In this week's Marketing Land Live podcast, Neil Vogel explains why they 'took a business that was perfectly fine & crashed it into the ground,' and how the new sites are already seeing success.
Cutting-edge martech? 65% of brands have no plans to invest this year
In a new survey, marketers say technologies like virtual reality and machine learning will have a huge impact in coming years, but they don't plan to invest in them just yet.
Optimizely expands its experimentation platform to OTT TV
New product supports video experiments in any over-the-top TV app that uses tvOS or Android TV.
MEC’s Noah Mallin: For advertisers, Snapchat has ‘tremendous promise’ [Podcast]
In this week's Marketing Land Live, marketing exec Noah Mallin explains how Snapchat is starting to pull its advertising products together in a coherent way and why he thinks Netflix may ultimately be a better comparison than Facebook and Twitter.
Salesforce opens its Einstein AI layer to all customers
Spring product announcements also include launch of new Einstein Vision platform with image recognition capabilities for developers.
WordPress issues version 4.7.3 with six security fixes
Company says users are "strongly encouraged" to updates sites immediately.