Performance Marketing
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.
Performance Marketing
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 e-commerce giant, but for online retailers in general.
Performance Marketing
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.
Performance Marketing
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.
Marketing Operations
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.
Digital Transformation
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.
Performance Marketing
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 e-commerce company is spending billions on a grocery store chain.
Performance Marketing
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.
Marketing Management
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.
Performance Marketing
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.
Marketing Management
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?
Customer & Digital Experience
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.
Marketing Management
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.
Digital Transformation
[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.
Customer & Digital Experience
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.
Performance Marketing
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.
Customer & Digital Experience
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.
Customer & Digital Experience
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.
Customer & Digital Experience
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.
Marketing Management
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.