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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.

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Android: Now More Than 1 Billion Active Users Per Month

Google opened its annual developers conference today with some staggering statistics about the growth of its Android mobile operating system. Sundar Pichai told the packed keynote audience that there are now more than one billion active Android users per month, up from about 530 million at last year’s I/O conference. He said Google is going […]

Marketing management

Marketing Day: Facebook & Teens, WPP’s Twitter Ad Spend, Facebook AppLinks & More

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’s Media APIs Bring Social Conversation To “Today Show” and “Street Outlaws” Facebook’s courtship of live television took a couple steps forward this week as NBC’s “Today Show” and Discovery Channel’s […]

Marketing management

Marketing Day: Google Domains Launches, Facebook News Feed Videos, Social Media’s Purchasing Influence

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: Now You Can Edit Posts From Facebook’s Pages Manager App Facebook updated its Pages Manager mobile app today, most notably giving Page administrators the ability to edit posts from within the […]

Marketing management

Marketing Day: Google Buys mDialog, Twitter Buys SnappyTV & The SocialChorus Lesson

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 Builds Up Digital Video Advertising Capabilities With mDialog Acquisition In another sign of Google’s active plan to attract more brand dollars and capitalize on the digital video boom, the company […]

Marketing management

Marketing Day: Facebook & Paid Search, Best Twitter Animated GIFs, MSFT Blog Outreach Backfires

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: New Study Charts Influence Of Facebook Ad Spend On Paid Search Conversions Following up on last year’s study that found increased Facebook advertising yielded higher paid search conversions, Kenshoo released new […]

Marketing management

Marketing Day: Top 30 #SMX Tweets, Facebook Engagement Plummeting, Twitter All Access Program

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: We’ll Be Giving More Feedback For Reconsideration Request & Other Search Changes Last Wednesday at the SMX Advanced show, Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, shared some news and […]

Customer experience

Google Glass Reveals Its First 5 “Glass At Work” Certified Partners

Google has given its blessing to five developers that are helping bring Google Glass to business and enterprise by making them certified partners in the Glass At Work program. The companies, announced this morning, are: APX: “APX Labs makes Skylight, the leading business software for Glass. It provides workers with hands-free, real-time access to enterprise […]

Performance marketing

New: Twitter All Access Program Launches To Help Businesses Advertise & Use Twitter

A select group of Twitter users are being invited to Twitter All Access, a new program “packed with benefits to fuel your business.” The program appears to be an attempt at spurring these businesses to increase their use of Twitter, including its advertising products. The email invitation congratulates the recipient on his/her “hard work building […]

Marketing management

Marketing Day: ESPN Winning World Cup, Twitter Taps Bing Translation, Daily Show Mocks Glass

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: ESPN Scores World Cup Win With Clips Integrated Into Google Search According to a report on Recode.com today, Google has entered into a partnership with ESPN, directing World Cup related searches […]

Marketing management

Marketing Day: Google+ Pages In “Google My Business,” Email Click-Through Rates & Twitter Retargeting

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: How Non-Local Google+ Brand Pages Benefit From “Google My Business” Google announced a major update for small and local businesses today, introducing Google My Business, a single dashboard to manage a […]

Marketing management

Marketing Day: Facebook Talks Organic Reach, Chrome Leading Browser, Pinterest Self-Serve Ads & More

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: Trust Vs. Bribes And The Consumer Privacy Paradox Survey after survey shows that consumers are wary of marketers and concerned about tracking and privacy. However they also want more personalization, relevant […]

Customer experience

WordPress.com To Start Serving Pages Over SSL As Anti-Surveillance Measure

Automattic, the company that created and owns the WordPress publishing platform, is joining the battle against government surveillance. The company announced today that it’ll begin serving pages on all of its WordPress.com subdomains only over SSL by the end of 2014. Paul Sieminski, Automattic’s General Counsel, explained the move this way: In the face of […]

Marketing management

Marketing Day: Facebook Pages New Look, Google’s Video Ad Marketplace & Hootsuite Updates

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: Criteo’s Overhauled Prediction Engine Now Factors Actual Conversions, Not Just Clicks Personalized display advertising firm, Criteo, today announced a major update of its prediction engine, three years in the making. The […]

Marketing management

Marketing Day: New AdSense Ad Sizes, A Social Right To Be Forgotten? & Mobile-Only Consumers

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: Will Facebook And Twitter Have To Implement The “Right To Be Forgotten”? Could Facebook and Twitter be forced to “forget” things said about others? Perhaps so under the European Union’s new […]

Marketing management

Marketing Day: Apple’s WWDC Keynote, Justin.tv Scraps Archives & WhatsApp Sharing Buttons

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: Marin Software Buys Self-Serve Retargeting Platform Perfect Audience Marking its first acquisition, Marin Software announced today that it has acquired self-serve retargeting start-up Perfect Audience for $22.8 million, including $5.4 million […]

Marketing management

Marketing Day: AdSense Class-Action Lawsuit, Twitter Encouraging Video & Google’s Panda Filter

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: AdSense Class-Action Lawsuit Offers Up No New Evidence From That Self-Proclaimed Ex-Googler A class-action lawsuit filed against Google this week claims the company has bilked publishers out of millions owed to […]

Performance marketing

Yelp Will Allow 12-Second Video Reviews Starting Next Month

Yelp is planning to move beyond text-based reviews (and tips) by allowing users to share brief video reviews of local businesses and places. As Business Insider reports, the video review feature will launch next month and initially only for “Elite” users. A Yelp spokesperson tells us that the program will eventually expand to all users, […]

Marketing management

Marketing Day: International Facebook Premium Ads, Amazon Loses .Amazon Bid, McDonalds Sees Social Backlash

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: OpenX Releases SDK For Mobile Video Advertising In iOS And Android Apps OpenX Technologies released a software development kit (SDK) today to help developers monetize their apps with mobile video advertising. […]

Customer experience

Amazon Loses Bid For .Amazon Domain

Amazon’s bid to own and operate .amazon as a new, generic top-level domain (gTLD) has been rejected. ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers — the governing body of the web’s domain name system — has sided with the recommendation from its Governmental Advisory Committee in rejecting the company’s bid to get .amazon […]

Marketing management

Marketing Day: Publicis-Facebook Ad Deal, Google Adds Mobile Page Insights & More

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: Publicis, Facebook Partner In Long-Term Ad Deal Worth Hundreds Of Millions Facebook and advertising holding company Publicis Groupe announced a sweeping, long-term partnership today. The deal is said to be worth […]

Marketing management

Google Names Ivy Ross As First Head Of Glass Division

Google has added another executive with retail experience to its Google Glass management team. Late Thursday night, the company announced that Ivy Ross will become the first Head of Google Glass — the person in charge of the overall Glass division. Ross will start at Google on Monday (May 19). She has VP-level experience at […]

Customer experience

Three Well-Known Travel Apps Launch On Google Glass

If Google Glass is going to gain widespread consumer acceptance, it’s going to happen on the strength of the apps that are available for it. So with Google re-opening Glass sales earlier this week, it’s surely not a coincidence that the company just announced that three well known companies in the travel and hospitality space […]