Marketing Day: Twitter’s “Flight” Conference For Mobile Developers, MLS CMO Profile & Retargeting Tips
Here’s our recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on MarTech and other places across the web. From Marketing Land: New In-Feed Video Ad Format From Unruly Launches With Over 100 Publishers Marketing technology firm, Unruly, has unveiled a new in-feed video ad format designed for mobile devices that can adapt to […]
Amy Gesenhues on September 10, 2014 at 5:00 pm | Reading time: 8 minutes
Here’s our recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on MarTech and other places across the web.
From Marketing Land:
- New In-Feed Video Ad Format From Unruly Launches With Over 100 Publishers
Marketing technology firm, Unruly, has unveiled a new in-feed video ad format designed for mobile devices that can adapt to the look and feel of the web page on which the ad appears in real time. “There’s a growing expectation that social ads will be delivered as part of the content stream and deeply integrated […] - Allstate #ItsGood2Be Twitter Challenge Offers Colleges $150,000 In Scholarships
Allstate, a long time sponsor of college football with its Good Hands Field Goal Nets since 2004, is, in celebration of the program’s tenth anniversary, launching a new campaign that includes new ads, PR, promotions and social and digital activations. Central to the campaign is the brand’s #ItsGood2Be Twitter Challenge. The challenge asks college students […] - Twitter Courts Mobile Developers With “Flight” Conference On Oct. 22
Twitter announced today that it will hold its first conference for mobile developers, on Oct. 22, at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco. The fee for the conference, called Flight, is a Twitter-appropriate $140 and will be kicked off with a speech by Twitter CEO Dick Costolo. Technical sessions will follow. Here’s Twitter’s […] - Get to Know: Major League Soccer CMO Howard Handler
In January of 2012, Howard Handler was named CMO of Major League Soccer, driving the league’s marketing, digital, programming and content efforts, along with overseeing CRM, fan insights and special events initiatives. Handler has built and burnished some of the most well-known brands in the world, including The Madison Square Garden Company, the artists of EMI […] - Is Your Retargeting Missing The Bullseye?
Even if your display retargeting campaigns are performing well, that doesn’t mean there’s no room for improvement! - Evaluating The ROI Of Your Content Marketing With Event Tracking
Want to know more about how your content is performing? Columnist Matthew Barby provides a helpful how-to using Google Analytics. - Managing The Flow Of Content In Social Media
Put a framework into place with semi-annual planning meetings to keep your social media marketing flowing steadily and smoothly. - SMX Social Rates Increase Saturday; Register Now & Save $300!
Attend SMX Social Media Marketing for two days of top-shelf tactics, invaluable networking opportunities and insightful keynotes. Super early bird rates expire this Friday. Register now to secure your spot and save! The SMX Social agenda has the tactics and strategies you must know to maximize the return on your social media marketing efforts – […] - Why Apple Pay Might Succeed With Mobile Payments Where Google Wallet Failed
Google Wallet essentially failed with an NFC-based offline mobile payments system; what makes anyone think that Apple will succeed with Apple Pay? It’s also based on NFC technology. However there are some significant and subtle things that Apple has done that give Apple Pay a better chance of mainstream adoption. At the highest level the […] - DiGiorno Pizza Provides Another Cautionary Example Of Look Before You Tweet
Look before you tweet. That should go without saying, especially if you are running the social media account for a brand or business, but DiGiorno Pizza is spending the day in damage control because of an extremely careless tweet last night. DiGiorno burned itself by joining a Twitter hashtag conversation about domestic violence — #WhyIStayed […]
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- Google Analytics Begins To Roll Out New Benchmark Reports
- Google To Start Bumping Ad Copy For Extensions In Mobile Search Ads
- 7 Hidden Features In AdWords To Make Your Life Easier
- Newest AdWords Editor Supports App Install Ad Campaigns
- Bing Released A URL Keyword Stuffing Spam Filtering That Impacted Three-Percent Of Queries
- Search Preview In Apple’s iOS 8 Coming To The iPhone In One Week
- Tackling AdWords’ New Default Close Variants Matching Behavior
- SMX Social Rates Increase Saturday; Register Now & Save $300!
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Affiliate Marketing
- Affiliate Marketing 101 For Affiliates and Product Owners, www.shoemoney.com
Analytics
- How to Decipher Press Release Data and Analytics, www.vocus.com
Blogs & Blogging
- 10 tips for an awesome and SEO-friendly blog post, yoast.com
- How to Blog for Business, chrisbrogan.com
- How to Get Over Your Fear of Guest Posting, www.businessesgrow.com
- How to Steal A Blog’s Newsletter Subscribers in 15 Minutes, godofseo.ca
- How to Write Blog Posts That Generate Leads, www.quicksprout.com
Business Issues
- BBC goes local – and mobile – with experimental ‘popup’ bureaus, digiday.com
- Snapchat Concept Credited to Ousted Co-Founder After Settlement, blogs.wsj.com
Content Marketing
- 3 Secrets To Massive Content Curation Distribution, heidicohen.com
- 7 Signs Your B2B Content Marketing Is Doomed to Fail, contentmarketinginstitute.com
- Comedy in Content Marketing: How to Make ‘Em Laugh, www.wordstream.com
- Creating a Quiz to Help Spice Up Your Content Marketing, www.highervisibility.com
- How to Create Ridiculously Good Content, www.ducttapemarketing.com
- How to Overcome the ‘No Time to Create Content’ Challenge, www.marketingprofs.com
- Kraft Says It Gets Four Times Better ROI from Content Than Ads, adage.com
- Pro Vs Amateur: Who wins in the content creation stakes?, www.trevoryoung.me
- Results of Content Marketing Efforts Are Disappointing Many, relevance.com
- The 4 Ps of Global Content Marketing, relevance.com
- The Future of Content Marketing Isn’t in Marketing Content, dannybrown.me
Conversion Optimization
- $7,475 in 10 Minutes: 8 Must-Know Tips for Great Landing Pages, www.blogtyrant.com
- Top Tips on Driving Online Conversions From Offline Ads, www.stateofdigital.com
- Two Overlooked Aspects Of Your Site Design That May Be Hurting Conversions, conversionxl.com
Copywriting, Design & Usability
- Did You Think Designing A Call To Action Button Is Easy?, www.designyourway.net
- Six Things Physical Product Development Taught Me About Experience Design, uxmag.com
Domaining
- .global a victim of new gTLD launch cluster?, domainincite.com
- .london launch day biggest yet for new gTLDs, but did it miss targets?, domainincite.com
Ecommerce
- 3 Easy to Digest Ecommerce Analytics Reports, www.searchenginejournal.com
- 5 Tactics for Making More Money from Your Amazon Store, www.marketingwords.com
- Alibaba tops ecommerce sites in Russia as well as China, www.internetretailer.com
- Four global ecommerce strategies driving ROI for leading brands, www.internetretailer.com
- QVC expects more sales growth to come from digital channels, www.internetretailer.com
- Study Finds Nordstrom, Macy’s and Sears are Best in Digital, www.adweek.com
- Ways Your Small Business Can Compete Against Big Retailers, smallbiztrends.com
Email Marketing
- B2B buyers like social media but communicate mainly by e-mail, www.internetretailer.com
- Email list: Does size matter, really? What matters then?, www.probloggingsuccess.com
- Get Your Email Marketing Campaign Opened First, blog.tailwindapp.com
Internet Marketing Industry
- Adobe and Publicis Groupe Team Up to Deliver First Always-On Global Marketing Platform, www.adobe.com
- PunchTab Announces Mike Mansbach as CEO, Market Wired
- Vindico Offers Free License to Publishers for Industry Leading Viewability and Verification Technology, vindicogroup.tumblr.com
Mobile/Local Marketing
- Can Apple’s new iPhone solve publishers’ mobile ad woes?, digiday.com
- Commerce at the speed of mobile: 450 touches per minute, www.internetretailer.com
- National Survey Unveils Successes, Failures in Local Marketing, blog.brandmuscle.com
Social Media
- …And Nothing But The Truth: 8 Ways To Build A Trustworthy Brand On Twitter, www.socialbro.com
- 4 Lead Generation Tips for Your LinkedIn Company Page, www.b2binboundmarketer.com
- 4 Ways to Use Facebook Ads to Achieve Local Success, blogs.constantcontact.com
- 5 Tips for Running Successful Social Media Campaigns, www.socialmediaexaminer.com
- 5 Ways to Use #Hashtags on Twitter, simplymeasured.com
- Advanced Twitter Marketing Techniques That Will Help Your Twitter Account Take Off, blog.kissmetrics.com
- Are mobile users moving away from sharing content via Facebook?, www.insidefacebook.com
- Facebook a Threat to YouTube?, www.ppchero.com
- Facebook SPMD Kenshoo Announces Strategic Partnership with Digital Agency iCrossing, allfacebook.com
- How to Game Facebook’s News Feed with Keywords (Until the Next Algorithm Update), allfacebook.com
- How to Incorporate Social Media Into Your Product Packaging, socialmouths.com
- LinkedIn becomes a more effective B2B marketing tool, www.internetretailer.com
- LinkedIn Publishing: How Writers Get Featured on the Pulse, www.smallbusinessideasblog.com
- Social Sharing of Articles Varies by Publisher, www.emarketer.com
- The U.S. Accounts for 41.5% of all Mentions on Twitter (UK: 9.7%, France: 5.4%), www.mediabistro.com
- What Are Pinterest’s Marketing Interests?, www.adexchanger.com
Video
- The YouTube-ification of Vimeo: Now with more baby videos, digiday.com
- Video and Mobile Are One Happy Couple in the UK, www.emarketer.com
- Why Sports Illustrated is bullish on short-form video, digiday.com
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