Marketing Day: April 10, 2013
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: Social Ad Revenue To Grow 18.6% By 2017 According to new forecasts from local media analyst firm BIA/Kelsey, U.S. social ad revenues are projected to grow from $4.7 billion earned in […]
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:
- Social Ad Revenue To Grow 18.6% By 2017
According to new forecasts from local media analyst firm BIA/Kelsey, U.S. social ad revenues are projected to grow from $4.7 billion earned in 2012 to $11 billion in 2017, an $18.6 compound growth rate (CAGR). While BIA/Kelsey expects mobile local ad revenue to experience an astounding 49. 3 percent growth rate during the next four […] - Surprising Twitter Stories Emerge At Conferences
The season of marketing conferences is upon us, which provides opportunities to discuss Twitter marketing with brand-side and agency marketers from near and far. It was at one such conference, the famous SxSW, that Twitter debuted back in 2007. Now that six years has gone by, was Twitter still the talk of the show in […] - Facebook Incorporates Third Party Data Into All Ad Targeting
This morning, Facebook is launching what it calls “partner categories.” It brings offline and third-party data from data brokers Acxiom, Datalogix and Epsilon to all categories of Facebook advertising. Facebook previously incorporated this data into its targeting capabilities under Custom Audiences. Now it’s available for all Facebook Ads and to all users of the Power Editor. Starting today, partner categories will […] - Relationship Reconciliation: GM Comes Back To Facebook Ads After Messy Breakup
Just 11 months ago, GM made the awkward decision to step away from Facebook ads in an overly public split. As Facebook was readying itself for the ball (IPO), GM not only stood up the social network, but they publicly humiliated them saying that the ads didn’t work. Guess who’s groveling back. Yep, General Motors. […] - The HTC First: How Facebook’s New Phone Ruins FairSearch’s Competition Complaint Over Android
Anti-Google lobbying group FairSearch lobbed an antitrust grenade at Google’s Android operating system yesterday, complaining to the European Union that it violates competition laws. Unfortunately, this week’s release of the HTC First — the “Facebook Phone” — may cause the grenade to bounce back at FairSearch. The FairSearch Complaint We covered FairSearch’s complaint earlier, that […] - WSJ: Yahoo Wants Deeper Relationship With Apple
Earlier in the week, I speculated that Yahoo might be able to follow Facebook’s lead and create a Home-like proprietary software layer on top of Android. But, there would be risks in doing so. An alternative way to boost mobile usage and traffic might be to deepen an existing partnership with another operating system that has massive […] - Report: US Mobile Ads To Reach $7 Billion This Year, Big Companies Dominate
‘Tis the season of mobile advertising forecasts. Within the last week three have been released from eMarketer, BIA/Kelsey and now IDC. Emarketer said that US mobile advertising was worth $4.1 billion in 2012, BIA estimated $3.2 billion and IDC now asserts that US mobile ad revenues came in at $4.5 billion for the year. IDC […] - Blab Offers Marketers A Crystal Ball, Giving Insight Into What Will Trend Next
With its launch today at the 2013 ad:tech Summit, Blab claims to be the first commercial platform to predict social media conversations up to 72 hours before they happen. Applying algorithms that analyze text, images, and videos from more than 50,000 real-time data sources, Blab organizes billions of conversations to predict future conversations within 24, […]
Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:
- Bing Ads Says Product Ads Are Coming This Summer (U.S. Only)
- Google’s Matt Cutts: Don’t Be The Sucker That Buys The Spammy Domain
- Live @ SMX London: Facebook’s New Graph Search & Its Marketing Implications
- Unstructured Data: Turning Chaos Into Performance
- Search Takes On Even Greater Role In Foursquare 6.0
- Report: Tablets Yield 15% Lower RPC Than PCs; (Another) Rebuttal To AdWords Tablet/PC Combo
- Google Adds A New Webmaster Annotation For Multilingual & Multinational Sites
- Google Adds Non-Profit Details To Knowledge Graph
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Affiliate Marketing
Analytics
- 4 Barriers Stand Between You and Big Data Insight, www.cio.com
- 51 Tips To Succeed With Web Analytics, Online Behavior
- Firefox Changes Cookie Policy: Version 22 Not Accepting Third-Party Cookies, blogs.imediaconnection.com
- How to Measure What’s Important, Not Just Convenient, Social Media Today
- What Do Marketers Want From Big Data?, eMarketer
Blogs & Blogging
- 5 inspiring corporate blogs to emulate, www.ragan.com
Business Issues
- Why Marissa Mayer Bought A $30M Startup, Business Insider
- Google sold Frommer’s Travel — but kept all the social media data, paidContent.org
- How Facebook Can Finally Start Making Money Off Instagram, www.cnbc.com
- In Midst of Mobile Pivot, Mozilla CEO Kovacs to Step Down, All Things D
- LinkedIn Beefs Up Recruiter, the Company’s Biggest Revenue Driver, All Things D
- Optimizely Raises $28 Million to go Global, blog.optimizely.com
- Tumblr Kills Storyboard; Editorial Employees Will Be ‘Moving On’, betabeat.com
- Twitter Promoted Trends Tracked for One Month – $5.4 Million, All Things D
Content Marketing
- 5 Core Beliefs of Extraordinary Content Marketers, www.steamfeed.com
- Best Practices for Promoting Infographics, www.searchenginepeople.com
- How to Build a Content Marketing Strategy, SEOmoz
- Vine for Business: How to Build Your Brand with Six-Second Videos, aimClear
Conversion Optimization
- How to Design Kickass Long Form Sales Pages, conversionxl.com
Copywriting, Design & Usability
- Don’t Make These Mobile Menu Mistakes, Get Elastic
- Growing Your Design Business, alistapart.com
Display & Contextual Advertising
- Facebook identifies engaging posts for page owners to promote, Inside Facebook
- Should Everyone Go All-In With Automation?, MediaPost
Domaining
- Google Wants To Operate .Search As A “Dotless” Domain, Plans To Open .Cloud, .Blog And .App To Others, TechCrunch
General Internet Marketing
- Online PR for Brands: How to Make Company News Newsworthy, www.toprankblog.com
Mobile/Local Marketing
- Flurry launches market to match mobile advertisers with content in real-time, VentureBeat
- What the New Google Play Store Redesign Tells Us About the Next Version of Android, pocketnow.com
Other Items
- Magento plans to introduce new versions of its ecommerce software, Internet Retailer
Social Media
- Current & Past Contributor To Links in Google+ Profiles, www.mikearnesen.com
- 10 charities and how they use Pinterest, econsultancy.com
- 5 Reasons Why You’re Scaring off Facebook Friends, Social Media Today
- Adding What You’re Doing to Status Updates, newsroom.fb.com
- B2B Social Media Success Starts with Measurable Objectives, socialmediab2b.com
- Cinemagram Launches Its Vine Competitor For Short Looping Video On Android, TechCrunch
- Foursquare stops automatic tweets and posts about badges and mayorships, About Foursquare
- Make selling through Facebook work by keeping it conversational and freeing the walled garden, blog.bazaarvoice.com
- Showing the Cards Changes the Game, www.theterraleverblog.com
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