Marketing Day: April 16, 2012
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: Twitter Mobile Ads Can Now Be Targeted By Platform Twitter has announced another incremental step in the development of its ad products: Promoted Tweets can now be targeted to users of […]
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:
- Twitter Mobile Ads Can Now Be Targeted By Platform
Twitter has announced another incremental step in the development of its ad products: Promoted Tweets can now be targeted to users of specific mobile platforms. Twitter’s also announcing that Promoted Tweets are now showing to Blackberry users. That gives advertisers the option to target Promoted Tweets just to iOS, Android or Blackberry users if they […]
- Study: Facebook CPMs Increased 41%, US CPCs Rose 34% Since Q1 Last Year
Facebook’s average CPM rates globally have increased by 41% since the first quarter of 2011, and 15% since the fourth quarter of last year. Meanwhile, CPCs have risen 23% in the top 5 markets versus Q4. That’s according to new global research released by social media agency TBG Digital for the first quarter. In the […]
- Infographic: Social Sharing Likes Ecommerce
Can social sharing and ecommerce get along? There are some possibilities, such as easing the registration barrier to complete a transaction, helping consumers make product decisions and increasing time spent on site. Monetate put together some stats like these into an infographic: Want the infographic for yourself? You’ll find it here: How Do Social Login & Sharing […]
- Search Beyond Search Engines Can Yield Valuable Data For Advertisers
When most people think, “search,” they automatically think Google. Well, think again. New data reveals that Google and its fellow search engines are not the only search game in town. We recently hosted a webinar with comScore focused on search data, which examined search activity happening across core search (Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc.) vs. non-search […]
- Publishing In Today’s Digital, Social Reading Environment
Reading. It’s a fundamentally solitary pastime that’s becoming increasingly more social given the baked-in functionalities of e-reading devices (Tweet this!). It’s also – surprise! – an activity on the upswing for a couple of reasons: a proliferation of e-reading devices that are plummeting in price, and consumers’ broad acceptance of reading content on phones and […]
- FCC Clears Google Over Wifi Eavesdropping But Fines It $25,000 For “Noncompliance” With Requests
The US Federal Communications Commission has cleared Google of any legal wrong-doing over its Street View cars that intercepted wifi transmissions. That’s the good news for the company. The bad news? The FCC is fining Google $25,000 for “willfully and repeatedly” not cooperating with the investigation. The StreetView Wifi Eavesdropping In 2010, it was discovered […]
Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:
- Foursquare Hits 2 Billion Check-ins, 20 Million Users
- Google Sent 20,000+ Hacked Notification Messages To Webmasters Today
- Smartphone Vs. Mobile-Only Google Indexing
- How To Structure Your Organization For SEO Success
- 5 Highly Effective Landing Page Tips
- Yellow Pages Sites Beat Google In Local Data Accuracy Test
- Google’s “Search Plus Your World” Promo Returns
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Affiliate Marketing
- 20 Affiliate Tools for Working with Product Data Feeds, www.amnavigator.com
- Affiliate Marketing: Try Every Offer, www.tylercruz.com
Analytics
- 5 Filters You Should Be Using, www.dkssystems.com
- Google’s New Speed Index Metric, www.seerinteractive.com
Blogs & Blogging
- Oracle-Google trial may reveal financial details, Reuters
- The Real Secret to 1,000 Blog Subscribers in 60 Days or Less, www.quicksprout.com
- WordPress Stats Infographic, yoast.com
Business Issues
- Google Stock Plan Irks Governance Watchdogs, Bloomberg
- Twitter acquires social analytics company Hotspots.io for its revenue engineering team, thenextweb.com
- Why Facebook Terrifies Google, Read/Write Web
- How to do Content Marketing “Without” Content – Be a Curator!, unbounce.com
- Why You May Not Want To Do Content Marketing, Small Business Trends
Copywriting, Design & Usability
- 40+ Useful Free Online Books for Web Designers, www.instantshift.com
Display & Contextual Advertising
- The Pros & Cons of Twitter Advertising for Small Business, blog.hubspot.com
- 5 Unique and Effective Email Offers, www.practicalecommerce.com
- Create a Compelling Incentive For Subscribers, www.clicknewz.com
Internet Marketing Industry
- You have one brand – not personal or professional, www.prweekus.com
- Drilling Down: Small Businesses and Location-Based Marketing, New York Times
- How the iPad Is Revolutionizing Local Businesses, Read/Write Web
Other Items
- A Healthy Dose of Fear is Appropriate When Dealing with the Press, randfishkin.com
- Hands-on: getting work done with Google’s new Aura interface for Chrome OS, Ars Technica
- Web version of Skype confirmed by Microsoft job posting, www.wpsauce.com
- 5 Simple SEO Mistakes You Are Making and How To Avoid Them, socialfresh.com
- Understanding Google AdWords Ad Statuses, Rimm Kaufman
Social Media
- Facebook tests new way to let users know which links come from social readers and whether their activity will be shared, Inside Facebook
- Twitter Has Been Verifying Accounts of Fictional Characters, www.geekosystem.com
- 100 Years Later, The Titanic is Far from Forgotten, www.addthis.com
- 4 Book Publishers Who Can Teach Your Business How To Use Pinterest, socialfresh.com
- 7 Tips for Twitter Late Adopters on How To Twitter Chat, Search Engine People
- Are Pinterest’s Anti-Spam Measures Now Going Too Far?, totalpinterest.com
- Ask an Expert: Why Twitter is great for small business, www.usatoday.com
- Facebook rolls out bigger profile pictures, just like Google+, www.zdnet.com
- Instructographic Marketing on Pinterest, www.97thfloor.com
- Social Media Marketing for Real Estate (Infographic), dailyseotip.com
- The 7 Step Social Media Strategy Every Marketer Needs, Heidi Cohen
- The Fortune 500 on Social Media [Infographic], socialtimes.com
- Twitter Tech Support: How Effective Is Tweeting a Tech Problem?, PC World
- Where’s The G+ Beef?, www.linkspiel.com
- Why I’ve Resisted Pinterest, MediaPost
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