Marketing Day: August 1, 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: Google Analytics Opens Invitation To Beta Of The New Real-Time Reporting API Starting today, Google is inviting Google Analytics users to a closed beta of their newly released real-time reporting API. […]
Barry Schwartz on August 1, 2013 at 5:06 pm | Reading time: 8 minutes
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 Analytics Opens Invitation To Beta Of The New Real-Time Reporting API
Starting today, Google is inviting Google Analytics users to a closed beta of their newly released real-time reporting API. Opening a number of opportunities to take advantage of real-time analytics, the new API makes it possible for site owners to create queries around real-time data and use the information to benefit their website. Google offered […] - Changes Afoot With Marketing Land & Search Engine Land Columns
I’m pleased to announce that we’ve made some changes in our columns line-up to better showcase the great work contributed by our talented columnist-practitioners. The biggest change is that we’re moving some of our columns from Search Engine Land to Marketing Land, so we want to let you know where you’ll be able to find […] - Facebook Turns On Secure Browsing, Aims To Preserve Referrer Status For Marketers
All Facebook users are now connecting to the site via a secure connection. It’s a move that should mean better security for anyone visiting Facebook.com, but it could also pose problems for marketers and webmasters that want to know how much traffic they’re getting from the world’s biggest social network. Facebook announced the switch to […] - Welcome Lauren Litwinka, New Community Editor & Congrats Monica Wright, New Director Of Audience Engagement
Marketing Land keeps growing our staff! Today, we’re happy to announce that Lauren Litwinka is coming on as our new Community Editor while Monica Wright moves up into a new Director Of Audience Engagement position. Lauren will be directly interacting with our audience on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Tumblr and many other places where Marketing Land […] - Foursquare Makes Good On Promise To Sell Data For Retargeting
Foursquare has joined the “big data” club, making good on an earlier promise to sell location and other user-behavior information to third parties. The company has said it wants to be “the location layer for the internet.” As reported yesterday in AdAge, Foursquare is now making customer data available to DSP Turn: As part of […] - Omnicom + Publicis = Publico & Much Ado About Shareholder Equity? What’s The Real Impact?
There’s never a dull moment in the advertising world. The proposed Omnicom and Publicis merger has everyone talking, but what (if anything) does this mean for the digital ad world? Who will be the winners and losers? What possible upside exists for the clients? Having had the pleasure of working within large and small agencies […] - Pinterest “Turning Pinners Into Shoppers” With Price-Drop Alerts
This morning, Pinterest introduced price-drop notifications on pinned items. The company will now send an email when prices on user-pinned items decline. Pinners will automatically get these price alerts without configuring anything. They’ll be grouped into a single email; however users can adjust settings to change their frequency. The new price-drop alerts build on the […] - 4 Ways To Prepare For The Search, Social & Mobile Tipping Point
According to the 2013 Internet Trends report released in May of 2013, mobile now accounts for 15% of all global Internet traffic and, with nearly 1.5 billion global smartphone subscribers and over 5 billion mobile phone users, learning about the way that people search, consume and share media across mobile devices is at the forefront of the search marketer’s agenda. […] - How To Win (More) Friends & Influence People: 5 Questions With Smiirl CEO Gauthier Nadaud
As more and more marketers take steps to integrate their social media efforts with in-store promotions, one company is helping businesses bring their Facebook popularity home. French startup Smiirl has designed a sleek Facebook fan counter called a Fliike that tabulates Facebook fans in real-time. Businesses can use the Fliike to show in-store traffic the […] - Twitter’s Latest Updates To Ad Setup Process Lets Users Save Draft Campaigns
Three years after launching their advertising platform, Twitter has announced new updates to their ad campaign setup process. Rolling out over the next few weeks, the updates will provide more information and visual aids, including a progress bar to show users where they are in the setup process, more contextual help when selecting ad options, […] - Yelp: 59 Percent Of Searches Now Mobile
Earlier this afternoon, Yelp announced its second quarter earnings. Net quarterly revenue was $55 million, which represents 69 percent growth over last year. The company also announced a smaller loss than a year ago: $878,000 vs. $2.0 million. Yelp said that it now had 42.5 million reviews across its properties. The following are some of the […]
Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:
- Five Years Later, Ex-Farecast Founder Asks “What Is Bing Doing?”
- Changes Afoot At Search Engine Land & Marketing Land Columns
- German Publishers Opt-In To Google News — For The Moment
- Welcome Lauren Litwinka, New Community Editor & Congrats Monica Wright, New Director Of Audience Engagement
- Rejoice! Safari Is Once Again Providing Google Referral Information In iOS
- 5 Critical SEO Mistakes Leaders Must Avoid
- Google Honors Maria Mitchell With Logo To Celebrate Her 195th Birthday
- Search Engine Land’s Guide To SEO Explained In New Slideshow Format
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Affiliate Marketing
- 24 Examples of Inspiring Micro Bar (88×31) Banner Ads for Affiliates, Affiliate Marketing Blog
- GAN, but not Forgotten?, performancein.com
Analytics
- 3 Steps to Track Social Media in Google Analytics, www.e-nor.com
- Google Analytics Reporting Broken? No Updates Since July 31st, Search Engine Roundtable
Blogs & Blogging
- Why Every Salesperson Should Blog, www.ducttapemarketing.com
- Can’t Figure Out What to Write? What bugs you? Focus on that…, CopyPress
- How To Keep a Blog Post Outline From Going Off the Rails, Copyblogger
Business Issues
- Chirpify closes $6M series A round to help bring its social commerce platform to live events and TV, The Next Web
- Twittervision: Twitter Taps Video Via Amplify, TV Ad Targeting, Vine, variety.com
- Apple Against Samsung Over Phones Turns on Who Copied Who, Bloomberg
- Can Marissa Mayer Save Yahoo?, BusinessWeek
- HootSuite Raises $165 Million to Fuel Growth and Innovation, www.marketwire.com
- The Inside Story of the Moto X: The Reason Google Bought Motorola, Wired
- Yahoo Paid Between $35M and $40M for Lexity Ecommerce App Platform, All Things D
- Yahoo’s Mayer to Rebuild Research Lab With 50 PhD Hires in 2013, Bloomberg
Content Marketing
- Components of an Editorial Calendar, www.searchenginepeople.com
- Creative Content – Key to Successful Content Marketing, community.bingads.microsoft.com
Conversion Optimization
- 7 Conversion Lessons Learned From Eye Tracking, www.quicksprout.com
Copywriting, Design & Usability
- 7 Steps to a Successful Website Redesign, www.poweredbysearch.com
Domaining
- Huffington Post on the Importance of the URL & Domain Name and Direct Navigation Traffic, www.domainnamenews.com
Ecommerce
- 31 things I need to see on your ecommerce product page, eConsultancy
- Amazon Experiments With Its Own Take On Pinterest Called “Amazon Collections”, TechCrunch
- Multiscreen Ecommerce: Dos and Don’ts, Practical Ecommerce
Email Marketing
- Google’s Gmail ‘Promotions’ Tab: Why It Won’t Hurt E-mail Marketing, business.time.com
- Why Is Our Email Marketing Not Getting It Done?, tweakyourbiz.com
- Why SMB’s Should Invest In Email Marketing, Search Engine Journal
General Internet Marketing
- $1K Profit (Almost) in 1 Week: My PPC Case Study, www.viperchill.com
- 5 Reasons Why Every Business Must Be a Learning Business, www.ducttapemarketing.com
- IE9 falls below 10% market share, Firefox hits 50-month low, and Chrome again gains the most, The Next Web
- Ten ways to know what features the media will be covering, State of Search
Internet Marketing Industry
- Adobe Buys Satellite For Tag Management Technology, Makes Deeper Move Into Marketing And Ad Tech, TechCrunch
- IgnitionOne Strengthens Leadership Team with Hiring of Industry Veteran, Jonathan Ragals, www.ignitionone.com
- PPC Associates Continues Steady Growth, Announces New Office Expansion, PR Web
- Razorfish Loses Top Ad-Buying Exec Lanctot, Digiday
- Syncapse In Bankruptcy After Laying Off Staff, Business Insider
Mobile/Local Marketing
- A Quick Look at the Moto X – Motorola’s New Flagship, www.anandtech.com
- Google asked me to remove Glass at their own event, www.geek.com
- How Mobile Devices are Changing the way your Website Works., blog.allwebpromotion.com
- Strategy Analytics: Android smartphone shipments up to 79.5% in Q2 2013, iOS down to 13.6%, Windows Phone at 3.9%, The Next Web
- US Time Spent on Mobile to Overtake Desktop, eMarketer
Social Media
- Vine Community Unites to Support Filmmaker’s Battle With Cancer, Mashable
- 4 Examples of Excellent Twitter Customer Service, Social Media Examiner
- Do Brand Characters Help or Hurt Visual Content Marketing on Facebook?, Convince and Convert
- Don’t Worry When People Leave You…, Mack Collier
- Facebook adds Cover Feed to its Android app, Home no longer required, The Next Web
- Turntable.fm Unveils First Attempt at Monetization, www.billboard.com
- Twitter for Windows 8 gets updated, blogs.windows.com
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