Marketing Day: August 14, 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: Warning To Video Advertisers: Banned AdWare Creator Sambreel Now Injecting Ads On YouTube It turns out Sambreel, the notorious adware provider that everyone thought had been quashed is still going strong. […]
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:
- Warning To Video Advertisers: Banned AdWare Creator Sambreel Now Injecting Ads On YouTube
It turns out Sambreel, the notorious adware provider that everyone thought had been quashed is still going strong. The London-based Web traffic analysis firm, spider.io, has found Sambreel, operating under the guise of companies named Yontoo and Alactro, is injecting video and display ad slots into YouTube pages. In an analysis of over 1 billion video ad […]
- With Its Site Down, New York Times Publishes On Twitter & Facebook, Ignores Google+
It’s not unusual for people and companies to turn to social media in times of crisis, but the New York Times did so today with a twist. The paper’s website (and internal email system) was offline for a couple hours and, as you might expect, it turned to Twitter to let readers know about the […]
- Microsoft, Google Finally Release Official YouTube App For Windows Phones
I wouldn’t call Microsoft and Google BFFs by any stretch of the imagination (ahem … cough), but the two companies have finally buried their differences over YouTube and Windows Phones. As CNET reports, an official YouTube app — created by Microsoft but built with Google’s blessing — is now available in the Windows Phone store. […]
- 3 Essential Secrets To Becoming A Programmatic-Savvy CMO
It’s hard to get away from the terms “programmatic marketing” and “big data” these days. But what does today’s CMO really to need to know to be “in the know”? 1. What Big Data & Programmatic Marketing Actually Mean & What They Don’t For me, the concept of big data is the most misleading. Marketers […]
- Are You Smarter Than A Supercomputer? It Depends.
Who knows what is best for your customers? You or a computer algorithm? That is the question that big data has raised for many marketers. And like all great questions, the answer is, “It depends.” I’ve wrestled with the question for a while, because I appreciate both sides. There’s no doubt that tremendous value can […]
- Facebook Now Making $0.80 Per Mobile User
Facebook released new country-specific active user counts earlier today. It offered figures for the US and UK, saying that other countries would release them at their discretion. What these data show is that 79 percent of Facebook’s daily active users are mobile in the US, with 83 percent mobile in the UK. These are the […]
- Google Debuts DoubleClick Studio Layouts For Code-Free Rich Media and HTML Ad Creation
Today, Google launched DoubleClick Studio Layouts, a production tool designed to make building and publishing rich media and HTML5 ads easier. Layouts provide a pre-built shell that allows non-programmers to turn existing image and video assets into rich media ads. Users can also plug their assets into an HTML5 layout that renders across devices, without having […]
Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Analytics
- Set Up 404 Error Alerts Via Google Analytics, Search Engine Roundtable
- Six Free Videos To Make You Better At Analytics, www.koozai.com
- Want to find new online customers? You’re gonna need new metrics, www.thehubcomms.com
- Why Do Marketers Struggle With Analytics?, www.danalove.com
Blogs & Blogging
- Blog Post Checklist for Great Authors, www.noop.nl
- Branding your blog is difficult, or is it?, ProBlogger
- Introducing WordPress.com Connect, en.blog.wordpress.com
Business Issues
- AOL CEO Apologizes for Public Shame-Firing, Valleywag
- Google Tells Court You Cannot Expect Privacy When Sending Messages to Gmail — People Who Care About Privacy Should Not Use Service, Consumer Watchdog Says, www.consumerwatchdog.org
- Lawsuit Alleges Microsoft "Issued Materially False And Misleading Statements" About Surface RT Tablet, TechCrunch
- Apple acquires second screen TV startup Matcha.tv (scoop), VentureBeat
- Carl Icahn’s Multibillion-Dollar Tweet Boosts Apple Stock, finance.yahoo.com
- Facebook Peter Deng Shifts Roles To Director of Product at Instagram, All Things D
- Launched: New Digg iOS app, Digg Reader for mobile web, and “View only unread feeds and folders” setting, blog.digg.com
- No, Google did not say that there is no privacy in Gmail, The Next Web
Content Marketing
- How to Measure Content Marketing ROI, www.verticalmeasures.com
- 7 Ways to Use Google Trends to Punch Up Your Content Creation, Content Marketing Institute
Display & Contextual Advertising
Ecommerce
- For Digital Shopping, Baby Boomers Favor Desktop Over Mobile, eMarketer
- What Does Google Checkout Dying Mean For Merchants?, Search Engine Journal
Email Marketing
- How to Suck Less at E-mail Marketing, 500.co
- Gmail Opens Drop 18%: Are Tabs to Blame?, litmus.com
- The Fascinating Things You’ll Learn From Mobile Testing Your Emails, www.usertesting.com
General Internet Marketing
- Unlock the Potential of Your Most Valuable Customers: Encourage Loyalty, blog.sweetiq.com
Internet Marketing Industry
- Context Relevant Launches Behavioral Analytics Library for Adobe Marketing Cloud*, www.contextrelevant.com
Mobile/Local Marketing
- Why Intuition Fails Us in Mobile Advertising, streetfightmag.com
- Franchises Report Franchisors Actively Involved in Online Presence of Their Local Businesses, www.biakelsey.com
- Google Glass & Ads: A Discussion with Robert Scoble, blog.adstage.io
- Google Glass Update Hints At What The Final Product Will Be Like, www.fastcompany.com
- Half of top iPad apps either unavailable or not optimized on Android, www.canalys.com
Other Items
Reputation Management
- Why Yelp Will Never Be Rid of Phony Reviews, BusinessWeek
Social Media
- Connection Equals Endorsement: Reboot LinkedIn for Fun & Profit, blog.louisgray.com
- Say hello to Teachers on Pinterest!, Official Pinterest Blog
- 7 Things You Need to Know to Run a Successful Photo Contest on Facebook, www.jeffbullas.com
- Mobile updates and a new API for using Google+ at work, googleenterprise.blogspot.com
- The Fundamentals of Building and Managing Your Community, moz.com
- Twitter Is Testing Out A New ‘TV Trending’ Box At The Top Of Your Timeline, TechCrunch
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