Marketing Day: Programmatic Ads, Mobile Email Stats & A CMO’s View On Integrated Marketing
Here’s our recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on MarTech and other places across the web. From Marketing Land: Estimote Launches New Platform For Beacon Management At Scale Although it’s early, there’s already a perception in the market that Bluetooth beacons are a commodity. That’s not quite true, but there are […]
Amy Gesenhues on November 19, 2014 at 5:00 pm | Reading time: 7 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:
- Estimote Launches New Platform For Beacon Management At Scale
Although it’s early, there’s already a perception in the market that Bluetooth beacons are a commodity. That’s not quite true, but there are lots of providers out there making it tough to differentiate them. Estimote is one of the leaders and innovators in the space. And today the company is rolling out a new set of […] - A CMO’s View: It’s An Arms Race – Competitors That Make More Channels Work Will Outgrow You
ZipRecruiter.com CMO Allan Jones says his brand sees marketing differently. “We treat marketing’s goal as not just ‘acquire customers’, but to craft a unified end-to-end customer experience,” says Jones, “From brand awareness to acquisition – both digital and offline – at the top, through the conversion experience and sales funnel, all the way to the […] - Fixing Programmatic: Start At The Top
Publishers worry about the loss of revenue associated with the shift toward programmatic ad buying, but columnist Rob Rasko believes there are ways to solve this problem. - 5 Emails Pushing The Boundaries Of HTML & CSS
Columnist Andrew King explores some of the most innovatively designed brand emails of 2014. - Report: 66 Percent Of Email Opens On Mobile, Mostly iOS Devices
Email marketing platform Movable Ink has released its Q3 “Consumer Device Preferences Report.” The report is focused on email engagement and based on statistics captured from across the company’s client base. The report states that nearly half of all email opens are happening on smartphones. Another 17 percent are happening on tablets and the remaining 34 percent […] - Pinterest: The Social Search Goldmine
Pinterest’s potential is on the rise. Columnist Benjamin Spiegel shares surprising stats on how dominant the social network has become. - Forrester Says Marketers Are Wasting Resources on Facebook, Twitter
Marketers looking to build stronger connections with consumers typically turn to social media industry leaders Facebook and Twitter for their outreach. But those are the wrong places to be looking, according to a new report by Forrester Research. So few people actually see posts from top brands on Facebook and Twitter that focusing heavily on […] - Salesforce Fully Integrates Social Studio Into Marketing Cloud
Salesforce announced today that has fully integrated its Swiss Army knife of a social media tool into its suite of enterprise marketing, sales and customer service offerings. By folding Social Studio into the Marketing Cloud product, Salesforce said it has created the silo-busting tool that businesses are begging for. Now Salesforce customers will be able […] - Yahoo Integrates Access To Flurry’s In-App Video Inventory
Yahoo announced today that it is integrating Flurry’s in-app video inventory into its ad platforms. Yahoo acquired Flurry in July for its reach across mobile apps and ad targeting capabilities. The integration allows advertisers to buy mobile video inventory on Flurry’s app network as well as its exchange through Yahoo Ad Manager Plus, which encompasses […]
Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:
- 20 Ways B2B SEOs Can Leverage Schema.org Markup
- Google News Displaying “Suggested For You” Stories Customized To Match Your Interests
- Google Knowledge Graph Carousel Gains “Breadcrumb” Navigation Links
- Google Adds New Shopping Campaigns Tools: Auction Insights, Diagnostics Tab And More
- Google Testing Scrollable Google Answers In Mobile Results
- Thanksgiving Recipes: Searches Peak Thanksgiving Day, Making November Biggest Month For Recipe Queries
- Google Shopping Merchant Promotions Roll Out To More Countries
- Google’s Knowledge Graph Finally Shows Social Networks Not Named Google+
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Affiliate Marketing
- Shopbop Gives a Coupon Affiliate a Taste of Its Own Medicine, www.accelerationpartners.com
Analytics
- How customer experience analytics is helping Econsultancy with new site priorities, econsultancy.com
Blogs & Blogging
- How Bloggers Can Make The Best Use Of Their 24 Hours, www.problogger.net
- How to See If Your Blog is Converting, www.searchenginepeople.com
- The Complete Guide to Writing Useful Business Blog Content, www.mackcollier.com
Business Issues
- AT&T Enters Legal Fray Over Location Data, Wall Street Journal
- Google Takes Times Square Crown With Half-Acre Billboard, www.bloomberg.com
- Nielsen to Measure Netflix Viewing, online.wsj.com
- YouTube Adds Netflix Content Chief And Ad Exchange Architect To VP Ranks, techcrunch.com
Content Marketing
- Content Marketing Strategy Crucial for ROI New Research Shows, www.globalcopywriting.com
- How to Get 247% More People to Read Your Content, www.quicksprout.com
- How to Get Started Planning Your 2015 Content, www.highervisibility.com
- How to Repurpose Your Content Into an Ideal SlideShare Deck, www.marketingprofs.com
- The Biggest Lessons Content Marketers Can Learn From “Serial”, contently.com
- The Changing Landscape of Content Marketing in Australia, contentmarketinginstitute.com
- The Content Marketing Word Of The Year?, www.b2bmarketinginsider.com
- What Content Marketing has Gained from Journalism, relevance.com
Conversion Optimization
- 6 Tactics for Boosting Post-Conversion Engagement, moz.com
- Traffic is Up, But Conversions Are Down (What Gives?), www.impactbnd.com
Copywriting, Design & Usability
- 7 Deadly Web Design Sins You Might Be Making, blog.kissmetrics.com
- Web Design Tips for Beginners to Drive Traffic to Your Site, smallbiztrends.com
Domaining
- GoDaddy’s DomainFinder App advances domain name selection, domainnamewire.com
Ecommerce
- Holiday Web Spending to Rise 16%, ComScore Projects, adage.com
- Last Minute Lifts – How to Increase Traffic on Black Friday, blog.marketo.com
- Q&A with Baymard’s Christian Holst about Checkout Optimization, vwo.com
- The Showrooming Threat: 5 Ways to Fight Back, www.getelastic.com
- What’s new in online holiday shopping this year, www.internetretailer.com
Email Marketing
- A bit about Bundles in Inbox, gmailblog.blogspot.com
- How to Make Your Confirmation Emails Not Suck (and Make Money), conversionxl.com
- How to Write the Perfect Email That Gets Opened and Clicked, blog.crazyegg.com
- The future of email marketing, www.emailmonday.com
General Internet Marketing
- Marketers Rank the Technologies Designed to Help Them, www.emarketer.com
Internet Marketing Industry
- Is Amazon Starting to Use Product Listing Ads?, www.adgooroo.com
- Jivox and Mediaocean to Deliver Ad Serving Solution for Multi-Screen and Data-Driven Dynamic Campaigns, jivox.com
- Kiip Kudos: A Mobile Loyalty Platform for Brands, blog.kiip.me
- Relay GIF Messenger Joins the Kik Team, kik.com
- Return Path Acquires Ecommerce Data Analysis Firm, Adds Data and Digital Veteran to Executive Team, blog.returnpath.com
- ShareThis Appoints A Programmatic VP, www.adexchanger.com
Mobile/Local Marketing
- 4 Surefire Ways to Prep for Mobile and Tablet Holiday Shoppers, www.verticalresponse.com
- Best-Practices for Sending Mobile Push Messages, www.marketingprofs.com
- How Personalization And Security Will Coexist in Local Commerce, streetfightmag.com
- Mobile Commerce vs. Desktop: 7 Differences, www.practicalecommerce.com
- This is how Apple wants you to design Apple Watch apps, qz.com
Social Media
- Why Facebook’s War On Marketing Is A Good Thing, www.rohitbhargava.com
- 200 Million Reasons Your Business Needs Instagram, heidicohen.com
- Gain Users Gain the Ability to Mass-Edit, Perform Bulk Actions with Facebook Posts, allfacebook.com
- How likely are you to tap a Facebook mobile ad?, www.insidefacebook.com
- How to Play it Safe in Social, adage.com
- It May Be Time for You to Quit Marketing on Facebook, www.jonloomer.com
- Just 15% of Marketers Think Social Media Software is Useful, www.mediabistro.com
- Local pages outperforming global pages for organic, paid interactions, www.insidefacebook.com
- Long-term social media campaigns push holiday commerce higher, www.mobilemarketer.com
- Pinterest, Instagram Growing Faster Than Twitter, Facebook, www.mediabistro.com
- Research Shows 94% of Top Brands Tweet at Least Once per Day, simplymeasured.com
- The Biggest Social Media Game Changers for 2015, www.blogherald.com
- The blight of gratuitous hashtags, www.mobilecommercedaily.com
- The Content Marketer’s Guide to Promoted Tweets, contently.com
- The Old Foursquare Is Dead, techcrunch.com
- The Science of Building a Lasting Social Media Community, blog.bufferapp.com
- Twitter Wednesday Joins Black Friday and Cyber Monday for Bargains, www.mainstreet.com
- Why You Need to Adapt to Social Media Today, fearlesscompetitor.com
Video
- Christmas Comes Early for Brands on YouTube, www.adweek.com
- How-to Drive More Engagement With YouTube Comments, www.reelseo.com
- Optimising your YouTube channel: how to draw a bigger audience, www.branded3.com
- Video Connects with B2B Executives, www.dailyconversions.com
- YouTube Is Told to Remove Songs by Pharrell Williams, John Lennon, online.wsj.com
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