Marketing Day: Facebook Attribution, WhatsApp ads, measuring engagement

Here’s our recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on Marketing Land and other places across the web.

From Marketing Land:

• Facebook Attribution deep dive: Democratizing attribution for digital marketers
  Nov 12, 2018 by Simon Poulton
  Facebook has put aside any platform bias and now there is a way to compare performance across platforms.
• WhatsApp ads are coming: Will advertisers start buying?
  Nov 12, 2018 by Amy Gesenhues
  Social media marketing agencies and platforms weigh in on Facebook’s plan to further monetize its encrypted messaging app.
• Last chance: Save $450 on a seat at SMX West
  Nov 12, 2018 by Marketing Land
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• The disastrous consequences of measuring engagement
  Nov 12, 2018 by Nate Elliott
  The engagement metric is steering social media marketers very wrong. Here’s what you should be doing instead.
• TAG-certified ad channels shown to reduce invalid traffic by more than 80 percent, again
  Nov 9, 2018 by Barry Levine
  The second annual report on the efforts by this anti-fraud industry group finds that agencies, ad platforms and publishers following its guidelines reduced this fraud to under two percent.

Recent Headlines From MarTech Today, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Marketing Technology:

• The MarTech Minute: Cadent’s addressable TV platform; AdRoll buys Growlabs; more
  Nov 9, 2018 by Robin Kurzer
  The martech week in review: News and announcements in marketing technology this week that you might have missed.

Online Marketing News From Around The Web:

• 42% of holiday shoppers turning to mobile this year, Retail Dive
• Ad Targeting Has Leveled Out. Only Content Can Save You Now, CMS Wire
• Gated vs. Non-Gated Content: Why, How and When?, Vertical Measures
• How and Why to File a Facebook Trademark Infringement Report (Steps), Kinsta
• New ways to create and watch VR videos, YouTube Creator Blog
• Once $500k, Snapchat’s AR ads are now cheap and luring in smaller advertisers, Digiday
• The Potential Unintended Consequences of Article 13, YouTube Creator Blog
• Using Google Analytics to Compete with Amazon, Practical Ecommerce
• What Is Privacy Forward and Why Does it Matter for Marketers?, Marketo
• Why your brand needs a voice strategy now — and how you can get it , Think with Google

Opinions expressed in this article are those of the guest author and not necessarily MarTech. Staff authors are listed here.

About The Author

Amy Gesenhues

Amy Gesenhues was a senior editor for Third Door Media, covering the latest news and updates for Marketing Land, Search Engine Land and MarTech Today. From 2009 to 2012, she was an award-winning syndicated columnist for a number of daily newspapers from New York to Texas. With more than ten years of marketing management experience, she has contributed to a variety of traditional and online publications, including MarketingProfs, SoftwareCEO, and Sales and Marketing Management Magazine. Read more of Amy's articles.