Marketing Day: January 31, 2014
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: Adobe Predicts “Most Mobile Super Bowl Ever” With Advertisers Winning A 60% Jump In Mobile Traffic Based on record playoff audience numbers combined with growing social media mentions, Adobe is predicting […]
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:
- Adobe Predicts “Most Mobile Super Bowl Ever” With Advertisers Winning A 60% Jump In Mobile Traffic
Based on record playoff audience numbers combined with growing social media mentions, Adobe is predicting this year’s Super Bowl to draw the largest US television audience of all time and be, “the most mobile Super Bowl ever.” According to Adobe Digital Index (ADI) analysis, the company claims Super Bowl advertisers can expect a 60 percent […] - Report: In Q4 Facebook Once Again Dominated The Social Login Landscape
It has been an excellent run for Facebook over the past few months. Not only was their Q4 earnings report stellar, they’ve also owned the overall social referral space. To top things off, Gigya, a consumer management suite, is showing that Facebook is yet again dominating the social login space. According to Gigya, Facebook held […] - The Big Smartphone Market Share Data Roundup
There are now so many sources of mobile and market share data that no one of them can or should be seen as entirely authoritative. We now have perhaps a dozen firms pushing out smartphone data on a regular basis, using shipments, survey data or traffic as measures of market share. Below are a selection […] - WTF Is A Cookie, Anyway? Do You Really Know, Or Just Think You Do?
This month’s column was inspired by a very brave CMO who bluntly asked, during a recent conversation, “WTF is a cookie, anyway?” This particular gent is smart — he controls a marketing budget of over $30m a year, a reasonable enough portion of which is digital. His question stems from the many ways our industry […] - Get To Know: Nick Pahade, Poptent CEO & Video Marketing Commentator For The #HashtagBowl
With over 17 years of digital marketing experience across media and digital agencies, eCommerce and technology platforms, Nick Pahade is currently spearheading Poptent’s efforts to address the surging demand for video content that is well-produced and delivers an authentic voice to the audience. Considering the current frenzy marketers are in to create the next great viral […] - Growth Hacking Is Bull, Part 2
“Accounting is a department. Marketing isn’t. Marketing is something everyone in your company is doing 24/7/365.” Fried, Jason, and David Heinemeier. Hansson. Rework. New York: Crown Business, 2010. 193. Print. Unadulterated Growth Hacking In response to my article Growth Hacking is Bull, Sean Ellis provided some background on how he came about the term back […] - The Budweiser #BestBuds Puppy Gets His Own Twitter Account
He’s the star of Budweiser’s Super Bowl ad, the #BestBuds puppy that keeps running back to be with the famous Clydesdale horses. Not content with YouTube fame, the puppy started tweeting through Budweiser’s account. He’s now been housebroken to his own Budweiser Puppy account. Followers of Budweiser were perplexed with a garbled tweet appeared: xjkoweaiodsgajkse;loszdetghjkeiouqw3 […]
Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:
- Nadella Would Bring Search Cred To Microsoft CEO Role
- What Time Does Super Bowl 2014 Start? Look Up!
- 4 Content Marketing Strategies That Still Build Links
- Bing Ads Editor Update Gives The Lowly “Sync Update” Window Real Functionality
- Single Page Websites & SEO
- Search In Pics: The Simpsons With Google Glass, Oscar Mayer Car At Google & Google Military Truck
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Affiliate Marketing
- How 3 Guys Made Over $10,000,000 Last Year Without a Single Backlink, www.viperchill.com
Analytics
- 5 Marketing Metrics to Stop Using Today, Silverpop
Blogs & Blogging
- Evolution of Blogging: 20 Years in the Making, www.conversationagent.com
- Major Update To WordPress For iOS Now Available, wptavern.com
Business Issues
- Google poised to execute long-delayed stock split, Mercury News
- Twitter Acquires Over 900 IBM Patents Following Infringement Claim, Enters Cross-Licensing Agreement, TechCrunch
- Facebook Director of Design Kate Aronowitz to Depart Company, recode.net
- Facebook Partners with Social TV Data Analytics Firm SecondSync, The Next Web
- Facebook Uses Data to Charm Advertisers, Wall Street Journal
- Microsoft Board Set to Meet This Weekend — Just Not During Super Bowl — With CEO Choice Coming Next Week, recode.net
Content Marketing
- Content Marketing In 2014: We Ask The Experts, www.koozai.com
- Robots, Humans, and Using Basic UX Principles For Content Strategy Development, www.seerinteractive.com
- Think People Hate Marketing? Try the Right Content in the Right Place, Content Marketing Institute
Conversion Optimization
- Read it to Believe it — Addition of a Single Letter Increased Sales by 20%, visualwebsiteoptimizer.com
Copywriting, Design & Usability
- How to Make Your Website More Click-Worthy with Goals, Words and Common Sense, KISS Metrics
- Make Your Mobile Site Lightweight & Beautiful: UX Approach To Eye-Candy, usabilitygeek.com
Display & Contextual Advertising
- 3 Ways To Profit From The Google Display Network, www.beyondthepaid.com
- Profit From Mobile with Facebook Ads, blog.adstage.io
Domaining
- Why cybersquatting won’t be a big deal in new TLDs, Domain Name Wire
Ecommerce
- Avoiding ecommerce deployment disaster: 10 areas to watch, eConsultancy
- Secrets of success of a top m-commerce vendor, Internet Retailer
General Internet Marketing
Internet Marketing Industry
- Canadian Marketers Outlook 2014 Survey Report, ignitedigital.ca
Mobile/Local Marketing
- App Annie Index: 2013 Retrospective – The Top Trends of 2013, blog.appannie.com
Other Items
- Important Security Update for Yahoo Mail Users, Official Yahoo Blog
- The Digital Drive: How Fans Connect with the Super Bowl Teams Off the Field, Nielsen
Reputation Management
Social Media
- Super Bowl advertising: Social media matters to brand marketers, www.cnbc.com
- Katy Perry Becomes The First Twitter User To Reach 50 Million Followers, Media Bistro
- Redding Firm’s Hashtag Bowl Grades Social Media Use At Super Bowl, norwalk.dailyvoice.com
Video
- Infographic: The rise of Vine, www.thedrum.com
- Vine equals spin room for State of the Union, Official Twitter Blog
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