Marketing Day: New CTR Study, Avon CMO Profile & Google+ Restricts Views By Age & Location
Here’s our recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on MarTech and other places across the web. From Marketing Land: Facebook Plans To Adjust Real-Name Policy Enforcement To Address Concerns Of LGBT Community Facebook plans to adjust how it enforces its real-name policy after coming under strong criticism from the LGBT community. […]
Here’s our recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on MarTech and other places across the web.
From Marketing Land:
- Facebook Plans To Adjust Real-Name Policy Enforcement To Address Concerns Of LGBT Community
Facebook plans to adjust how it enforces its real-name policy after coming under strong criticism from the LGBT community. Today, Facebook’s chief product officer met with a group representing those angered by the company’s recent action against the accounts of a number of prominent drag performers and apologized. Later, he posted an apology in a […] - Pampers Teams With Video App Magisto To Help Parents Share Their Children’s Precious Moments
What could be more engaging to parents than the opportunity to make and share videos of their kids? - A New Click Through Rate Study For Google Organic Results
Advanced Web Ranking has released a study showing fresh data on the click-through-rate from Google’s organic search results. The data was taken from Google Webmaster Tools Search Queries reports from large accounts back in July 2014. On average, 71.33% of searches resulted in a page one Google organic click. Page two and three get only […] - DiGiorno Pizza Returns From Its Self-Imposed Social Media Penalty Box
The DiGiorno Pizza Twitter account ended its self-imposed social media exile today, sending its first tweet since a real-time marketing disaster more than three weeks ago. On Sept. 9, the account joined the #WhyIStayed discussion with an unfortunate “You had pizza,” not realizing that the hashtag was being used as a forum for talking about […] - How Do You Lead A Global Brand? Start With 20 Years Experience & Add Market Intelligence
With more than 20 years experience managing business strategy, consumer marketing, and operations in leading markets around the world, Patricia Perez-Ayala serves as Avon’s Senior Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer, and Global Brand and Category President. Perez-Ayala began her career in 1983 with Procter & Gamble Venezuela, holding a series of brand, marketing and strategy […] - Google+ Adds Ability To Restrict Viewership Of Posts By Age And Location
Google+ has given page owners with content that is inappropriate for young people or illegal in certain countries a way to restrict their audience. The new restrictive targeting feature offers the ability to prevent viewing of all posts from a page or profile by people under 18 or 21. The settings can also be customized […] - Why Timely Data Trumps Big Data In Email & Mobile Marketing
Many email service providers provide robust analytics, but few provide real-time access to data. What insights are you missing out on? - Advertising Engagement: Past, Present And Future
When you’re struggling with what “engagement” really means, know you’re not the first. Columnist Peter Minnium runs through the term’s history and how it’s changed over the years. - German Regulator Orders Google To Make Privacy Changes
In another blow to Google’s privacy policy in Europe, the German data-protection regulator Johannes Caspar is ordering the company to change and limit how it uses data from its various online properties. Google’s consolidated privacy policy has faced heavy criticism by European privacy officials since its debut two years ago. There’s a Europe-wide effort going […] - Report: Twitter Will Woo App Developers With “Twitter Fabric” Platform
Twitter plans to launch a new app development platform, called “Twitter Fabric” in an effort to make peace with app developers, push its way into more mobile apps and collect more data about mobile users, according to a report in The Information today. If successful, the previously undisclosed project could help Twitter boost its nascent […]
Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:
- Up Close @ SMX East: How Ads Influence Organic Click-Through Rate On Google
- Focus On User Group Uses Google Algorithm To Attack Map Pack
- A New Click Through Rate Study For Google Organic Results
- Google On How They Know When To Slow Or Stop Crawling Your Web Site
- How User Intent Will Forever Inform Successful Keyword Strategies
- SMX East 2014 Day One Live Blog Coverage
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Analytics
Blogs & Blogging
- 26 Expert Bloggers Share Their Favorite Blog Monetization Strategies, profitblitz.com
- Are You Falling Out of Love with Your Blog?, www.businessesgrow.com
- How Top Bloggers Make Money Blogging, www.offervault.com
- The 7 Keys to List Posts that Are Worth Writing (and Reading), www.copyblogger.com
- The Three Core Tenets Every Successful Blogger Needs, dannybrown.me
- The Handy Guide to Attracting First 1000 Blog Subscribers, blog.getresponse.com
Business Issues
- General Mills CMO Mark Addicks Is Retiring, adage.com
- Saatchi & Saatchi New York Hires Christine Prins as Chief Marketing Officer, www.adweek.com
Content Marketing
- 2015 B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends, www.marketingprofs.com
- 70% of B2B marketers are producing more content, but only 21% are able to track ROI, www.marketingpilgrim.com
- How Do You Measure Content Marketing’s Value?, relevance.com
- How To Discover Your Winning Difference as a Content Marketer, www.copyblogger.com
- Inside WeatherFX’s Personalized Content Marketing Machine, contently.com
- It’s Time to Think of Your Content as a Party Bus, www.vocus.com
- Keep Them Fascinated: How To Discover Your Winning Difference as a Content Marketer, www.copyblogger.com
- New B2B Content Marketing Research: Focus on Documenting Your Strategy, contentmarketinginstitute.com
- Six examples of interesting content from “boring” businesses, econsultancy.com
- Study: 86% of B-to-B Marketers Now Use Content Marketing, adage.com
- The 1 Key To Success In Content Marketing (And Life), www.b2bmarketinginsider.com
- The Right Content for The Right Audience, www.callowaygreen.com
- Why Every Successful Content Marketing Strategy Needs a Secret, pushingsocial.com
Conversion Optimization
- How a simple copy change increased conversion 21%, www.offervault.com
- How to Structure a Longform Landing Page for Maximum Conversions, blog.kissmetrics.com
- How to Structure a Longform Landing Page for Maximum Conversions, blog.kissmetrics.com
- Test Your Call to Action to Boost Conversions by 13%, blog.crazyegg.com
- Test Your Call to Action to Boost Conversions by 13%, blog.crazyegg.com
Copywriting, Design & Usability
- 10 of my favourite homepage designs, econsultancy.com
- 5 Guidelines For Setting Up A Usability Study – Startup Style, usabilitygeek.com
- Quick Tips on How to Become a Great Writer, www.blogherald.com
Display & Contextual Advertising
- Banner Advertising is Not Dead, www.starmark.com
Domaining
- Post On 2016 Presidential Domain Names Doesn’t Even Mention New gTLDs, www.thedomains.com
- Warning: do you know where your parked domain traffic is going?, domainnamewire.com
Ecommerce
- 4 Key Trends Shaping Holiday Ecommerce this Year, blog.custora.com
- 4 Keys to B2B Ecommerce Success, www.practicalecommerce.com
- Four shopping behaviors to test this holiday season, www.internetretailer.com
- Why the eBay and PayPal split will benefit e-retailers, www.internetretailer.com
Email Marketing
- Email Marketing Best Practices: 20 Tips for Dramatically Better Emails, blog.getvero.com
- 10 Wildly Actionable List Building Strategies That Are Sure to Generate More Subscribers Today, www.offervault.com
- 6 Ways To Destroy Your Email List, www.jeffbullas.com
- The e-mail marketer’s holiday planning checklist: fall edition, www.internetretailer.com
- The Email Strategies of 20 Top Retailers, www.marketingprofs.com
General Internet Marketing
- 22 Low-Budget Marketing Ideas For Small Businesses, www.wordstream.com
- SMBs Now Spend More Than 1/4 of Marketing Budgets on Digital Media, streetfightmag.com
Internet Marketing Industry
- The CMO Club Unveiled First CMO Digital Community and CMO Solutions Clubhouse Today!, www.thecmoclub.com
Mobile/Local Marketing
- Home Depot And Other Retailers Shirk Mobile Ads, For Want Of Good Data, www.adexchanger.com
- Improving mobile conversions: tips to get it right, blog.tamar.com
- Marketers Disagree Whether Tablets Should be Considered ‘Mobile’, www.adweek.com
- Marketers must create mobile moments to stay relevant, www.mobilecommercedaily.com
- 5 Fundamental Guidelines For Your Mobile Site, usabilitygeek.com
- Mobile marketers measure conversions but hope for brand awareness, www.marketingpilgrim.com
- The Wearables Marketing Mistake to Avoid, www.emarketer.com
- Toyota Motors Turns to Location Targeting on Mobile, streetfightmag.com
Social Media
- 12 Free Tools To Help With Social Media, www.searchenginejournal.com
- 2014 Statistics and Trends for Businesses on Social Media, www.marketingtechblog.com
- 7 Things Your Didn’t Know You Could Do with Google Plus Settings, www.thesempost.com
- Agencies: How Social Media Can Help You Win New Business, adage.com
- Constructing The Perfect Tweet To Gain Clicks, ppc.org
- From Trouble to Trolls: How to Handle Negative Feedback on Social Media, simplymeasured.com
- How to Stream Google Hangouts On Air to Twitter and Facebook, www.socialmediaexaminer.com
- How Zappos uses social media: Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, econsultancy.com
- Less Than Half of Snapchat’s Users Are in the U.S., www.adweek.com
- Little-Known Buffer Features: How to Powerup Your Social Media Sharing, blog.bufferapp.com
- Page Performance from Cool Tabs Lets Facebook Page Admins Size Up the Competition, allfacebook.com
- The 10 Most Popular People on Twitter, www.mediabistro.com
Video
- 12 Ways YouTube Creators Think (and you should, too), www.touchstorm.com
- 3 Best Practices for Branding Your YouTube Channel, www.reelseo.com
- 76% of B2B Marketers Use Video Content Marketing, YouTube Top Choice, www.reelseo.com
- How to Produce High Quality Videos for Under $1,000, fizzle.co
- Mondelez Hopes To Enhance Video Expertise With Google Deal, www.adexchanger.com
- What happens when you combine WhatsApp with YouTube, digiday.com
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