Marketing Day: November 22, 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: Twitter’s Vine Adds 19 New Languages In Global Expansion Vine co-founder, Colin Kroll, announced in a blog post today that the six-second mobile video app is going global. Vine’s iOS app […]
Matt McGee on November 22, 2013 at 4:01 pm | Reading time: 5 minutes
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:
- Twitter’s Vine Adds 19 New Languages In Global Expansion
Vine co-founder, Colin Kroll, announced in a blog post today that the six-second mobile video app is going global. Vine’s iOS app has been translated into 19 new languages and the Android app is now available in 21 more languages. The newest languages are: Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Portuguese […] - BI Report: Google Glass Will Sell 21 Million Units By 2018
Google Glass will become a mainstream product that sells almost a million units when it’s released next year, and grow to selling more than 21 million units by 2018. That’s according to a new Business Insider (BI) analyst report out this week. “Despite the clunkiness and awkwardness of the early beta version of Glass, we […] - Using Proxy Metrics As KPIs? Learn The Myths & Limitations
There are various marketing channels today, some more suited for building awareness and brand equity while others are better for direct response. However, the reason marketers invest in any given marketing channel is the belief that it will eventually lead to revenue gains, whether in the short or long term. In an ideal world, we […] - Are Twitter Ads Right For Your Local Business? How To Decide
With Twitter blasting out of the gate with IPO news, not to mention 230+ million monthly active users, many local marketers have been left wondering: when does it make sense for a local business to test Twitter ads? And, how much time and energy should be devoted to Twitter with the myriad of other social media […] - Using Paid Search To Aid Your SEO
A lot has changed in the world of search marketing over the last year. From Enhanced Campaigns to Hummingbird and not provided, search marketers have had to rethink and re-calibrate their strategies significantly. Some changes caused more uproar than others; but, one thing has become increasingly clear: the art and science of both SEO and […] - “Game On” Says @Xbox To @Oreo On Twitter, Over Edible Gaming Controllers
The new Xbox One game console from Microsoft officially becomes available in only a few hours, and the folks running the Xbox Twitter account are having some fun with those over at Oreo, swapping edible controller pictures. It started earlier today, when Oreo tweeted a picture of an Xbox-rival PlayStation 4 game controller decked out […]
Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:
- Google Shopping Adds New Consumer Features Ahead Of The Holidays
- Search In Pics: Duck Duck Go Flags, GoTo.com Swag & Google’s Winter Wonderlab
- How Paid Search Can Aid Your SEO Efforts
- Doctor Who Gets A Google Logo & Video Game For Its 50th Birthday
- 2014 SEO Roadmap: Adopting Semantic Markup
- Hummingbird In The Trenches: A Canary In The Coal Mine
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Affiliate Marketing
- Affiliate marketing gets smarter, www.thedrum.com
- An inside look at affiliate marketing by the Top 1000 e-retailers, Internet Retailer
Analytics
- Demographics and Interest Reports in Google Analytics, www.seerinteractive.com
- How To Extract Value From Google Analytics Referral Paths (The Video), KISS Metrics
- Why Should I Care About These 3 Social Media Metrics?, simplymeasured.com
Blogs & Blogging
- 11 Great Tips for Being a Better Blogger, 3qdigital.com
- 5 Ways Your Company Fails at Blogging, CopyPress
- How Often Should You Update Your Blog?, Small Business Trends
- How to Speed Up the Blog Writing Process [My Method], ProBlogger
- My Top 5 Blogging Blunders You Can Avoid, ProBlogger
Business Issues
- Google billionaires jet-setting to exotic spots and taxpayers appear to pay part of bill, Fox News
- Google in Talks to Create Prescription Lenses, Designs for Google Glass, Wall Street Journal
- What is Instagram’s next big thing? Messaging, perhaps, GigaOM
Content Marketing
- 2014: The year content marketing finally grows up?, eConsultancy
- Ethical Content Curation: A 10-Step Checklist, Content Marketing Institute
Copywriting, Design & Usability
- Behind the Pins: Building Pinterest 3.0 for iOS, engineering.pinterest.com
- Google Hummingbird: A User Experience Perspective, usabilitygeek.com
Display & Contextual Advertising
- Get the Facts on Yahoo’s New Native Stream Ads, 3qdigital.com
Domaining
Ecommerce
- Are Mothers the Key to Holiday Shopping Campaigns?, eMarketer
- Yahoo Commerce Central extended to non-store small business, commercecentral.tumblr.com
General Internet Marketing
- Got an app? Increase revenue by building a website too, Inside AdSense
Internet Marketing Industry
- Skimlinks Unveils World’s First At-A-Glance Content Monetization Tool for Digital Publishers, PR Newswire
Mobile/Local Marketing
- Announcing App.net Broadcast, blog.app.net
- Google Play warms up to tablet-friendly apps, CNET
Other Items
- Solve for X: Help us work towards a radically better future, Official Google Blog
Reputation Management
- Great customer service leads to a great online reputation, www.trackur.com
Social Media
- Facebook Drives Massive New Surge Of Traffic To Publishers, Buzzfeed
- Pinterest Place Pins – Great New Feature for Travel & Hospitality!, ignitordigital.com
- Could a Google+ security flaw take down your YouTube page with no warning?, www.dailydot.com
Video
- Making it easier to bring Hangouts to work, googleenterprise.blogspot.com
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