Marketing Day: October 4, 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: No Current Plans To Put Ads On Vine, #Music Apps While there’s a lot of talk today about how Twitter will need to dial up its advertising revenues as a […]
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: No Current Plans To Put Ads On Vine, #Music Apps
While there’s a lot of talk today about how Twitter will need to dial up its advertising revenues as a public company, there are a couple places the company says that won’t happen: its Vine and #Music apps. Buried inside the Table Of Contents of Twitter’s S-1 filing Thursday is this description of Vine and […]
- Smartphone Market: Android Plateaus But Google Near 100 Percent Audience Reach
The August comScore US smartphone market share report is out. The story is familiar: Apple and Samsung are the top two OEMs, while others are down or flat. On the OS side, comScore agrees with earlier Kantar data showing small gains by Windows Phone in the US. But the news here appears to be that […]
- Would The Real Siri Please Stand Up: Susan Bennett Identified As Woman Behind Iconic iPhone Voice
While Apple won’t comment, a CNN.com report has identified the voice behind iPhone’s Siri as professional voiceover actor Susan Bennett. CNN reporter Jessica Ravitz said Bennett decided to come out of anonymity after The Verge released a video last month mistakenly claiming Siri’s voice belonged to voiceover artist Allison Duffy. (Duffy responded to The Verge […]
- Twitter’s S-1 Highlights Strength Of Mobile, International Advertising Opportunities
In its S-1 filing made public yesterday, Twitter disclosed international users make up 77 percent of Twitter’s average MAUs (monthly active users). Yet, international advertisers generated just 25 percent of consolidated revenue in the three months ended June 30. Twitter’s second quarter advertising revenue per timeline view (which is what the company is reporting instead […]
- 3 Ways To Use Social Media To Target High-Net-Worth Consumers
Traditionally, marketers tend to segment their customers into either a B2B or B2C relationship. While this has worked for a long time, and will obviously continue to work, many high-net-worth consumers (who most likely also own or run businesses) must be treated differently when it comes to marketing with social media. In a recent survey […]
- Showrooming: An Incentive To Create Terrific O-To-O Customer Experiences
It started innocently enough. A consumer went into a brick-and-mortar retail store, found a pair of shoes she loved and was prepared to buy them. That is, until she took out her smartphone, clicked on a few websites, and found a better deal somewhere else. Sound familiar? It’s no surprise that the evolution of technology […]
- Twitter Usage Numbers, From The IPO S-1
Twitter released its S-1 this afternoon, disclosing revenues of nearly $317 million last year and a net loss of roughly $80 million in 2012, down from $128.3 million in 2011. If all goes according to plan, the company will raise roughly $1 billion with its IPO. Twitter will likely trade on the New York Stock Exchange […]
- Twitter Files IPO, Issues S-1 Form, Looks To Raise $1 Billion
Twitter has filed their S-1 form with the SEC just now, filing for an IPO worth $1 billion. The initial IPO will release 472,613,753 shares of stock. Twitter’s historical net tangible deficit as of June 30, 2013 was $342.5 million, or $2.46 per share with a book value as of June 30, 2013 was $538.7 […]
Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:
- Searching For The Voice Of Siri: Voiceover Actor Susan Bennett Says, “It’s Obviously Me”
- Search In Pics: Android Mini Golf, Google Garage, & Glass At The Emmys
- Structured Data Superstars @ SMX East
- Ezine Articles & Press Releases Supplied As Bad Backlink Examples In WMT
- Google Makes Mobile Search Faster With Ping Attribute
- New Data Suggest AdWords Enhanced Campaigns Actually Work
- Top Social Tactics For Search Marketers
- SMX East 2013 Day Three Live Blog Recap
- Essential YouTube Optimization Tactics
- The Challenge Of Getting Mobile SEO Right When Google Is Inconsistent
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Analytics
- How to Create an Interactive Dashboard, authoritylabs.com
- Ad groups prepare for “cookieless” future, develop opt-out tool for alternative tracking, San Francisco Chronicle
Blogs & Blogging
- An Infographic Profile of the Modern Travel Blogger, www.sandymounthotel.ie
Business Issues
- As Twitter Opens Up, Employees Do, Too, New York Times
- Don’t be misled by this chart Twitter used in its IPO filing, qz.com
- The Numbers Behind Twitter, New York Times
- Twitter to investors: We are the anti-Facebook, pandodaily.com
- Twitter’s Ad Business Grew From Zero to $500 Million, All Things D
- Twitter’s S1: How Do the Numbers Stack Up To Google and Facebook?, John Battelle’s Searchblog
- Explaining the Twitter Founders’ Stock Holdings, Wall Street Journal
- Twitter Close to Picking High-Profile Head of News, All Things D
- Twitter Makes Less Money From Mobile Users, All Things D
- Yahoo ends Social Bar, cutting off Facebook integration, Inside Facebook
Display & Contextual Advertising
- Adblock to Twitter: Only sell ads we like (and then we won’t block them), VentureBeat
- Brand Promotions Are Most Popular Facebook Ads, eMarketer
- Mastering PPC: Easy Ways to Find Value on Twitter, www.seerinteractive.com
- Plausibly Deniable: When Ads Go Rogue, Digiday
Ecommerce
- 6 Timesaving Automation Tools for Ecommerce Merchants, Practical Ecommerce
- Ecommerce Marketing: How A/B Testing Changes Everything You Thought You Knew, HubSpot
General Internet Marketing
- Three Online Marketing Shortcuts that Take Too Long, Copyblogger
Internet Marketing Industry
- Facebook UK appoints Edelman to handle advertising PR activity, www.thedrum.com
Mobile/Local Marketing
- Brands and PR pros get going with Google Glass, PR Daily
- 5 Things Businesses Need to Know About Google Glass, www.cio.com
- Bad Push Brand Fails, urbanairship.com
- Do Chevy Execs See a Future With Google Glass?, Ad Age
- Mobile Marketing Grows, and Faces Growing Pains, Yahoo Advertising Blog
Reputation Management
- Operation Clean Air: Clearing Up Misconceptions of Yelp’s Review Filter, moz.com
- The Ultimate Guide on How to Get Testimonials (and Use Them Smartly), www.blogtyrant.com
Social Media
- Facebook Invites Photos From Flickr, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, All Things D
- Google Is Far From Losing the War Over Social, business.time.com
- Are You Missing These 5 Things on Your Company’s LinkedIn Profile?, simplymeasured.com
- Five Brands Successfully Pulling Off The Humor Approach On Twitter, Media Bistro
- Retwact Lets You Mass-Correct An Incorrect Tweet You Sent After It’s Been Retweeted, Media Bistro
Video
- Creating Killer Videos with Amy Schmittauer, www.blogherald.com
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