Marketing Day: September 24, 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: YouTube Comments Soon To Get The Google+ Treatment Youtube announced today a new commenting platform “powered” by Google+, with video comments soon to be sorted by relevancy versus how recently 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:
- YouTube Comments Soon To Get The Google+ Treatment
Youtube announced today a new commenting platform “powered” by Google+, with video comments soon to be sorted by relevancy versus how recently a comment was posted. According to the announcement, comments from the video’s creator, popular personalities, and Google+ connections will appear at the top of a comment list, along with discussions about the video. […]
- Confidence Crisis: 40 Percent Don’t Trust Online Reviews
Over the course of the past year, there have been a number of online review scandals. Most recently, there was a New York regulatory crackdown on fake reviews being generated by “reputation management” firms. It’s unclear whether the publicity surrounding any of these events has eroded consumer confidence in online reviews and their authenticity. A recent […]
- Survey: 46% Of Marketers Have Content Marketing Strategy, Only 25% Track Social Media Results
A new survey from content marketing provider Skyword found that nearly half of the respondents polled have a formal content marketing strategy, but only 25 percent are measuring the results of their social media content marketing efforts. Conducted by Unisphere Research, the survey included 217 participants from the readership base of CRM Magazine and EContent Magazine, […]
- Pinterest Expands Rich Pins With New-Look Article Pins For Publishers
Interesting move today from Pinterest: the company has announced a special pin style for article pins, as part of the rich pins feature that launched earlier this year. Article pins have both a publisher/brand angle, and a consumer angle. On the publisher side, Pinterest is pitching the new pin style as a way to extend […]
- Less Than Half Of Digital Marketers Say They Are Highly Proficient At Digital Marketing
In a somewhat sobering poll of 1,000 US marketers, just 48 percent of those who identified as “digital marketers” said they feel highly proficient in digital marketing. And they think even less of their cohort: only 40 percent think their team colleagues are highly proficient in digital marketing. The study, titled Digital Distress: What Keeps […]
- AdStage Aims To Bring Cross-Channel Ad Management To SMBs, Launches Partnership With ReTargeter, Unbounce And Others
Kenshoo, Marin and Adobe: watch out, AdStage has you in its sights. Today at Advertising Week in New York, AdStage announced new efforts to loosen enterprise’s grip on ad tech and give SMBs equal access to the benefits of an ad management platform. “We were frustrated by enterprise ad tools that locked out the bulk of advertisers […]
- Study: Nearly Half Of Mobile Users Will Share Location For Relevant Offers
Text-based mobile messaging has effectively become the “red-headed stepchild” of mobile marketing. Once the only mobile marketing that worked on all devices, it has lost favor over the past several years with the mass adoption of smartphones and the rise of mobile display. Under specific circumstances, however, SMS can be very effective as a mobile loyalty […]
- Guest Blogging: A Beginner’s Guide
While guest posting may seem like a simple concept in theory (All I have to do is write a little something and get someone to post it — easy!), it really isn’t in practice. There are more steps to it than you might think. And even if what you’re writing is awesome, readable and informative, […]
- Boots-On-The-Ground At #AWX: Coverage From Advertising Week 2013
Advertising Week, the world’s premier annual gathering of marketing and communications leaders, has returned to New York City for its 2013 show. We’re excited to announce that this year, our Community Editor, Lauren Litwinka (@beebow), will be in the field attending a variety of sessions to cover for Marketing Land. “The Week is a hybrid […]
Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:
- Two Years Later, BitTorrent Now In Google’s Auto Completions
- Study: 61 Percent Of Mobile Callers Ready To Convert
- Google Expands AdWords Conversion Window Settings
- Google May Have Penalized Another Major Link Network: Ghost Rank 2.0
- Updates To Old Link Building Practices That Score Wins Today
- Global SEO And Localization Excellence – What Localization Really Is
- Live @ SMX East: App Store Optimization
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Analytics
- Google Analytics for Ecommerce – Part 1 – Segment by Product Categories, www.e-nor.com
- Skytree Launches "Second Opinion" Predictive Analytics Program, www.marketwired.com
- Why Pivot Charts In Google Analytics Are Awesome Including 10 Examples, www.koozai.com
Blogs & Blogging
- Six Reasons to Upgrade Your Commenting System, www.blogherald.com
Business Issues
- Facebook Partners With PayPal, Stripe, Braintree To Autofill Billing Info In Mobile Commerce Apps, TechCrunch
- EXCLUSIVE: China to lift ban on Facebook – but only within Shanghai free-trade zone, m.scmp.com
- Exclusive: Twitter Picks NYSE for $1.5B IPO, www.thestreet.com
- Google snaps up $235M of Silicon Valley office space, CNET
- Is Twitter About to Get More Invasive Than Facebook?, www.motherjones.com
- Snaps lets you mashup photos with cool stuff from your favorite brands, pulls in $2M, VentureBeat
- Steve Wozniak: Glass Has a Chance, glassalmanac.com
- StumbleUpon makes first buy: video recommendation app 5by, CNET
- The $15B question for Twitter: Is being a handmaiden to TV the road to riches or the road to ruin?, GigaOM
- Yahoo Recycled Emails: Users Find Security Surprises, InformationWeek
Content Marketing
- Tips for Setting Up Your Editorial Calendar, 3qdigital.com
- Why We Hate Infographics (And Why You Should), insights.qunb.com
Conversion Optimization
- How to Convert Leads Like Unbounce’s Oli Gardner, www.evergage.com
- Science of Conversion Rate Optimization, yoast.com
Copywriting, Design & Usability
- Data-Driven Design In The Real World, Smashing Magazine
Display & Contextual Advertising
- Do You Click Facebook Ads? I Do. Here’s Why, fbppc.com
- LinkedIn Pushes In-Stream Promoted Jobs Ads, AllThingsD
Domaining
- Are These The 107 New gTLD Extensions Donuts Partnered With Demand Media On?, The Domains
- What GoDaddy’s acquisition of Afternic means for domainers, Domain Name Wire
Ecommerce
- Mobile commerce comes of age, Internet Retailer
Email Marketing
- 7 Best Practices for Email Deliverability, blog.marketo.com
- Email Marketing Relevance: Personalized important occasions campaign by online gift retailer achieves a 39% open rate, MarketingSherpa
- What happens after the Welcome? New study provides insight., blog.returnpath.com
- Which Email Practices Seem to be Working for Brands?, www.marketingcharts.com
Internet Marketing Industry
- DreamHost Taps DudaMobile for Mobile Website Builder, www.thewhir.com
- G/O Digital’s Shoplocal and Eyeview Launch V-Circular to Connect Video Advertising Content to…, PR Newswire
- Nearly Half of B2Bs Expect a Marketing Budget Bump in 2014, eMarketer
- Online advertisers: unwittingly funding cybercriminals since 2011 (Wired UK), www.wired.co.uk
Mobile/Local Marketing
- Developer Finds It Takes Just Under 4K Downloads To Break Top 10 Paid iOS Apps, Over 7K To Rank Fifth And Up, TechCrunch
- Why One Big Mobile News Publisher Is Embracing Google Glass, ReadWrite
Other Items
- How Digital Time Spent Breaks Down by Device, Gender, Content Area, eMarketer
- Larry Page’s Dream for the Google Logo, All Things D
Reputation Management
- Andy Beal – Ask The Reputation Management Experts, www.brand.com
Social Media
- Google+ Emerging With Relevant Buzz, www.socialmediaexplorer.com
- How I Increased Facebook Reach and Engagement by 200-300% This Week, ProBlogger
- LinkedIn plans “block” feature to screen unwanted visitors, GigaOM
Video
- Using Vine and Instagram for product video, eConsultancy
- Why Online Video is Beating Social Media, Small Business Trends
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