Marketing Day: YouTube Says Growth Is Strong, Tough Mudder’s CMO Talks Video & The 7 Sins Of Martech
Here's our recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on Marketing Land and other places across the web.
Amy Gesenhues on February 18, 2015 at 5:00 pm | Reading time: 8 minutes
Here’s our recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on MarTech and other places across the web.
From Marketing Land:
- YouTube Says Growth Is Still Strong Despite Push From Facebook
YouTube’s head of content says the video giant has seen 50% annual growth in views for the last three years and that there’s plenty of room in the market for other players. - Sex Toy Maker Releases Interactive #BeyondTheWave Movie Trailer That Must Be Watched Together
In an epic content marketing effort, the company is developing a film to be released this summer and has shared a unique trailer for joint mobile viewing. - A CMO’s View: The Down And Dirty Details On Tough Mudder’s Video Marketing Strategy
Tough Mudder Inc. CMO Jerome Hiquet says his brand relies on video marketing to convey experiences that pictures simply cannot capture. - Yandex Suffers Q4 “Currency Headwinds,” Files Antitrust Complaint Against Google
Russian search engine and internet company Yandex is caught in the middle of Russia’s increasingly troubled relations with the West and the Russian currency’s precipitous decline. This morning Yandex announced Q4 and full year financial results. The company saw Q4 revenues of 14.667 billion rubles (roughly $260 million) and full year revenues of 50.76 billion rubles (roughly $811 million). These […] - Why Facebook’s Push Toward A Standard Of Viewed Impressions Is A Boon For Advertisers
Instead of the traditional ‘served’ impression, Facebook is working for a standardized ‘viewed’ impression to help feed-based sites offer advertisers more value and less mystery. - Are You Committing The 7 Sins Of Martech?
Falling into bad habits is easy, especially when the marketing technology landscape is so complex and overwhelming. But contributor Erik Bratt urges you to avoid these cardinal errors. - Innovative Marketers, Transformative Technologies – Attend MarTech in San Francisco, March 31-April 1
Next month, the community of innovators pioneering marketing technology adoption and operations will gather at MarTech: The Marketing Tech Conference. Secure your spot and save $250 by purchasing by this Saturday, February 21. Register now. Join us March 31-April 1 in San Francisco for: Presentations and panel discussions that guide your selection of marketing technologies, […] - Redesigning Your Ad-Supported Site For Viewability & Mobile
Columnist Rob Rasko lays out the important considerations for sites looking to draw more advertisers. - Facebook Wants To Help Publishers Fix The Mobile Reading Experience
Facebook’s chief product officer Chris Cox says the company is in early discussions with publishers about hosting their content and insists Facebook wants to be a partner not a conqueror. - Buzzfeed Video Chief: Facebook Is Driving Significant Views But Still Trails YouTube
Buzzfeed video draws 950 million views a month, 95% from third-party platforms. - There Are Only A Few, But Here’s How Early Adopters Are Using Twitter Video
Three weeks after the launch of Twitter’s mobile native video feature, most brands are not using it. The best examples are direct answers in Q&As.
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- See All Of The New Google AdWords Updates On One Web Page
- 3 New AdWords Automations You Can’t Afford To Miss
- Innovative Marketers, Transformative Technologies – Attend MarTech in San Francisco, March 31-April 1
- Local Businesses: How To Get Good Online Reviews That Build Business
- Alessandro Volta Google Logo Celebrates 270th Birthday Of The Inventor Of World’s First Electrical Battery
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Affiliate Marketing
- How Small Businesses Can Scale Their Affiliate Program, www.accelerationpartners.com
Analytics
- Marketers, Brands, and the U.S. Bet Big on Analytics, thedma.org
- Medium Founder Ev Williams Wants Better Metrics For Online Companies, techcrunch.com
- The Key Metrics of Influencer Marketing, relevance.com
- Valentine’s Day Data is in & the Stats are Depressing, blog.similarweb.com
Blogs & Blogging
- 22 tips to help you become a brilliant guest contributor, econsultancy.com
- Aligning Your Blog With Business Goals, www.seerinteractive.com
- How We Multiplied Our Blog Traffic in Two Months, www.semrush.com
- Optimize Blog Images for Maximum Social Media Impact, www.searchenginejournal.com
- Vanity Fair Courts Oscar Bloggers With a Twitter Vending Machine and Pop-Up Newsroom, www.adweek.com
Business Issues
- Andy Serwer To Be Editor-In-Chief of Yahoo Finance, yahoo.tumblr.com
- Yelp Gives Net Neutrality Five Stars, officialblog.yelp.com
Content Marketing
- 13 Simple Questions to Help You Draft a Winning Content Strategy, www.copyblogger.com
- 3 Lessons B2B Content Marketers Can Learn from B2C Content, www.iacquire.com
- Crank Up Your Content Marketing by Identifying These 6 Gaps, www.marketingtechblog.com
- How Better Content Can Help Your Sales Team Close More Deals, pushingsocial.com
- How To Structure A Killer Content Marketing Campaign, www.seonick.net
- Launching Campaigns with Collaborative Content, relevance.com
- Lee Odden on How to Co-Create B2B Marketing Content With Influencers, www.toprankblog.com
- The Best Content Marketing Tools for Creation, Promotion, Syndication & More, www.wordstream.com
Conversion Optimization
- 6 Must-Know Tips for Successful A/B Testing, blog.crazyegg.com
- Testing, Testing: The Economics Of Social Conversions, www.socialmediaexplorer.com
Copywriting, Design & Usability
- What to Do When Good Copywriting Goes Bad, www.impactbnd.com
Domaining
- Domain definitions: FLD for “Free Level Domain”, domainnamewire.com
Ecommerce
- 12 “Supermarketing” Secrets for Ecommerce from The Grocery Aisle, www.getelastic.com
- Amazon couture: Jeff Bezos wants to sell fancy clothes, www.internetretailer.com
- Beyond the Cart: 7 Features to Include on Your Ecommerce Site, www.lyntonweb.com
- Ebay North America CMO Exits Amid Restructuring, adage.com
- Why is shopping on your phone so difficult?, www.mobilecommercedaily.com
Email Marketing
- ‘Delete This Email!’ Why Mobile Email Matters to Your Business, contentmarketinginstitute.com
- 9 Ideas for Adding Video to Your Email Marketing Strategy, blogs.constantcontact.com
- Are E-Newsletters Over?, www.dexmedia.com
- Email Fraud Protection improved by early adoption of DMARC, blog.returnpath.com
- How to Capture Emails from Your Twitter Followers, www.takeflyte.com
- Lifting the shroud of secrecy around email sender reputation, www.internetretailer.com
- Over 71 Gmail Tips & Tricks To Make You A “Gmail Ninja”, www.minterest.org
- Q&A from our Ultimate Guide to Growing Your Email List webinar, myemma.com
- Surveys Say: Email Marketing Strategies Could be Upgraded, www.dexmedia.com
- Why Autoresponder is Marketing Automation’s Most Important Component, www.blogherald.com
General Internet Marketing
- 10 Most Costly Marketing Blunders I’ve Ever Made, www.quicksprout.com
- Brands should shift digital focus from creative to content, www.mobilecommercedaily.com
- Digital Marketers Weigh in on Budgets, Metrics & Mobile, www.gshiftlabs.com
- Earned Media and Its Role in Your Marketing Strategy, 3qdigital.com
- New Study Gives Insight into the Marketer’s Challenge, www.yeslifecyclemarketing.com
Internet Marketing Industry
- V12 Group Unveils Newly Designed Launchpad Marketing Cloud, www.v12groupinc.com
- Criteo Q4 and 2014 Fiscal Year Performance, www.criteo.com
- Forever Car Steers Its Search with Buzztala’s Organic Video Ads, www.prweb.com
- Hippo Enhances Web Content Management System Utilizing EMCA Documentum, www.onehippo.com
- Q4 In Review: Timing Is Everything, www.magnetic.com
Mobile/Local Marketing
- Apple: the mobile customer journey from search to checkout, econsultancy.com
- Cut Out the Bias: How to Achieve Mobile Marketing Success in 2015 and Beyond, thedma.org
- How Dr Pepper drove 213K store visits with programmatic mobile ads, www.mobilecommercedaily.com
- It’s 2015. What Does Mobile Mean Now?, www.emarketer.com
- Location-Based Advertising: What Role Can Publishers Play?, adexchanger.com
- Samsung Makes Move Into Mobile Payments, www.wsj.com
- The”Five Places” Method for Manageable Local Marketing, streetfightmag.com
- Why Doesn’t Mobile Convert?, www.usertesting.com
Social Media
- 10% of our 2014 advertising revenue will be donated to 10 charities you choose, www.redditblog.com
- 12 Data-Backed Tips About The LinkedIn Company Page, blog.bufferapp.com
- 3 Tips to Make Facebook a Lot Less Annoying – Without Unfriending Anyone, www.wonderoftech.com
- 5 Surprising Tips For Tweets That Drive Engagement, simplymeasured.com
- 7 Free Facebook Tools Marketers Should Consider, www.socialmediaexaminer.com
- (EASY) Create Stunning Social Media Graphics, www.clicknewz.com
- Facebook is a private company, and it will censor if it wants to, qz.com
- Facebook is working on virtual reality versions of its apps, www.theverge.com
- Failed 1999 Merger Paved Way For Facebook Dominance, People-Based Marketing, adexchanger.com
- How Not To Handle Brand Crisis On Twitter, www.johnpaulaguiar.com
- How To Promote Content On Twitter, www.searchenginepeople.com
- Key 2015 Twitter Trends Every Marketer Needs, heidicohen.com
- Learn The Twitter Tactics & Social Strategies That Gave Pizza Express A 4,400% ROI, www.socialbro.com
- Lessons on responding to negative online comments, www.businessesgrow.com
- Organic LinkedIn Domination, www.aimclearblog.com
- Real-time analytics at Pinterest, engineering.pinterest.com
- Snapchat Now Lets You Shoot Video And Play Music At The Same Time, techcrunch.com
- Social Media Marketing, the Five Guys Way, blog.hootsuite.com
- The 4 Most Helpful Metrics for Your Next Social Campaign, simplymeasured.com
- The Ultimate Goldmine of Facebook Marketing Training, www.adweek.com
- These 6 brands are killing it on Instagram and here’s why., www.stateofdigital.com
- Twitter Benchmarks for Brand Accounts: 4Q14, www.marketingprofs.com
- Twitter Safety Officer Talks Building Trust, www.wsj.com
- What do Your Tweets Say About Your Dark Side?, www.adweek.com
- Why Every Person in Your Company Needs to Be Using LinkedIn, www.marketingprofs.com
Video
- Adidas’s Stirring ‘Take It’ Is Crushing Web Video, adage.com
- Here’s how to do native video ads effectively., www.adknowledge.com
- JCPenney’s Twitter Video Ads Threaten YouTube’s Hold on Digital Commercials, AdWeek
- Video in 2015: Smartphone-powered, digital first, digiday.com
- YouTube makes a move against brand-sponsored videos, digiday.com
- YouTube’s Also Subscribed Section, googlesystem.blogspot.com
Opinions expressed in this article are those of the guest author and not necessarily MarTech. Staff authors are listed here.
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