Here’s our recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on Marketing Land and other places across the web.
From Marketing Land:
Sheryl Sandberg & Katie Couric On Thriving Amidst Seismic Platform Shifts
It’s a mobile world and both Katie Couric and Sheryl Sandberg are doing their best to help their companies adapt. Couric and Sandberg, two of the top executives in the media-industrial complex, kicked off the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s MIXX conference today in New York with a discussion exploring that common ground. Both are leading businesses […]
Studio Launches Competition To Gamify Game That Will Promote Upcoming “Shaun The Sheep” Film
Once upon a time, movie marketing consisted of posters, billboards and TV commercials. My, how we’ve grown up over the years! Who would have thought an app game could be used to promote a movie release? Well, that’s pretty much standard practice now for certain films. One such film, Shaun the Sheep (due to be released […]
YouTube VP Of Content Tom Pickett Leaves Company
The Wall Street Journal reported last Friday that YouTube’s Vice President Tom Pickett had left the company. “Tom has played an important role over the last seven years growing YouTube’s operations and content partnerships organizations,” YouTube said in a statement to the Wall Street Journal, “The strong team he has helped build will continue to […]
How To Create Hands-Off Display Campaigns That Deliver Results
There are literally billions of possible combinations an advertiser can choose from to reach a target user, but not every company has the time nor the resources to take a trial-and-error approach to campaign strategy. For instance, what combination of audience demographics, gender, geographic location, occupation, interests and age range will deliver the most impressions? And, […]
Infographic: Requiem For Orkut As Google Pulls The Plug
Tomorrow Google will shut down Orkut, its first attempt at a social network. Launched in January 2004 — a month before Facebook — and named after its creator, Google engineer Orkut Büyükkökten, Orkut was very popular in India and Brazil; especially, Brazil where it was the dominant social network until Facebook finally surpassed it in […]
The Customer Experience Is Key: In Every Channel And At Every Interaction
Hard-sell advertising messages don’t cut it in today’s multi-channel, multi-media messaging universe. Instead, meet your customers where they live.
Google Beefs Up Mobile Ad Offerings For Brands With New Formats & Tools
As Advertising Week in New York City kicks off, Google is introducing new mobile display formats and tools that will roll out over the coming months. The push to make it easier for advertisers to run campaigns on the mobile web and in apps — with creative units that perform better than traditional banners — […]
Vine’s Android App Catches Up To IOS With Advanced Video Editing Features
Vine has updated its Android app with several new video editing features, including the ability for users to import previously recorded clips. The update, which hit the Google Play store Friday, brings Android users up to speed with users with iOS devices. The iOS app was updated in August. The new features include: the ability […]
Facebook Launches Atlas, Extending Ad Serving Reach Across The Web
Over the past few months there have been a variety of stories about how Facebook intends to challenge Google across the internet using Atlas. That day has finally arrived. The company formally announced “the new Atlas.” As previously discussed Facebook/Atlas promise “people-based marketing” and measurement across device platforms and even offline. The following is from […]
Up Close: Ello, The New Social Network That Is So Hot Right Now
Ello is having its moment this week. Sparked by a influx of people in the LGBTQ community protesting Facebook’s real name policy and blown into a conflagration by the tech blogging and tweeting digerati, the three-month-old social network is being swamped with so many requests its have difficult processing them all. Thursday Ello said it […]
Google Contracts Forcing Search, Apps On Android Partners — Report
The Information is reporting that it has seen “confidential documents … [that] show Google has been adding requirements for dozens of manufacturers like Samsung Electronics, Huawei Technologies and HTC that want to build devices powered by Android.” These requirements regulate the number of Google apps that must be pre-installed on handsets as well as the […]
American Greetings Leverages Nostalgia With Crowdsourcing Effort
The company is soliciting proposals for videos featuring the Care Bears and Strawberry Shortcake.
Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:
An AdWords Script To Make Exact Match, Well…Exact
User-Centered SEO: Creating Long-Term Value
Calculating The Risk Of Search Engine Spam
Udi Manber Moves To YouTube As Head Of Search
Are Games & Lyrics Sites Google Panda 4.1′s Biggest Losers?
Real Client Data On How Google’s Pigeon Update Affected Real Estate SEO
Marin Software, Kenshoo Named As Facebook’s Atlas Paid Search Partners
World War II, Communism Subtext In Right To Be Forgotten
Google Marks How Big Its Grown With Animated 16th Birthday Logo
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Affiliate Marketing
Affposts Posts All Your Affiliate News and Info, www.johnchow.com
Analytics
Bigcommerce Launches Real-Time Analytics, Business Wire
Blogs & Blogging
Are Blog Comments Really Dead? Experts Weigh In., www.impactbnd.com
Giving A Damn Is Your Business’s Best Blogging Asset, authoritylabs.com
How to Build a Popular Blog While Working and Raising Kids, www.blogtyrant.com
How to Update Your WordPress Themes and Keep Custom Tweaks Intact, www.wpexplorer.com
Business Issues
Forget AOL — Activist Attack on Yahoo Is All About Forking Over Alibaba Cash, recode.net
Content Marketing
How to Construct a Content Machine (Even If You’re Not a Natural-Born Writer), www.marketingprofs.com
Original Versus Curated Content, heidicohen.com
Resurrecting Old Content to Create New Assets, www.globalcopywriting.com
Two Critical Actions That Distinguish Great Content Marketers, contentmarketinginstitute.com
Conversion Optimization
3 Things Beginning Conversion Optimizers Completely Miss The Mark On, conversionxl.com
Brain Based Conversions: Using Psychology & Neurology to Increase Conversion Rates, www.thesaleslion.com
How Price Affects a Consumer’s Path to Purchase, www.adweek.com
Copywriting, Design & Usability
Balancing Line Length And Font Size In Responsive Web Design, www.smashingmagazine.com
Domaining
When Hackers Steal A Web Address, Few Owners Ever Get It Back, www.huffingtonpost.com
E-Commerce
5 eCommerce Fails and Fixes, blog.crazyegg.com
Chinese online shoppers favor U.S. e-retailers, www.internetretailer.com
Five essential elements every online store should have, www.launchgrowjoy.com
Email Marketing
5 Email Marketing Tools to Save You an Hour a Day, www.razorsocial.com
7 Reasons to Encourage Subscribers to Reply to Your Emails, blog.returnpath.com
DMARC: What It Means for Brand Integrity and Email Deliverability, www.silverpop.com
General Internet Marketing
Is Digital Advertising Ready to Ditch the Click?, adage.com
The Biggest Obstacles to Digital Marketing Success, www.marketingprofs.com
Internet Marketing Industry
In Shift, IAB to Grant Ad-Tech Companies Full Membership, adage.com
Mobile/Local Marketing
Mobile Advertising May Soon Rule the Marketing World, www.adweek.com
Why You Shouldn’t Have a Mobile Marketing Strategy, moz.com
Social Media
5 New Social Media Management Platforms for Small Businesses, www.practicalecommerce.com
7 Powerful Tips for a Winning Twitter Sales Strategy, www.problogger.net
How to Get Influential People to Amplify Your Tweets, www.mediabistro.com
How to Make the Most of Sharing Your Articles on Social Media, www.searchenginepeople.com
How to Plus ANY Update as a Business Page on Google Plus, www.internetmarketingninjas.com
Implications of 13 Social Media Statistics, www.adviceinteractivegroup.com
Pinterest Passes Twitter in Popularity, blog.getresponse.com
When social media over-promises, www.nickusborne.com
Video
25 most thrilling branded Vines and Instagram videos of all time, econsultancy.com
AOL, Publicis Group Expand Partnership Into Programmatic Video and Linear TV, www.adweek.com
YouTube, AOL Need the Right Viewers to Keep Advertisers Happy, www.reelseo.com
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