2014-07-25

Here’s a daily summation of what happened in online selling today, as reported on Marketing Land and other places opposite a web.

From Marketing Land:

Google+ Launches Showcase To Show Rich Media To Viewers Of Hangouts On Air

Google+ rolled out a new interactive underline for Hangouts on Air today, giving producers a ability to uncover viewers links to websites, videos, sell and other calm being discussed during live events. The Showcase app displays links with rich-media cards on a right-hand side of a Hangout’s video actor during a broadcast. If viewers click, […]

Report: Progressive Insurance Top Mobile Advertiser Of Q2

Mobile analytics provider Adomic expelled a Q2 mobile promotion report. It covers a operation of metrics and issues; among them, tip mobile advertisers, many used ad formats and a comparison of programmatic media shopping online vs. in mobile. The tip mobile advertiser in a US in Q2 was Progressive Insurance. Microsoft came in during series […]

Facebook’s Ad Machine Keeps Rolling; Key Q2 Metrics For Marketers

To no one’s surprise, Facebook again dejected Wall Street expectations during a quarterly financial call yesterday, stating income of $2.9 billion during a entertain a finished in June. The good infancy — 92% — of that income sum came from Facebook’s promotion juggernaut, an boost of 67% over a same entertain in 2013. In brief […]

Expedia Leverages #TBT With #ThrowMeBack to Literally Throw People Back To Their Memories

Today is Throwback Thursday, a day when all of us unearth some gem from a past and share it with a friends opposite amicable media. Today is also a day when Expedia is rising a #ThrowMeBack imitation competition on Instagram and Twitter. Starting currently and using by September, people can post an picture to Twitter […]

The Weird Al Yankovic Social Media Case Study

Weird Al Owns Social Media Content creators, amicable media strategists and PR professionals should tumble to a feet of Weird Al and path adult his artistic genius. What Yankovic pulled off this past week in a universe of calm edition was amazing. His 14th (yes, fourteenth!) studio album, Mandatory Fun, was expelled on Jul 15th, 2014. […]

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LinkedIn Launches Direct Sponsored Content, Enables Testing With “Dark Posts”

Today, LinkedIn launched a “dark” chronicle of a Sponsored Updates ad product called Direct Sponsored Content. These new native-style ads don’t get published to a company’s LinkedIn page, so advertisers can customize and exam ad messaging and creatives to targeted audiences. LinkedIn isn’t a initial amicable network to capacitate contrast by posts that aren’t published […]

Does Mobile Advertising Work?

We’ve all listened for several years that a efficacy of promotion — print, television, radio and even digital — is pang from a law of abating returns. While there is some law to that phenomenon, promotion in all forms is distant from dead. In fact, given 1926 (with a difference of a drop during World War […]

Turtle Wax Mines Social Media Gold With #Reflectie Contest

There aren’t many consumer products that enthuse some-more devotion than cars. We adore them, cosset them, gloss them and uncover them off to a friends. There’s a reason a 1975 lyrics by Queen’s drummer Roger Taylor — “I’m in adore with my car, gotta feel for my automobile” — tongue in impertinence yet they were, […]

2 Questions That Will Make You A Statistically Significant Marketer

Yay, statistics! If we run any apportionment of an online selling program, we improved still be reading. Marketers who don’t welcome a porcupine of statistics over a subsequent integrate of years run a risk of apropos insignificant. If you’re still reading, I’m about to put your career or business on a quick lane to statistical […]

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Mark Zuckerberg Says Facebook Search Is A Multiyear Voyage

Foursquare Sneak Previews New “Personalized Local Search” Moves All Check-Ins To Swarm

Online Marketing News From Around The Web:

Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate Exchange Now Accepting ALL Publishers, blog.bevomedia.com

Blogs Blogging

Reddit Live Is Official, Lets Anyone Create their Own Live Blog, thenextweb.com

How we Write 8 Blog Posts a Week While Running 2 Companies, www.searchenginejournal.com

Business Issues

Getty Images appoints Susan Smith Ellis as Chief Marketing Officer, press.gettyimages.com

Content Marketing

8 Social Media Tools to Get Your Content Buzzing Across Networks, www.komarketingassociates.com

Content Marketing With Ebooks: Leads From Freebies, angelabooth.com

Educate and Entertain With Real-Time Content, www.adviceinteractivegroup.com

Play Ball: How Your Content Marketing Plan Should Load a Bases, contentmarketinginstitute.com

What PR Experts Want Content Marketers To Know, www.goinflow.com

Conversion Optimization

How Predictive Analytics Is Changing eCommerce Conversion Rate Optimization, conversionxl.com

Copywriting, Design Usability

10 Insights on How to Attract More Traffic with Distinctive Writing, www.jeffbullas.com

Copywriting for a New America, www.agencypost.com

Display Contextual Advertising

20 Ways to Enhance your Display Advertising Campaigns, www.koozai.com

With Display In Decline, Marketers Are Searching Elsewhere, www.adexchanger.com

Domaining

Google induction “MusicKey” domain names for song subscription business?, domainnamewire.com

Of The 9,025 .Voting Domains Registered Over 97% Registered To Co. With Ties To The Registry?, www.thedomains.com

This Weeks New gTLD 1st Day Totals: .Voting 9,025; .Kaufen 4,325; Consulting 3,852; Media 3,438, www.thedomains.com

E-Commerce

E-retailers urge pivotal metrics in Q2, www.internetretailer.com

Ecommerce Optimization: 6 Reasons Why Amazon Rocks, blog.crazyegg.com

Email Marketing

Building an Email List, affiliatetip.com

Mastering a Email Marketing Campaign, blog.optyn.com

Writing a Perfect Customer Service Email [INFOGRAPHIC], blog.getresponse.com

General Internet Marketing

Know Understand Professional Digital Marketing Jargon, www.searchenginepeople.com

Internet Marketing Industry

IgnitionOne Introduces a Major Analytics Enhancement to a Digital Marketing Suite, www.ignitionone.com

Mobile/Local Marketing

Crosswise Is The New Cross-Screen Kid On The Block, Ad Exchanger

Despite Time Spent, Mobile Sites Grab More Moola than Apps, www.emarketer.com

Local Businesses Will See Reduced Check-ins As Foursquare’s App Drops Checking In Feature, www.thesempost.com

National Advertisers Increase Local Ad Spending, www.dexmedia.com

Vindico’s Mobile SDK Is Widely Released to Enhance Cross-Screen Campaigns, finance.yahoo.com

When to use pull notifications contra SMS messaging, www.mobilecommercedaily.com

Social Media

5 Ways to Find Leads and Customers on Twitter, www.socialmediaexaminer.com

8 Tweets That Generate Engagement [INFOGRAPHIC], www.mediabistro.com

American Users Spend An Average Of 40 Minutes Per Day On Facebook, techcrunch.com

Facebook Video Posts on SocialFlow!, www.socialflow.com

How to Get Started With Social Media Marketing, www.socialmediaexaminer.com

How to navigate a Facebook ad debate maze, www.insidefacebook.com

Instagram and Twitter May Pair Better Than We Thought, simplymeasured.com

Interesting contribution about brands that winning large on Twitter [Infographic], www.promodo.com

Managing a Growing Social Media Team Using Analytics and Data, simplymeasured.com

Retweeters: Why They’re Important To Your Twitter Marketing Efforts, www.socialbro.com

Social Media Marketing for Lead Generation, www.ducttapemarketing.com

This Is Why Nobody Sees Your Tweets, lkrsocialmedia.com

This summer’s box bureau hit? Twitter, Official Twitter Blog

Top a Charts! 5 Insights for How to Do Social PR, www.vocus.com

What’s a Difference Between Pinterest and Instagram? And 9 More Instagram FAQs, blogs.constantcontact.com

When an ad is not an ad on Facebook, digiday.com

Why LinkedIn Could Be The De Facto B2B Data Platform, www.adexchanger.com

Video

AOL Video Doubles NewFronts Haul, Names New Head of Sales, adage.com

Applebee’s consistent, interactive video knowledge opposite screens drives sales lift, www.mobilecommercedaily.com

How to Optimize YouTube Tags and Descriptions, www.reelseo.com

Instagram Video: The Lovechild of YouTube, Vine, and Lil Jon, contently.com

Video Marketing Tactics for a B2B Marketer, blog.visual.ly

YouTube Nonprofit Program and How to Get Started, www.copypress.com

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