Amazon Echo Could Sneak Voice Search Into Users' Living Rooms
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Amazon Echo Could Sneak Voice Search Into Users' Living Rooms

11y Emily Alford

Amazon Echo Could Sneak Voice Search Into Users' L...

Last Thursday, Amazon quietly released Echo, a device that uses voice command technology to answer questions, play music, and make shopping lists. Wil...

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Monty the Penguin Breaks Records, Wins Christmas
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Monty the Penguin Breaks Records, Wins Christmas

11y Emily Alford

Monty the Penguin Breaks Records, Wins Christmas

British department store John Lewis has released its 2014 holiday ad, titled "Monty the Penguin," which beat last year's ad in terms of number of init...

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Does Social Sway Elections?
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Does Social Sway Elections?

11y Emily Alford

Does Social Sway Elections?

This year, more voters than ever used smartphones and social media to keep up with political news, while hashtags like #IVoted became status symbols f...

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What #AlexFromTarget Can Teach Us About Seizing Social Opportunities
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What #AlexFromTarget Can Teach Us About Seizing Social Opportunities

11y Emily Alford

What #AlexFromTarget Can Teach Us About Seizing So...

On Sunday, a tweet about Alex, a Target employee, became a hit on social media, making the teenager an instant celebrity and providing Target with the...

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Why Do Smartphone Users Download Apps Only to Ignore Them?
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Why Do Smartphone Users Download Apps Only to Ignore Them?

11y Emily Alford

Why Do Smartphone Users Download Apps Only to Igno...

Nielsen research finds that while most consumers download dozens of apps for smartphones and tablets, very few apps are actually being utilized across...

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Publicis Acquires Sapient to the Tune of $3.7 Billion
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Publicis Acquires Sapient to the Tune of $3.7 Billion

11y Emily Alford

Publicis Acquires Sapient to the Tune of $3.7 Bill...

Global advertising group Publicis has added Sapient to its list of agencies, purchasing the company on Monday in an all-cash transaction in hopes of b...

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Activision and AKQA "Hack" Instagram for Call of Duty Fans
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Activision and AKQA "Hack" Instagram for Call of Duty Fans

11y Emily Alford

Activision and AKQA "Hack" Instagram for Call of D...

Activision and AKQA have manipulated Instagram's photo tags to create an interactive, choose-your-own-adventure-style story for fans of the video game...

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Instagram Is the Latest Social Platform to Dive Into Native Video
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Instagram Is the Latest Social Platform to Dive Into Native Video

11y Emily Alford

Instagram Is the Latest Social Platform to Dive In...

Instagram has unveiled its own native video advertising platform, which will introduce auto-playing 15-second sponsored videos to users' feeds. Read M...

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Twitter and IBM's Partnership Means Better Data Solutions for Marketers
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Twitter and IBM's Partnership Means Better Data Solutions for Marketers

11y Emily Alford

Twitter and IBM's Partnership Means Better Data So...

Twitter and IBM have partnered to combine Twitter's firehose of social data with IBM's analytics in an effort to offer business solutions to marketers...

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Tumblr Leaps Into Native Video With Auto-Play Ads
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Tumblr Leaps Into Native Video With Auto-Play Ads

11y Emily Alford

Tumblr Leaps Into Native Video With Auto-Play Ads

As Tumblr continues to grow its audience, the blogging site also hopes to grow its advertising revenue by rolling out auto-playing video content to u...

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Facebook, Pinterest Drive Social Traffic, Clipping Twitter's Wings
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Facebook, Pinterest Drive Social Traffic, Clipping Twitter's Wings

11y Emily Alford

Facebook, Pinterest Drive Social Traffic, Clipping...

Facebook accounts for the year's largest share of referral traffic, and Pinterest is a distant second. Meanwhile, Twitter has seen its referral traffi...

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Can Social Media Save "Old, White, and Male" Baseball?
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Can Social Media Save "Old, White, and Male" Baseball?

11y Emily Alford

Can Social Media Save "Old, White, and Male" Baseb...

As World Series viewership declines, SapientNitro's CMO Bill Kanarick urges baseball to go digital in order to stay relevant to a younger, plugged-in ...

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Google Inbox Could Make It Easier to Ignore Email
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Google Inbox Could Make It Easier to Ignore Email

11y Emily Alford

Google Inbox Could Make It Easier to Ignore Email

As content marketers anticipate the widespread adoption of Google Inbox, they must also prepare to personalize content so that it doesn't get pushed a...

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Twitter's Digits Ditches Passwords
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Twitter's Digits Ditches Passwords

11y Emily Alford

Twitter's Digits Ditches Passwords

Digits, a new app development tool from Twitter, makes it possible to sign in to an app with a phone number instead of a username and password, openin...

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Pandora "AMPs" Audience Analytics to Boost Musician-Listener Engagement
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Pandora "AMPs" Audience Analytics to Boost Musician-Listener Engagement

11y Emily Alford

Pandora "AMPs" Audience Analytics to Boost Musicia...

Internet radio service Pandora is offering its listener data to its artists in an attempt to help struggling musicians better target audiences. Read M...

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Businesses Understand Value of Social Data But Few Know How to Use It
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Businesses Understand Value of Social Data But Few Know How to Use It

11y Emily Alford

Businesses Understand Value of Social Data But Few...

A Hootsuite survey found that most businesses see the value in social media data but many struggle to organize that data into a successful social medi...

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Mobile Ad Revenues Soar as Search and Directories Flatten Out
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Mobile Ad Revenues Soar as Search and Directories Flatten Out

11y Emily Alford

Mobile Ad Revenues Soar as Search and Directories ...

The IAB's half-year ad revenue report shows record growth, mostly due to the rise of mobile advertising. Meanwhile, search and directory advertising h...

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Google Inbox Moves Email Into a Mobile World
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Google Inbox Moves Email Into a Mobile World

11y Emily Alford

Google Inbox Moves Email Into a Mobile World

The new product hopes to make email more interactive by allowing users to group messages by subject and highlight important information while providin...

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Leo Burnett Partners With The Huffington Post for a New Approach to Content Marketing
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Leo Burnett Partners With The Huffington Post for a New Approach to Content...

11y Emily Alford

Leo Burnett Partners With The Huffington Post for ...

Ad agency Leo Burnett has joined forces with digital publisher The Huffington Post to create branded content that focuses on audience engagement rathe...

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Marketing Firms Aren't Stealing Selfies, Just Analyzing Them
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Marketing Firms Aren't Stealing Selfies, Just Analyzing Them

11y Emily Alford

Marketing Firms Aren't Stealing Selfies, Just Anal...

There have been privacy concerns surrounding photo analysis company Ditto Labs, but Ditto's CMO says that Ditto provides essential data insights for m...

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[#SESDENVER] Is LinkedIn a Solution for Brands Tapped Out on AdWords?
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[#SESDENVER] Is LinkedIn a Solution for Brands Tapped Out on AdWords?

11y Emily Alford

[#SESDENVER] Is LinkedIn a Solution for Brands Tap...

Could LinkedIn advertising be an answer for brands that are "tapped out on Bing and AdWords"? According to founder of Righteous Marketing Robert Brady...

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[#SESDENVER] Mapping Behavior Lets Advertisers Predict the Future
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[#SESDENVER] Mapping Behavior Lets Advertisers Predict the Future

11y Emily Alford

[#SESDENVER] Mapping Behavior Lets Advertisers Pre...

Keynote speaker John Gagnon says that turning up first in mobile search is more important than ever before, and businesses that want to stay competiti...

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Sour Patch Kids "Breaks Out" a YouTube Series to Lure Teenage Fans
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Sour Patch Kids "Breaks Out" a YouTube Series to Lure Teenage Fans

11y Emily Alford

Sour Patch Kids "Breaks Out" a YouTube Series to L...

"Breaking Out" is a scripted YouTube series by Mondelez International's Sour Patch Kids candy. The company hopes to use the popularity of its YouTube ...

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eBay Invites Customers to "Shop the World" for the Holidays
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eBay Invites Customers to "Shop the World" for the Holidays

11y Emily Alford

eBay Invites Customers to "Shop the World" for the...

eBay has launched a multiscreen holiday campaign to highlight its diverse relationships with global sellers by connecting inspirational moments with i...

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Advertisers Seek Sleeker Alternatives to YouTube
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Advertisers Seek Sleeker Alternatives to YouTube

11y Emily Alford

Advertisers Seek Sleeker Alternatives to YouTube

Video strategists from Story Worldwide, eMarketer, and A&E Network agree that YouTube is king when it comes to video marketing, but continue to se...

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Square Order Uses Mobile to Offer Coffee on Demand
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Square Order Uses Mobile to Offer Coffee on Demand

11y Emily Alford

Square Order Uses Mobile to Offer Coffee on Demand

Square is enabling customers to pre-order a cup of coffee so that their beverage is ready when they arrive at the shop. Read More...

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Groupon Pays Customers to Grocery Shop With Snap App
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Groupon Pays Customers to Grocery Shop With Snap App

11y Emily Alford

Groupon Pays Customers to Grocery Shop With Snap A...

Groupon users can now download Snap to get cash back on everyday grocery purchases just by uploading pictures of their receipts. Read More...

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