LinkedIn Sponsored InMail goes self-serve
Email

LinkedIn Sponsored InMail goes self-serve

9y Al Roberts

LinkedIn Sponsored InMail goes self-serve

In March, LinkedIn launched Sponsored InMail, an ad solution that allows marketers to send promotional messages to the InMail inboxes of LinkedIn user...

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Alibaba racks up $17.8 billion in Singles' Day sales
Data insights

Alibaba racks up $17.8 billion in Singles' Day sales

9y Al Roberts

Alibaba racks up $17.8 billion in Singles' Day sal...

Black Friday and Cyber Monday are right around the corner, but the world's biggest online shopping event, Singles' Day, occurred last Friday, November...

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Grubhub sparks social media controversy with CEO's post-election letter
Media

Grubhub sparks social media controversy with CEO's post-election letter

9y Al Roberts

Grubhub sparks social media controversy with CEO's...

The 2016 US presidential election was one for the ages. Read More...

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Facebook opens Messenger sponsored messages to all advertisers
Media

Facebook opens Messenger sponsored messages to all advertisers

9y Al Roberts

Facebook opens Messenger sponsored messages to all...

Facebook Messenger was the fastest growing app of 2015 and this year, as many expected, Facebook moved to monetize the messaging app, which now has mo...

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Insurers starting to get to grips with online conversion and complex forms
Acquisition

Insurers starting to get to grips with online conversion and complex forms

9y Jonathan Attwood

Insurers starting to get to grips with online conv...

Insurers went online a long time ago, but one of the major challenges has been creating an online experience that can handle the relatively complex in...

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Donald Trump is the first earned media president
Media

Donald Trump is the first earned media president

9y Al Roberts

Donald Trump is the first earned media president

Election 2016 is over and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump claimed the presidency in a victory that most pollsters didn’t see coming...

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Google Home Services ads come to mobile search (then disappear again)
Paid Search

Google Home Services ads come to mobile search (then disappear again)

9y Andy Favell

Google Home Services ads come to mobile search (th...

A trial of Google Home Services (GHS) ads on mobile is the clearest sign yet that Google intends to roll the GHS beta program out to the mobile platfo...

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Is Staples' Watson-powered Easy System the future of B2B sales?
Ecommerce

Is Staples' Watson-powered Easy System the future of B2B sales?

9y Al Roberts

Is Staples' Watson-powered Easy System the future ...

When Amazon Echo launched in 2014, some questioned its utility. Fast forward to 2016 and awareness of Echo, which can now be used to order physical an...

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Email: creating a low effort experience
Advanced Email Marketing

Email: creating a low effort experience

9y Derek Harding

Email: creating a low effort experience

Why creating a low effort experience is important in email marketing. Read More...

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Facebook is bringing its Audience Network to TV
Media

Facebook is bringing its Audience Network to TV

9y Al Roberts

Facebook is bringing its Audience Network to TV

By some estimates, Google and Facebook are capturing upwards of 80% of every new dollar spent on digital advertising, but with the pool of dollars spe...

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All you need to start your new online venture: 10 tools & 10 useful resources
Attribution

All you need to start your new online venture: 10 tools & 10 useful res...

9y Ann Smarty

All you need to start your new online venture: 10 ...

Are you starting a new online business? It’s always overwhelming! Here’s your ultimate resource list to help. Maybe you have had an idea f...

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The future of mobile local search part three: tradesmen, home services, verification and guarantees
Mobile

The future of mobile local search part three: tradesmen, home services, ver...

9y Andy Favell

The future of mobile local search part three: trad...

The third part of our of mobile local search series examines searches for tradesmen (paid and unpaid results) and the various trials and betas Google ...

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Do ad blockers hold the clue to the future of advertising?
Ad Industry Metrics

Do ad blockers hold the clue to the future of advertising?

9y Tim Flagg

Do ad blockers hold the clue to the future of adve...

Has 2016 been the year of the ad blocker? The numbers of worldwide users has soared driven by mobile uptake. Ad blocking is high on the agenda for bot...

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Three reasons you might not need Google AMP after all
Disruptive MarTech

Three reasons you might not need Google AMP after all

9y Ben Jacobson

Three reasons you might not need Google AMP after ...

Mobile devices currently account for more than half of all internet use on a global level, and yet, many websites are still not mobile-friendly. Even ...

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Publishers struggle with AMP page monetization
Display Advertising

Publishers struggle with AMP page monetization

9y Al Roberts

Publishers struggle with AMP page monetization

Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) initiative has gained significant traction in the past 12 months, and high-profile publishers such as Th...

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Snapchat's autoplay change reveals influencer marketing shortcomings
Media

Snapchat's autoplay change reveals influencer marketing shortcomings

9y Al Roberts

Snapchat's autoplay change reveals influencer mark...

Earlier this month, Snapchat stopped autoplaying video Snaps on its platform. Almost immediately, view counts for some of the top Snapchat accounts dr...

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The ad industry lashes out at new FCC privacy rules
Data regulations

The ad industry lashes out at new FCC privacy rules

9y Al Roberts

The ad industry lashes out at new FCC privacy rule...

Last week, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced sweeping new privacy rules that restrict how internet service providers (ISPs) can us...

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10 SEOs who rock at personal branding
Paid Search

10 SEOs who rock at personal branding

9y Ann Smarty

10 SEOs who rock at personal branding

It’s getting harder and harder to market yourself as an SEO professional. Here are 10 personal SEO brands to learn from. SEO is one of the faste...

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Twitter to effectively shut down Vine
Media

Twitter to effectively shut down Vine

9y Al Roberts

Twitter to effectively shut down Vine

Yesterday, Twitter announced that it will be discontinuing the mobile app for Vine, the short-form video sharing service that it acquired in 2012. Use...

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Cats, dogs, brands and social media
Social

Cats, dogs, brands and social media

9y Bob Cargill

Cats, dogs, brands and social media

It was absolutely hilarious, if you ask me. It was just a few weeks ago, on a Tuesday night (October 4). Two men vying for the second highest office ...

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Political ads are hurting brand ad effectiveness
Display Advertising

Political ads are hurting brand ad effectiveness

9y Al Roberts

Political ads are hurting brand ad effectiveness

Election 2016 will be over soon, and the coming weeks will no doubt see a flurry of ads as the campaigns and their supporters make a final effort to i...

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Google comes under fire for privacy policy PII change
Display Advertising

Google comes under fire for privacy policy PII change

9y Al Roberts

Google comes under fire for privacy policy PII cha...

Earlier this year, Google made a change to its privacy policy that is now drawing criticism from privacy proponents. As detailed by ProPublica, Google...

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Where is Google heading with mobile local search?
Mobile

Where is Google heading with mobile local search?

9y Andy Favell

Where is Google heading with mobile local search?

For better or worse, Google My Business (GMB) and Knowledge Graph (KG) are transforming mobile local search. It pays to watch the areas of innovation,...

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How to use buyer intent to write better copy
Content

How to use buyer intent to write better copy

9y Nikolay Stoyanov

How to use buyer intent to write better copy

Understanding your audience is the hardest thing in copywriting. Most of us know our target demographic and still, it is very hard for us to constantl...

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Is Google killing mobile organic search?
Mobile

Is Google killing mobile organic search?

9y Andy Favell

Is Google killing mobile organic search?

Click-through rates for a business website fall with its position in organic search results. But what is the effect when organic results are pushed fu...

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It’s time to deal with the next fraud frontier: attribution
Ad Industry Metrics

It’s time to deal with the next fraud frontier: attribution

9y Alan Beiagi

It’s time to deal with the next fraud frontier: at...

While ad fraud has become part of every marketer’s vocabulary, attribution fraud—the practice of gaming outdated attribution models to justify self-se...

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'Creepy data' goes bump in the night
Email

'Creepy data' goes bump in the night

9y Ryan Phelan

'Creepy data' goes bump in the night

Halloween is a scary time for me and not because I fear hundreds of kids banging on my door and hollering for candy. I’m terrified that they won...

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