Cats, dogs, brands and social media
Social

Cats, dogs, brands and social media

10y 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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Decoding Blockchain’s potential for brands
Blockchain

Decoding Blockchain’s potential for brands

10y Guest Writer

Decoding Blockchain’s potential for brands

Blockchain will transform your brand, no matter your industry. Technology and finance visionaries have evangelized the technology’s potential for year...

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Google comes under fire for privacy policy PII change
Display Advertising

Google comes under fire for privacy policy PII change

10y 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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How to get started with online reputation management
Community Management

How to get started with online reputation management

10y Tereza Litsa

How to get started with online reputation manageme...

Online reputation is important for every business and social media has escalated this need. How can you filter the noise to maintain a positive reputa...

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Where is Google heading with mobile local search?
Mobile

Where is Google heading with mobile local search?

10y 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

10y 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?

10y 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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Changing email habits and what marketers need to know
Email

Changing email habits and what marketers need to know

10y Tereza Litsa

Changing email habits and what marketers need to k...

Email usage is on the rise, shifting to mobile to create an “always on” email culture. How does email marketing change? The increased use ...

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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

10y 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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How to make longer web forms easier for users
Ecommerce

How to make longer web forms easier for users

10y Graham Charlton

How to make longer web forms easier for users

Some web forms have to be longer than normal. While an ecommerce site can limit the user entry to an email, delivery address and payment details, some...

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'Creepy data' goes bump in the night
Email

'Creepy data' goes bump in the night

10y 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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10 marketing metrics to master for first-time startup owners
Acquisition

10 marketing metrics to master for first-time startup owners

10y Amanda DiSilvestro

10 marketing metrics to master for first-time star...

When you’re just starting out as a business owner it’s easy to become wrapped up in the seemingly endless number of metrics you *need* to pay attentio...

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Why are high-consideration customers becoming more decisive?
Ecommerce

Why are high-consideration customers becoming more decisive?

10y Rebecca Sentance

Why are high-consideration customers becoming more...

If you’re a brand selling high-consideration, ‘big ticket’ items like appliances, cars or luxury goods, the customer journey is vitally important. Rea...

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Netflix grows subscriber base even with fewer top movies
Media

Netflix grows subscriber base even with fewer top movies

10y Al Roberts

Netflix grows subscriber base even with fewer top ...

On Monday, Netflix reported that it added 370,000 new subscribers in the U.S. in the third quarter, 20% more than the 300,000 it anticipated, and 3.2 ...

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Why Instagram expanded Stories into Explore
Social

Why Instagram expanded Stories into Explore

10y Tereza Litsa

Why Instagram expanded Stories into Explore

Instagram decided to highlight Stories and offer them an additional boost. What changes should we expect? It was two months ago when Instagram decided...

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Facebook adds scheduling for Facebook Live broadcasts
Media

Facebook adds scheduling for Facebook Live broadcasts

10y Al Roberts

Facebook adds scheduling for Facebook Live broadca...

Little more than a year ago, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg streamed the first live video from Facebook headquarters. In April of this year, his company...

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The new wave of visual search: what it can do, and what might be possible?
Search

The new wave of visual search: what it can do, and what might be possible?

10y Rebecca Sentance

The new wave of visual search: what it can do, and...

Visual search on the web has been around for some time. In 2008, TinEye became the first image search engine to use image identification technology, a...

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Five mobile must-haves to impact the customer journey this holiday season
Media

Five mobile must-haves to impact the customer journey this holiday season

10y Michael Della Penna

Five mobile must-haves to impact the customer jour...

According to Deloitte’s annual retail holiday sales forecast, retailers should expect to see an uptick in both in-store and online sales this coming h...

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Spotify trades users commercials for branded moment video ads
Display Advertising

Spotify trades users commercials for branded moment video ads

10y Al Roberts

Spotify trades users commercials for branded momen...

Spotify, the popular digital music service, is getting into the video ad game with a new ad offering called “branded moments.” Currently, ...

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Three ways to crack the more vs. less marketing content conundrum
Content

Three ways to crack the more vs. less marketing content conundrum

10y Guest Writer

Three ways to crack the more vs. less marketing co...

Running, in some ways, is a lot like content marketing. Why? With running, some articles say a walk would be healthier, while others extol the virtues...

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The emergence of the voice UI and intelligent assistants
Disruptive MarTech

The emergence of the voice UI and intelligent assistants

10y Michael Della Penna

The emergence of the voice UI and intelligent assi...

Earlier this year, a report from Consumer Intelligence Research partners (CIRP) pegged the sales of Amazon’s Echo at more than three million units. Ec...

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Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP): one year on – stats and infographic
Search

Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP): one year on – stats and infographic

10y Christopher Ratcliff

Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP): one year on – stat...

We’ve written an awful lot about Google’s open source accelerated mobile pages project (better know as Google AMP) over that last 12 months. AMPs impl...

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Nine great examples of web form design
Design

Nine great examples of web form design

10y Graham Charlton

Nine great examples of web form design

Filling in forms online can be a pain, but good design can make a lot of difference to the user experience.  To coincide with our new Marketer’s Guide...

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Can machines think, and what machine learning can teach us
Disruptive MarTech

Can machines think, and what machine learning can teach us

10y Janet Bastiman

Can machines think, and what machine learning can ...

One of people’s biggest fears about artificial intelligence is that machines will rise up and humanity will be obsolete, that we will give ‘them’ too ...

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How the rise of user-generated content changes marketing
Marketing

How the rise of user-generated content changes marketing

10y Tereza Litsa

How the rise of user-generated content changes mar...

User-generated content has become an important part of content marketing, with consumers being part of a brand’s strategy. How does this affect ...

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Move up the metrics value chain: social shares are great, but only if they lead to outcomes
Analytics

Move up the metrics value chain: social shares are great, but only if they ...

10y Adam Singer

Move up the metrics value chain: social shares are...

Something I’m asked frequently at conferences and from marketers is what metrics they should be striving for from their social media marketing. They ...

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Amazon to build convenience stores for grocery business
Ecommerce

Amazon to build convenience stores for grocery business

10y Al Roberts

Amazon to build convenience stores for grocery bus...

Amazon is the king of online commerce, but in an effort to become a real player in the grocery business, the company is reportedly preparing to build ...

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Social discovery app Stack receives £1m investment
Content

Social discovery app Stack receives £1m investment

10y Graham Charlton

Social discovery app Stack receives £1m investment

Social content discovery app Stack has this week received a £1m investment from Blenheim Chalcot.  We’ve been asking Oliver Cooper, co-founder a...

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