Stats of the Week: UX gets an F
Ad Industry Metrics

Stats of the Week: UX gets an F

10y Mike O'Brien

Stats of the Week: UX gets an F

Ad blocking is on the rise, in large part because advertisers haven't got their user experiences up to snuff, as these stats from new IAB research ref...

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Apple strikes back at the Worldwide Developers Conference
Conference Coverage

Apple strikes back at the Worldwide Developers Conference

10y Mike O'Brien

Apple strikes back at the Worldwide Developers Con...

During the Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple announced that Siri will, in fact, become open to third-party developers, in addition to desktop use...

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Stats of the week: All about mobile apps
Ad Industry Metrics

Stats of the week: All about mobile apps

10y Mike O'Brien

Stats of the week: All about mobile apps

What do 11, 15, -42 and 1 (and 5) have in common? They're all big numbers from the past week in digital for Pandora, Apple, Facebook, and Chick-fil-A....

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Why and how to comprehensively test the mobile usability of your site
Mobile

Why and how to comprehensively test the mobile usability of your site

10y Andy Favell

Why and how to comprehensively test the mobile usa...

Testing with Google’s mobile-friendly and page-speed tests is a good, but if you really want competitive edge on the mobile web this is just the start...

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Google beats Apple to become world's most valuable brand [Study]
Ad Industry Metrics

Google beats Apple to become world's most valuable brand [Study]

10y Mike O'Brien

Google beats Apple to become world's most valuable...

Since 2011, Google and Apple have been competing to be the most valuable, according to Millward Brown Digital's annual report. This year, Google is ba...

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Stats of the week: Six Snapchat figures from Mary Meeker
Social Media

Stats of the week: Six Snapchat figures from Mary Meeker

10y Mike O'Brien

Stats of the week: Six Snapchat figures from Mary ...

Mary Meeker's annual trends report was full of interesting stats. Here are six about Snapchat that demonstrate what a threat the platform poses to Fac...

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Report: Alphabet leads Zenith Global Media Owners list but Asia makes waves
Asia

Report: Alphabet leads Zenith Global Media Owners list but Asia makes waves

10y Sophie Loras

Report: Alphabet leads Zenith Global Media Owners ...

Google's Alphabet is the world's largest media owner by media revenue, according to Zenith's Top 30 Global Media Owners list, but China's Baidu is rai...

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Writing meta descriptions for SEO: a best practice checklist
Media

Writing meta descriptions for SEO: a best practice checklist

10y Christopher Ratcliff

Writing meta descriptions for SEO: a best practice...

A look at why meta-descriptions are important, how to create one, and examples of good and bad practice. Read More...

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Winners and losers of Google's latest mobile friendly update: USA
Search

Winners and losers of Google's latest mobile friendly update: USA

10y Juan Gonzalez

Winners and losers of Google's latest mobile frien...

Last week, Google’s John Mueller confirmed on Twitter that Google’s latest, stronger Mobile Friendly Update has been fully rolled out. https://t...

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How brands like BMW, GEICO and Lenovo create video content for the "skipping" generation
Acquisition

How brands like BMW, GEICO and Lenovo create video content for the "skippin...

10y Sophie Loras

How brands like BMW, GEICO and Lenovo create video...

Breaking down the winning formulas of top YouTube Leaderboard advertisements offers useful tips for marketers when creating engaging and shareable vid...

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The Digital Download: In with TAG anti-fraud program; out with Facebook Exchange
Media

The Digital Download: In with TAG anti-fraud program; out with Facebook Exc...

10y Mike O'Brien

The Digital Download: In with TAG anti-fraud progr...

This week in digital, we said goodbye to Facebook Exchange and Post-it wars, as we welcome TAG's latest anti-fraud development, Shift, and maybe Siri ...

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Google AdWords launches new features for a mobile-first world
Display Advertising

Google AdWords launches new features for a mobile-first world

10y Sophie Loras

Google AdWords launches new features for a mobile-...

Google has introduced new tools and features to AdWords to specifically address the consumer shift towards mobile. Read More...

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Google’s recent SERP changes and tests: everything you need to know
Search

Google’s recent SERP changes and tests: everything you need to know

10y Rebecca Sentance

Google’s recent SERP changes and tests: everything...

Over the past couple of weeks, Google has been spotted introducing some interesting changes to the look and layout of its search results pages. The fi...

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What’s in a name? (…not much)
Data insights

What’s in a name? (…not much)

10y Aidan Cardella

What’s in a name? (…not much)

You'd never choose a car based just on a name, so why choose audiences that way? Making targeting decisions based on segment names degrades the data's...

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The Digital Download: Ad blocking, online video, Facebook updates on the rise
Media

The Digital Download: Ad blocking, online video, Facebook updates on the ri...

10y Mike O'Brien

The Digital Download: Ad blocking, online video, F...

New statistics show the explosion of original digital programming viewership and ad blocker usage. Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Amazon have new fe...

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How will consumers react to Google's 'Chirp' smart hub?
Disruptive MarTech

How will consumers react to Google's 'Chirp' smart hub?

10y Rebecca Sentance

How will consumers react to Google's 'Chirp' smart...

Following numerous rumours that Google plans to take on Amazon’s Echo with a smart home hub of its own, sources have confirmed that a product team at ...

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How Nordstrom strategically beat Zappos in Google Search
Search

How Nordstrom strategically beat Zappos in Google Search

10y Christopher Ratcliff

How Nordstrom strategically beat Zappos in Google ...

Five years ago, in April 2011, Zappos’ market share in Google was more than three times as large as Nordstrom‘s.  Today, Nordstrom has twice the marke...

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Why audience retention with mobile video is more important than ever
Mobile

Why audience retention with mobile video is more important than ever

10y Frank Sinton

Why audience retention with mobile video is more i...

When it comes to the complicated world of mobile video, the most important customer you can reach is the one you already have. Read More...

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How M&M's mastered multilingualism for its milestone birthday
Strategies

How M&M's mastered multilingualism for its milestone birthday

10y Mike O'Brien

How M&M's mastered multilingualism for its milesto...

A song that's been trending on the iTunes for months was created as part of an M&M's promo. Mars helped it succeed by treating each channel like i...

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How Google fights webspam and what you need to learn from this
Search

How Google fights webspam and what you need to learn from this

10y Christopher Ratcliff

How Google fights webspam and what you need to lea...

Google has this week revealed its annual report on how it has policed the internet over the last 12 months. Or at least how it policed the vast chunk ...

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NewFronts News: YouTube adds to Google Premium
Media

NewFronts News: YouTube adds to Google Premium

10y Mike O'Brien

NewFronts News: YouTube adds to Google Premium

Video has been the theme of this year's NewFronts. Along those lines, YouTube announced new channels and programmatic capabilities, as well Google Pre...

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Why ranking tools need to evolve to keep up with search
Search

Why ranking tools need to evolve to keep up with search

10y Benjamin Spiegel

Why ranking tools need to evolve to keep up with s...

The way consumers search online has changed dramatically, but the ranking tools have yet to adapt to the search behavior of today’s consumer. Read Mor...

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Three last minute tips to make your Mother's Day marketing resonate
Email

Three last minute tips to make your Mother's Day marketing resonate

10y Mike O'Brien

Three last minute tips to make your Mother's Day m...

Mother's Day shoppers have a tendency to procrastinate so even though the holiday is just a few days away, it's not too late for your messages to reac...

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A majority of web users don't recognise ads in search results: report
Paid Search

A majority of web users don't recognise ads in search results: report

10y Graham Charlton

A majority of web users don't recognise ads in sea...

A report by Ofcom has found that just 60% of adults can realise that PPC ads in search results are in fact adverts.  The report by Ofcom, the communic...

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The Digital Download: Another volume of video vignettes
Media

The Digital Download: Another volume of video vignettes

10y Mike O'Brien

The Digital Download: Another volume of video vign...

The past week in digital was once again dominated by video: interactive videos on Facebook and Instagram, YouTube's live streaming and Amazon challeng...

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Why the reality of a virtual world is closer than we think
Acquisition

Why the reality of a virtual world is closer than we think

10y Sophie Loras

Why the reality of a virtual world is closer than ...

There seems to be something new happening everyday in the world of virtual / augmented / mixed reality. Here are some recent developments bringing the...

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The dangers of 'Googlizing' your site
Asia

The dangers of 'Googlizing' your site

10y Motoko Hunt

The dangers of 'Googlizing' your site

By optimizing your website for Google, you could be sabotaging your site for Baidu in China and Yandex in Russia and Eastern Europe. Read More...

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