Google Analytics announced today a new administration landing page with upgraded settings that is scheduled to launch during the coming weeks. The latest round of upgrades will make all admin settings accessible from the new administration page under the admin tab, with account, property, and view settings organized into three columns. (Google is now referring to the 'profiles' setting as 'views' in an attempt to match the present and future meaning of what it represents: a view of the data Analytics.) Help content has been relocated under the 'Help' tab near the top right corner of the [...]

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According to visual analytics and marketing platform Curalate, brand images on Pinterest are 23 percent more likely to receive a repin if the image does not contain a face. Using custom algorithms to evaluate more than 500,000 Pinterest images, Curalate researched how an image's visual characteristics influence social media activity. Examining 30 different visual characteristics, including color, texture, lightness and saturation, the study found that images with lots of color are preferred, while red, orange and brown images are twice as likely to be repinned over blue pictures. Images of [...]

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Search engine and social optimization software provider SEOMoz announced today they are undergoing a major rebranding initiative and changing their name to Moz, in addition to launching their newest software solution Moz Analytics. According to Moz CEO Rand Fishkin, the company has evolved beyond an SEO software company, now offering a more broad set of marketing tools. "While SEO remains a key part of our product," says Fishkin in a release announcing the company's name change, "It's no longer transparent or authentic to say we're purely an SEO software company.” Not only is SEOmoz no [...]

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Last week, Amazon launched Engagement Reports to help developers monitor app usage metrics. Engagement Report data includes information from the Kindle Fire HD, the new Kindle Fire, and Android devices that use the most recent version of the Amazon store. Tracking daily and monthly active devices, installs, sessions, average revenue per device and retention, the Engagement Reports are free and do not have to be integrated. Users can filter the reports by marketplace, view them as a chart or downloaded as a CSV.  Apps submitted and published after October 25, 2012 will have Engagement Repor [...]

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I have a couple of cool tools in my kitchen: The Aero Press and the Vitamix. I love them both. The Aero Press is a convenient way to make a great cup of morning coffee. It helps me accomplish a habitual practice I engage in each day. But, the Vitamix (a high speed blender) has shifted my understanding and approach to food. I’ve learned to use different types of raw foods to fuel whatever activity I’m about to engage in (tip: try kale for mental clarity). This shift has improved my performance and productivity both mentally and physically (some in my family even point to a sunnier dis [...]

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Social media metrics firm Unmetric evaluated over 5,000 branded Pinterest pages to determine which brands are leading on the social networking site built on images. The data gathered spanned from all time up until March 14, 2013 to identify the top five brands in five different categories: most followers, most comments, most likes, most pins and most repins. Of all the brands succeeding on Pinterest, Better Homes and Gardens made the most appearances, showing up in three of the five categories. The report revealed that brands with fashion, recipe, home and wedding boards score the highest a [...]

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After analyzing billions of mobile app events during the first quarter of 2013, mobile apps measurement platform AppsFlyer discovered that social networks were the most effective mobile app marketing channel, but search delivered the highest quality of mobile app users. Comparing conversion rates, user quality and install volume across various channels, geographies, app categories, and user segments, the AppsFlyer Mobile App Discovery Report revealed that the most common mobile marketing channels included ad networks, app discovery platforms, cross sell opportunities, incentivized ad networ [...]

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With today's announcement of their viewability measurement tool, Active View, receiving accreditation from the Media Rating Council, Google released new data highlighting CTRs of display ads based on viewability metrics. According to their findings, users are up to 21 times more likely to click on a viewable ad. The viewability metric measures the percentage of an ad that is viewable on screen and the length of time the ad is displayed. To meet the IAB's standard for viewable impressions, at least, 50 percent of the ad must be viewable on screen for one second or longer. After comparing [...]

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Google announced today, four new real-time widgets that can be plugged into any new or existing Google-Analytics Dashboard, marking the first time real-time data has been possible in a dashboard widget. Allowing users to perform many types of real-time analysis at a glance, the widgets can be combined and customized with different filters to segment and compare data side by side. Users can also set-up real-time and non real-time widgets on the same dashboard. To set-up a Real-time widget, users click the +Add Widget menu option from the Google-Analytics dashboard. Once a widget has be [...]

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Video technology company Unruly released a Social Video Quarterly Report for Q1 2013 today, the first in a new series of quarterly reports measuring social video advertising trends. According to their findings, the Entertainment sector won 28.7 percent of total shares for social videos, followed by the FMCG/CPG, Tech and Automotive sectors. The two entertainment video campaigns that drove the most shares were a set of two trailers for the movie Fast & Furious 6, which generated a combined 4,090,803 shares and Fox's ad for the 'Homer Shake' episode of the The Simpsons which garnered 568, [...]

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SimilarWeb.com, the web traffic intelligence tool from SimilarGroup aims to set itself apart from other competitive intelligence and web ranking tools by harnessing the huge trove of  clickstream data that comes from their browser plug-ins. Much has already been written already about SimilarGroup's plans to unseat Alexa as the leader in web rankings, but the company also has services like Quantcast and Compete in its site. SimilarWeb.com uses data gathered from the company's browser plug-ins including SimilarSites and SimilarWeb as well as many others unrelated to the company's products th [...]

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A couple of weeks ago, Danny Sullivan noticed the Compare Sites feature in Quantcast had vanished. Today, we got word that the feature is back up and updated. The Quantcast Compare Site feature now allows site traffic comparisons of up to four publishers, instead of just two. The comparison view shows tabular graph results for uniques, people, visits, and page views, as well as a table view of the previous month's data. To access the Compare Site functionality,  go to any site’s profile page and click on the grey “Compare Site” button to the top right of the graph. Enter up to [...]

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One of my favorite features of Quantcast is the ability to compare metrics like traffic for two different sites against each other. Make that "was" one of my favorite features. It disappeared earlier this week, but the company says it'll make a comeback. Quantcast launched the feature in December 2006. One thing I loved about it versus other comparison tools out there was that if two sites "Quantified," used Quantcast's tracking code on their sites, you were getting about as direct comparison as possible. There was no wondering if the figures were perhaps off for one site versus the other, [...]

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Curalate has expanded beyond its Pinterest-based roots to offer Instagram-based analytics and marketing tools. In doing so, Curalate says it's the first company to combine data from both Instagram and Pinterest in a single dashboard. In a news release, Curalate says that 70 percent of social media conversations are using images, making it more important for brands and marketers to understand that images increase engagement. Among other things, the company's Instagram analytics lets users track brand images shared by Instagram users (and reply if they wish) see overall counts of fol [...]

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If you're one of those super-early adopters of Vine, there's already a way to get a basic snapshot of how your six-second videos are performing. The folks at Simply Measured have launched a simple Vine statistics report that brands or individuals can use. The service is basically free; it only costs you a tweet announcing that you're using the tool. Once the report is ready, you'll be able to see a variety of stats related to engagement for your Vine videos shared during the previous seven days. (Perhaps a paid version will go back further?) The tool includes data such as: Total Enga [...]

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Mobile app developers have a new tool to quickly see how users have rated their apps -- and their competitors' -- on both the iOS and Android platforms. Oh, and it's free, too. It's called Applause, and it's a new tool just announced by uTest, the same company that previously created Mobile AppGrader. Applause has analyzed more than 50 million app reviews from the Apple App Store and Google Play. The tool does sentiment analysis on those reviews to measure user satisfaction, and ultimately comes up with an "Applause Score" between 0-100. There's a minimum review threshold that needs t [...]

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It's funny how subjective using social media tools can be from person to person. Every day, I use at least a half dozen tools to post and track social activity online, primarily SocialFlow, Chartbeat, Google Analytics, Tweetdeck, Facebook Insights, Exact Target. On occasion, that toolset grows: Google Webmaster Tools, Simply Measured, PageLever, Followerwonk, Raven Tools, Curalate, Twitter Analytics, bitly, Muckrack, Tweetreach, Google Insights, Statigram, IFTTT... and there are more if I count the tools I use on a personal basis. I haven't used Union metrics for Tumblr yet (frankly I am si [...]

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This is a coup for Twitter: The company is partnering with Nielsen to become the first arbiter of the most socially successful U.S. TV programs. The companies have a new multi-year agreement to create the "Nielsen Twitter TV Rating," a measurement that Nielsen says will serve as a complement to its existing TV ratings. While the latter measures "first screen" viewership (i.e., on the television), the new Twitter TV Rating will serve as an industry-standard metric for "second screen" activity -- i.e., the reach of conversation on Twitter about TV programs. I called it a "coup" for Twitter [...]

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Adobe AdLens is now integrated with Adobe SiteCatalyst. You no longer have to export and import data between the programs, it can now be done automatically between the two programs. Adobe AdLens helps you manage and optimize search, display and social advertising as a unified campaign. Adobe SiteCatalyst, a real-time web analytics program that helps you with digital strategies and marketing initiatives. By incorporating SiteCatalyst into AdLens, data sets can be used for ad optimization, custom analysis and reporting in real-time. With simple deployment, SiteCatalyst customers can now a [...]

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Yesterday Facebook profile analytics took a step up with the release of WolframAlpha personal analytics. Logged in members (tied to the WollframAlpha Facebook app) simply have to enter "facebook report" into the search bar to get a variety of statistics about your profile. True to the mission of WolframAlpha, the new service is data-driven an ties into various knowledge domains.  Not only can you see some basics like the demographics of friends, weekly app activity, photo dates/times and geographic data, but also activity data. Personal analytics tracks all types of posts and displays data [...]

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