Marketing Day: Twitter’s Periscope, Facebook F8 & YouTube Stats
Here’s our recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on Marketing Land and other places across the web.
Barry Schwartz on March 26, 2015 at 5:00 pm | Reading time: 6 minutes
Here’s our recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on MarTech and other places across the web.
From Marketing Land:
- YouTube Shares Performance Stats On Google Preferred’s First YearCompany says, based on positive metrics, it will expand the program to 10 more markets in year two.
- Live Blog: Facebook Talks “Why Virtual Reality Will Matter” At F8The second day of F8, Facebook’s annual developers conference, continues with the second keynote of the day. Earlier, we heard some about Facebook’s Oculus VR platform. In this keynote, we’re promised much more about why Facebook thinks virtual reality matters. The talk begins at 10:30am PT, and our live blog coverage is below. You can […]
- Live Blog: Facebook Talks AI, Oculus VR & World Connectivity At F8Hello from the second day of F8, Facebook’s annual developers conference. Today’s opening keynote is going to cover Facebook’s work with artificial intelligence, its Oculus virtual reality platform and bringing connectivity to the world through Internet.org. The talk begins at 10am PT, and our live blog coverage is below. You can also watch it live […]
- The Marketing Tech Conference Expanding to Europe, Announces US 2016 DatesMarketing Land publisher Third Door Media has announced dates and locations for the next two editions of MarTech: The Marketing Tech Conference series. MarTech will be held next week at the Hilton Union Square in San Francisco. More than 1,000 delegates and 65 exhibiting companies will attend the event. MarTech Europe will take place October […]
- The Strategic Play: How Marketers Can Combine Elements To Avoid Missed Mobile OpportunitiesWith myriad ways for brands to get their message out, columnist Soo Jin Oh points out key strategies to help marketers stay ahead of the competition.
- Amazing Ways Marketers Can Use First-Party DataContributor Alistair Dent brings us part two in a multi-part series exploring the data landscape, what it means for marketers, and what you can do yourself.
- Twitter’s Live-Streaming App ‘Periscope’ Surfaces To Compete With MeerkatTwitter livestreaming stealth submarine , Periscope, is breaking the surface with best in class functionality.
- Vodka Brand Creates Mobile App To Program Personalized LED Messages On BottlesYou’ve heard of a message in a bottle, right? Medea Vodka thinks people will be equally intrigued by a message on a bottle.
Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:
- Report: Mobile Search Queries 29 Percent Of Total But Growth Modest
- Google Expands Product Rating Stars In Google Shopping Ads To UK, France, Germany
- WSJ Report Suggests Intervention In FTC’s Google Investigation By White House
- 5 PPC Testing Myths & Mistakes: How To Avoid Them!
- First-Party Data And Search
- Google News Ranking Won’t Be Impacted By The New Mobile-Friendly Algorithm
- Google Testing Removing Line Separator Between Search Ads & Organic Search Results
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Analytics
- 15 Google Analytics Tips to Speed Up Your Website Data Analysis & Optimization, KISS Metrics
- Google Analytics metrics for dummies (and clever people): Part 2, Branded3
- Maxifier and Moat Partner on Attention Metrics and Viewability, Market Wired
- Solutions Guide for Implementing Google Analytics via Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics Blog
Blogs & Blogging
- The Best WordPress Plugins for SEO, Social And CRO in 2015, The Blog Herald
Business Issues
- Google Sends Reporter a GIF Instead of a ‘No Comment’, Wired
- E-Tailer Frank & Oak Invests In Video, Mobile App Install Ads To Reach More Millennial Males, AdExchanger
- EU: Don’t use Facebook if you want to keep the NSA away from your data, Ars Technica
- LogMyCalls Acquires Media and Publishing Division of CallSource, LogMyCalls
- Meerkat Closes Funding Round, AdWeek
- Meerkat Confirms It Raised A Round Led By Greylock, Josh Elman Joins Meerkat’s Board, TechCrunch
- Twitter to Surpass Yahoo in U.S. Display Ad Revenue, eMarketer Says, Wall Street Journal
- Yahoo Transparency Report Update, Yahoo
Content Marketing
- 14 examples of evergreen content formats that work wonders, Econsultancy
- 5 Content Marketing Ideas for April 2015, Practical Ecommerce
- 7 Content Marketing Efforts You Should Stop Doing, Search Engine Journal
- Don’t Sound Like Everyone Else: 12 Essential Elements to Create a Consistent Brand Voice, contentmarketinginstitute.com
- Good News: Most Small Businesses Are Bad at Content Marketing, SEMrush Blog
- How to Use Visual Content to Drive More Traffic, Social Media Examiner
Conversion Optimization
Copywriting, Design & Usability
- Adding Remote Focus Groups to Your User Research Strategy, UserTesting.com
Display & Contextual Advertising
- Google AdSense Ads Graying Out Colors By Itself?, Search Engine Roundtable
- Google Will Not Integrate Its Dart Programming Language Into Chrome, TechCrunch
Domaining
- HSE.com is Largest Great Domains Sale, DomainInvesting.com
- NameJet Expired Domain Name Review, Domain Name Wire
Ecommerce
- Ecommerce represents 14% of overall sales for retail chain New York & Co., Internet Retailer
- Ecommerce Sales Sweep the Globe: Here’s How to Get in the Swing, www.huffingtonpost.com
- EU Probes Ecommerce in Bid to Wipe Out Competition Barriers, Bloomberg
- Target drives mobile commerce sales with flashy pictures on Instagram, Mobile Commerce Daily
Email Marketing
- Are You Making These Email Marketing Mistakes?, 1to1media.com
- Is Your Email Program Ready for Google’s New Algorithm?, The Return Path Blog
- Part 1: Back to Basics – 7 Email Marketing Stats You Should Know, business2community.com
- Use less content in email marketing campaigns for better click-through rates, The Business Journals
General Internet Marketing
- Wearable Technology Will Change These 4 Areas of Digital Marketing, blogs.imediaconnection.com
Internet Marketing Industry
- How Google Could Transform the $20 Billion Local Television Market, streetfightmag.com
MarTech
- Explosive Growth in Marketing Tech: 7 Categories to Implement Now, Marketo Best Practices Blog
Mobile/Local Marketing
- Virool Adds InLine for Desktop and Mobile; First-to-Market Unit Available on iOS, Market Wired
- App or Site: Which Mobile Strategy Is Right For You?, UserTesting.com
- Retailers make little headway meeting shoppers’ mobile in-store expectations: Accenture, Mobile Commerce Daily
Reputation Management
- Do You Care What People Say About Your Brand on Facebook?, cmswire.com
- Socialware Announces Social Brand Protection Solution, Socialware.com
Social Media
- Crafting the Perfect Social Media Headline, marketersbraintrust.com
- How Entertainment Weekly’s 3-Person Social Media Team Engages Millions of Fans, blog.hootsuite.com
- How to Calculate Social Media ROI: A Delightfully Short Guide, blog.bufferapp.com
- Why Vocal Employees Are A Company’s Best PR, Fast Company
Video
- Kaltura To Help Publish Native Video On Facebook, NetNewsCheck.com
- Marketers Experiment With Cinemagraph Ads, Wall Street Journal
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