Internet Marketing
IAB: Digital ad revenues could exceed $100 billion for first time in 2018
Growth continues, driven by mobile. Social and video see double-digit, if flattening, growth....
Feds call for public comments on US privacy legislation ahead of Wednesday’s Senate hearing
Google and IAB have both presented frameworks as industry groups lobby for business-friendly data privacy...
Despite buzz, only one-third of B2B businesses are committed to ABM, report says
A majority of B2B companies aren't confident in the quality of the data they need to drive an ABM...
Aetna’s Shiva Mirhosseini: Metrics, customer-first thinking, can bridge the sales and marketing divide
While these teams sometimes speak different languages, a focus on growth can bind...
New report: Facebook and Google among tech firms lobbying Congress for ‘kinder’ federal data privacy laws
The companies want pro-business federal rules that will override stringent state privacy laws like California's recently passed...
Report: Marketing leaders aren’t keeping up with the speed of data
The Forbes Insights/Treasure Data survey found that only 13 percent of marketers consider their companies 'leaders' in leveraging customer...
How does Yelp’s review solicitation penalty work?
Contributor Joy Hawkins provides an overview of how Yelp's review solicitation penalty works and explains why you should not ask for...
Report: Google and Facebook top advertisers’ list of fears that could impact their businesses in 2018
Regardless, advertisers will give a larger portion of their budgets to Google properties than to any other...
What negative SEO is and is not
In the first of a six-part series on negative SEO and its effect on links, content and user signals, contributor Joe Sinkwitz sets the tone by...
Let’s face it — clickbait works. Here’s how to use it to your advantage
Hook people with a creative title using the right words as "bait," and searchers will click your links, says contributor John Lincoln. Here are...
WFA to brands: Go beyond GDPR for online data transparency
The organization issued a manifesto asking brands to adopt a mindset of ‘people first’ over ‘data...
Want to target position 0? Here’s what you need to make that happen
Hey Google, how do you become the answer people hear on their voice assistants? Contributor Karen Bone explains how to make that happen by doing...
Here’s how to use Twitter to dominate the Google search results
If you want to displace negative content or build a strong brand identity, Twitter can help, says Contributor Chris Silver Smith. Here are 10...
All About the GDPR
While deregulation has been a stateside trend over the past decade, the 28 members of the European Union are gearing up for a massive increase...
AI marketing and the journey through the uncanny valley
“Things usually get worse before they get better.” “It’s always darkest before the dawn.” Whether it’s the valley of the shadow of...
The rise of the customer data platform as marketing’s ‘central nervous system’
Marketers finding success and efficiency from a centralized customer data center emerged as a theme at the MarTech Conference in...
4 domain name registration myths debunked
The internet is generally the first place people look for information on just about everything. That’s why when you register a domain name, or...
5 eternal marketing lessons you can hang your hat on
Trends may come and go, but columnist Dave Davies shows that the core principles of marketing are just as applicable today as they were decades...
Survey results: Here’s what 376 marketers say is working in online marketing
Wondering about the current state of the industry? Columnist Jayson DeMers shares highlights and stats from a recent survey of digital...
How AI is disrupting major industries
Advances in artificial intelligence tend to provoke polarizing reactions for most people. One, a dystopian anxiety where humans huddle in...