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SEO year in review 2020: COVID forces platforms to adapt their local and e-commerce offerings, and more
Even a pandemic couldn’t slow down developments in the search industry. Here’s our recap of the year’s most important stories and...
Don’t miss out on the most unpredictable holiday season yet
5 advertising tips to engage online shoppers from Black Friday through Cyber Monday, and...
Marketing that our collective future depends on
MJ DePalma, Microsoft Advertising's Head of Multicultural & Inclusive Marketing, lays out the three core building blocks of what the company...
Microsoft Clarity, the company’s tool for visualizing user experience, is out of beta
The tool provides site owners with visual heatmaps, session playbacks, filters and metrics to help them improve their user...
Microsoft’s Digital Marketing Center for search and social management adds features, opens beta
The free platform is now open to U.S. small...
Back to school looks very different this year
For back to school season, know that virtual and online schooling is top of mind, and parents are leveraging search to know and do...
Microsoft launches a free Search and Social campaign management platform for SMBs
Digital Marketing Center powers both organic social media and ad campaigns across Microsoft, Google, Twitter, Facebook and...
Microsoft Advertising UI: What’s new (so far)
Love it or hate it, the double sidebar makes context switching a lot easier as you move between ad accounts or from other search...
Microsoft Edge adds Safari’s ITP rules so video, comment embeds on your site can function more easily
Support means embedded third-party widgets like YouTube and Facebook will work in the Chromium-based browser regardless of...
The paid search shifts of 2019 that will shape how we market in 2020
Automation, full-funnel campaigns, shoppable ads and privacy fueled PPC changes in...
Nine voice search stats to close out 2019
A look back at some of the year's key voice search and virtual assistant...
The California Consumer Privacy Act goes live in a few short weeks — Are you ready?
There's still time to register! Join us on December 17th for this live...
Salesforce names Microsoft Azure as public cloud provider for Marketing Cloud
The expanded partnership between Salesforce and Microsoft also includes plans for new integrations to connect its Sales and Service clouds with...
Search Engine Land unveils Periodic Tables of PPC at SMX East
The new resource breaks down key facets of paid search marketing, from ad types, to analytics and...
You can’t advertise that: The big list of prohibited ads across social and search platforms
To get ads approved in a timely manner, brands need to know what content is allowed, what’s restricted and what’s prohibited. Marketing Land...
Microsoft introduces XLOOKUP in Excel – and it’s a big deal for data reporting
The new feature addresses many of VLOOKUP's limitations....
Alexa devices maintain 70% market share in U.S. according to survey
More than 50% of sales are for entry-level devices: Echo Dot and Google Home...
Microsoft acquires e-commerce advertising vendor PromoteIQ
The sponsored products platform will be a division of Microsoft Advertising....
Antitrust mania sweeps Washington as Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple all face probes
A perfect storm of public discontent, politics and economics has produced a wave of pending investigations....
Marketing to the managed inbox: Why digital marketers need to own deliverability
Today we are kicking off a weeks-long focus on email deliverability and the increasingly important role it plays in marketing....