Twitter Turns Seven Years Old Today #HappyBirthday #Twitter7 + MORE Mar 21st
Gadgetwise Blog: A Monster With a Sweet Spot for Jazz
– nytimes.com
The Miles Davis Trumpet in-ear headphones by Monster may not give you the most sound quality for the dollar, but they have lovely aesthetics.
The TechCrunch ‘Lean In’ Roundtable, Part 3: Linking Up With Real Mentors – And The Right Life Partner
– techcrunch.com
Welcome back for part three of our four-part roundtable discussion of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s new best-selling book Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead.
In part one, posted Tuesday, we discussed the controversy surrounding Lean In as well as the element of fear and how it plays into women’s career paths…
In part one, posted Tuesday, we discussed the controversy surrounding Lean In as well as the element of fear and how it plays into women’s career paths…
Twitter Turns Seven Years Old Today #HappyBirthday #Twitter7
– marketingland.com
Today marks seven years since Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s creator, sent the very first tweet, kicking-off a social media phenomena that has grown to 200 million active users sending more than 400 million tweets daily. Dorsey served as Twitter’s CEO until 2008 when he became the…
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A majority of people think their phone is the first thing people notice about them + MORE
Apple updates its controversial Podcasts app with playlists, tweaked UI, enhanced iCloud support
– theverge.com
Apple’s Podcasts app for iOS was probably one of its most controversial releases — thousands of users have complained in the iTunes Store about bugs, lag, and a UI that takes Apple’s skeuomorphic tendencies to the extreme. The company is trying to make things right with jilted users with the latest update to the app, which is available to download now…
A majority of people think their phone is the first thing people notice about them
– digitaltrends.com
In a survey recently conducted by mobile video site Vuclip, 61 percent of men surveyed claim that their cell phone is the first thing people notice about them. Women trail slightly with just 38 percent of those surveyed saying the same.
Apple Updates Podcasts App, Adds Custom Stations With iCloud Sync And Fixes Playback Resume Bug
– techcrunch.com
Apple has just issued Podcasts version 1.2, which brings a long list of improvements to the iOS app. Among the changes are a new feature that lets users generate their own custom playlists with any podcasts they choose, with auto-updating of new episodes for each. Stations are stored in iCloud and synced across devices, and users can choose to start with either the most recent episode or oldest unplayed one…
Sapphire is unscratchable, unbreakable, and the next big thing in touchscreens
– digitaltrends.com
There’s nothing worse than a scratched or broken phone screen, but thanks to advances in sapphire production, the world’s second hardest substance may soon protect your phone. We check out sapphire at Mobile World Congress.
Mobile Rewards Startup Kiip Launches Its Second $100K ‘Build Fund’ With Sponsorship From Pepsi
– techcrunch.com
A year ago, Kiip ran a “Build Fund” contest for independent developers, offering $100,000 in prizes. Founder and CEO Brian Wong told me recently that the fund was supposed to be a one-off promotion, but this year, enough developers asked if he was going to do it again that, indeed, he’s doing it again…
Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) has brought a bill that would require police to get a warrant before pulling location data from phones or GPS devices. Wyden, along with Representative Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) and Mark Kirk (R-IL), are reintroducing the Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance or GPS Act after a first attempt in 2011 failed to make progress…
SoundCloud has big ambitions — the company wants to leverage new partnerships with artists to become the leading destination for users to connect with musicians they’re interested in. To that end, the company’s releasing new iOS and Android apps today that add a few key features as well as a nice visual refresh (iOS only)…
Follow The Roadmap To App Success
– marketingland.com
Dorothy isn’t the only one who had to follow the Yellow Brick road to find her way home; we all need to follow a path to find our way to success, and the app market is no different. The app market for both iOS and Android is beginning to become overcrowded. Apple first opened its [...]
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Marketing Day: March 21, 2013
– marketingland.com
Here’s our daily recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on Marketing Land and other places across the Web. From Marketing Land: Is Android Vs. Chrome A Metaphor For Apps Vs. Mobile Web? Google’s early fantasy about mobile was that apps would eventually lose favor in…
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BlackBerry On The Defensive, Says BB10 And PlayBook Getting Approved By The DoD In April
– techcrunch.com
BlackBerry has now issued a statement confirming that its relationship is still on with the Department of Defense — for its sake hopefully closing the loop on the story that started with reports that the DoD would be dumping its deal with the troubled Canadian handset maker, once a mainstay of business users, who are now migrating to Apple and Android devices…
How to measure content marketing conversions using Google Analytics + MORE
Quora Rolls Out Full-Text Search: Good For Blog Ideas & Reputation Management
– marketingland.com
There’s no getting around it: the search experience on Quora was never all that great. As you typed a search, Quora would show results if your text was found in a question, in a topic name, or a user’s name. And rather than get a page of matching search results, you’d have to…
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How to measure content marketing conversions using Google Analytics
– vertical-leap.co.uk
Content marketing is well-known for generating a multitude of benefits, including increased traffic, enhanced brand awareness and better search engine rankings. It’s also a great way to boost your company’s reputation, positioning you as a thought-leader within your industry.These are some great benefits and can be achieved without massive cost and time outgoings – particularly if you’re using a combination of in-house and external resources – but in this day and age Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) want to see bang for their buck…
Consumers Still Pretty Suspicious About Social Media Marketing, Forrester Survey Finds Mar 21st
Consumers Still Pretty Suspicious About Social Media Marketing, Forrester Survey Finds
– techcrunch.com
Forrester has put out a new digital marketing report, off the back of a survey of more than 58,000 online consumers, looking at how brands can better sell themselves and create content that flies in the digital age. One interesting takeaway is a chart (see below) which shows how U.S. and European consumers react to different types of advertising/marketing content…
Consumers Still Pretty Suspicious About Social Media Marketing, Forrester Survey Finds + MORE Mar 21st
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Twitter Turns Seven Years Old Today #HappyBirthday #Twitter7 + MORE Mar 21st
Today marks seven years since Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s creator, sent the very first tweet, kicking-off a social media phenomena that has grown to 200 million active users sending more than 400 million tweets daily. Dorsey served as Twitter’s CEO until 2008 when he became the...
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Firefox Nightly Now Includes OdinMonkey, Brings JavaScript Closer To Running At Native Speeds
– techcrunch.com
Browsers today are able to execute JavaScript code significantly faster than just a few years ago, but even as our web apps now look more like desktop apps, JavaScript performance is still a far cry from what you can expect from a native program written in something like C or C++. To bridge this gap, Mozilla launched the asm…
Instagram is currently experiencing major problems with its instagr.am URL shortener, which has resulted in photos being unavailable across Twitter and Facebook. Substituting the full Instagram domain (i.e.: instagram.com/p/xxxx) seems to be a temporary fix, but the massively popular photo app utilizes the shortener by default — meaning any photo you share to social networks can’t be viewed at the moment…
Consumers Still Pretty Suspicious About Social Media Marketing, Forrester Survey Finds
– techcrunch.com
Forrester has put out a new digital marketing report, off the back of a survey of more than 58,000 online consumers, looking at how brands can better sell themselves and create content that flies in the digital age. One interesting takeaway is a chart (see below) which shows how U.S. and European consumers react to different types of advertising/marketing content…
Bing Snapshots Grow To Understand People, Places & Things With “Satori” Expansion + MORE Mar 21st
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Consumers Still Pretty Suspicious About Social Media Marketing, Forrester Survey Finds + MORE Mar 21st
Forrester has put out a new digital marketing report, off the back of a survey of more than 58,000 online consumers, looking at how brands can better sell themselves and create content that flies in the digital age. One interesting takeaway is a chart (see below) which shows how U.S. and European co.... More »
Twitter Turns Seven Years Old Today #HappyBirthday #Twitter7 + MORE Mar 21st
Today marks seven years since Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s creator, sent the very first tweet, kicking-off a social media phenomena that has grown to 200 million active users sending more than 400 million tweets daily. Dorsey served as Twitter’s CEO until 2008 when he became the...
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Bing Snapshots Grow To Understand People, Places & Things With “Satori” Expansion
– searchengineland.com
Over the past year, Bing’s been steadily growing the “Snapshots” it shows on the right-hand side of its pages. Now Bing says those are taking another leap to better understand relationships between people, places and things using an expansion of what it calls its…
Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article…
Workarounds To Make Enhanced Campaigns More Flexible
– searchengineland.com
Last week at SMX West, I was on the “SEM Best Practices Debate” panel. Several of the topics we debated were related to Enhanced Campaigns, clearly something on the minds of search marketers these days. This month, I’ll recap a few take-aways from the event and share some ideas for…
Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article…
How to measure content marketing conversions using Google Analytics
– vertical-leap.co.uk
Content marketing is well-known for generating a multitude of benefits, including increased traffic, enhanced brand awareness and better search engine rankings. It’s also a great way to boost your company’s reputation, positioning you as a thought-leader within your industry.These are some great benefits and can be achieved without massive cost and time outgoings – particularly if you’re using a combination of in-house and external resources – but in this day and age Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) want to see bang for their buck…
Workarounds To Make Enhanced Campaigns More Flexible + MORE Mar 21st
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Twitter Turns Seven Years Old Today #HappyBirthday #Twitter7 + MORE Mar 21st
Today marks seven years since Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s creator, sent the very first tweet, kicking-off a social media phenomena that has grown to 200 million active users sending more than 400 million tweets daily. Dorsey served as Twitter’s CEO until 2008 when he became the...
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Bing Snapshots Grow To Understand People, Places & Things With “Satori” Expansion + MORE Mar 21st
Over the past year, Bing’s been steadily growing the “Snapshots” it shows on the right-hand side of its pages. Now Bing says those are taking another leap to better understand relationships between people, places and things using an expansion of what it calls its...
Please visit S.... More »
Consumers Still Pretty Suspicious About Social Media Marketing, Forrester Survey Finds + MORE Mar 21st
Forrester has put out a new digital marketing report, off the back of a survey of more than 58,000 online consumers, looking at how brands can better sell themselves and create content that flies in the digital age. One interesting takeaway is a chart (see below) which shows how U.S. and European co.... More »
Workarounds To Make Enhanced Campaigns More Flexible
– searchengineland.com
Last week at SMX West, I was on the “SEM Best Practices Debate” panel. Several of the topics we debated were related to Enhanced Campaigns, clearly something on the minds of search marketers these days. This month, I’ll recap a few take-aways from the event and share some ideas for…
Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article…
How to measure content marketing conversions using Google Analytics
– vertical-leap.co.uk
Content marketing is well-known for generating a multitude of benefits, including increased traffic, enhanced brand awareness and better search engine rankings. It’s also a great way to boost your company’s reputation, positioning you as a thought-leader within your industry.These are some great benefits and can be achieved without massive cost and time outgoings – particularly if you’re using a combination of in-house and external resources – but in this day and age Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) want to see bang for their buck…
Bing Snapshots Grow To Understand People, Places & Things With “Satori” Expansion
– searchengineland.com
Over the past year, Bing’s been steadily growing the “Snapshots” it shows on the right-hand side of its pages. Now Bing says those are taking another leap to better understand relationships between people, places and things using an expansion of what it calls its…
Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article…
Just As CEO Heins Predicted, BlackBerry World Now Plays Home To Over 100,000 Apps + MORE Mar 21st
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Consumers Still Pretty Suspicious About Social Media Marketing, Forrester Survey Finds Mar 21st
Forrester has put out a new digital marketing report, off the back of a survey of more than 58,000 online consumers, looking at how brands can better sell themselves and create content that flies in the digital age. One interesting takeaway is a chart (see below) which shows how U.S. and European co.... More »
BlackBerry announced earlier today that its BlackBerry World content portal has officially crossed the 100,000 app marker, and has chosen to celebrate by talking up availability of some select, high-profile apps. New Amazon Kindle, OpenTable and Wall Street Journal apps have already gone live in the market, and BlackBerry has said that eBay, Skype, Soundhound, and Viber (just to name a few) are being prepped for launches in the “coming weeks…
Search engines are increasingly moving from lists of content to directories that figure out what you want and highlight it. In Bing, that means Snapshot, a sidebar that appears for popular searches like “Abraham Lincoln” with photos, short biographies, and related information. Today, Microsoft is expanding Snapshot to pull in more information from search patterns and social networks…
Winning the Search & Social Game of Thrones – Q&A With Bing’s Duane Forrester
– searchenginewatch.com
Why do social signals matter to search? What types of content do search engines respond to? Bing’s Duane Forrester discusses social SEO dos and don’ts, and what areas businesses should invest in to win in the search “Game of Thrones”.
How to measure content marketing conversions using Google Analytics
– vertical-leap.co.uk
Content marketing is well-known for generating a multitude of benefits, including increased traffic, enhanced brand awareness and better search engine rankings. It’s also a great way to boost your company’s reputation, positioning you as a thought-leader within your industry.These are some great benefits and can be achieved without massive cost and time outgoings – particularly if you’re using a combination of in-house and external resources – but in this day and age Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) want to see bang for their buck…
How to replace Google Alerts for superior competitor analysis
– econsultancy.com
If you work in search, PR or content marketing, you may have experienced an alarming drop off in Google Alerts recently.Search pioneers and industry specific verticals that rely heavily on tracking competitors via Google Alerts have recently noticed the feed slow to a trickle of what it used to be, but the show must go on!
So, here are some ingenious alternatives from the experts to keep you plugged in…
Media Decoder Blog: The Breakfast Meeting: Fallon to Become Host of ‘Tonight’ and Ads Aim to Close Digital Divide + MORE Mar 21st
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Bing Snapshots Grow To Understand People, Places & Things With “Satori” Expansion + MORE Mar 21st
Over the past year, Bing’s been steadily growing the “Snapshots” it shows on the right-hand side of its pages. Now Bing says those are taking another leap to better understand relationships between people, places and things using an expansion of what it calls its...
Please visit S.... More »
Workarounds To Make Enhanced Campaigns More Flexible + MORE Mar 21st
Last week at SMX West, I was on the “SEM Best Practices Debate” panel. Several of the topics we debated were related to Enhanced Campaigns, clearly something on the minds of search marketers these days. This month, I’ll recap a few take-aways from the event and share some ideas for...
.... More »
Twitter Turns Seven Years Old Today #HappyBirthday #Twitter7 + MORE Mar 21st
Today marks seven years since Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s creator, sent the very first tweet, kicking-off a social media phenomena that has grown to 200 million active users sending more than 400 million tweets daily. Dorsey served as Twitter’s CEO until 2008 when he became the...
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Consumers Still Pretty Suspicious About Social Media Marketing, Forrester Survey Finds + MORE Mar 21st
Forrester has put out a new digital marketing report, off the back of a survey of more than 58,000 online consumers, looking at how brands can better sell themselves and create content that flies in the digital age. One interesting takeaway is a chart (see below) which shows how U.S. and European co.... More »
Changing the application and enrollments patterns of high-achieving, low-income students will probably take an enormous amount of initial work. Over time, though, the work will get easier.
Media Decoder Blog: The Breakfast Meeting: Fallon to Become Host of ‘Tonight’ and Ads Aim to Close Digital Divide
– nytimes.com
NBC is planning for Jimmy Fallon to take over the “Tonight” show from Jay Leno, a new campaign seeks to diminish the digital divide in the United States, and the new Big East conference kicked off at News Corporation’s headquarters.
7 Tips For Layering Professional Services Revenue Into Your Startup
– techcrunch.com
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Mark Suster (@msuster), a 2x entrepreneur, now VC at GRP Partners. Read more about Suster at his Startup Blog, BothSidesoftheTable.
I recently wrote a blog post in which I pointed out that many investors and advisors discourage enterprise startups from having a professional services (PS) business and I think this is a big mistake…
I recently wrote a blog post in which I pointed out that many investors and advisors discourage enterprise startups from having a professional services (PS) business and I think this is a big mistake…
German Language Learning Startup Babbel Buys Disrupt Finalist PlaySay To Target The US Market Mar 21st
German Language Learning Startup Babbel Buys Disrupt Finalist PlaySay To Target The US Market
– techcrunch.com
The world of language learning startups is going international. Today, Berlin-based Babbel, which creates online and mobile-based language learning courses, is buying PlaySay, a TC Disrupt finalist that focused on creating mobile apps that turned the process of learning languages into a game — modelled somewhat loosely on the back-and-forth paired-play concept of “Draw Something…
Five important PPC trends Mar 21st
Five important PPC trends
– econsultancy.com
The PPC (pay per click) landscape is continually changing as Google introduces new features, and advertisers become more savvy with regards to the customer information that they’re tracking, and more accomplished at processing and extracting insights from that wealth of data.
Here are five key areas that I am predicting will have an increasing amount of impact on our PPC activities in the year ahead…
Native Video Ads Drive Higher Brand-Lift Metrics When Compared To Pre-Roll Videos + MORE Mar 21st
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Consumers Still Pretty Suspicious About Social Media Marketing, Forrester Survey Finds Mar 21st
Forrester has put out a new digital marketing report, off the back of a survey of more than 58,000 online consumers, looking at how brands can better sell themselves and create content that flies in the digital age. One interesting takeaway is a chart (see below) which shows how U.S. and European co.... More »
Just As CEO Heins Predicted, BlackBerry World Now Plays Home To Over 100,000 Apps + MORE Mar 21st
BlackBerry announced earlier today that its BlackBerry World content portal has officially crossed the 100,000 app marker, and has chosen to celebrate by talking up availability of some select, high-profile apps. New Amazon Kindle, OpenTable and Wall Street Journal apps have already gone live in the.... More »
How to Write Interesting Content for a “Boring” Topic
– copyblogger.com
If you’re lamenting how “boring” the niche you’re writing in is, take heart … I’m here to tell that you can make it interesting to the right audience.
The secret to making so-called boring source material work is almost shocking in its simplicity.
It’s not necessarily about conducting market research, writing style, creating expensive infographics, or the having the right connections…
The secret to making so-called boring source material work is almost shocking in its simplicity.
It’s not necessarily about conducting market research, writing style, creating expensive infographics, or the having the right connections…
Native Video Ads Drive Higher Brand-Lift Metrics When Compared To Pre-Roll Videos
– marketingland.com
Nielsen, a global information and measurement company, collaborated with Sharethrough, a native advertising company, on a performance study comparing the brand-building effectiveness of native video ads against pre-roll video ad units. The study found native video ads, user-initiated content-based…..
Rumblefish, Soundtrack Licensing Partner To YouTube And Others, Buys Catalogik To Improve Music Search + MORE Mar 21st
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Workarounds To Make Enhanced Campaigns More Flexible + MORE Mar 21st
Last week at SMX West, I was on the “SEM Best Practices Debate” panel. Several of the topics we debated were related to Enhanced Campaigns, clearly something on the minds of search marketers these days. This month, I’ll recap a few take-aways from the event and share some ideas for...
.... More »
Media Decoder Blog: The Breakfast Meeting: Fallon to Become Host of ‘Tonight’ and Ads Aim to Close Digital Divide + MORE Mar 21st
NBC is planning for Jimmy Fallon to take over the “Tonight” show from Jay Leno, a new campaign seeks to diminish the digital divide in the United States, and the new Big East conference kicked off at News Corporation’s headquarters..... More »
Consumers Still Pretty Suspicious About Social Media Marketing, Forrester Survey Finds + MORE Mar 21st
Forrester has put out a new digital marketing report, off the back of a survey of more than 58,000 online consumers, looking at how brands can better sell themselves and create content that flies in the digital age. One interesting takeaway is a chart (see below) which shows how U.S. and European co.... More »
Bing Snapshots Grow To Understand People, Places & Things With “Satori” Expansion + MORE Mar 21st
Over the past year, Bing’s been steadily growing the “Snapshots” it shows on the right-hand side of its pages. Now Bing says those are taking another leap to better understand relationships between people, places and things using an expansion of what it calls its...
Please visit S.... More »
Twitter Turns Seven Years Old Today #HappyBirthday #Twitter7 + MORE Mar 21st
Today marks seven years since Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s creator, sent the very first tweet, kicking-off a social media phenomena that has grown to 200 million active users sending more than 400 million tweets daily. Dorsey served as Twitter’s CEO until 2008 when he became the...
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Topless Nude Photo Makes It Way To The Google Knowledge Graph
– searchengineland.com
You would think that when you search for something in Google and an image comes up in their knowledge graph that the image would be rated PG-13. Well, that is not the case when you search for (warning: topless image if you click the link) [Angel Tompkins]. The image shown for her is from a [...]
Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article…
Rumblefish, Soundtrack Licensing Partner To YouTube And Others, Buys Catalogik To Improve Music Search
– techcrunch.com
A note of consolidation in the world of digital music: Rumblefish, a company that works with the likes of YouTube, Amazon, Vimeo, Facebook and Slideshare to let users add licensed soundtracks to their digital creations, is today announcing the acquisition of Catalogik, a platform to help find and monitor the use of specific digital tracks…
For almost 50 years, Diet Wiegman has created beauty from junk. Wiegman’s light sculptures utilize trash, scrap metal, and other objects to cast stunning shadows. His work includes Greedy consumption, an amazing recreation of the globe using scraps of food and a silver plate; Spider, a pyramid that casts the shadow of an Arachnid on a nearby wall; and David Deformed, a 1983 re-imagining of Michaelangelo’s David…
Who’s the Best PPC Manager? Best PPC Software? You Decide. + MORE Mar 21st
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Five important PPC trends Mar 21st
The PPC (pay per click) landscape is continually changing as Google introduces new features, and advertisers become more savvy with regards to the customer information that they're tracking, and more accomplished at processing and extracting insights from that wealth of data.
Here are five key ar.... More »
Round two of search marketing madness continues today! You can vote for blogs and conferences until Monday, but today is all about the Best/Most Influential PPC Manager along with the Best PPC Software. Voting will close on Monday of next week (around noon EST), so make sure to jump on this competition as quickly as you can…Quality Score Insights From Microsoft’s Ping Jen
– searchenginewatch.com
What is the difference between Bing Ads vs. Google AdWords quality score? Jen explains, and also offers his advice about recent vs. historical performance, using exact match as your baseline, and how improve landing page relevance.
‘YouTube For Business’, Vidyard, Raises $6M Series A Led By OMERS Ventures To Build Out Its Video Marketing & Analytics Platform + MORE Mar 21st
Latest Posts
Bing Snapshots Grow To Understand People, Places & Things With “Satori” Expansion + MORE Mar 21st
Over the past year, Bing’s been steadily growing the “Snapshots” it shows on the right-hand side of its pages. Now Bing says those are taking another leap to better understand relationships between people, places and things using an expansion of what it calls its...
Please visit S.... More »
Twitter Turns Seven Years Old Today #HappyBirthday #Twitter7 + MORE Mar 21st
Today marks seven years since Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s creator, sent the very first tweet, kicking-off a social media phenomena that has grown to 200 million active users sending more than 400 million tweets daily. Dorsey served as Twitter’s CEO until 2008 when he became the...
Please v.... More »
Rumblefish, Soundtrack Licensing Partner To YouTube And Others, Buys Catalogik To Improve Music Search + MORE Mar 21st
A note of consolidation in the world of digital music: Rumblefish, a company that works with the likes of YouTube, Amazon, Vimeo, Facebook and Slideshare to let users add licensed soundtracks to their digital creations, is today announcing the acquisition of Catalogik, a platform to help find and mo.... More »
Workarounds To Make Enhanced Campaigns More Flexible + MORE Mar 21st
Last week at SMX West, I was on the “SEM Best Practices Debate” panel. Several of the topics we debated were related to Enhanced Campaigns, clearly something on the minds of search marketers these days. This month, I’ll recap a few take-aways from the event and share some ideas for...
.... More »
Media Decoder Blog: The Breakfast Meeting: Fallon to Become Host of ‘Tonight’ and Ads Aim to Close Digital Divide + MORE Mar 21st
NBC is planning for Jimmy Fallon to take over the “Tonight” show from Jay Leno, a new campaign seeks to diminish the digital divide in the United States, and the new Big East conference kicked off at News Corporation’s headquarters..... More »
‘YouTube For Business’, Vidyard, Raises $6M Series A Led By OMERS Ventures To Build Out Its Video Marketing & Analytics Platform
– techcrunch.com
Vidyard, a Y Combinator alumnus and enterprise startup that sells a video marketing platform with embedded analytics tools to businesses to help them track and monetise video content, has closed a $6 million Series A led by Canada’s OMERS Ventures. Existing investors iNovia Capital and SoftTech VC also participated, along with a personal investment from Eloqua‘s Jill Rowley…
Standing on the sidelines or having theoretical discussions while the potential grows for big-bank damage to the economy is unacceptable, an economist writes.
YouTube VP thinks subscription models are ‘incredibly important’ for its content creators
– theverge.com
It looks like there is some truth to the rumors that YouTube is thinking about a paid subscription model for some of its original channels. YouTube Vice President Robert Kyncl told a group of reporters in Los Angeles that subscriptions were “incredibly important” as a tool to create “additional revenue streams” for content creators, and that while getting people to pay might be tough initially, “over time, a lot of people will figure it out,” reports The Wall Street Journal…
YouTube VP thinks subscription models are ‘incredibly important’ for its content creators + MORE Mar 21st
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Just As CEO Heins Predicted, BlackBerry World Now Plays Home To Over 100,000 Apps + MORE Mar 21st
BlackBerry announced earlier today that its BlackBerry World content portal has officially crossed the 100,000 app marker, and has chosen to celebrate by talking up availability of some select, high-profile apps. New Amazon Kindle, OpenTable and Wall Street Journal apps have already gone live in the.... More »
Consumers Still Pretty Suspicious About Social Media Marketing, Forrester Survey Finds Mar 21st
Forrester has put out a new digital marketing report, off the back of a survey of more than 58,000 online consumers, looking at how brands can better sell themselves and create content that flies in the digital age. One interesting takeaway is a chart (see below) which shows how U.S. and European co.... More »
Native Video Ads Drive Higher Brand-Lift Metrics When Compared To Pre-Roll Videos + MORE Mar 21st
Nielsen, a global information and measurement company, collaborated with Sharethrough, a native advertising company, on a performance study comparing the brand-building effectiveness of native video ads against pre-roll video ad units. The study found native video ads, user-initiated content-based...... More »
‘YouTube For Business’, Vidyard, Raises $6M Series A Led By OMERS Ventures To Build Out Its Video Marketing & Analytics Platform
– techcrunch.com
Vidyard, a Y Combinator alumnus and enterprise startup that sells a video marketing platform with embedded analytics tools to businesses to help them track and monetise video content, has closed a $6 million Series A led by Canada’s OMERS Ventures. Existing investors iNovia Capital and SoftTech VC also participated, along with a personal investment from Eloqua‘s Jill Rowley…
YouTube VP thinks subscription models are ‘incredibly important’ for its content creators
– theverge.com
It looks like there is some truth to the rumors that YouTube is thinking about a paid subscription model for some of its original channels. YouTube Vice President Robert Kyncl told a group of reporters in Los Angeles that subscriptions were “incredibly important” as a tool to create “additional revenue streams” for content creators, and that while getting people to pay might be tough initially, “over time, a lot of people will figure it out,” reports The Wall Street Journal…
How often should I use keywords in my content?
– vertical-leap.co.uk
In the next part of my miniseries about the content on your website I thought I’d cover keywords and how these can be used in your content. One of the most common questions I get asked when advising people about using content on their website is how many times to use keywords within a body of text…
How often should I use keywords in my content? Mar 21st
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Workarounds To Make Enhanced Campaigns More Flexible + MORE Mar 21st
Last week at SMX West, I was on the “SEM Best Practices Debate” panel. Several of the topics we debated were related to Enhanced Campaigns, clearly something on the minds of search marketers these days. This month, I’ll recap a few take-aways from the event and share some ideas for...
.... More »
Rumblefish, Soundtrack Licensing Partner To YouTube And Others, Buys Catalogik To Improve Music Search + MORE Mar 21st
A note of consolidation in the world of digital music: Rumblefish, a company that works with the likes of YouTube, Amazon, Vimeo, Facebook and Slideshare to let users add licensed soundtracks to their digital creations, is today announcing the acquisition of Catalogik, a platform to help find and mo.... More »
Consumers Still Pretty Suspicious About Social Media Marketing, Forrester Survey Finds + MORE Mar 21st
Forrester has put out a new digital marketing report, off the back of a survey of more than 58,000 online consumers, looking at how brands can better sell themselves and create content that flies in the digital age. One interesting takeaway is a chart (see below) which shows how U.S. and European co.... More »
Twitter Turns Seven Years Old Today #HappyBirthday #Twitter7 + MORE Mar 21st
Today marks seven years since Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s creator, sent the very first tweet, kicking-off a social media phenomena that has grown to 200 million active users sending more than 400 million tweets daily. Dorsey served as Twitter’s CEO until 2008 when he became the...
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Media Decoder Blog: The Breakfast Meeting: Fallon to Become Host of ‘Tonight’ and Ads Aim to Close Digital Divide + MORE Mar 21st
NBC is planning for Jimmy Fallon to take over the “Tonight” show from Jay Leno, a new campaign seeks to diminish the digital divide in the United States, and the new Big East conference kicked off at News Corporation’s headquarters..... More »
How often should I use keywords in my content?
– vertical-leap.co.uk
In the next part of my miniseries about the content on your website I thought I’d cover keywords and how these can be used in your content. One of the most common questions I get asked when advising people about using content on their website is how many times to use keywords within a body of text…
How often should I use keywords in my content? Mar 21st
How often should I use keywords in my content?
– vertical-leap.co.uk
In the next part of my miniseries about the content on your website I thought I’d cover keywords and how these can be used in your content. One of the most common questions I get asked when advising people about using content on their website is how many times to use keywords within a body of text…
Media Decoder Blog: SFX Entertainment Buys Major Stake in Dutch Festival Promoter Mar 21st
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Workarounds To Make Enhanced Campaigns More Flexible + MORE Mar 21st
Last week at SMX West, I was on the “SEM Best Practices Debate” panel. Several of the topics we debated were related to Enhanced Campaigns, clearly something on the minds of search marketers these days. This month, I’ll recap a few take-aways from the event and share some ideas for...
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How often should I use keywords in my content? Mar 21st
In the next part of my miniseries about the content on your website I thought I’d cover keywords and how these can be used in your content. One of the most common questions I get asked when advising people about using content on their website is how many times to use keywords within a body of text.... More »
Twitter Turns Seven Years Old Today #HappyBirthday #Twitter7 + MORE Mar 21st
Today marks seven years since Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s creator, sent the very first tweet, kicking-off a social media phenomena that has grown to 200 million active users sending more than 400 million tweets daily. Dorsey served as Twitter’s CEO until 2008 when he became the...
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Last week at SMX West, I was on the “SEM Best Practices Debate” panel. Several of the topics we debated were related to Enhanced Campaigns, clearly something on the minds of search marketers these days. This month, I’ll recap a few take-aways from the event and share some ideas for...
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Rumblefish, Soundtrack Licensing Partner To YouTube And Others, Buys Catalogik To Improve Music Search + MORE Mar 21st
A note of consolidation in the world of digital music: Rumblefish, a company that works with the likes of YouTube, Amazon, Vimeo, Facebook and Slideshare to let users add licensed soundtracks to their digital creations, is today announcing the acquisition of Catalogik, a platform to help find and mo.... More »
Twitter Turns Seven Years Old Today #HappyBirthday #Twitter7 + MORE Mar 21st
Today marks seven years since Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s creator, sent the very first tweet, kicking-off a social media phenomena that has grown to 200 million active users sending more than 400 million tweets daily. Dorsey served as Twitter’s CEO until 2008 when he became the...
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Media Decoder Blog: The Breakfast Meeting: Fallon to Become Host of ‘Tonight’ and Ads Aim to Close Digital Divide + MORE Mar 21st
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YouTube Announces That It Has Hit One Billion Monthly Users, Which Is Roughly Ten Super Bowl Audiences
– techcrunch.com
Today, YouTube announced that it has hit a billion monthly users, which is an extremely insane metric. We know that YouTube is the go-to place for silly, interesting and important videos, but these numbers are something that even TV networks dream of.
The great part for YouTube is that this means that online video ad-spend will go up, since the eyeballs appear to be ready, willing and able…
The great part for YouTube is that this means that online video ad-spend will go up, since the eyeballs appear to be ready, willing and able…
YouTube hits a billion monthly viewers
– theverge.com
When you think about a site like YouTube, you can easily lose sight of just how huge its presence is on the internet. Google is announcing that YouTube’s monthly unique visitor count just cracked one billion for the first time — nearly one out of every two people on the internet. Even more interesting is how quickly YouTube keeps expanding its reach…
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