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Facebook Live is paying publishers and celebrities to help promote Facebook Live. The Wall Street Journal recently reviewed a document indicating that Facebook has signed more than 140 contracts for over $50 million. Seventeen of these amount to over $1 million. No statement has been made from anyone at Facebook regarding the nature of the…
Task runners are the heroes (or villains, depending on your point of view) that quietly toil behind most web and mobile applications. Task runners provide value through the automation of numerous development tasks such as concatenating files, spinning up development servers and compiling code. In this article, we’ll cover Grunt, Gulp, Webpack and npm scripts….
Local search marketing is a complicated system. Standard SEO techniques such as keyword-rich content, well-optimized meta tags and a strong backlink profile are always important. For multi-location franchises, add the complications of Name, Address and Phone Number (NAP) accuracy, maintenance and distribution of local business listings, proactive management of Google My Business data and citation…
Unruly announced today that it has partnered with Moat and News Corp to offer advertisers mobile vertical video ads. The first publishers to run Unruly’s vertical video ads include News Corp’s The Sun and the New York Post. Measurement for the vertical video ads will be provided by Moat. “The landscape is changing fast and…
Content in a curated hashtag site. Mobile users spend little time viewing web content on their mobile browsers, preferring to read most of it through their social networks. As a result, publishers are losing control of their content, and users are overloaded with content sources. That’s the basic problem that a Ponte Vedra, Florida-based startup…
Here’s our recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on Marketing Land and other places across the web. From Marketing Land: Startup Hi-Fi launches mobile news feed of publisher content, selectable by hashtagsJun 20, 2016 by Barry Levine These “Tag Topics,” the company said, let publishers control their content and mobile users…
If you have an e-commerce website, then SSL is mandatory for safely processing credit cards. But even if you aren’t processing payments, you should still seriously consider secure HTTP (or HTTPS), especially now that I’m going to show you how to set it up quickly, for free. Let’s get started. In short, SSL is the…
When launching an app, you need to spend a lot of time and resources to attract users. You can pull people into your app using a variety of means, including advertising, referral programs, public relations and content marketing. But when people finally download an app, they sometimes feel abandoned. You must clearly show users why…
Recently, I’ve been thinking about the importance of online video content. People are now consuming more videos, and it makes up a huge portion of online content. A post from Convert With Content spells out this growth, citing several stats, including: 74 percent of all Internet traffic will be video by 2017. Video is shared…
