It might seem odd to ask a marketer if they’d like their data in something described metaphorically as a building or a body of water. In this article, part of our MarTech Landscape Series, we look at the characteristics of these two types of massive data storage. Data warehouses Digital marketers are increasingly working with…
Rokas Tenys / Shutterstock.com In addition reporting lower-than-expected revenue growth in the third-quarter, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was uncharacteristically blunt about many of the challenges facing the company. It was an effort to set Wall Street expectations, but there are takeaways for marketers, too. Here are some of the highlights: Usage is up … in…
Image from Reve Marketing It’s best to think of a text-based chatbot as an “automated customer service rep.” That’s the advice from Kaye Chapman, learning and development manager at digital engagement platform Comm100. As a conversational format sometimes assisted by AI, chatbots provide a different opportunity for marketers than, say, the structure and presentation of…
Market research firm Ipsos announced on Tuesday it is acquiring social listening platform Synthesio, the latest in a series of industry-wide mergers and acquisitions of social platforms. Deal terms were not made public. Synthesio’s platform, featured as a Leader in the most recent Forrester Wave report on that sector, allows brands to monitor what is…
Links, even within a website, show relationships between content. They transfer value and importance between pages. Even more importantly, internal links define your website’s structure. They help users to navigate and search engines to understand your website. A healthy internal linking strategy makes it easier for your pages to be indexed and to rank, as…
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: 5 ways to make your holiday advertising campaigns more profitable Oct 29, 2018 by Jacob Baadsgaard It’s time to start thinking about a holiday advertising strategy to reach the right customer…
In the early 1990s, database-focused marketing transformed into what we now know as customer relationship management (CRM). Over the years, the ways in which salespeople deal with customers and potential customers have changed, and the CRM has incorporated many of those changes. The rise of social media and the importance of mobile, for instance, has…
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: Amazon advertisers are in the market for campaign automation tools Oct 26, 2018 by Barry Levine Two-thirds of Amazon advertisers are using ad campaign automation tools, or expect to do so…
Attribution platform Kochava is out with its first ranking of the top 20 mobile ad networks, The Traffic Index, which it intends to make available quarterly. [Free; registration required.] In order, its top 20 networks are: Pinterest CrossInstall Pinsight LifeStreet Liftoff StartApp Moloco Leadbolt Unity Ads Manage AppLike Bing Ads Pandora Vungle Chartboost ironSource Fiksu…
Twitter posted significant increases in earnings Thursday, reporting net income of $789 million for the third quarter, beating expectations and marking a record four quarters of increasing profits. The company’s total Q3 revenue hit $758 million, an increase of 29 percent over the same period last year and a great deal more than the $702.6…
