YouTube is retiring its Director onsite services as of October 31 and has stopped accepting any new video ad production projects. First launched in June 2015, the video creation service offered by YouTube was expanded to more than 170 US cities in March of this year. Through the Director onsite program, companies that committed to…
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: Virtual reality enters its ‘trough of despair’ as shipments decline Sep 6, 2018 by Greg Sterling It wouldn’t be fair to say “VR is dead,” but from a consumer electronics perspective…
Customer-centric marketing must absolutely deliver one thing: value. Here’s why. A recent report from The Radicati Group reports 124 business emails are sent a day! That number is slightly smaller for consumers, but when you take into account that most consumers juggle a work email address along with their personal address(es), you start to get…
Facebook is launching a new ad designed specifically for airlines and airfare apps wanting to target travelers searching for flights. The new Flight Ads allow airlines to target their ads based on a user’s visits to flight-related Facebook Pages, websites and apps outside of the advertiser’s web properties and Facebook Page. Formerly called dynamic ads…
Amazon announced Wednesday that it is unifying its disparate ad products and systems under one brand, Amazon Advertising. The brand states that Amazon Media Group (AMG) for managed display and video services, Amazon Marketing Services (AMS) for seller ads on Amazon and programmatic solution Amazon Advertising Platform (AAP) are all retiring. The move is welcome…
Many marketing pundits and talking heads are now asking whether Nike’s “Just Do It” anniversary deal with NFL quarterback-turned-activist Colin Kaepernick is one of the stupidest marketing decisions ever. Is Nike crazy — or crazy like a fox? Given the protests and counter-protests that have surrounded other brands taking political or value-based stands since the…
Online survey platform SurveyMonkey filed to go public last week, asking for the ticker symbol SVMK. Founded in 1999, the company lets users create, manage and distribute their own online surveys. The company is currently valued at $2 billion, and, according to the Form S-1 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the IPO could…
It’s not often that marketers get to kick back and relax while customers do their job for them, but when you adopt user-generated content (UGC) as your creative, that’s how it works. Coca Cola’s “Share a Coke” campaign is a famous example where sales rose by more than 2% in the US after people began…
In the first four parts of this series, I reviewed the free tools Bing makes available to all webmasters once you have created, logged in and verified your Bing Webmaster Tools account. Every subsequent time you log in, you get access to meaty data and an analysis of your websites’ performance, indexing, and crawling history…
Earlier today Senator Orrin Hatch called on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to open a new antitrust investigation of Google in a letter to FTC Chairman Joseph Simons. Hatch is the latest legislator to do so. Combined with other events, Hatch’s request suggests that sentiments in legislative and regulatory circles may be turning against Google…
