Marketers of the weight loss program from WW — the company previously known as Weight Watchers — can now pitch a new angle: voice-managed dieting. The company launched an Alexa skill and a Google Home Action that are integrated with the wellness program’s software applications to enable customers to follow their diet plans, via their…
Last week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared his vision for the company’s coming privacy-focused, unified messaging and social networking platform. The CEO said, in the coming years, Facebook plans to rebuild its services and platforms around the following six principals: private interactions, encryption, reduced permanence, safety, interoperability and secure data storage. “People increasingly also want…
Facebook’s Stories Archive feature for Pages. Facebook is testing new ways for Pages to archive and share Stories. Marketing Land first became aware of the new features after social media consultant Matt Navarra Tweeted an image of them on Tuesday. “We’re always looking to bring more Stories features to Pages on Facebook, like Stories Archive…
Facebook to remove relevance score for ads starting April 30. Facebook announced Wednesday it is replacing its ad relevance score with three new “more granular” metrics. It will also be removing six additional ad metrics, replacing them with what it calls “more actionable” measurements. Goodbye relevance score. Facebook’s relevance score offered advertisers insight into how…
I spent some quality time recently with both clients and email marketers over the last few months, and it was great to get in touch with people who are pushing the limits on email. We talked about what’s new and exciting, all the advanced strategies and tactics, that marketers are using successfully today, like artificial…
When it comes to developing an Account-Based Marketing strategy, the first thing to remember is that while the “M” stands for Marketing, ABM is a business strategy. This means that the most important thing marketers can do when implementing ABM as a go-to-market strategy is to engage and coordinate with sales. It’s critical to develop…
Source: Edison Research 2019 Facebook has lost an estimated 15 million users in the U.S. during the last two years, according to a report from Edison Research. The firm’s “The Infinite Dial 2019,” surveyed 1,500 U.S. citizens age 12-years and older and found that Facebook usage overall has dropped from 67 percent to 61 percent…
Morning Brew founders Alex Lieberman (left) and Austin Rief. While marketers of all kinds are laboring over dozens of personas that make up their target audiences, the team at highly successful newsletter brand Morning Brew think they have found a better way. Target one persona … just one. “We picked a real human being, detailed…
For the first time, more than half (51 percent) of the U.S. population has listened to a podcast, up from 44 percent last year. Put another way, 144 million people, or 20 million more people than just a year ago, have listened to a podcast. Frequency is on the rise, too. An estimated 90 million,…
When it comes to automation, many agencies are ambivalent about the technology. Marketing Land’s own digital agency survey found 72 percent of respondents indicated “neutral” when asked how they felt about automation. I was not all that surprised by this high number based on my own agency experience. Here’s why. 1. We’re losing sleep trying…
