NEW YORK, NY and PALM DESERT, CA – February 10, 2020 – Now in its third year, IAB has unveiled the most disruptive, influential DTC brands. More than 3,500 brands were analyzed before IAB narrowed the list to the most important 250 direct-to-consumer products. This year, for the first time ever, 100 service companies were…
DetailsFacebook has reportedly acquired Scape Technologies, a UK augmented reality (AR) startup. TechCrunch estimated the purchase price might be around $40 million. If Scape were just another AR company, the news wouldn’t be that interesting or potentially significant — but it isn’t. 3D mapping the physical world. Scape’s technology is about creating a 1:1 digital…
DetailsThe price competitiveness report began rolling out in Google Merchant Center (GMC) for eligible sellers last week. This new report can show you how your prices compare to other merchants selling and promoting the same products in Google Shopping campaigns. How to get started. The report, in beta, is located under the Growth section in…
DetailsMost marketers view the funnel as including the following stages: Awareness, Consideration, Preference, Purchase and Post-purchase (client retention, upsell and advocacy). Paid search is often thought of as being really low funnel – and it absolutely can be! But it can also span up the funnel and, when done correctly, can even rival other top-of-funnel…
DetailsOver 1,200 Top Media and Brand Executives meet to Harmonize Personalization, Privacy and Community NEW YORK and PALM DESERT, CA – February 10, 2020 – IAB, the digital media and marketing trade association, today called on the entire marketing-media ecosystem to “rearc” digital marketing to harmonize privacy, personalization, and community. Speaking to 1,200+ senior digital…
DetailsGoogle announced new reports within Google Search Console to help you with your review snippets. Google added a new enhancements report, a new performance report and added new support for review snippets on the rich result testing tool. Rich snippet enhancement report. The new rich snippet Enhancement report is available for those sites who have…
DetailsFighting bad placements in Google’s display network can be a daunting task for many. Especially when performance reviews and placement exclusions are done manually. But this account level script can lessen some of the pain points and help advertisers save money by automatically excluding bad placements. These are the problems the script is trying to…
DetailsKirk McDonald of Xandr to Serve as Vice Chairman New Board Members Include Brand Leaders from General Motors and ThirdLove & Top Executives from AccuWeather, Amazon Advertising, Google, IBM Watson Advertising, LiveRamp, Meredith Corporation, Rakuten Marketing, Samsung Ads, and Xandr PALM DESERT, CA (February 9, 2020) – IAB, the national trade association for the…
DetailsWe’re thrilled to announce that Danny Sullivan — yes, the Danny Sullivan — will be keynoting SMX Advanced 2020! This will be Danny’s first time returning to the SMX stage since joining Google in October 2017. In his keynote, Danny will share details about his transition from writing about Google to working at Google as…
DetailsGoogle has added Siri Shortcuts for its search, Gmail, Drive and YouTube apps on iOS, the company announced Thursday. Users can take actions within the corresponding Google app through Siri by saying trigger phrases, such as “search with Google.” Source: Google. Why we care Making Google apps more accessible on iOS devices may attract or…
Details“Something is very broken,” is the sentiment being expressed today by some local SEOs who are seeing their Google Posts rejected. The primary culprit appears to be pictures that don’t conform to Google’s image guidelines. Widespread issue. The Google My Business Help forum and Local Search Forum are abuzz with many SEO complaints. Some SEOs,…
DetailsThis post originally appeared on chiefmartec.com. I spend a lot of time debating dichotomies with myself: The classic: is martech consolidating or expanding? Should you centralize or decentralize marketing, automate or humanize it? Should you practice agile or waterfall approaches to martech product adoption? Should you buy more martech tools or better use the ones…
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