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Over 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…

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Google Search Console adds review snippets performance, enhancement and testing reports

Google 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…

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Automatically manage exclusions with this bad placement cleaner script

Fighting 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…

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Troy Young, President of Hearst Magazines, Named Chairman of IAB Board of Directors

Kirk 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…

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Danny Sullivan to keynote SMX Advanced 2020

We’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…

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Google adds Siri Shortcuts to its iOS apps

Google 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…

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Google Posts being rejected because of non-compliance with image guidelines

“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,…

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Dr. Martech and Mr. Hype: A Transformational Webinar

This 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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