Something interesting in the search-marketing world in today’s news: https://seekingalpha.com/news/3291623-google-removes-search-ads-petmeds-tramadol-bargain-hunters-move-stock-3-percent Fuller report in the WSJ here: https://www.wsj.com/articles/petmed-asks-google-to-remove-tramadol-ads-from-search-results-1503603884 A subscription is required for access to the WSJ article but the gist of the matter is that some Wall Street type who doesn’t seem to understand Google’s Adwords algorithms, particularly the way broad and expanded matching work, is accusing …
We’d be interested in hearing from anyone who got conversion tracking as offered in Yahoo!’s self-serve Gemini platform to actually work. Our tests indicate it might have some issues. To be clear, we’ve tried both the script-based and pixel-based options Gemini offers. Unlike other mainstream advertising platforms, notably Google Adwords, Bing Ads, and Facebook, Yahoo! …
We never cease to be amazed by how marketing departments in the Fortune 500 burn through their money. You know, online there is such a thing as conversion tracking using tools like Addue which can be set up in minutes and used to track pretty much anything worth spending advertising dollars for. (Hint: if you …
The social networks need a credible mechanism to verify user numbers. Judging from reported growth in user numbers, one could conclude that Facebook is beating Twitter in the battle of social networks. Problem is, it’s hard to know how real all those users are. Read more here: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-07-28/is-facebook-beating-twitter-ask-the-bots
Google parent Alphabet Inc. said its advertising business continued to hum, but its fastest-growing segments — mobile and YouTube advertising — are less lucrative than desktop ads. Alphabet said clicks on its ads surged 52% in the second quarter from a year earlier. But ads on smartphones and with YouTube videos generally earn less money …
After forcing Facebook users to switch to a separate Messenger app to continue chatting, the social network is about to start pushing adverts on those using the function. Facebook said on Tuesday that it was testing advertising on its Messenger app globally as the world’s largest social media company looks to further monetise its popular chat service, …
It has been almost three years, but Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) has finally released Version 12 of the Adwords Editor. Number 12 will, according to the company, simplify the management of your campaigns with new rules and tools. Just in case you don’t know what AdWords Editor is, it manages large Adwords accounts. The free app lets …
Google just announced that they are going to stop contextually targeting consumers based on the content of their emails within Gmail. Users of G Suite have already experienced this change and all other consumer accounts are now set to follow suit. This of course is nicely in line with the privacy tide of our times …
It started as an online bookseller and many thought it would never go beyond that. After all, being able to buy almost any book ever published, online, is already quite a feat. But Amazon’s ambitions turned out to run far deeper, and what we are witnessing now with the stunning Whole Foods acquisition is probably …
Who said you can’t get creative with even the most mundane of products? In the news today, a successful marketing campaign by Nutella hazelnut spread in Italy which employed an algorithm controlling the label printer in Nutella’s factory to uniquely design each label, except for the standard Nutella logo: https://www.inc.com/betsy-mikel/can-robots-do-the-job-of-designers-nutella-gives-it-a-whirl.html “And what was the reason …