Monday, 20 May 2024
Category: Marketing

Google Introduces Shopping Actions to Help Online Retailers Take On Amazon

On Monday, Google announced a program called Shopping Actions to help retailers take on the eCommerce giant Amazon. Under the program, merchants are allowed to list their products across the search engine’s platforms—Google Search, Google Express shopping service, and Google Assistant on mobile devices and smart speakers like Google Home. The program gives consumers a universal […]

LinkedIn Enables Programmatic Ad Buying

LinkedIn announced today the availability of programmatic buying for its display ads, giving data-driven marketers advanced opportunities to target more precisely and with more efficiency. “This means you can now work with your preferred buying platform to buy highly visible ads that help you reach and engage the right buyers and build your brand in […]

Facebook Sees Growth in Ad Sales Despite Drop in Usage

Facebook saw a decline in usage for the first time in its history, undoubtedly brought about by certain changes made to its News Feed. Despite that, the social media company’s digital ads remained profitable, stemming any concerns investors might have. Facebook recently released its earnings report for the last quarter of 2017. The report underlined […]

Instagram Wants to Improve Your Mental Health, Creates New Wellbeing Team

Instagram is taking steps to help improve their users’ mental health with the creation of its new Wellbeing Team. Millions of people around the world use Instagram to visually share and document their lives. However, the unrealistic portrayal of how other people live has been proven to negatively affect how some users view their own […]

Instagram Launches Shoppable Posts in 8 New Countries

Instagram is planning to increase its share in the eCommerce segment by expanding its shopping feature abroad. Previously available only in the US, the Facebook-owned photo and video sharing app now allows shoppable posts for businesses located in an additional eight countries. Instagram is expanding its shopping feature to other countries such as Australia, Brazil, Canada, Italy, […]

Google Adwords Introduces ‘Chat Rate’ Metric for Click-to-Message Ads

To get the most out of marketing campaigns, it is sometimes necessary to do some tweaking and fine tuning before your ads connect with their targeted audience. For this reason, marketers must gauge the performance of their ad placements which can be gleaned from the reports provided by the ad platform showing data and statistics […]

Yahoo Tests Green, Instead Of Blue, Search Ads

Looks like Yahoo is now experimenting with their own background colors for search ads. Spotted by @tecnonetblog – Yahoo seems to be testing a green background color for their ads. Personally, I see a light blue colored background for Yahoo ads. Here are screen shots of the test. Green Background Yahoo Search Ads Test:     Blue […]

Cambridge Analytica Announces Closure, Files for Bankruptcy

Cambridge Analytica, the controversial firm embroiled in the mishandling of Facebook user data, has announced its shut down on Wednesday. Its British parent SCL Elections Ltd. will also be shuttered as the data analytics company reported a significant decline in business. In a press release, Cambridge Analytica blamed negative media coverage for the data scandal. […]

Instagram Wants to Improve Your Mental Health, Creates New Wellbeing Team

Instagram is taking steps to help improve their users’ mental health with the creation of its new Wellbeing Team. Millions of people around the world use Instagram to visually share and document their lives. However, the unrealistic portrayal of how other people live has been proven to negatively affect how some users view their own […]

Twitter To Remove URL and Images From Character Count

Twitter officially announced May 24 that @names will also not be included in the character count. You also don’t have to add a period before usernames for them to be seen in followers’ feeds. The days of forcing abbreviations so you can fit your text and a photo under Twitter’s 140-character limit will soon be history.  Twitter will no longer count […]