Load time matters. Beyond the fact that Google has made page speed a mobile ranking factor, consumer behaviors and perceptions are significantly impacted by page load times. That’s according to a new report from Unbounce. Yet marketers don’t seem to be prioritizing speeding up their sites. At an industry conference last year, Unbounce tested 188 […]...

Here’s our recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on Marketing Land and other places across the web. From Marketing Land: Salesforce Marketing Cloud launches new analytics tools powered by Datorama Jan 24, 2019 by Amy Gesenhues Six months after acquiring Datorama, Salesforce Marketing Cloud is launching three new analytics tools powered […]...

Salesforce’s new Datorama Marketing Cloud Social Studio connector. Salesforce announced on Wednesday three new tools for marketers, all powered by Datorama. They mark the first new Datorama solutions since Salesforce acquired the marketing intelligence and analytics platform in July 2018. Datorama is now part of Salesforce Marketing Cloud. The Datorama Marketing Cloud connectors. Marketers will […]...

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Facebook announced Thursday it is launching a brand safety certification program for Facebook Marketing Partners. The first companies to receive certification are DoubleVerify, an ad measurement platform, and OpenSlate, a video content rating platform for marketers — both of which are launching new Facebook brand safety tools. Facebook’s brand safety certification. After more than a […]...

Here’s our recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on Marketing Land and other places across the web. From Marketing Land: BI provider Qlik buys Crunch Data and its bot Jan 23, 2019 by Barry Levine This is the latest effort by an analytics platform to offer natural language text or voice […]...

OpenX is moving its operations entirely into the Google Cloud, becoming the first major ad exchange to do so. The recently-announced five-year, $110 million partnership between OpenX and the Google Cloud Platform, OpenX CTO Paul Ryan told me, is the first step toward the exchange’s move this year into people-based marketing. 15,000+ servers. Previously, he […]...

The measurement “90 percent” seems to come up a lot in my writings. One reason is obvious: For all the sturm and drang surrounding digital, more than 90 percent of retail spend still occurs in stores. Here’s another “90 percent” yardstick. I’d say the average brand now has about 90 percent of e-commerce figured out. […]...

Enterprise SEO continues to grow more complex as the technology and algorithms powering search engines evolve.  Comprehensive enterprise SEO platforms offer multiple features to help teams manage and automate search optimization tactics, but the vetting and selection process can be overwhelming. A new report from MarTech Today Research looks at 18 enterprise SEO platforms, selected […]...

In theory, Multi-Touch Attribution (MTA) sounds like a marketer’s dream come true. Since digital media leaves tracks for each message or interaction, and since machine learning can find patterns in all that data, the idea is that MTA can determine the incremental impact of each ad, keyword phrase, video or downloaded white paper that led […]...