In its annual Who Has Your Back? report, the online activist group lauded a number of major companies for their efforts to help preserve user privacy and report to the public the extent of their cooperation with government groups.
Google reported in its bi-annual transparency report that government requested takedowns are up from the first half of last year. More than 30 percent of requests come from members of government hoping to remove defamatory content, according to...
Says Tricia Meyer, who operates 12 affiliate sites including SunshineRewards.com, and averages $25 million in annual sales, says that while larger affiliate sites may be run off a database and need to replace a single link per merchant in that...
The IAB's numbers come from its twice annual Internet Advertising Revenue Report. Search remained the revenue leader at $16.9 billion, accounting for 46 percent of all Internet advertising revenue, although this figure doesn't even include mobile...
Annual U.S.social ad revenue is expected to reach $11 billion by 2017, according to a recent study by BIA/Kelsey. The report of growth for mobile social advertising revenue comes as Facebook begins to roll out its Facebook Home app.
In their annual industry benchmark report they asked companies “What percentage of your forecasted opportunities result in the following: No Decision, Loses, Wins. Optify’s B2B Marketing Benchmark Report.
Here’s how Majestic SEO report the blog’s backlinks discovery rate – and that of the Argyll and Bute Council, and ‘Mary’s Meals’ a charity supported by young Martha. So good in fact that they won first prize for “Bar Operator of the Year” in the...
To date, the company's clients manage more than $4 billion in annual marketing spend, with customers including PriceGrabber, Symantec, and Salesforce.com. It rolled out the first iteration of its platform, Marin Search Marketer, in January 2008...
For the eighth year in a row, Google has made into the top five of an annual survey of the U.S.general public on corporate reputation. Google was fourth in the 2013 Harris Poll Reputation Quotient report, with a score of 81.3 percent – one of just...
The State of Mobile Search around the Globe 2013, an annual report, analyzed more than $4 billion in paid search spend by brands and advertisers in 13 countries. Click-through rates and conversion rates on tablets rose sharply in 2012, and a new...
To help drive traffic, marketers are now shifting their priorities to inbound marketing efforts like creating effective content such as such as blogs, webinars, white papers and press releases according to MarketingSherpa’s eighth annual benchmark...
Optify’s annual B2B Marketing Benchmark report also revealed that organic search was ranked as the top driver of visits with 41 percent of visits originated from organic search. Author's Note: If you haven’t read Dave Davies’ hilarious post, "An...
Search industry body, SEMPO, have launched their annual salary survey in conjunction with Search Engine Watch's (SEW) sister site ClickZ. All responses are anonymous and if you take it, you can request a free summary report.
CEO Steve Momorella said the survey has become a much anticipated free report in the industry. It’s not enough to conduct the research, write the report and then think about what content you can create.
Optify recently concluded its first annual B2B Marketing Athlete Survey and discovered an interesting trend – PPC has scored the lowest on most of the questions related to time spent on tactics and expertise level, and scored the highest for areas...
Google issued a report on the London 2012 games that reveals some fascinating insights into mobile search behaviour. Many commentators have predicted that annual mobile search rates will overtake static searches by 2015.
Annual household income is a fairly even split, except for those making over $75,000 per year, who participate less in content curation. Fifty-six percent of percent identify as either a content creator or curator and 32 percent do both, according...
It’s important to occasionally pull your head out that annual trend report or search query analysis and remember the core function of PPC (and many other marketing channels): to connect people with other people or businesses) in a meaningful way.
Over all of 2011, these businesses could attribute 15 percent of their annual e-commerce revenue to their Facebook stores. Right now, that’s the SMBs,” Fazylev noted in the August 8th release of their report.
Each company was mentioned an average of 55,970 times on Twitter, yet 18 percent still don’t have accounts to monitor and interact with mentions, according to the third annual Burson-Marsteller Global Social Media Check-Up.
