Facebook recently announced it was going to simplify its advertising options due to feedback it collected from marketers over the span of a year. Just last week, Inside Facebook revealed sponsored search results were among the features to be cut.
Facebook announced hashtags last week, giving validation to everyone who used the original Twitter function to drive home their point in a Facebook status update. What was once unnecessary is now helpful in discovering new content in Facebook, and...
Best-selling author and marketer Jeffrey Hayzlett, former CMO of Kodak, kicked off SES Toronto today with a conversation about making business better and how marketers can drive change and growth. He opened the discussion talking about the fall of...
Maurice Sendak was born on this date 85 years ago. A Google Doodle today pays tribute to the author and illustrator known for such children's books as "Where the Wild Things Are," "In the Night Kitchen", and "Outside Over There.
Google is allowing illegal prescription drug activity online and profiting from it, according to a report by USA Today. Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood claimed Google was up to its old tricks by allowing websites to be found that sell illegal...
Facebook has decided to streamline its ad options so that over time, advertisers can simply “come to Facebook and tell us what they are trying to achieve, and our ads tools will automatically suggest the right combination of products to help them...
Russian-based search engine Yandex announced a revolutionary way for users to interact with the search results, giving them the ability to buy movie tickets, check flight status, make restaurant reservations, pay bills and more, without ever...
Pinterest is launching all sorts of goodies this year, with its ”Rich Pins” and analytics offering, which served as one big move to help marketers and users alike. This week, Pinterest unveiled a helpful little feature that allows users to search...
New research emerging from Curalate describes what types of images get the most pins, repins, and likes on Pinterest. Analysis of more than 500,000 images looking at 30 different visual characteristics like textures, colors and more, uncovered a...
Twitter continues to develop its advertising service with a potential stab at retargeting, according to AdAge. Twitter didn't comment on the matter, so it's largely speculation as of now, but AdAge reports those with knowledge of the planned...
Blekko, the "spam-free" search engine is on a mission to differentiate from the competition, and has been since launching in 2010. Today, Blekko unveiled a new layout for search results that aims to take the guesswork out of intent by offering...
Select advertisers can now build their email marketing list right in Twitter. The "Lead Generation Card" is a new feature in Twitter's advertising arsenal, and allows users to share their emails with brands in a tweet.
Search and social have long been touted as the dynamic duo in marketing, but data from Monetate's Ecommerce Quarterly report shows email is the biggest driver of conversions in Q1 2013. In analyzing more than 500 million shopping experiences...
Google unveiled conversational search at Google I/O last week, and began rolling it out on the latest version of Chrome this week. Today, I chatted with Google to ask it burning questions like, "How many children does Madonna have?
Google has launched Top Charts, allowing users to visualize and share the most-searched people, places, and things in more than 40 categories, all the way back to 2004. Derived from Google’s Knowledge Graph, the data is featured in Google Trends...
Yahoo announced last week a partnership with Twitter to integrate tweets directly into its newsfeed. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer calls it #bestoftheweb, and says it will “seamlessly include relevant and personalized Tweets alongside stories from Yahoo!
If you've visited your Google+ account in the past day, you may have noticed Google's big announcement at play: a new look and feel for the social network that puts imagery front and center in a huge way.
"People communicate with each other by conversation, not by typing keywords -- and we've been hard at work to make Google understand and answer your questions more like people do," said Google's Amit Singhal in a post on features announced at...
Mobile isn’t just for finding local merchants to start the shopping experience. Recent data from Google shows mobile is a shopping companion while consumers are in the store looking to buy. In a new study, “Mobile In-Store Research: How in-store...
In a ruling this week, a German federal court said Google must restrict information in its autocomplete when it violates personal rights. The suit, filed by an unnamed man according to the BBC, claimed defamatory autocomplete suggestions on Google...
