Digital Marketing News & Articles

Google has announced a new YouTube Analytics API which is designed to give more insight into viewer trends through “patterned data.”

From the VEI report on online events

If you’re attending online events more often, welcome to the club. A new survey finds that about two-thirds of online event producers say their attendance has increased, while only about 10 percent report lower online attendance.

Consero Group LLC -- 2013 Customer Experience Data Survey.

The customer experience, it's not just a passing thought in digital marketing, it’s a core focus as seen from the countless products dedicated to improving it, which include this week's marketing briefs.

Customer journeys are nothing new, but understanding the paths that customers take while interacting with your brand has become more complicated. How do organizations use customer journeys to improve the customer experience? Is customer journey mapping still possible with the proliferation of channels and access points available? Join us for this month's Tweet Jam to discuss these issues and more.

It’s the “end of advertising as we know it.” That’s the conclusion of David Jakubowski, CEO of media intelligence company Aggregate Knowledge (AK), whose new report points to the ways in which analytics are resulting in better reach and more sales for digital advertisers. Or, as the report puts it, referring to the hit cable TV series about the ad business, it’s “math men meet mad men.” 

Have you been building up your Klout score through social activity, informative posts and connections? If so, you could be a Klout Expert, someone wise enough to get your content to the top of search engines thanks to a new initiative by the measuring company. 

As summer approaches, many of us will hit the gym in the hopes of being swimsuit-ready by Memorial Day. While dragging ourselves out of bed for a 5-mile run before that 9am meeting isn't much fun at first, the more we exercise, the easier it becomes. That’s because we're building up our endurance and creating a habit of early-morning runs. In fact, over time, our bodies even start to wake up naturally in anticipation of that runner’s high each morning and we start to miss it on days when we skip our workout.

Customer engagement can be compared to hanging out with your best friend: the better you know each other, the more fun you will have and the more engaging your time spent together will be. After a while you can almost guess what’s on your friend’s mind, making your conversations worthwhile for the both of you. It’s this constant process of interacting with each other that forges a strong relationship between two people.

Well, that DAM week is over. And, in recent digital asset management news, Netx combines with ConceptShare, ADAM 5 and TACTIC 4.0 emerge, DAMNY 2013 is now a memory and Brandworkz unveils multiple version outputting.

Marketing software provider HubSpot is out with an integrated suite of tools that it says will “make social media personal again.” Called Social Inbox, it merges a company’s contacts database of leads, opportunities and customers with its social media interactions. 

How to staff for analytics seems to be a front and center concern for many enterprises today. It doesn't matter whether there's been zero resources dedicated to digital analytics or whether there's a staff in place. Figuring out whom to hire in order to manage analytics is a big question.

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Social influence moderation platform, Traackr has announced a new tool for its social media marketing platform: the Influencer Network Analysis (INA) which monitors the social influence journey over social media.

In an indication of digital asset management’s increasing integration into a larger marketing framework, DAM vendor ADAM Software has announced the release of its ADAM 5 platform. The company described the new platform as heralding “a new era of collaborative enterprise marketing” that does away with siloed components, and its press release doesn’t even use the term “digital asset management.” 

Struggling to decide between native ads and banner ads? You may want to consider what a recent eye-tracking study revealed. The study carried out by by Sharethrough and IPG Media Lab showed that native ads are more visually engaging than banner ads. And by visually engaging we mean that consumers looked at native ads 53% more frequently than banner ads and viewed native ads approximately 4 times per session.