The latest article on  ‘Marketing Land’ is titled “The Drop In Facebook Page Reach Is All About The Competition”. Martin Beck says, “One key reason that Facebook Pages are reaching fewer of their fans with posts: the number of Pages Liked by the average Facebook user has increased by more than 50% in the last year. That statistic, provided by Will Cathcart, Facebook’s News Feed director of product management, in a recent interview with Josh Constine of TechCrunch, is a plausible explanation for the approximate 50% drop in organic Page reach per fan in the last... [...]

The latest article on ‘Website Magazine’ is titled “Digital Ad Spending in 2014”. Pete Prestipino says, “Digital ad spending will reach $137.53 billion this year according to recent estimates from eMarketer. Digital spend will be up 14.8% over 2013 levels, according to the forecast, and will make up just over one-quarter of all paid media spending worldwide. That’s up from about one-fifth of spending in 2012, and it is set to rise to nearly one-third of the total by the end of our forecast period, when advertisers around the world will invest $204.01 billion in digital“. Digital... [...]

The latest article on  ‘Marketing Land’ is titled “Is Native Advertising Legal? Does It Matter?”. David Rodnitzky says, “I start this article with three controversial statements: Native advertising likely violates Federal Trade Commission (FTC) rules on deceptive advertising Native advertisers and publishers will profit tremendously from these violations and receive little to no punishment or regulation from the FTC This concept, which I call “regulatory arbitrage,” has been proven to be highly profitable, having been proven by many other internet businesses“. Is... [...]

The latest article on  ‘Marketing Land’ is titled “Survey Shows Twitter Users Find Ads On The Network Irrelevant, Random”. Martin Beck says, “Twitter’s efforts to increase its user base and to encourage users to spend more time on the service are well documented and widely seen as crucial for the company as it works to extract value from the post-IPO social network. Last week, Deutsche-Bank released a largely bullish report (PDF) recommending that investors buy Twitter stock, based on a survey of 1,100 residents of the United States. As we reported last week, the... [...]

The latest ‘Web Marketing Today’ blog post is titled “Do-it-yourself SEO Starts with On-page Optimization”. Andy Curry says, “In “How to Get Traffic to your Website (via Google),” my article last month, I addressed basic search engine optimization and what you need to know to either hire a consultant or do it yourself. In this post, I’m going to expand on doing it yourself. SEO seems mystical, but it’s really not. You’ll hear people touting different strategies that may be unfounded. The problem is most people are only repeating what they learned from someone else, who they... [...]

The latest post on ‘ReadWrite’ is titled “Why No One Trusts Facebook To Power The Future”. Selena Larson says, “In the coming years, one billion more people will gain access to the Internetthanks to drones and satellites hovering in the stratosphere. And soon, we’ll be able to sit down with friends in foreign countries and immerse ourselves in experiences never previously thought possible, simply by slipping on a pair of virtual reality goggles. These aren’t just gaseous hypotheticals touted by Silicon Valley startups, but efforts led by one company, whose mission is to... [...]

The latest article on  ‘Marketing Land’ is titled “How Email Marketers Should Mark Up Messages For Gmail’s New Grid View”. Tom Sather says, “Google just transformed the inbox again with Gmail Grid View that turns the Promotions tab into a visual shopping mall of marketing emails. For marketers, the question is: how do I get it to work, and what will my emails look like if I don’t do anything at all? I did some testing and noticed some interesting things. For grid view, Gmail is using “Actions in the Inbox,” which it announced in early 2013. Actions in the... [...]

The latest article on  ‘Marketing Land’ is titled “How Much Should You Spend On Optimization? Calculate Your BUU”. Brian Massey says, “Analytics platforms. Split testing software. User testing tools. This is starting to sound expensive. And it is. What if it were more expensive not to have these things in your online business? It might very well be. Your business may be one of the many that is hobbled by a “launch and hope” approach to digital marketing. Not every business will benefit from such tools, but yours may. How much will you benefit? How much does... [...]

The latest article on  ‘Marketing Land’ is titled “Google Moves Universal Analytics Out Of Beta”. Amy Gesenhues says, “Since first being offered in October of 2012, Google announced today Universal Analytics is now out of beta, making all the features, reports and classic analytics tools — including remarketing and audience reporting — available to everyone. According to the announcement: Universal Analytics is the re-imagining of Google Analytics for today’s multi-screen, multi-device world and all the measurement challenges that come with it… Today we’re... [...]

The latest article on  ‘Marketing Land’ is titled “Email Marketers Aren’t Ready For Gmail’s Grid View, Yet: What You Need To Know To Stand Out”. Ginny Marvin says, “Google is very good at forcing an issue. The company knows visuals are increasingly important for user engagement, so last week, it began testing a new image-rich grid view in the Gmail Promotions tab. The move to make images a key part of the email open rate equation should in turn compel marketers to pay more attention to the images they use in their campaigns. I described the new view as Pinterest... [...]