The way large online platforms, such as Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon (GAFAs), restrict advertisers from using their data on the platforms is called “walled gardens”. In lieu thereof, around two-thirds of marketing executives complain that walled gardens do not provide enough information to measure campaigns effectively.

A recent study by elaboratum, a German expert consultancy firm for digital business and cross-channel strategies, shows that optimizing your website for emotional and intuitive decision-making factors can significantly improve your conversion rate.

A new report from Meltwater, titled E-commerce in SEA: Supercharging Holiday Sales Through Social Media, analyzed consumer sentiment during the year-end shopping period last year to help ecommerce companies better reach their audiences.

We are surfing, chatting, posting and commenting virtually on a regular basis: in fact, the amount of time users spend daily on social networks like Facebook, Instagram and Co. is growing faster than the rest of online usage. Around 60% of people visit social media every day, one third of them even 5 times a day, proving that social media marketing can achieve a high reach. But what do social media channels really accomplish for marketing?

The Account Based Marketing (ABM) automation provider, Engagio, announced the launch of its Sales Activation Tools, a powerful and scalable set of capabilities that provide customized and relevant real-time account insights to marketing and sales teams.

Fifteen years after being founded in Mark Zuckerberg's college room, Facebook has become a world power with unprecedented opportunities to reach out to its users in a targeted manner - be it advertising or opinion-making.

Pegasystems Inc., a provider of strategic software solutions for sales, marketing, service and operations, points out the stumbling blocks the customer journey is facing commonplace in practice:

Hong Bao Media launched a blended learning course for the marketing community to help them cut time and cost when producing video content.

There is hardly an online shop that has not fallen for at least one of the fancy tricks of a cheater’s line and suffered consequently financial loss. One way to reliably detect fraud is classic identification. This helps online shops to distinguish real people with honest buying and paying intentions from fraudsters.

Social media stars, so-called influencers, show us how easy it is to create content and distribute it through social media today. With hundreds of thousands or even millions of followers, these people have a larger community than most newspaper publishers. Therefore, it is understandable that the advertising industry sees in it a potential to reach a specific target group, especially since the usage behavior of teens plays a key role here.

Fuji Xerox, a leader in document management solutions, just launched 14 new models of digital color multifunction devices: the ApeosPort-VII C / DocuCentre-VII C series.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Search Engine Advertising (SEA) mean more than just keyword analysis and should be an essential part of any online marketing strategy today. Simply because skillful SEO and deliberate SEA makes websites more productive for the sales of products. Considering certain rules can be useful to steadily improve existing operations, like the following

2019 will be the break through year of what has been predicted for years but hasn’t yet materialized to any significant extent: big brands, advertising agencies, retailers, and leading media will disappear into insignificance, creating space for new things and better solutions besides new social- and value systems. The trend towards something new and the challenges in digital marketing will simply increase even more: it continues to be all about personalization, voice and the increasing dominance of Instagram; Amazon will go head to head with Google and Facebook in online advertising market share; and collaboration within agencies and agile brand management will keep on being important.

Customer experience (CX) is expected to overtake price as a key product differentiator by 2020. However, businesses are already urged today to keep pace with customer experience innovation that can help gaining insight, scale and connect customer journey touch points, from the tested online experience to the monitored customer service experience, since CX has been growing exponentially over the past years.