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

Hootsuite, the leader in social media management, released in collaboration with We Are Social, the eighth annual report, Digital 2019, which examines digital trends and social media use across 230 countries and territories, uncovered that more than one million new people go online every day, and that 45% of the world— nearly 3.5 billion people annually—are logging in to their favorite social platforms. That’s a near 9% released increase year-over-year despite growing concerns of fake news, fake followers and data privacy in 2018.

Hardly anyone abstains from checking the smartphone at least once a day, not to mention that our little all-around gadgets are used for tasks like shopping, booking restaurants or whole vacation trips, always assisting us in life. In fact, the phone feature is rarely used, since the communication preferences of the younger generation in particular focuses more on chatting than speaking. This trend has of course an impact on businesses and there is no reason to assume that it is different in B2B compared to the B2C industry.

According to a study of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich we are already at the point where readers can’t recognize anymore if an article is written by a human being or artificial intelligence (AI). On the contrary, the texts of robots had even greater credibility in the test group, the study revealed. But writing texts is not the only creative area in which AI advances. More and more start-ups feed their servers with data and build innovative services thanks to machine learning.

2018 was a big year for KPop, and with a new global record of 5.3 billion Tweets last year, Twitter continues to show that it's a great place to find out what's happening with KPop and to talk about it with KPop fans around the world. The top 20 countries that tweeted the most about KPop in 2018 have been:

The fact of having the World Wide Web around for 30 years now - and Google for 20 years - deserves taking a closer look at the future of search engine advertising.

For dealers, the product search and displaying shopping ads for performance purposes are particularly lucrative, but good for image management via display marketing and remarketing as well, while search engines attract with unusual and cost-effective targeting options. The possibilities to reach target groups and campaign goals are almost limitless, making it therefore quite challenging to keep up with the trends.

Tata Communications Transformation Services (TCTS), a partner of choice for the world’s leading Communication Service Providers (CSPs), and Zeetta Networks, a leading network slicing and splicing company, announced a global partnership agreement to facilitate early adoption of technologies like 5G and network slicing within the ICT space.

Short video clips manage to explain complex content in less than three minutes while entertaining at the same time. To no surprise, they are nowadays often replacing long and unmanageable texts that are usually not read to the end. Best is that they are applicable in almost any context: not only as a marketing or image film, but also in the traditional market communication and internal corporate business world. In addition, they can be spread through a variety of channels, such as YouTube, your own company website or Facebook.

Adobe announced the global availability of Adobe Experience Platform, the industry’s first real-time platform for customer experience management (CXM). The open and extensible platform brings together all kind of data from across the enterprise by leveraging Adobe Sensei artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. In a nutshell, Adobe Experience Platform brings together all data sources from across the enterprise and rationalize the data for real-time actionability.

Melissa, a leading provider of global contact data quality and identity verification solutions, announced Privacy Flag, a seamless new feature in its comprehensive Global Email Verification suite designed to verify email addresses and improve overall email deliverability.

From the live black-and-white broadcast of Neil Armstrong’s first step on the Moon to the World Cup Final in ultra-high definition, television has stood the test of time often co-opting inventions that threatened disruption such as VHS, cable networks and the Internet.

For marketing projects, customers or prospects are typically segmented into groups, such as by gender or geographic region, and automated routes are built from those segments. A really personalized approach, however, isn’t possible that way, only recommendations, offers or purchase proposals based on a cluster. Well, not only does this practice have high waste circulation, it regularly upsets customers when, for example, they are offered things they have long since bought.

A recent Qualtrics study of data privacy professionals found that 65% of all organizations use multiple survey tools and 45% of these organizations don't even know how many survey accounts exist within the organization. This fragmentation leads to data silos, security and compliance risks and disjointed customer experiences.

According to a recent announcement of Rockwell Automation, industrial workers can now more easily use the data from their equipment to predict production issues and improve processes with their existing automation and control skill set.