Tuesday May 14th

Challenges to keep an eye on when using videos in email marketing
Videos are said to be strong traffic and engagement guarantors in online marketing, especially when used in social media, since posting live videos and short clips is explicitly encouraged and promoted by networks like Facebook where visual content gets a lot of attention.
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Appointments & Announcements
The Kraft Heinz Company, one of the world’s largest food & beverage company, has appointed Karina Ong as its Chief Marketing Officer for the Asia Pacific region.Based in Singapore, she will lead the growth agenda for the brands and spearhead the long-term innovation pipeline for Kraft He ...
Mobile websites: The underestimated communications channel
Apparently, mobile optimization, the preparation of the corporate website for optimal display on smartphones and tablets, is deemed negligible by many marketing or sales decision makers - in the otherwise often very innovative, industrial companies.
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Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP)
Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) first appeared to web users in February 2016, when Google began to show the AMP versions of webpages in mobile search results: AMP pages are published on the open web and can be displayed in most current browsers. When a standard webpage has an AMP counterpart, a link ...
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Yahoo Mail launched new mobile web experience and Android Go App
By 2025, the number of global mobile internet users is predicted to expand by more than 50%, making it crucial to understand and meet the specific needs of this massive wave of new mobile users, Yahoo Mail said in one of its recent press releases  when introducing its new mobile web experienc ...
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UX and SEO make an unbeatable team
The days when websites were optimized for search engines only and flooded with keywords are long gone. The focus is now on the user and his individual needs and experiences, but the need for a target group-oriented approach is still challenging for many marketers.
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Tomorrow’s News 2018 survey points out challenges for platforms and advertisers
According to a survey published by Reuters Plus, executives think platforms should do more to combat fake news. Of the 1,587 global executives surveyed, 87% think Google and Facebook should do more to control fake news, while 81% believe that Google and Facebook should be held accountable for conten ...
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AI makes search engine advertising simply better
Supposedly, Google started the trend of using Artificial Intelligence (AI) in 2015 using it to optimize its algorithm and RankBrain. Today, digital marketers are making use of AI to make their life a lot easier, with a focus on process automation and personalized search results. Marketing dazzling A ...
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A real-world survivor story: How to ensure immunity against disruption
What is it about the Survivor TV series which still has us riveted, 18 years and 36 seasons later? It’s the “same scenario, different palm trees” time and time again, but what’s the secret sauce that has its ranking furiously rising to the top? In a word: it’s real. Her ...
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Allocate your search engine advertising budget strategically
Today, an individual and personal customer approach is essential, hence, Search Engine Advertising (SEA) started to influence its success with targeted and locally controlled customer communication. With fine-tuned local search ads, every customer response gains in importance, with advertised produc ...
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AppNexus expands inventory quality initiative and introduces Guaranteed Views
AppNexus just announced a partnership with the cybersecurity company White Ops to shut down the flow of advertising dollars to cybercriminals. AppNexus adopts White Ops’ technology layer to power pre-bid fraud prevention across the AppNexus Marketplace and extend its in-house Inventory Quality ...
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Google Assistant: Ready to help and spy on you wherever possible
EU regulators just sentenced Google to pay a record-breaking €4.3 billion ($5 billion) fine for Android antitrust violations, in their attempt to force the tech giant to stop the ‘illegal tying of Google’s search and browser apps”.
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5G: The roadmap to launch in Asia
By 2022, there will be 280 million 5G subscriptions in Asia Pacific, with 5G service revenue reaching US$4.5 billion. Compared to previous generations of networks, 5G’s significance lies in its capability to offer real time end-to-end service offerings. Alongside the emergence of technologies ...
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Voice shopping set to rise exponentially
According to a study conducted by OC&C Strategy Consultants, voice shopping is expected to jump to $40 billion in 2022, up from $2 billion today, suggesting the new channel may well be the next major disruptive force in retail. The growth in the voice segment will be driven by a surge in the num ...
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Micro moments depict user behavior in the mobile age brilliantly
The smartphone, our little personal all-rounder and companion in all situations, is extremely important to us not only to search for information - be it finding the nearest bank, the departure time of a train or supporting decision making. In such so-called "micro-moments" companies can offer their ...
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Technology that raises the bar in the conversational application world
“The next mainstream computing platform may not be bots, AR, or VR, but rather voice-based computing”, Alexandre Linares, Founder of Alpine.AI believes and points out that it is estimated that there will be 24.5 million voice-first devices shipped this year, which will lead to a total de ...
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The 4th Industrial Revolution creates a customer divide that Salesforce knows how to tackle
Salesforce announced new innovations across marketing, commerce and service enabling brands worldwide to deliver smarter, more personalized and connected customer experiences. In addition, Salesforce and Google continued to deliver on their strategic partnership with new integrations between Salesfo ...
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MediaMath deliberates on digital marketing for better marketers-consumers connection
MediaMath, a pioneer in programmatic advertising, just announced an integrated set of initiatives to accelerate its mission of connecting marketers with consumers in a manner that is more effective, efficient and trusted.
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Be connected on the go
Mobility is gaining traction worldwide. By 2022, more than 4 in 10 employees around the world are expected to be mobile, according to Strategy Analytics and IDC reported that global spending on mobility-related hardware, software, and services – such as smartphones, enterprise mobility managem ...
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Know the ropes when searching verbally
Gartner predicted already in 2016 that by 2020 30% of web browsing sessions will be done without a screen due to more new platforms based on "voice-first" interactions.
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Fake store growth requires new cybercrime definition, says JC3 and APWG
The Japan Cybercrime Control Center (JC3) and the global counter-cybercrime association APWG just released a report detailing the enormous, rapid growth in fake shopping websites pretending to be retail shopping sites, using data from the Japanese National Policy Agency (NPA). These “fake stor ...
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Digital voice assistants set a trend in the SEO market of the future
In the age of digitization, the consumption of content across different channels often changes quickly. Anyway, the search for content itself has remained relatively constant, since search engines are dominant for many years - with Google taking the lead and being far ahead of all competitors. At le ...
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Overcoming perceptual vigilance and harnessing disruption to capture attention
Attention spans are short, and they’re getting shorter. Consumers today are bombarded with editorial, commercial and social messages through more devices and sources than ever. As a video platform we’re acutely aware of the challenges brands face when trying to engage consumers, and are ...
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Getting Google’s attention with voice-based search
Google Voice Search doesn’t seem to be a dream of the future anymore, although it is clearly still in its infancy. In a few years, however, experts predict voice-based search will have revolutionized online user behavior fundamentally. So, seize your chance to ensure your presence in the &lsqu ...
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A strategic approach to video marketing makes the big difference
The good old moving picture, aka video, is a popular tool for all companies that have something to show or to explain, making it interesting for marketing. Besides the fact that almost 90% of Internet users between the ages of 14 and 29 watch videos online every week, meaning that the most potent bu ...
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Appointments & Announcements
Plantronics has completed its acquisition of Polycom.With this acquisition, Plantronics is focused on voice, video, content, and cloud solutions for every place that technology touches people as they work, share, collaborate, and play. As trends in enterprise communications move toward open work s ...
SEGURU: The world’s first safeware application
Ralph Echemendia, better known by his alter ego “The Ethical Hacker,” just announced at Money 20/20, Europe’s largest FinTech event in Amsterdam, the launch of SEGURU, an application created to provide the most secure approach towards a safer digital experience for individuals acro ...
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Why you need a data strategy for successful data driven marketing
First, there was the big data hype and now the AI boom engrosses marketing, although none on its own can create data on its own. Since big data gurus once told us that we would only need to collect as much information as possible about our customers to know everything about them, we lived the misc ...
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Immersive media is driving the next wave of creativity and storytelling
Adobe just announced at the Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2018 its partnership with Apple and introduced Project Aero, a powerful new augmented reality (AR) authoring tool and system that makes it easier for designers and developers to create immersive content and bridge the g ...
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Making real-time operational decisions in the blink of an eye
Simply having predictive models that suggest what might be done won’t be enough to stay ahead of the competition, Bill Frank states in his article “Let algorithms decide – and act – for your company”, part of the Harvard Business Review “Predictive Analytics in Pr ...
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