Fri.Mar 15, 2024

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The Worst Super Bowl Ads — Avoid These Blunders

Hubspot Marketing

There’s a lot to be learned from the Super Bowl. While athletes gather new motivation and coaches pick up a few more techniques, the Super Bowl is also an excellent place for marketers to gain tips. How? The ads, of course. Between 80 and 100 ads run annually during the Super Bowl. Companies pay millions to have their commercials aired for 30 to 60 seconds.

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Google to replace perspectives filter with forums filter

Search Engine Land

Google is rolling out a change to the perspectives filter, renaming it from perspectives to forums. A Google spokesperson told Search Engine Land the word “forums” is a more intuitive name when seeking out that content. Google also told us that searchers can use this filter to hone in on results from hundreds of forums from across the web.

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Navigating the cookieless future with cross-functional teams

Martech

The shift away from third-party cookies represents a significant change in how advertisers and businesses collect and use data. The change isn’t just a technical issue but will require unprecedented cross-functional collaboration. Marketing, IT, legal, compliance, customer service teams and other parts of the business must work together to navigate the complexities of collecting and managing data flow.

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Microsoft serving ads for Bing in Google Chrome

Search Engine Land

Microsoft is reportedly using pop-up ads within Google Chrome to prompt users to switch their default search engine to Bing. Increasing numbers of Windows users have observed advertisements for Bing AI and Microsoft’s Bing search engine while browsing in Chrome. If users choose to accept these prompts, Microsoft automatically sets Bing as the new default search engine for Chrome instead of Google.

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How to Leverage Behavioral Science Insights for Direct Mail Success

Speaker: Neal Boornazian, President and Nancy Harhut, Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer - HBT Marketing

Direct mail has consistently remained a powerful tool in the marketer's arsenal, but in an age of digital dominance, its effectiveness hinges on the strategic integration of behavioral science. 💡 When you incorporate powerful behavioral science principles into your direct mail marketing strategies, you can prompt the hardwired decision-making shortcuts your audience relies on — and that automatically unlocks new avenues for engagement, conversion, and brand loyalty.

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24 Top YouTube influencers to check out in 2024

Sprout Social

YouTube influencers are on a different level when it comes to business impact. The term “influencer” might be synonymous with Instagram and TikTok these days. Thing is, YouTube creators predate both and are the blueprint for what an “influencer” is today. And YouTubers have consistently built full-blown brands, media careers and product lines. These aren’t just one-off success stories, either.

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Microsoft Advertising testing new interface similar to Google Ads

Search Engine Land

Microsoft Advertising is piloting a new user interface for select users. The platform is yet to confirm a timeline of when the new UI will be rolled out to more users, however a spokesperson told Search Engine Land to expect more updates in the coming weeks. Navigation revamp. Microsoft Advertising’s new navigation layout is set up like the latest Google Ads interface, with two vertical menus on the left side of the screen.

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3 underutilized Google Search Console reports for diagnosing traffic drops

Search Engine Land

As Google continues to roll out massive updates , you may be looking to diagnose drops in organic traffic. A great tool to start with here (particularly if you’re in the NeverGA4 crowd or your GA4 reports just aren’t adding up ) is Google Search Console. Google’s released a surprisingly useful guide of their own on this topic with some good high-level approaches to this diagnosis.

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Stop the Shotgun Marketing Approach! Let a B2B Industrial Marketing Agency Build Your Strategic Roadmap to Success

Tiecas

How can a B2B industrial marketing agency develop a strategic roadmap and help you execute it for success? Imagine an industrial marketing strategic roadmap with a laser-sharp focus, a plan that directly aligns with your sales goals and delivers a predictable flow of qualified leads. What if you could stop wasting time and money on random tactics and transform your marketing into a true growth driver?

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Link devaluation: The hidden threat of SpamBrain

Search Engine Land

As I write this, we’re in the first week of the March 2024 core and spam updates – and the aftermath has been savage. Sites with spam policy violations were hit with manual actions. Many SEOs are in a state of fear. This is just the beginning. SpamBrain is just getting started and it’s coming for your links. There are only so many ways to build links Links have been called the currency of the web for as long as I can remember and no matter what anyone tries to say, they still matter.

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Leveraging AI for Social Media Success: Insights from MECLABS AI’s Facebook Copywriter expert assistant

Marketing Sherpa

When you’re concepting and brainstorming and trying to think of that next idea, wouldn’t it be great to bounce around your thoughts with a giant brain well versed in a specific topic? Well with the magic of artificial intelligence, you can. For example, Facebook Copywriter in MECLABS AI. It’s totally free to use (for now).

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Sales & Marketing Alignment: How to Synergize for Success

Speaker: Carlos Hidalgo, Co-Founder & CEO of Digital Exhaust, Author, International Keynote & TEDx Speaker

Recent research shows that only 50% of B2B organizations state that they have good alignment between their marketing and sales teams. This lack of alignment tremendously impacts the ability to meet business goals, and is a limiting factor for building and maintaining customer relationships. While many B2B organizations continue to struggle with aligning their marketing and sales teams, they can take practical steps to unify both teams and simplify their overall approach.

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Meta will sunset CrowdTangle in August

Search Engine Land

Meta announced that CrowdTangle will be discontinued on Aug. 14, 2024, as the company shifts its focus toward developing new research tools. Until then, users can still access CrowdTangle and its Chrome Extension, with data updating in real-time. However, during this period, no new users can be added to accounts as the platform will be in maintenance mode.

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The Problem With AI Headlines

Content Marketing Institute

Open AI’s Sam Altman says the future of AI will accomplish 95% of what marketers use agencies, strategists, and creative professionals for today. But don't panic. Get the context and an interpretation that will calm your concerns.

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LinkedIn now allows brands to sponsor any organic post

Martech

LinkedIn is now allowing businesses to promote content from any user on the app, not just their own employees, expanding its Thought Leader ads into a form of branded content promotion. Previously, brands could use Thought Leader ads to turn posts from verified employees into promotions. Now, businesses have the option to promote posts from non-employees too.

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How to Use Website Visitor Data in Your Client Campaigns

Customers.ai

As we rapidly wave goodbye to third-party cookies and attribution data, marketing and advertising agencies find themselves in a rush to pivot and adapt. After all, agencies are tasked with one thing – driving results – and with less data to work with and without the ability to truly understand the impact of campaigns, driving results becomes much harder.

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Are Your Impact Comms Resonating With Stakeholders?

Whether your organization is at the start of its sustainability and impact journey or years into it, many brands share a common concern: the uncertainty of whether they are sending stakeholders mixed messages. Creating content that speaks to your audience's “love language” can be a tricky dance. But, worry not! 3BL has put together tips to ensure that your content not only finds its rhythm but also resonates with your target audiences.

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Q&A with David Iscove: The MarTech Conference

Martech

David Iscove is creative technology practice lead at Cella by Randstad Digital. At the MarTech Conference next week, he’ll be sharing a new blueprint for customer experience that he summarizes as: “Always on, always listening.” David is one of a number of speakers that will be not only emphasizing customer-centricity but offering actionable advice about how to become a customer-centric organization.

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Every marketer’s essential guide to conversational marketing

Use Insider

What is conversational marketing? Conversational marketing is an approach to customer engagement that uses real-time conversations and personalized interactions to facilitate a more direct and meaningful connection between businesses and their customers. This strategy leverages various communication channels such as live chat, messaging apps (e.g., WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger), social media platforms, voice assistants, and chatbots to engage with customers at various touchpoints throughout thei

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40 Ways your Go-To-Market Teams can Use AI

Six & Flow

AI has been the talk of the town for quite a while, and we’ve all seen it evolve and enter every facet of our daily lives. Looking at it from the perspective of business operations, AI has massively contributed to shaping the way we operate with AI emerging as a game-changer for go-to-market teams seeking innovative strategies to outperform their competition.

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Email Ready to Send? Make Sure to Tick These Things off First!

Zumvu

Designing and developing an email campaign is a complex mechanism; a few things will inevitably escape your attention during the process.

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The Resurgence of Direct Mail as a Growth Marketing Strategy

Speaker: Jeff Tarran, COO, Gunderson Direct & Margaret Pepe, Executive Director of Product Management, U.S. Postal Service

Learn the secrets to direct mail success for growth marketers! Industry veterans Jeff Tarran and Margaret Pepe are here to delve into how direct mail has completely evolved in recent years, and has rightfully earned a seat at the table alongside the email and digital marketing plans of SMBs, enterprise companies, and agencies as they look into strategy for 2024 and beyond.

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How to Respond to the Loss of Third-Party Cookies

Litmus

We’ve been encouraging marketers to focus on developing a strategy to wean their media plans and martech stack off third-party (3P) cookies for some time (and we still are!) But if your organization hasn’t yet made it a top priority, Google’s countdown to phasing out third-party cookies in Chrome by Q3 2024 may be the push you need to move this to the top of your to-do list.

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Email Ready to Send? Make Sure to Tick These Things off First!

Zumvu

Designing and developing an email campaign is a complex mechanism; a few things will inevitably escape your attention during the process.

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5 impactful ways to level up your email marketing designs

Martech

Turning to templates might seem the most prudent option when it comes to delivering eye-catching emails, especially when deadlines are fast approaching. However, as I’ve seen from working on thousands of campaigns for clients in every industry, bespoke email campaign designs are always more beneficial in the long term. From including interactive elements in your layouts to finding the right font, here are five things you can do to ensure you create every email campaign with optimal performance i