By Mark Eting Bullseye Strategy Special Correspondent Welcome to a special holiday edition of The Bullseye Buzz, where we talk about the latest digital marketing headlines that agencies like ours are buzzing about. We thought this week would be light on news, since most of us are preoccupied with our upcoming Secret Santa gift exchange. ...
By Mark Eting Bullseye Strategy Special Correspondent What are digital marketing agencies buzzing about? This week, we’re pretty much shocked into silence by three interesting developments: an attack of fake reviews, the discovery of something influencer marketing isn’t good at, and a big announcement from Google about responsive ads. Move Over, #FakeNews…Hello, Fake Reviews Let’s ...
By Mark Eting Bullseye Strategy Special Correspondent What are digital marketing agencies buzzing about? This week is brought to you by the letter “L”: for LinkedIn, Live selling on Facebook…and, how shall we put this? Losers. LinkedIn Changes Privacy Settings for User Emails Just in time for the holidays: the gift of privacy for LinkedIn ...
By Mark Eting Bullseye Strategy Special Correspondent What are digital marketing agencies buzzing about? The theme of the week is #socialmedia #socialmedia #socialmedia. We’re giving thumbs up and heart-eye emojis to these three big developments impacting Pinterest, Instagram and LinkedIn. Pinterest Promoted Carousels Are Now A Thing. Pinterest has debuted Promoted Carousel advertising, partnering with ...
By Mark Eting Bullseye Strategy Special Correspondent What are digital marketing agencies buzzing about this week? At Bullseye Strategy, the following three stories have overtaken our water cooler talk. Giddy About Google’s New Click-to-Message Ads Particularly for our clients with a brick-and-mortar presence, we’re excited about a new development from Google Ads that will make ...
Facebook opens mid-roll ads to more Live broadcasters, starts non-live test Last week, Facebook has allowed Pages and Profiles that have reached certain criteria to insert mid-roll video ads into their Facebook Live broadcasts. These ads can only be played after a video has been live for 4 minutes, and then must wait another ...
Is a big Google search update happening? Chatter thinks so. Search Engine Land and other blogs are reporting that there’s been a Google algorithm update that’s impacting the core ranking algorithm and local pack. Chatter from SEOs indicate that it’s a Penguin algorithm update, which is focused on filtering out spammy websites. Algorithm updates ...
Twitter fights abuse by making it easier to hide abuse Twitter has updated its interface to try to tackle harassment concerns on the platform. Some of the changes include limiting notifications to people you follow on Twitter as well as a quality filter open to all users. Learn more With ‘The Voice ...
New Twitter ads let brands bait fans into tweeting In an ongoing effort to up its advertising game, Twitter has released new ad units which Twitter claims are getting better engagement. These new ad units unlock pieces of content when users reply or retweet them. By luring users with exclusive brand content, some beta ...
Much-needed Filters & Custom Metrics Make Their Way to Twitter Ads Manager Reporting A new set of tools will allow Twitter Ads Manager users to pick and choose the campaigns & metrics that they’d like to report on. New custom filters and custom metrics will be rolling out over the coming months allowing advertisers ...