This week's Bullseye Buzz discusses a new Burger King delivery app, YouTube's Bumper Machine and Google Ads' bug plague.
Podcasts show up in Google search; predictions about chatbots; Instagram's new @shop channel
By Mark Eting Bullseye Strategy Special Correspondent Once upon a time, people watched broadcast TV, and UpFronts, the seasonal gathering of advertisers and TV network execs to divvy up commercial air time, was an incredibly important event. (Isn’t that quaint, almost like a tea party or a rotary-dial phone?) Today, of course, viewers take a ...
Between an unusual video strategy by Adobe, Instagram's quizzes and Shopify's upgrades, it's been a thought-provoking week.
By Mark Eting Bullseye Strategy Special Correspondent It’s been one of those weeks where celebrity-designed shoes are air-dropped into Coachella goers’ phones, thought leaders are officially the cool kids of social media, and a WordPress plug-in has upgraded its game so significantly that SEO nerds like ourselves everywhere are conga-lining around our offices. Welcome to ...
By Mark Eting Bullseye Strategy Special Correspondent You know what they say about the word “assume”: don’t. This is especially true if you’re responsible for your company’s bottom line. At risk: local businesses who think simply having a website with up-to-date contact info is enough for them to be found online, marketers shying away from ...
By Mark Eting Bullseye Strategy Special Correspondent This week in digital marketing news, the parents, aunts, and uncles of Generation Z shoppers at our agency hugged each other with relief, exclaiming, “It’s not just us??” when we learned that this age group rolls its eyes not only at authorities but at celebrities, too. A new ...
Digital marketing news round-up: video views, social media storytelling and Google ads conversion attribution
By Mark Eting Bullseye Strategy Special Correspondent We hate to sound like a Hollywood gossip columnist, but did you hear that Shopify and Mailchimp broke up?? It’s staggering, like when Jennifer Aniston and Ben Affleck stopped being Bennifer; unlike the undoing of Bennifer, though, this divorce has major ramifications for brands, agencies, and of course, ...
By Mark Eting Bullseye Strategy Special Correspondent What’s on the menu for this week’s Bullseye Buzz? It’s a tasty one. Snapchat’s spicing things up with a gamer platform as its audience growth slows, podcasts are looking like a sweet bet for marketers, and Google has blended up a giant detox smoothie to rid itself of ...