What Channels See The Most Social Media ROI? [New Data To Inspire Your Strategy]

What Channels See The Most Social Media ROI? [New Data To Inspire Your Strategy]

To be candid, I have a love-hate relationship with social media. Sometimes, I’m annoyed at how exciting those “likes” can be. At others, I’m ecstatic at the social media advertising ROI (return on investment) my teams can generate. It just keeps me coming back for more — and I know I’m not alone in this … Read more

Challenges Faced By Native & Indigenous Entrepreneurs [Data + Expert Tips]

Challenges Faced By Native & Indigenous Entrepreneurs [Data + Expert Tips]

Welcome to Breaking the Blueprint — a blog series that dives into the unique business challenges and opportunities of underrepresented business owners and entrepreneurs. Learn how they’ve grown or scaled their businesses, explored entrepreneurial ventures within their companies, or created side hustles, and how their stories can inspire and inform your own success. For many … Read more

How (& Where) Consumers Discover Products on Social Media [New Data]

How (& Where) Consumers Discover Products on Social Media [New Data]

Marketing is all about meeting people where they are — and more often than not, they’re on social media. For this reason, it’s crucial to invest in social product discovery. In other words, use social media as a vehicle for consumers to discover your products. Of course, not all social media platforms are created equal, … Read more

Google Introduces New Data Privacy Technology for Advertisers

Google Introduces New Data Privacy Technology for Advertisers

Google has announced a new technology called “confidential matching” to enhance data privacy for advertisers. Confidential matching, which uses confidential computing technology, allows businesses to use their first-party data for advertising while maintaining stricter privacy controls. The system employs Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs), a combination of hardware and software that isolates data during processing. According … Read more

Google Expands Video Structured Data Options With New Property

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Google adds ‘ineligibleRegion’ property to video structured data, allowing publishers to specify regions where videos shouldn’t appear in search results. Google added ‘ineligibleRegion’ to video structured data. It lets sites specify where videos shouldn’t appear in search. This offers more control over regional video visibility. Source link

Marketing Budget Approval: How to Get Yours Greenlit, According to Marketing Experts & Data

Marketing Budget Approval: How to Get Yours Greenlit, According to Marketing Experts & Data

Securing approval for a marketing budget is often tough, especially in times of economic uncertainty. I haven’t been there myself, but my learnings from C-level marketers show the many complexities around marketing budgets. Budget slicing is a common occurrence. Entire initiatives are sometimes shelved. But there are also those glorious moments when your strategic budget … Read more

Are Marketers More or Less Productive in the Office? [New Data]

Are Marketers More or Less Productive in the Office? [New Data]

The remote work productivity debate will never end, and frankly, it shouldn’t. Leaders and employees alike should never stop being critical of how time is spent and seeking improved productivity levels. Is it tiring to refine and edit how we work constantly? Sure. Change is always tiring to a degree, but thankfully, marketers are resilient … Read more

Google May Unify Schema Markup & Merchant Center Feed Data

Google May Unify Schema Markup & Merchant Center Feed Data

Google revealed it’s working to bridge the gap between two key product data sources that power its shopping results – website markup using schema.org structured data and product feeds submitted via Google Merchant Center. The initiative, mentioned during a recent “Search Off The Record” podcast episode, aims to achieve one-to-one parity between the product attributes … Read more

The HubSpot Blog’s 2024 Instagram Marketing Report [Data from 600+ Instagram Marketers]

The HubSpot Blog’s 2024 Instagram Marketing Report [Data from 600+ Instagram Marketers]

Sometimes, it feels like Instagram looks different every time I open the app—IGVT is long gone, and Reels and Shopping tools are now front and center.  These shifts align with the trends we saw in our 2024 Social Media Trends survey, but I wanted to dive deeper into Instagram research. So, I asked another 600+ … Read more

How To Set A Winning Data Strategy For Value-Based Bidding

How To Set A Winning Data Strategy For Value-Based Bidding

Value-based bidding is only as successful as the inputs you provide. It’s not just about having data; it’s about having the right data. In last week’s article of this value-based bidding series, we looked at how to determine whether this strategy will be a good fit for your business. Now, we’re going to dig into … Read more

Paying With Data Or Money: Navigating The Implications Of The Privacy First World

Paying With Data Or Money: Navigating The Implications Of The Privacy First World

What does a world where you pay with data vs. money look like? Over the past two decades, many services, including content platforms, social networks, and search engines, allowed consumers to trade their personal information – whether given voluntarily or unknowingly – to access services. This data fuels ad platforms, manifesting in search results, social … Read more

Google Rolls Out Tag Diagnostics Tool To Improve Data Quality

Google Rolls Out Tag Diagnostics Tool To Improve Data Quality

Google introduces Tag Diagnostics tool to help advertisers improve ad measurement accuracy and compliance across its platforms. Google has introduced a new Tag Diagnostics tool. The tool provides enhanced insights into measurement setups and helps identify potential data accuracy issues. Tag Diagnostics is integrated across Google Ads, Tag Manager, and Analytics. Source link

Google Updates ProfilePage Structured Data Documentation

Google Updates ProfilePage Structured Data Documentation

Google updated their documentation for the profile page structured data, a structured data that all creators including recipe bloggers can use and become eligible for enhanced listings in the search results. What is ProfilePage Structured Data? ProfilePage structured data is a Schema.org markup that Google uses for enhanced listings in the search results. It’s well … Read more

Google Updates Organization Structured Data Documentation

Google Updates Organization Structured Data Documentation

Google updated the opening paragraph of the Organization Structured Data documentation to provide a clearer, more comprehensive description of its purpose, with improved clarity on four specific points. The result is a model of how to write a high quality opening paragraph. The new documentation has a high level of information density, which is the quality … Read more

Data Confirms Disruptive Potential Of SearchGPT

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Researchers analyzed SearchGPT’s responses to queries and identified how it may impact publishers, B2B websites, and e-commerce, discovering key differences between SearchGPT, AI Overviews, and Perplexity. What is SearchGPT? SearchGPT is a prototype natural language search engine created by OpenAI that combines a generative AI model with the most current web data to provide contextually … Read more

Google: Search Console Data Survives After Domain Expiration

Google: Search Console Data Survives After Domain Expiration

In the August edition of Google’s SEO office-hours Q&A video, John Mueller, Senior Search Analyst at Google, tackled a unique question about domain expiration and Search Console data. The question highlights the potential risks to Search Console data when domains change hands. A site owner facing the expiration of their domain and loss of hosting … Read more

ChatGPT Study Finds Training Data Doesn’t Match Real-World Use

ChatGPT Study Finds Training Data Doesn't Match Real-World Use

A study by the Data Provenance Initiative, a collective of independent and academic researchers dedicated to data transparency, reveals a mismatch between ChatGPT’s training data and its typical use cases. The study, which analyzed 14,000 web domains, found that ChatGPT’s training data primarily consists of news articles, encyclopedias, and social media content. However, the most … Read more

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