Google’s Search Liaison, Danny Sullivan, clarifies that structured data is optional and does not impact search rankings. While this has always been the case, Sullivan reiterated his fact after some controversy was caused over a misunderstanding that structured data is required to rank well in Google Search. Read MoreRead More
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The Apple TV app on the Apple TV is currently the bane of my existence. In theory, it should be a tidy way to manage everything you watch, bringing together content from Apple, Disney+, HBO, Hulu, and other streaming services (but still not Netflix, for some reason), plus live news Read More
Google is upending the advertising world with its decision to “render obsolete” a key tool used by marketers for years to track would-be customers as they move around the Web: it’s phasing out the cookie. On Tuesday, the company said it would stop supporting third-party cookies over the next Read More
Amazon has quickly built a sizable digital-video advertising business on the back of its Fire TV platform. Now, Amazon’s eyeing the audience outside of its 40 million Fire TV users. The online retail giant is in talks with multiple publishers to sell some of their ad inventories on other streaming Read More
Reuters – Alphabet Inc’s GOOGL.O Google within two years plans to block a common way businesses track online surfers in its Chrome browser, endorsing costly changes to how the Web operates as it tries to satisfy increased privacy demands from users. Google’s plan is to restrict advertising software Read More
Chat Marketing is certainly popular among B2C companies, but that doesn’t mean it’s non-existent among B2B industries, or that it can’t be helpful. In fact, one study shows that just 74 percent of B2C companies use live chat for sales, while 85 percent of B2B Read More
TechRepublic’s Teena Maddox talked to Dave Neway, head of marketing at IBM Watson Advertising, at CES 2020 about how Watson can take advertising to the next level with artificial intelligence (AI). The following is an edited transcript of their conversation. It helps advertisers better predict as opposed to react to Read More
Facebook AI Research (FAIR) today said it’s open-sourcing wav2letter@anywhere, a deep learning-based inference framework that achieves fast performance for online automatic speech recognition in cloud or embedded edge environments. Wav2letter@anywhere is based on neural net-based language models wav2letter and wav2letter++, which upon its Read More
Google Ads is making parallel tracking available for video campaigns, which is optional for now but will soon become mandatory. Parallel tracking is designed to improve mobile site speed by bringing visitors directly to the landing page while measuring the ad click in the background. Read MoreRead More
The UK’s Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA) has expressed its disappointment at Facebook’s decision not to ban political ads that use micro-targeting and spurious claims to sway voter opinion – a practice that the industry body says is “open to abuse and has been demonstrably abused in the Read More