A History of Social Media Advertising [INFOGRAPHIC] – Where have social ads been and where are they heading? The infographic above shows how things started and where we are now. Check it out. Mashable
Report: Facebook Dominates Social Sharing Of Major Events, But Twitter & Reddit React Quicker – ShareThis quarterly report finds that Facebook commands a large lead in total sharing of major events, but Twitter and Reddit activity ramps up the closer you get to the event. Marketing Land
Twitter Beats Revenue Expectations Again but User Engagement Slows – At Twitter, a pattern is emerging: its ad business is growing at a steady clip, but it can’t get the number of users to grow or stick around. AdAge
Bing Ads Improves Speed, Bidding, and Targeting – In a partnership with American Express, Bing Ads has launched a marketing toolkit to help its customers with Small Business Saturday next month. The toolkit – which includes printable signage and logos, free online ads, and sample email and social posts – is the latest in a series of improvements Microsoft has made to the platform this quarter in an effort to improve its targeting and bidding capabilities as well as its speed. ClickZ
Twitter Partners With IBM to ‘Transform Enterprise Decisions’ – Twitter and IBM have formed a global partnership that will allow enterprises worldwide to incorporate Twitter data into their decision-making process via IBM tools. AllTwitter
Survey: Social Media To Influence Half Of Holiday Shoppers – According to a new holiday shopping survey sponsored by e-commerce platform MarketLive (carried out by the e-tailing Group) mobile and social channels will play a significant role in holiday shopping this year. Marketing Land
30% Of Google Ad Conversions Happen On Mobile [STUDY] – Marin Software recently published the results of a study they conducted, showing smartphones and tablets account for 30% of conversions on Google ads. Search Engine Journal
Instagram Benchmark Data From 100 Top Brands – Some 86% of brands on the Interbrand 100 list have an account on Instagram as of 3Q14, up from 54% in 3Q12, according to a recent report from Simply Measured. MarketingProfs
Official: Twitter Will Now Show You Tweets From People You Don’t Follow – Move will anger some core users, but company says its experiments showed that most like seeing added tweets based on other signals of quality. Marketing Land
Bing Now Lets You Search By Emoji – Want to search for something using popular emoji characters? Microsoft’s Bing search engine now supports this. Bing announced the news in a post today, sharing some examples of why you might want to do this. For one, perhaps you want to know what exactly a particular emoji means. Enter that into the search box, and Bing will tell you. Search Engine Land
The Banner Ad Turns 20 – Oct. 27, 1994 – HotWired, the online version ofWired magazine, runs the first-ever banner ad. “Have you ever clicked your mouse right HERE?” the ad asked. “YOU WILL” it answered. It was right. 44% of people who saw the ad clicked on it, according to Joe McCambley, who was a member of the team which built the ad for AT&T. AdAge
Wojcicki Says 50% Of YouTube’s Traffic Now Coming From Mobile Phones & Tablets – During this week’s Code/Mobile Conference in Half Moon Bay, California, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki confirmed half of YouTube’s traffic was coming from mobile phone and tablet devices. Marketing Land
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