Month: September 2020

CME Event Could Look Like Start Of World War 3

“Let’s talk about a very dangerous event, an event that might in your lifetime happen here on planet earth,” says space scientist and YouTube star Anton Petrov. “I don’t want to scare you too much but this is something you should be familiar with. So let’s talk about this unusual event known as a geomagnetic […]

Labels now available in Bing Ads Editor for Dynamic Search Ads

New feature allows advertisers to organize DSAs in a personalized way. Bing Ads has announced the ability to use Labels in Editor for Dynamic Search Ads, following the recent rollout of DSAs in October. Labels allow advertisers to organize information in a way that is easier for them to filter and create rules around. Users […]

Walmart+ Goes Head To Head With Amazon

Walmart launches Walmart+ a subscription service that competes directly with Amazon Prime and costs only $98 a year or optionally $12.95 a month. Walmart’s membership option is now available to customers across the country. Membership includes free 15-day trial period. “We can’t wait for customers to use Walmart+ as a way to keep more time […]

Oracle TikTok Deal Dead?

Is the Oracle TikTok deal dead on arrival? According to China state-affiliated media China will not allow ByteDance to sell TikTok’s U.S. operations to Oracle (or Microsoft), nor will the company be allowed to give the source code to any U.S. buyers. CGTN Digital reports that its sources say that despite news reports to the contrary ByteDance will not […]

Invest in a killer PPC campaign by using these smart budget strategies

Contributor Jeff Baum discusses how allocating funds and developing smart budgets brings focus to your PPC campaigns and helps make them a success. Budgeting is one of the most important components of pay-per-click (PPC) account management. They are a direct reflection of a campaign’s priorities and are the bridge that ties strategy and tactical execution […]

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21 Types Of Social Content To Boost Your SEO

I’ve written often about the benefits of going viral in both content and marketing strategies. Increasingly, however, social media content (a.k.a. viral content) does more than increase brand recognition and site traffic: it can also boost your SEO signals. As search engines pay more and more attention to social signals, going viral is rapidly becoming […]

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T-Mobile Money Expands to Sprint Users

Sprint customers now have full access to T-Mobile’s banking solution, T-Mobile Money, following their merger. T-Mobile completed the integration of Sprint’s stores and assets in early August, retiring the brand August 2. Since then, the company has been working to bring all the benefits of being a T-Mobile customer to former Sprint users. The latest […]

Google Challenges Apple, Netflix, Hulu with Video Rentals Service

Google is about to launch a premium video on demand service through YouTube that will directly challenge iTunes, Netflix, Hulu and even cable TV. In the past YouTube tested video rentals (and has continued to do so) but the titles were limited and the results have been muted. The new service appears to be called […]

A Proposal For Social Network Détente

For the past two weeks, I feel like I’ve been witnessing some type of Cuban Missile Crisis going on between Google, Twitter and Facebook. I’d like to suggest some ways that social-nuclear war might be averted. Beyond Blame, Believing In Cooperation Let’s set aside blame, because blame isn’t going to move anything forward. Let’s also […]