2024 Update Writing this update in January 2024, one thing stands out to me about the below predictions. Google’s method of constantly tweaking and iterating its products with new features is effective overall, but also understandably imprecise. Many of the changes they make to Search and their other products are later rolled back or altered […]
At the recent Cloud Next 2022 conference, Google announced they had brought all their business data management tools under the Looker Suite umbrella. The change was effective immediately; URLs like datastudio.google.com still work, but Data Studio’s branding now reads Looker Studio. This is great news for anyone with a large cache of business data: Data
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The film Demolition Man premiered on October 8, 1993, just over 29 years ago. In its satirical depiction of the future, the only restaurant remaining after the “Franchise Wars” is Taco Bell. (Or in the international cut, Pizza Hut – both are owned by PepsiCo.) It was a bold move purchasing such a prominent placement
If you use the Outlook app regularly to check your email, you may have noticed the recent addition of ads. It’s also quite possible you haven’t noticed them – the ads are (some would say insidiously) nestled in among your emails with only the word “ad” in a small box to differentiate them from your
Creating content for online advertising can feel a bit like appealing to an expressionless and mute monarch. Advertisers tend to have a good understanding of text optimization signals like keyword frequency and active voice usage, but optimizing video presents additional complexities: are platforms like YouTube crawling the audio for clarity and keyword content? How does
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Recently, LinkedIn rolled out their beta for Business Manager, a platform much like Meta’s identically named ad management tool. For those of you currently running LinkedIn ad campaigns (or planning to do so), here’s how LinkedIn Business Manager will alter your process. Up until now, client advertising accounts and LinkedIn pages have used 1-to-1 permissions.
After attending an event, a company received an offer from the organizer: for a fee, they would receive a bulk list containing the email addresses of all the attendees. Their industry is small and highly specified, and a list of hundreds of potential clients would be a huge boon, but they asked for our advice
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When it came into effect, the GDPR provoked a Y2K-esque panic. For companies utilizing personal data in their daily operations, the new regulation was a harbinger of daunting change even before most people understood its full scope. Now, having spent a couple years in the aftermath, it’s clear that one of the GDPR’s most significant
When starting work on optimizing a Google Ads account for a new client, one of our first actions is to figure out how they’ve been managing their online marketing to see what’s working and what’s not. This process can be difficult for people outside the marketing sphere to understand, so we thought it would be
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If you manage Google Ads, you are already acutely aware of the constant presence of Recommendations: the improvements Google loudly suggests at the top of the page, in the Recommendations tab on the sidebar, and in your email inbox. Often these are obvious — Increase spending on valuable keywords! — but sometimes Google’s recommendations can
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