Google Assistant has recently been enhanced with to automatically put your daily tasks front and center on your phone. Originally launched as a search feature that also allowed users to make quick phone calls, send text messages, and more, the new features give us curated information based on the time of day, locations and your [...]
Google is now testing a new location tab and section within thee hotel knowledge panel. The location tab contains information that tells you what is around the hotel, such as sections like highlights, top sights and a getting-around section. Sergey Alakov captured the test, and was able to share the following screen shots below. An important aspect of [...]
A new feature is being rolled out by Google My Business that notifies business owners when their local listings go live in Google Maps and Google Search. The community manager of Google My Business, Allyson Wright, announced this in the forums, saying “We’re in the process [of] launching a new notification that informs you when your business [...]
Clinch, which provides a platform for generating data-driven variations of interactive media, announced this week it has added functionality that lets advertisers dynamically create a variety of video/carousel ads for Instagram Stories. According to the company, this is the first tool of its kind. The New York City-headquartered company offers marketers tools for developing dynamic [...]
Advertisers have been given more creative tools for building Facebook ads right from their phones via the Ads Manager ads. From a mobile device, brands can now include text overlays, stickers, logos or color filters when creating ads. There is even an image cropper and a text policy checker that alerts the advertiser if the [...]
This years Amazon Prime Day appeared to have some issues when it began. It could, from this point on, will be remembered by many as the Amazon Prime Day Crash of 2018. Shortly after kicking off its big day of deals at 3:00pm ET, the site experienced quite a few crashes. Rather than seeing the normal Amazon [...]
It has been announced by Google that the company is expanding Google for Jobs to the United Kingdom. Google for Jobs had been introduced in the United States a year ago. According to Google, “We’re excited to bring a new job search experience to Google to connect people in the UK to job opportunities.” Job search features testing began in [...]
In recent months things got tougher for social media marketers. In an effort to crack down on rampant fraud, fake accounts, and fake news, social networks have restricted or eliminated many actions that marketers used to exploit. In this episode of the popular Here's Why digital marketing video series, Stone Temple's Mark Traphagen claims these [...]
The Boston-based SEM firm, Stone Temple Consulting, which is managed by Eric Enge, has agreed to be acquired by St. Louis-based Perficient, a digital consulting firm with revenues of upwards of &480 million based on data from 2016. According to the press release that was released at the time of this announcement, Stone Temple Consulting is [...]
RankRanger's Mord Oberstein has reported that the Google mobile search results interface has had a dramatic increase of image thumbnails that were displayed in mobile search results. According to the data from RankRanger, there is 183 percent increase on July 13, 208, which is up from 15.7 of mobile page one search results that contain image thumbnails [...]