20 Extremely Cool Twitter Tricks & Tips via @JuliaEMcCoy

With 275 million users, Twitter is huge. For you as a marketer, it promises a wide audience for your brand. But if you’re handling all your company’s social platforms, it can be difficult to spend a ton of time on your Twitter account. I’ve got great news for you: You can use a bunch of…

Google launches Keen, a new personalized search-discovery-social mashup

To the extent that tech pundits continue to compare Google’s new Keen search and social discovery site to Pinterest, and users also think of it that way, it’s probably destined to fail. Google famously doesn’t promote and ultimately shutters most of these “experiments.” Need to get away from Pinterest. For Keen to survive, let alone…

Former Google ad boss Ramaswamy to launch new search engine Neeva

Over the past two decades, various upstart search engines have tried to take on Google and largely failed – including Microsoft’s Bing. And notwithstanding the recent crop of privacy search players lead by DuckDuckGo, the time may finally be ripe for a true competitive challenge. That challenge may come from Sridhar Ramaswamy, who formerly ran…

Youtube brings products to YouTube for action ads

YouTube says the number of advertisers using TrueView for action, the ads designed for performance advertisers with calls-to-action, increased by more than 260% last year. Now it’s bringing product selection to these ads. Shoppable TrueView for action. In a new test, ecomm-erce advertisers can show products in their TrueView for action ads. When the users…

Twitter Introduces Voice Tweets via @MattGSouthern

Twitter is testing a new feature that will allow users to record voice clips to publish as tweets. Voice tweets join the many existing ways in which users can communicate on Twitter – a list which includes photos, videos, GIFs, and plain text. “Over the years, photos, videos, gifs, and extra characters have allowed you…

The data problem in Google Smart Shopping campaigns [Video]

[embedded content] Smart Shopping and standard Shopping campaigns provide various degrees of control and flexibility to merchants advertising on Google’s platform. However, advertisers need to be aware of the limited insights inherent to Smart Shopping campaigns, as well as what the metrics provided actually convey. During our Google Shopping session of Live with Search Engine…