25 Surprising Facts You Didn’t Know About Snapchat via @JuliaEMcCoy

ADVERTISEMENT Snapchat isn’t just about keeping up with the Kardashians. Neither is it limited to sharing silly/cute/spontaneous selfies with friends, or stories of chocolate margaritas. Snapchat is more than all of that. In fact, if you use it strategically, it can be a powerful tool for marketing your brand. Sounds exciting, right? It is. But…

Google’s New Partner Program Requirements Show No Love for Agencies & This Week’s News [PODCAST] via @shepzirnheld

ADVERTISEMENT Join Jess Budde, Greg Finn, and Christine “Shep” Zirnheld for Marketing O’Clock. We’re breaking down these digital marketing news stories: Google’s new Partner requirements On this week’s episode of Rant O’Clock, Google is making Partners jump through hoops if they want to retain their badges. Spend requirements doubled, new certifications are required, and Google…

A Hands-On Introduction to Modern JavaScript for SEOs via @hamletbatista

Here are the most important changes. We first capture in temporary variables the submitted values for the name and review using relevant CSS selectors. Then, we change the state of the internal variables using the call to this.setState. After these changes, you can see that submitting reviews works as we planned. We could continue adding…

The state of tracking and data privacy in 2020

January 2020 felt like a turning point. CCPA went into effect, Google Chrome became the latest browser to commit to a cookie-less future and, after months of analytics folks sounding the alarm, digital marketers sobered to a vision of the future that looks quite different than today. This article is not a complete history of…

9 Reasons to Use Instagram for Business via @KristiKellogg

ADVERTISEMENT With more than 25 million Instagram business accounts and more than $7 billion spent on Instagram advertising last year, it’s clear that brands are investing in this channel. Others, however, remain on the sidelines, and one of the chief reasons is that they (incorrectly) believe they have nothing to post. This couldn’t be further…

Microsoft Office hits pause on forcing Bing search in Chrome, Firefox

Microsoft recently announced a new “extension” as part of an update to its Office 365 ProPlus software that forcibly changes company-wide Chrome and Firefox search engine defaults to Bing search, automatically, from what is likely set to Google. After considerable backlash, the company is reversing course, a bit. In a predatory fashion, the extension automatically…