The latest article on ‘The Forrester Blog’ is titled “The Data Digest: Online Video Aavertising”. Reineke Reitsma says, “This week, Facebook announced its rollout of auto-play advertising videos – starting with a teaser for the upcoming movie Divergent. The video ads automatically start playing, without sound, when they appear. Users... [Read more]

The latest article on Business Insider is titled ”Facebook Now Has The 2nd Biggest Online Advertising Business”. Aaron Taube says, “Good morning, AdLand. Here’s what you need to know today: A new report from eMarketer finds that in 2013, Yahoo slipped from the second biggest online ad network to the fourth biggest after... [Read more]

Shawn Collins’ latest blog post is titled “Last Chance to Register for Affiliate Summit West 2014”. Collins Says, “Affiliate Summit West 2014 passes are just about gone – it looks like we’ll be sold out as early as Christmas day. Affiliate Summit West 2014 is taking place January 12-14, 2014 at Paris Las Vegas. This three day conference... [Read more]

IM NewsWatch has warned of the dangers of using graphics without proper permission. The risks to your business and your bank account are tremendous. Many copyright owners are only too happy to sue when their rights are violated. This problem can occur with artist-created graphics, with music, and it also can occur with photos. The temptation is strong;... [Read more]

Business 2 Community is hosting a webinar with Nir Eyal on Thursday January 2 at 5.00 pm ET. The topic of the webinar is “How To Drive User Engagement By Creating Habits”. The ‘Business 2 Community’ team says, “In an age of ever-increasing distractions, quickly creating customer habits is an important characteristic of successful... [Read more]

The latest article on ‘Business 2 Community’ is titled “6 Predictions for Social Media in 2014″. Chris Hoell says, “As we wrap up 2013 and look forward to 2014, it’s time to start thinking about what the next big thing is going to be across the social media world. In looking back at the predictions for 2013, most social media... [Read more]

The latest post on ‘Experian Marketing Forward’ Blog is titled “Holiday hot sheet – Win customers after the holiday season”. Shelley Kessler says, “As this holiday season heads into its last two weeks, it’s time to plan for Christmas day and post-holiday campaigns. Read on to learn how to plan campaigns and win consumers over after... [Read more]

IM NewsWatch has a problem. Several other sites copy our content wholesale (without asking permission). We noticed it because they try to get us to backlink to their copy, which we never do. In ordinary times Google scans our site for new content frequently, so it knows we are the original source. The imitation copies probably give the culprits no... [Read more]

The latest article on HubSpot blog is titled ”Merry Marketing: 7 of the Best Holiday Campaigns of 2013″. Matthew Bushery says, “The end of the year typically entails some last-minute Christmas shopping, finalizing plans to see family and friends, and — if you’re marketers like us – prepping for next year’s... [Read more]

The latest post on ‘ReadWrite’ is titled “In 2014, The Mobile Web Will Die—And Other Mobile Predictions”. Dan Rowinski says, “In 2014, the mobile Web will die. That’s right, that bastardized version of the normal Web will crawl into a shallow grave and leave us all in peace. No more websites crippled with horrible “mobile.yourawfulwebsite.com”... [Read more]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Amazon Stock Tops $400 for First Time”. Seth Fiegerman says, “Amazon‘s stock topped $400 a share for the first time in early trading Friday after flirting with that record for much of this month.The stock increase follows several upgrades from analysts in recent months, including Goldman... [Read more]

It used to be that the Yellow Pages was the directory everyone in a city used to find a business when they needed repairs or home improvement or any other service. Today, people search online, and when they find a good online directory for their city, they make it one of their frequent stops on the web. Well-known WordPress developer, Maulana Malik... [Read more]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “7 Tips for Improving Your Ecommerce Strategy”. Todd Wasserman says, “As customers increasingly turn to the Internet and smartphones for purchasing decisions, economies are seeing brick and mortar evolve into “click and order,” and ecommerce become intertwined with m-commerce.More... [Read more]

The latest article on Business Insider is titled ”How Marketers Use Big Data To Prey On The Poor”. Aaron Taube says, “A report published Wednesday by the Senate Commerce Committee says that data brokers are targeting poor consumers by grouping them based on their financial vulnerability. According to the report, marketers who... [Read more]

The latest ‘Econsultancy’ blog post is titled “16+ of the best things to happen to the internet in 2013″. Christopher Ratcliff says, “To bring karmic balance after yesterday’s bile-dripping15 worst things to happen to the internet in 2013, here’s a bumper crop of joy. It’s all very well looking forward to next year... [Read more]

Matthew McDonald has been building video products for quite a while. And he has sold a lot of them. His latest is Custom Video Player 2. This is a custom-designed video player for your site. Over 100 customizable settings put you in full control of how the video looks on your site. It fully exploits the HTML 5 video capabilities so, for example, your... [Read more]

Jay Baer‘s latest ‘Convince & Convert’ blog post is titled “The 3 Social Media Lessons of 2013 – And What’s In Store for 2014?. Baer says, “This week, we have a very special Year in Review episode of Social Pros. Jay, Jeffrey, Zena, and Jess Ostroff discuss content, collaboration, free lunches, predictions for 2014, predictions... [Read more]

The latest MOZ blog post is titled “Building SEO-Focused Pages to Serve Topics & People Rather than Keywords & Rankings – Whiteboard Friday”. Rand Fishkin says, “With Google getting better and better at recognizing the true relevancy of pages, we can’t stay focused on keywords. In today’s Whiteboard Friday, Rand explains... [Read more]

John Chow’s latest blog post is titled “Three Online Business Models That Can Make You Rich”. Chow says, “There are a ton of business models that you can use to make money online. New Internet marketers generally settle on affiliate marketing, or creating their own information products. Both models have advantages and disadvantages. The Affiliate... [Read more]

>Pictures, say, of your family or your girlfriend, taken with your cell phone, and uploaded to the internet, on Facebook or elsewhere, can have GPS coordinates included. Criminals and others can use that data to determine who you are and where you live. That’s terrible news. It puts you and those you care about at risk of robbery and even bodily... [Read more]

The latest post on ‘Copyblogger’ Blog is titled “How Becoming an Authority Can Even Save Your Life”. Anthony Sills says, “Imagine you’re 30,000 feet in the air. You and the Copyblogger team are flying to SXSW, listening to Brian Clark talk about the upcoming presentations and everybody’s pumped up. But before you land at AUS, the... [Read more]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “How to Live Blog on Tumblr”. Sara Roncero-Menendez says, “The Internet gives us the ability to experience things in real time, so it’s no surprise that live blogging has become increasingly popular. Users log onto Tumblr in the middle of big events, fingers ready to type out instant... [Read more]

The latest ‘Econsultancy’ blog post is titled “Econsultancy’s top 25 blog posts of 2013″. Graham Charlton says, “It’s been another busy year on the Econsultancy blog and, thanks to a highly intelligent and attractive readership, we managed to pass 1m monthly pageviews for the first time. Not that it’s... [Read more]

Ryan Martin and Chris Guthrie have built a new tool for Amazon affiliate marketers, called Azon Investigator. It’s a WordPress plugin that lets you do all your Amazon research while staying in WordPress. As an Amazon affiliate, you need to find products to promote that have good commissions, but that also don’t have a lot of competing affiliates... [Read more]