As normal levels of work, social, and leisure activities return post-pandemic, coupled with inflation impacting consumers’ shopping habits, a recent report shows a decline in ad-supported media engagement. After a surge of media usage during the 2020 pandemic, PQ Media’s forecast reports that usage has settled back down to pre-pandemic levels and, for ad-supported streaming […]
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Meet Bard, the new artificial intelligence (AI) chat tool introduced by Google in February, which began its user-testing phase just this week. The AI chatbot field is getting more crowded with the popularity of OpenAI’s ChatGPT last fall (reaching 1 million users in a week) and Microsoft’s AI-enhanced Bing search engine released last month. The […]
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Your video ad campaigns are running along smoothly, but all of a sudden you notice an uptick in performance. Way to go! The reason may be Google now measures Engaged-View Conversions (EVCs) for Display ad campaigns, which launched in mid-July. Your savvy marketing efforts are finally getting credit that doesn’t require click-throughs to your website […]
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Is your website written for people or for search bots? Is it stuffed full of keywords, but not much else? Do people bounce from your site within seconds and move on to the next search result? These concerns prompted Google’s new helpful content algorithm update, which we’re sure you’ve heard murmurings about since its launch […]
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Competition for top-level search results is fierce, and some spammers and web developers are trying to stack the odds in their favor with little-value Doorway pages. This decade-old technique of trying to create pages just for SEO rankings, however, can actually hurt your visibility. “Doorway pages are a scheme to get results with a bigger, […]
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YouTube Shorts are joining TikTok in the short-form video marketing race, launching in more than 100 countries worldwide this month. But before you focus all of your energy on the next big thing, decide if the new YouTube feature is worthy of your time and attention. Knowing your audience, plus comparing the benefits of YouTube […]
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Because the World Wide Web is truly worldwide, companies serve clients across the globe. Google and other search engines help overcome language barriers through transliteration (scripted languages) and multi-language content. One trick many companies employed to “help” web searchers find them was to create dual languages in their Title Tags. Google, however, just released an […]
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App developers continue the delicate act between user protections and effective digital advertising, as Google rolls out new privacy initiatives for Android phones this spring. It’s a slow roll with Google’s multi-year approach to implementing Privacy Sandbox on Android mobile devices, which is already in place for web browsers. As previously shared by Threadgill, browsers […]
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Did you get the email this month encouraging you to “Manage Your Google Analytics 4 Setup”? It’s Google’s not-so-subtle nudge for you to transition to GA4 before they sunset Universal Analytics on July 1, 2023. Introduced more than a year ago, this change is a long time coming. And the lead time gives online marketers […]
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It’s spring, which means it’s time for another pivot in online advertising with Google Chrome’s new privacy initiative, Topics API, announced earlier this year. Looking to address concerns on both sides, the new proposal straddles the tension of user privacy with the need for relevant, targeted ads that benefit both business and consumer. While still […]
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