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HubSpot Launches App Version of Marketing Grader Tool

All-in-one marketing software company HubSpot has launched a dashboard web app based on its popular Marketing Grader tool. The idea is to "quickly answers marketer's burning questions at a glance," said the company in a statement. Did growth of inbound links take a nosedive? Does the competition suddenly have a lot more indexed pages? Has the last three months of marketing effort improved effectiveness? Are competitors accruing more Facebook fans faster  [...]

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Dismiss Google+ At Your Own Risk

Anything that can boast a 112% higher engagement is worth a second look. That is just one of the figures that Simply Measured (the social media analytics firm) released yesterday. Since February, two more brands from the Interbrand Top 100 list (Xerox and Nike) have activated pages, bringing the total to 64 of those 100. (The top 10 for Google+ engagement include Nike, Coke, Star  [...]

More Marketers, Advertisers Trust And Conduct Media Audits

At the Association of National Advertisers’ annual Advertising Financial Management Conference yesterday, the Media Audit Council (MAC) presented results of a recent survey as part of the conference’s “Insights From Advertisers Who Have Embraced Media Audits” panel discussion. MAC had conducted the survey to better understand perceptions of marketing and procure  [...]

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comScore Releases Mobile Metrix 2.0, Proves Utility With Initial Findings

comScore has announced the U.S. launch of Mobile Metrix 2.0, its next generation mobile behavioral measurement service. To prove Mobile Metrix 2.0’s utility, comScore released some first-round findings. Among them, 82% of time spent with mobile media happens via apps. Mobile Metrix 2.0 brings comScore’s Unified Digital Measurement to smartphone devi  [...]

InMobi Launches Privacy-Friendly, No-Cost Mobile Conversion Tracking

InMobi, the independent mobile advertising network, has announced the launch of its free-to-integrate-and-use mobile conversion tracking platform, InMobi Ad Tracker. The platform is designed to allow advertisers and agencies to track any post-click mobile conversion (app downloads, lead generations, sales, or other events) across all mobile marketing channels (both, ad networks and mobile publishers) through a single platform. The solu  [...]

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comScore Validated Campaign Essentials (vCE) Signs More Leading Brands

Digital measurement powerhouse comScore has released a shortlist of major brands that have signed on for its validated Campaign Essentials (vCE) for measurement of their online ad campaigns. The new round of brands will use vCE to validate whether the ads in their campaigns were delivered in-view, in the ri  [...]

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Newspaper Website Traffic Up, But Subscribers Elusive

Good news for newspaper websites and their advertisers. Newspapers improved upon website traffic in the first quarter of 2012 with a 4.4% increase year-over-year in adult unique visitors (113 million) and a 10% increase in adult average daily visitors (25 million). That according to the Newspaper Association of America (NAA), citin  [...]

Research: Do We Need A "Pay-per-Hover" Ad Model?

Perhaps “cost per hover” or “pay-per-hover” will become new metrics. comScore and Pretarget, the intent targeting company, have released results of an online advertising study which found that ad viewability and hover time are more strongly correlated with conversions (defined as purchases and requests for information) than clicks or total impressions. It will  [...]

Black Consumer Market: Huge, Largely Untapped, Won Through Fair Representation

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ZenithOptimedia Group Rolls Out "Live ROI" Tools, Brand Image

Media agency network ZenithOptimedia Group has launched its global “Live ROI” strategic initiative, promising customers real-time performance measurement and return on investment (ROI). The value prop as Adweek describes it is to "give marketers immediate insights from  [...]

YouTube Entices Small Business With Keyword Search, Credit, Ambassadors

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Google Offers TV-Like Viewable Impressions, Ratings Technology

Google joins the list of online ad venue that is “chasing TV ad dollars” (as AllThingsD describes it). Just like streaming video giant Hulu announced yesterday (April 17), Google introduced technologies to enable campaign reporting based on viewable impressions and Gross Rating Points or GRPs, a TV metric. Compared to digital metrics, GRPs are crude, but they are “still the preferred currency  [...]

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Social Media's Rep as Trend Predictor Takes a Hit

A Princeton research team, led by Felix Ming Fai Wong, has found that Twitter is not as reliable a predictor of the future, at least in terms of movie sales. After analyzing Tweets during the Oscar season and comparing them to reviews at Rotten Tomatoes and other sites, the team determined that Twitter posters tend to be more positive than the general positive, according to Technology Review. This finding is of interest to mark  [...]