What's Hot In Digital: April 2016

The Smart Insights View

Keep up with the latest changes in digital marketing by taking a look at some of the most important blogs, news, updates and resources from the last month.

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The Smart Insights View

Need to know about the latest changes that matter in digital marketing? Here, Dr. Dave Chaffey of Smart Insights gives his personal assessment of the most significant changes this month.

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Intelligent automation and the future of work

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We look at the mega-trend of AI and how it will affect marketers.

New report shows the state of B2B social media

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Benchmark your B2B social media efforts against the industry average with this latest report.

10 ways NOT to use Google Analytics

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Don't fall foul of these common Google Analytics mistakes

8 Success Factors of Digital Transformation

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Brian Solis urges managers to take the 'Opposite' approach to Digital Transformation

The BIG Platform Changes

To maintain visibility of your brand and grow engagement with your online audiences you need to keep on top of the latest features and algorithm updates big five technology platforms, that's Google, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube. These platforms innovate relentlessly, with new changes daily. We monitor these and here alert you to the changes that really matter so you can assess the relevance of these to you.

Google’s Search Quality Rater Guidelines have been updated

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Google released the very first "official" Search Quality Raters Guidelines back in November 2015 and they have just updated it again.

New scannable ‘Messenger Codes’ turns Facebook Messenger into a key tool for marketers

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Brands can now display codes which can be scanned by users to start conversations on Facebook Messenger

Pinterest launches ‘Promoted Pins’ in the UK

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Advertising options come to Pinterest, a year after it launched 'Buy it Buttons' on Pins to get e-commerce traffic

What does Facebook Live mean for marketers?

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It’s been known for a little while that Mr Zuckerberg is incredibly excited about live video on Facebook and the newest update “Facebook Live” is a clear indication of this.

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Google announced that it has redesigned its mobile app, two years after it was first launched.

Sharing your questions and comments

We're keen to help by answering your questions, so anything that's bugging you do ask via our Answers forum or your preferred social network. Here's the pick of the Q&A for this month - do get involved and share your expertise too!

If we offer a discount via an email capture pop up box, do we need to ask for consent for ongoing marketing?

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Bradley Nichol has three key questions regarding consent for email marketing.

How to improve Landing Page and Email Sequences?

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Baggy Tiwana asks for ideas to boost his conversion rate on a landing page that he is driving traffic to.

Our latest analysis and recommendations for Premium members

To keep Smart Insights members at the cutting-edge of digital we update our content each week as new resources or updates to existing guides, templates or training modules.

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