What's Hot In Digital: April 2017

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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Is it time to re-think programmatic advertising?

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JP Morgan Chase found it was advertising on 388,000 sites to no effect. Brands using programmatic advertising need to sit up and take notice.

Search engine marketing statistics 2024

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We provide a round-up of the most useful statistics to inform your search marketing strategy.

What the %^&* are they drinking at Pepsi? It’s not cola, it’s Kool Aid.

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Pepsi's terrible advert raises questions about how marketers use agencies and the dangers of internal creative departments.

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 Optimize makes A/B testing free

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Now there's a free CRO package that gives you the ability to run as many A/B tests across your site as you need.

Facebook’s 10 Year Road Map: What Marketers Need to Know

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Facebook conferences reveals what Facebook sees to be the future of Marketing Technology

LinkedIn launches new Matched Audiences feature and new ABM options

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LinkedIn launches two powerful new ad products that makes it possibly the single best B2B ad platform.

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!

Which is the ideal platform to reach Distributors through Social Media and what are the effective strategies that can be implemented?

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We are asked about the best strategy for reaching B2B distributors through social media.

What does it mean to have a “contemporary digital marketing campaign” like do you have an example and what makes it contemporary?

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We are asked about how would someone be able to add value and enhance their brand image by giving them something unique (customers) using online communications.

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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