What's Hot In Digital: March 2019

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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Golden Circle model: Simon Sinek’s theory of value proposition ‘start with why’

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Simon Sinek explains how to truly differentiate a brand when most fail.

Customer experience is biggest opportunity for marketers

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39% of marketers believe that optimizing the customer experience is the biggest opportunity for businesses in 2019.

How to create a B2B digital marketing plan

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How to apply our RACE Planning Framework and SOSTACĀ® to a B2B digital marketing plan.

Social commerce trends in 2019

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As well as creating demand through strong creative and large-scale reach, social media now enables consumers to instantly purchase what they see on their screens.

Understanding the impact of culture on marketing content

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Understanding differences in culture can help you build more effective content to reach beyond borders.

How to structure an effective digital transformation plan

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What are the essential parts of a digital transformation plan?

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.

Instagram’s video trackbar and Facebook banning white nationalism – New roundup

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Instagram trailling new video trackbar, Facebook banning white nationalism on its platforms, LinkedIn's new partnership with Adobe, Twitter highlighting politician's tweets that break community standards, Facebook's clamp down on political advertisers and online video subscriptions outstripping cable customers.

Google’s new fine, Facebook faces NZ shooting videos backlash – News roundup

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Google's latest EU regulator fine, Facebook removing millions of videos showing New Zealand terrorist attack, NZ advertisers pulling Google and Facebook following shooting, Instagram's in-app checkout launches in the US and LinkedIn's new advertising features.

YouTube de-monetizes anti-vax videos and Facebook announces new ad program – News roundup

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YouTube stops ads on anti-vaxxer videos, Facebook to launch new premium ad service, consumer confidence still negative in face of uncertain Brexit, Oreo announces partnership with Game of Thrones, ACCC asks advertisers in Australia for feedback and TikTok fined for collecting children's data.

Sharing your questions and comments

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

Location-based advertising

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I'm looking for the best location-based advertising platform for display ads. I've taken a look at GroundTruth but I'm interested in getting feedback on which platforms others find useful.

Social media advertising training

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Can anyone recommend someone that can help either deliver training or consultancy using Social Media Advertising platforms? We want to manage advertising in-house, but it's the initial setup that's proving tricky. Partly because we're a big organization resulting from a merger of several smaller ones, so lots of pages/accounts that have been merged.

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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