What's Hot In Digital: October 2015

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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The European Court of Justice invalidated a ‘safe harbour’ agreement that meant American companies could transfer data between servers in the US and Europe.

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I was at the eCommerce Expo taking notes in the many talks on internationalising your ecommerce so I can pass on the best of that advice from industry experts onto you.

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A humorous look at the evolution of digital marketing and how our new benchmarking tool can help marketers advance their efforts.

Marketing Trends for 2016 – Will we be in a post-digital era?

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My annual round-up of trends to watch in the year ahead.

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Download our new free report to reveal the latest B2B marketing automation trends which will make an impact in 2016

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.

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This latest announcement by Facebook showcases two impressive new features, which will be tested with a limited set of small businesses in the US: Canvas and a new Shopping feature in favourites

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Facebook has just released a new feature to help business owners verify that their page as the official mouthpiece of the business.

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Facebook launch 'lead ads', a way to provide a quick and privacy-safe way to sign up to receive information from businesses, like quotes, specs and offers

A roundup of recent changes on Facebook

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Facebook made a lot of changes in October. This blog reviews them, and mentions changes not covered in our alert posts

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.

In October we're asking about your pick of Digital marketing trends for 2016 - take our quick poll in the Trends blog post mentioned above to see how yours compare.

Does Linkedin really care about its users and customers?

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Our members debate the warped logic behind LinkedIn's decision to open up LinkedIn groups to posts by any member without admin approval

PepsiCo Exec: "Digital marketing is most ridiculous term I've ever heard".- Was he right?

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Our members give their thoughts on PepsiCo's Exec statement that 'Digital Marketing is the most ridiculous term ever'

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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This month we have a new resource for Expert members on Programmatic, rated by Forrester to be the major source of ad investment in the future. We also have two new research reports. Review how your team stacks up in the Skills report.