As a follow-up to the rumors yesterday, online marketer Brian Weiss was killed by his investment partner Gary Zalevsky yesterday. While many the events surrounding the killing have not been revealed, there has been much speculation that Mr. Zalvesky who was already terminally ill with stomach cancer, was upset about investment monies that were lost. … Read more
Please note this story was written hours before there was much known. We have learned since that the person involved was one of Mr. Weiss’ business investment partners Gary Zalevsky — and the events surrounding this story get more like a crime novel involving Russian money, offshore investments and illegal transactions. There is breaking news … Read more
According to Greenlight digital marketing agency, if Facebook launched a search engine tomorrow, they would immediately have at least a quarter of the entire global search engine market. This has to scare Google, as it would immediately be a huge threat to Google’s search engine dominance. “These stats therefore suggest Facebook could capture around 22% … Read more
DataPop, a fast growing digital marketing technology company, is generating dramatic increases in sales for marketers and ad agencies using its Creative Science ad platform. Introduced last year, the patent-pending platform is optimizing more than $100MM in advertising spend for many top agency and technology partners and leading consumer brands. By creating custom ads that … Read more
Calling internet gurus Frank Kern, Andy Jenkins, Mike Filsaime and Anthony Morrison, the Syndicate of a “Scam World,” the online magazine The Verge has written a huge expose of Internet Marking programs. The Verge holds nothing back, calling claiming that guys like Frank Kern are nothing more than “modern snake oil salesmen.” The magazine links … Read more
Experian has announced that they are selling at a heavily discounted price PriceGrabber, LowerMyBills and ClassesUSA for to a little known Indian-based marketing company Ybrant Digital. The companies were bought in 2005 for a total of almost $900M, but will be sold off for $175M to Ybrant Digital. All companies recently have been considered long … Read more
Cutting Edge Media, Inc., announced today that Peter Wilson has resigned from his position as President and Chief Executive Officer to pursue other interests. Wilson will be succeeded by Jay Eshleman, who currently serves as Chairman and will take on the additional title of interim CEO. “Cutting Edge has successfully navigated some challenging dynamics over … Read more
According to the sharing-folks at Shareaholic, Pinterest is starting to lose steam in the referral category. After continued growth for about a year, and a huge peak in February, its power seems to be dwindling. Shareaholic, using 200,00 publishers shows that Pinterest went from a 1.05% share of all referral traffic in Feburary to a … Read more
Affiliate Email Marketing and Email Deliverability Tips with Azam Marketing. In this interview Murray Newlands talks to Nadeem Azam about performance marketing and affiliate email marketing, and how you can increase your deliverability. There are a lot of tips here that people don’t know about, and things that you need to ask your ISP before … Read more
According to American Express’s publishing unit, the top 10 percent of the US is going to be spending $224 Billion this year in consumer spending. While everyone is spending all their time on the newest diet offer, or how to kill some sort of new daily deal site, it seems much of the industry is … Read more
Thanks to Bit.ly for allowing us to post the following study, which tells you exactly when you should post stuff on social media. This is a very interesting study that shows when the most clicks were generated for each social media platform from Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr. For those who don’t want to read the … Read more
Submit Express CEO Pierre Zarokian talks about the Google Penguin update and how they have been handling it from their clients. Google penguin is perhaps one of the most damaging updates for marketers, as it detects paid links using exact anchor text, comment spam, guest posts on questionable sites, article marketing site links and links … Read more
Over the past several years, numerous third party studies have pointed to the power of a display banner ad. From driving follow on searches to lifting conversions of an entire campaign, this infographic summarizes some of this research into a powerful message: display works.
As of the fourth quarter of 2011, half of black mobile users owned a smartphone (up from 44 percent in Q4 2010) and 58 percent accessed the mobile Internet, more than any other race/ethnic group. As consumers increasingly use their mobile devices for social networking, video, research and shopping, its important for advertisers to understand … Read more