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TripAdvisor survey: TripAdvisor more trusted, widely used than Yelp, Google, Facebook
The sponsored survey looked at influence on restaurant decision-making....
IAB: Search, the largest category of digital ad spending, generated $40.6B in 2017
Mobile was responsible for 54 percent of paid-search ad revenue last year....
[Report] Shopping ads are eating text ads: accounted for 60% of clicks on Google, 33% on Bing in Q1
Merkle's Q1 2018 report shows Shopping campaigns dominate retailers' paid search click...
SMB marketing survey finds only 3% use outside agency or vendor
Messaging and SEO seen as most effective digital tactics, Snapchat easiest to...
Search outpaced social for referral traffic last year, driving 35% of site visits vs social’s 26% share of visits
According to a new referral traffic report from Shareaholic, 2017 was the first time since 2014 search owned a larger share of visits over...
YouTube sees 90% lift in searches for football highlight videos during the last year
According to YouTube, sports fans are watching more sports-related videos than...
What the ROAS? A practical guide to improving return on ad spend
Contributor Jacob Baadsgaard shows how ROAS, or return on ad spend, can be used to show the effectiveness of advertising campaigns and whether...
Merkle Q4 2017: Search ad click growth fell, ad spend rose 23% across Google, Bing, Yahoo
Bing and Yahoo saw search ad spend jump 32 percent over prior year in Q4 among Merkle's client base. Google spend growth slowed slightly from...
Insights from our 2017 holiday retail survey
Retail marketers weighed in on what they did differently this holiday season....
Marin: Search CPCs outpaced spend growth in Q4 2017
Mobile search click costs increased by 25 percent year over year, according to Marin Software's Q4 2017...
Survey: Smart speaker ownership steals time from smartphones, TV, radio
The study suggests there are about 40 million devices in US homes today....
Merkle: Black Friday, Cyber Monday sales from Google paid search up by double digits YoY
Phone sales from search ads continue to play a significant role for retailers....
Yext begins to verticalize local business listings syndication with ‘Yext for Food’
Moves seek to provide enhanced data with more vertically specific attributes to various consumer search and discovery points....
Report: 57% of smart speaker owners have bought something with their voice
Part two of NPR Smart Audio report exposes the 'v-commerce' potential of virtual assistant devices....
Amazon vs. search: Why you shouldn’t put too many eggs in one shopping basket
Where should retail marketers focus most of their time and effort: search or Amazon? Columnist Purna Virji shares data from an analysis of...
New Google link study shows links are as important as ever for ranking well in search
A link study done three years in a row shows how links continue to be a powerful ranking signal and will likely remain that...
Data: Consumers grow more demanding, impatient as brands fall behind
Smartphones and social media have created a short-attention-span consumer that brands have increasing difficulty satisfying. ...
Report: Customer satisfaction with search drops, in social Google+ beats Facebook
ACSI rankings are based on survey of nearly 5,000 US...
Merkle: Google paid search spend up 23% in Q2, thanks to non-brand text & shopping ads
Google, Bing Ads and Amazon are all seeing growth in shopping ads....
The biggest trends & changes in PPC so far in 2017
From new products to ads updates to targeting changes, here's a look at the paid search changes that mattered most....
