Study: Page and content loads key to experience

New data out this month may seem like it's from 1999 because it's all about page and content load times. According to researchers, three keys to creating a positive customer experience online continue to be page load times, image/content load times, and simple link structures. >>

Internet

Brands: How to ensure GDPR compliance now

As we near the year anniversary of the EU's GDPR initiative, many businesses still haven't implemented the right technology and strategies to ensure their mailing lists, data collection, and targeting are compliant. Even those brands outside the EU could stand to take another look at how compliant they are with data privacy as consumers are more leery of data use every year. Here are a few tips. >>

Social Marketing

Despite demographic differences, social media users quite similar

According to a new Pew Researcher Center Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram remain the most-used of the social networks. Researchers also found that young adults like Instagram while Facebook's users are trending older. But there are similarities that make social media users similar despite their differences. >>

Advertising

Study: Marketers still unsure of their AI tech

Marketers continue to make inroads into the adoption of artificial intelligence for things like targeting and data analysis, however one new report finds that while using AI many businesses remain unsure if this tech supports their strategies and objectives. >>

Advertising

Brands: How to correct a distractive data course

Data is a huge help to businesses. It can help connect them with in-market consumers, create deeper loyalty and connections, and identify new customers. Sometimes, however, data can lead a brand off-course. If that is the case, here are tips to get back on the right path. >>

Loyalty Marketing

Study finds experience key to engaging loyalty members

Loyalty programs continue to build, drawing new members every day, but one new report indicates that rather than pricing or even product superiority, the brand experience is now key to engaging loyalty program members. >>

Email Marketing

How to make email interactive

Email has long been a go-to for businesses to reach in-market consumers, and it remains many consumers' preferred mode of contact with their favorite brands. But, simple cut-and-paste strategies with product information is not engaging. Consumers want interactivity. Here are a few tips to create an interactive email strategy. >>

Social Marketing

Report: Expect more marketing dollars to head to influencers

Influencer marketing has seen a sharp increase in use over the past 18 months, and brands can expect that to continue. That's a key takeaway from RhythmOne's Influencer Marketing Benchmarks Report. Their data shows that influencer marketing spending increased 2.9x between 2017 and 2018. >>

Social Marketing

Study finds more B2B teams hitting LinkedIn

Social media has been a go-to for many retail and beauty brands for the past five or so years, but one new report finds B2B sales teams are pushing farther into a specific social network: LinkedIn. >>

Law & Regulation

How UK brands are adapting a year into GDPR

With the one year anniversary of the EU's GDPR adoption coming up, we wanted to check in to how European businesses are adapting to the changes in how data is collected and used in the online space. According to one expert, one change is that those brands who initially pulled out of location data are now pushing back in. >>