3 Ways to Take Advantage of Facebook’s New Advertising Algorithm
Over the past several years, machine learning on platforms like Facebook and Google has reduced the level of effort needed by advertisers to manage and optimize their ad targeting, bids, and budgets. Automation and AI have leveled the playing field for advertisers...
Promoting Your Ebook: The Importance of Knowing Your Audience
Word up to would-be writers, novelists, self-help scribes and long-form authors everywhere: Get ready to turn the page and make the jump from print to pixels. Because if you haven't transitioned to electronic publishing yet, you'll need to get up to speed fast and not...
Contentful Unveils Headless CMS Ecommerce Solution
Contentful, an enterprise headless CMS provider, announced an agile e-commerce solution designed for enterprises to drive online sales by empowering retailers to more efficiently manage content across multiple channels.To engage customers with more seamless and...
Tips for Creating ADA Compliant Content
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was signed into law by President George H.W. Bush in 1990 to provide people with disabilities sufficient access to public areas. When this law was passed, the internet did not exist as we know it today. Given the ubiquity of...
How AI is Impacting Content Marketing
While there are plenty of dire-sounding discussions taking place these days around artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning—and their potential to disrupt the world as we know it—this isn’t technology of the future. It’s already...
Essentials of “True” Content Marketing
Last year, during a Q&A session after a content marketing presentation I'd given to business owners, I heard myself say the following: "Content Marketing is like being pregnant. There's no such thing as being ‘just a little bit.'" In that moment I realized...
Overcoming the Challenges of Calculating Digital Marketing ROI
There's really no escaping it. No matter how innovative your use of the latest tools and technologies in digital marketing may be, no matter how closely you follow industry trends and implement solutions that reflect the cutting edge in digital marketing practices, it...
Sitecore Acquires Pectora
Sitecore acquired the development team and the intellectual property of Pectora, a long-standing Sitecore technology partner that provides web publishing solutions for deep integration with print-based projects. According to Sitecore, the combined offering is designed...
CMS Genesis: Who Did What When?
Content management, especially popularized as Web content management, is nearing its tenth anniversary. More and more CMS vendors are converging on a basic set of features that characterize a content management system. So I spoke to a number of vendors to see who...
Ingram Content Group Acquires Book Network Int’l Limited
Ingram Publisher Services LLC, an operating unit of Ingram Content Group, has acquired Book Network Int’l Limited; an international physical and digital book distributor, based in the UK. NBNi’s client service business will stand alongside...
VIDEO: From DX to CX–The Omnichannel Technology Stack Model
Real Story Group Founder Tony Byrne explores journey orchestration and decisioning for omnichannel content platforms in this clip from his presentation at Digital Experience 2019.Watch Tony Byrne's complete Digital Experience Conference presentation, A104....
The ‘It Girl’ of Content Marketing: Episodic Content
Attracting an AudienceWhile strong promotion is always important for the success of an original series, creating a communications strategy can present fresh challenges for brands new to episodic content. “[HBO] wouldn’t put out Game of Thrones and then...
Why the Future Belongs to CDN-Based Hosting
There was once a time when it was enough to put a website on a server to provide relatively stable access to it for people from all over the world. There may have been slight delays, but as websites often didn’t change for long periods of time and were comprised...
ROI on Structured Content
Making the business case for a technology change is primarily about your return on investment (ROI).Your investment to structure your content is likely to be much greater than the direct costs for a component content publishing system, including the software licenses...
Link Building Marketplace: Should You Participate?
Do you know the average cost of straight up buying links in popular niches? Well, according to a study done last year by Ahrefs, that number is around $360. One of the reasons I decided to write about this topic is the increasing number of, let’s call them...
Mobcrush Launches “Mobcam” for Simultaneous, One-Touch Live Streaming to All of the Their Social Platforms
Mobcrush -- a technology and entertainment company in the mobile gaming, live streaming, and the creator-driven media industry -- announced the launch of Mobcam, its live streaming tool for iOS devices. Mobcam offers the first mobile live streaming capability...
Bazaarvoice Announces Rating and Review Syndication
Bazaarvoice, Inc. announced that brands can now reach more than a billion shoppers each month by distributing ratings and reviews into the Bazaarvoice Network, no matter who their review collection provider is. With access to Bazaarvoice’s vast retail...
Publishers Struggle to Keep Up With the Speed of Change
AI is transforming almost every industry—making things that we’d never even thought possible seem almost commonplace. Whether you’re a marketer using AI to automate tedious tasks, a doctor using it to help diagnose diseases, or a teacher using...
Ricoh Announces DocuWare Acquisition
Ricoh Company, Ltd., announced a definitive agreement to acquire DocuWare, a leading provider of Content Services software. Headquartered in Germany and the United States, DocuWare provides cloud and on-premise document management and workflow automation software to...
A Guide to Email Marketing and Marketing Automation Tools
It is almost a truism that marketing has become highly technology-intensive. Even while IT spending in other categories remains flat or has declined, the marketing function's spending on technology has held up--even in the recessionary environment.A nearly ubiquitous...