Alphabet Inc., Google’s parent company, reported higher advertising revenue in the second quarter of 2023, year on year. A 2% gain in search revenue was accompanied by an increase in revenue for YouTube ads (4.4%). However, Google’s advertising network was down 5%. “Our financial results reflect continued resilience in Search, with an acceleration of revenue…
Instagram will be expanding its subscription feature outside the U.S. for the first time in the coming weeks. After successfully rolling out this capability in America last year, the social platform has announced plans to roll it out in 10 more countries, including: Australia Brazil Canada France Germany Italy Japan Mexico Spain United Kingdom Instagram…
Normandy was the beachhead in 1944. D-Day was the culmination of a successful head fake, surprising the Germans and helping to establish a strong foothold for the Allies to eventually retake France (and the rest of Europe along with it). Clayton Christenson borrowed the military-inspired “beachhead principle” for his bestselling book, “Crossing the Chasm,” to…
Google Analytics 4 has added dozens of new dimensions and metrics that should help marketers this coming holiday shopping season. The new capabilities were rolled out as part of the latest GA4 update, which saw new ecommerce dimensions and metrics added to the custom reports builder. In addition to being able to create reports from…
Twitter is the past. X is the future. The iconic blue bird icon has been removed from the desktop version of Twitter – replaced by a stark, monochromatic letter X. The same change will shortly be made on the mobile version, the company confirmed. The change is also said to signal an evolution for the…
TikTok is rolling out text posts for the first time. Historically, brands and influencers have been able to create content across a variety of formats such as live videos, photos, Duets, Stitch and more – but text was never an option. Now, creators have that additional resource to connect with their audiences, enabling them to spread…
Google has confirmed an issue with the link report within Google Search Console. The issue seems to be impacting the number of links shown in that report. John Mueller, a Google Search Advocate, said “To update here, we did find something” with the link report. He added, “Hopefully it’ll be resolved this week.” Link report…
Here is a cool piece of swag from the Google Hong Kong office. It is some sort of transparent YouTube cube. I am not sure what it does, it might be one of those speaker blocks or just a prop. I spotted this on Instagram. This post is part of our daily Search Photo of…
Google has updated its URL structure guidelines to specify what characters Google Search supports in URLs. The introduction paragraph now leads off by saying, “Google supports URLs as defined by RFC 3986. Characters defined by the standard as reserved must be percent encoded. Unreserved ASCII characters may be left in the non-encoded form. Additionally, characters…
Google has released a minor update to the Google Ads Editor. This is version 2.4.1 and I am not exactly sure what updates we have with this minor release. Google Ads Editor version 2.4 was released just a few weeks ago. I assume there were some bugs that warranted a new minor release to version…
