Digital Marketing

Pinterest refers three times as much traffic to top publisher web sites as Twitter
Google+ may have a billion registered users but it also has a big problem – its turns out forcing people to join your service does not necessarily translate into the kinds of commercial outcomes that put money in the bank. Now, while it may have a lot of money in

Facebook rules. For now everyone else is pretending3
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg apparently kills his own meat. He is not a man to be trifled with. Perhaps that explains why Facebook is playing a different game to everyone else – a fact that is reflected in the numbers. The Social Network pwns. For all the criticism of Facebook,

How the Holy Grail of the single customer view evolved from chimera to necessity: Oracle’s Chris Bosch
For years it was a chimera, an aspiration at best. In this regard, the single view of the customer is less of a goal and more like a process – something akin to the pursuit of happiness. But Moore’s Law, innovation and simple customer expectations have compelled providers in the

The secret life of digital marketers: overwhelmed, under-resourced, unskilled and outsourced
There is an alarming disconnect between the importance companies attach to their digital marketing initiatives and the actual effort and resource they are putting into it according to a US study of 200 senior marketers by Finch Brands and Netplus Digital Pulse. Despite this red flag companies are set to pour

Study: One third of B2B marketing budgets go to content marketing and the spending is set to grow
Content marketing soaks up one in three dollars in B2B marketing budgets and that spend is likely to increase in the next twelve months according to a new report by the Content Marketing Institute and MarketingProfs. The North American study found that content marketing is all pervasive, being employed by

Tumblr surges since Yahoo deal, averaging 250,000 new blogs and 80,000,000 new posts a day.
Almost unnoticed, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayers’s decision to buy Tumblr has given the micro-blogging social network beloved by teenagers (and Which-50 publishers) a massive boost. Which-50 has tested the numbers, and in just eight weeks since the deal was sealed Tumblr has added 14 million new blogs — up 13