- Top-Level Domain Names Will Change Search
Online Media Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Search engine optimization will change dramatically within the next few years as a result of the Internet transitioning from 23 top-level domain names to more than 1,409 strings. The gener ...
- Amazon Is Thinking Inside The Box
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Thom Forbes - Thursday, April 25, 2013
Amazon's quest for brand ubiquity will next take it into the rooms where consumers' ginormous screens reside, if reports initiated by Bloomberg's Brad Stone yesterday prove correct. The set-top b ...
- Amazon Puts TV Pilots Online
Around the Net In Media, Phyllis Fine - Monday, April 22, 2013
Amazon posted 14 pilots of video series on the Instant Video section of its website for free viewing. Based on viewer feedback, "the Amazon Studios production company will decide whi ...
- Out-Thinking Amazon: Bumping Audiobooks To The Next Level
Mobile Insider, Steve Smith - Thursday, April 18, 2013
Despite having moved through multiple delivery channels over several decades, the audiobook remains basically unchanged despite all of the possibilities digital and now mobile platforms offer. Time
for 2.0? ...
- eBay Rebrands Shopping.com To Build Ad Network
Online Media Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, April 4, 2013
eBay has rebranded Shopping.com to the eBay Commerce Network in an effort to build out a lead-generation advertising network. Shopping.com has evolved from a comparison shopping site into a commer ...
- Amazon Acquires Book Site Goodreads
Online Media Daily, Mark Walsh - Friday, March 29, 2013
Amazon has announced its acquisition of popular book recommendation site Goodreads. Terms of the deal, expected to close in the second quarter, were not disclosed. Founded in 2007, Goodreads n ...
- Amazon Acquires Book Site Goodreads
Raw, Mark Walsh - Thursday, March 28, 2013
Amazon on Thursday
announced its acquisition of popular book recommendation site Goodreads. Terms of the deal, expected to close in the second quarter, were not disclosed. Founded in 200 ...
- Amazon Offers Mobile Ads To Developers In API
Mobile Marketing Daily, Steve Smith - Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Amazon enters the mobile ad game by issuing an API that developers can use to pull ads into their apps on Kindle Fire as well as Android phones and tabl ...
- Kindle Works With National PTA
Marketing Daily, Aaron Baar - Sunday, March 3, 2013
Amazon Kindle has signed on as the exclusive sponsor of a new program (sponsored by the National PTA) to encourage family reading. ...
- Amazon Ranks No. 1 In Mobile Satisfaction Index
Online Media Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, February 11, 2013
Consumers are becoming more comfortable with mobile commerce and user satisfaction as the mobile retail experience is improving. Consistent customer service across channels plays a big role. ...
- Search Engines Remain Key Driver To Web Sites
SearchBlog, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, January 17, 2013
Cross-channel marketing campaigns proved the most successful during the holidays. Search engines like Google and Bing were the key driver of traffic, along with organic cross-shopping across retail Web site ...
- Amazon Wins Ruling In "App Store" Battle With Apple
Raw, Mark Walsh - Wednesday, January 2, 2013
A California federal judge on Wednesday threw out part of Apple’s lawsuit against Amazon over use of the term App Store, barring Apple from bringing a false advertising claim again ...
- Experian Maps Christmas Day Site Traffic
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, December 28, 2012
Christmas Day online retail traffic rose 27% in 2012 compared with 2011, as the top 500 retail sites received more than 115.5 million total U.S. visits, according to Experian Marketi ...
- Amazon's Showrooming Victims List: Best Buy, Walmart, Target
Mobile Insider, Steve Smith - Thursday, December 13, 2012
Harris Interactive's latest shopper survey finds the nightmare scenario may be true for retailers. Showrooming is big and Amazon is the winner...by several miles. ...
- Amazon Swoops Into The Mobile Playground With Cross-Platform Game App
Mobile Marketing Daily, Steve Smith - Friday, November 2, 2012
Amazon continues its push into publishing with a freemium game title for Kindle Fire, Android and iOS. Across e-books, video and now apps, the company is moving more aggressively in ...
- Amazon Ad Model Forces Changes In Search Engine Marketing
Online Media Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, October 11, 2012
The ad format powering Google Shopping results, Product Listing Ads, grew at a rate of 262% in Q3 2012. These ads lead consumers from Amazon to the brand's Web si ...
- Amazon Retreats On Kindle Fire Ad Support, Offers $15 Opt-Out
Mobile Marketing Daily, Steve Smith - Monday, September 10, 2012
Owners of the upcoming Kindle Fire line of tablets will be able to opt-out of a default configuration that runs promotions on the lock screen. The company claims that f ...
- Just One More Thing: Amazon's New Fire Models Are All Ad-Subsidized
MoBlog, Steve Smith - Friday, September 7, 2012
Amazon forgot to mention very clearly yesterday that all of its upcoming Kindle Fire units would use the Special Offers model once reserved for value-priced e-readers. Ads (I mean 'offers ...
- Report: YouTube To Bring Movie Rentals To Connected TVs
Online Video Daily, Ross Fadner - Wednesday, September 5, 2012
YouTube movie rentals are on their way to Connected TVs: on Tuesday, it was revealed that YouTube would add paid movie rentals to its app across hardware partner TP Vision ...
- Amazon Adds EPIX Content to Prime Instant Video, Prompting Netflix Slide
Online Video Daily, Ross Fadner - Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Amazon on Tuesday announced that it had signed an agreement with EPIX, which is a joint venture of the movie studios Lions Gate, Paramount and MGM, to distribute its rost ...
