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Uber Wants To Help Commuters Get To Work With Express Pooling

2/26/2018

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Uber Wants To Help Commuters Get To Work With Express Pooling

Uber Wants To Help Commuters Get To Work With Express Pooling

Uber Express Pool asks users to walk to the nearest convenient pick-up location to save time and money on daily commutes

How many times have you been stuck in an Uber Pool while the driver loops around and around trying to find the next rider? (Which, by the way, could very well be across the street). Uber is finally fixing this glitchy GPS consequence with Uber Express Pool. After a three-month pilot in Boston and San Francisco, the ridesharing app rolled out its new product in six more cities: Los Angeles, Washington D.C, Denver, Miami, Philadelphia and San Diego.

The new service asks riders to walk a few blocks to a designated meeting spot, rather than having the driver travel to where the user is standing. Cars are hailed by area, and the option is 50% cheaper than its cousin Uber Pool.

This move is inserting Uber into the daily lives of commuters who might already use it for a night out, but get to work on public transportation. By reducing fares and setting up efficient pick-up points, much like bus stops, Uber is tapping into a new and more consistent market. Although, as Wired points out, there’s a potential downside: environmentally-friendly public transit in big cities could be negatively impacted, as well as traffic patterns with more cars on the road.

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February 26, 2018 at 05:45AM
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Toyotas Magazine Insert Ad Is A Sensory Experience

2/26/2018

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Toyota’s Magazine Insert Ad Is A Sensory Experience

InStyle magazine's March issue will feature an interactive ad that lets readers get a feel for the Japanese auto maker's new Camry

The upcoming March issue of women’s fashion magazine InStyle will feature a sensory advertisement for automotive manufacturer Toyota‘s 2018 Camry. The insert will transport readers directly inside the new midsize sedan, complete with relevant sights, sounds, sensations and scents.

By placing their thumbs on the ad’s built-in sensors, consumers will have the experience of gripping the car door handles, pulling them open to reveal the interior of the vehicle where they will smell the new leather and view the car’s features, including their own heart rate pulsing on the dashboard. This creative 3D gatefold insert took 6 months to make in collaboration with communications and advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi, and is the first of its kind, partaking of the trend towards interactive, engaging adverting.

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February 26, 2018 at 05:30AM
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Non-Profit Service Connects Volunteer Translators To Refugees

2/26/2018

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Non-Profit Service Connects Volunteer Translators To Refugees

Non-Profit Service Connects Volunteer Translators To Refugees

Tarjimly is streamlining the often time-consuming process of finding translators, while providing a valuable service for free

A new service called Tarjimly is helping refugees and their aid workers connect with people who speak their language and can help translate. The platform is not only streamlining a process which can take hours or days during times when a quick response is critical, but it’s also saving help organizations lots of money. A typical translator fee is around $80 an hour, while Tarjimly counts with 2,528 translators who do it on a volunteer basis.

Tarjimly works through Facebook Messenger, but according to Tech Crunch, plans of expansion are on the way, with an independent Tarjimly app that will allow for communication across different platforms. The software uses machine learning to determine which volunteer is most likely to answer the fastest when matching refugees to interpreters.

The non-profit is using a grant-based model, but plans to scale up and monetize from government agencies and other NGOs as the platform grows, and people want to keep it going.

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February 26, 2018 at 05:23AM
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Fyber and Partners Launch New In-App Header Bidding Technology

2/26/2018

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Ahead of the weekend, MMW learned that Fyber — a leading technology company creating solutions for smarter ad monetization — announced the launch of Fyber FairBid, the world’s “first and only mechanism” to achieve a true state of header bidding for the in-app environment.

We’re told that Fyber has partnered with AdColony and Tapjoy, two of the world’s leading mobile advertising platforms, to launch FairBid’s beta.

FairBid is the first product Fyber has launched under its new unified branding and product strategy, bringing together all former acquisitions under one brand.

So how does it all work?

Fyber FairBid levels the playing field between different classes of buyers by eliminating the “waterfall” that exists in most mediation solutions for in-app inventory. Fyber’s proprietary FairBid technology allows mobile in-app publishers to maximize ad monetization by enabling all types of demand to compete in one place, side-by-side in a flat, fair, and transparent auction. It brings together programmatic demand from DSPs, direct campaigns, and SDk-mediated networks all into one, simultaneous auction, letting the highest bid win.

“FairBid makes no judgement as to which is the better buying mechanism. We understand that many app publishers and buyers of in-app inventory wish to take advantage of the rich creative options SDKs support. The industry needs a solution that eliminates hidden and unfair “first looks” given to some buyers in a waterfall-based auction, and finally brings a state of header bidding – that has been proven successful for desktop – into the in-app environment,” said Offer Yehudai, President at Fyber. “At the end of the day, demand is demand.”

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February 26, 2018 at 05:12AM
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50 Social Media Marketing Influencers to Learn From in 2018 #SMMW18

2/26/2018

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Social Media Marketing Influencers 2018

It’s that time of year again for the conference extravaganza known as Social Media Marketing World.  Each year I pull together a list of influential voices that are engaging on social networks around the topic social media marketing. My goal? To help showcase speakers for people in the industry to learn from and follow.

Why are these people influential? That’s a great question. I would answer with, “Why is anyone influential?”. Because they have specific expertise that they share publicly, consistently and in a way that improves the knowledge, skills and perspectives of those who follow them.

Influence is not only popularity. Influence is the ability to affect action.

When I started out in my digital marketing career, it was thanks to connecting with some generous people that had a lot more experience than me that I was able to overcome introversion and reluctance to write and become an international keynote speaker, author and blogger with over 1.4 million words written so far. What I have learned about influence is that it is not self-assigned.

Influence is earned by being helpful, effective and relevant as well as having reach. Influence is also earned by mentoring those who are coming up in the industry. While working with influencers transfers influence by association, helping others become influential is when earned influence really skyrockets.

In this year’s list of Social Media Marketing Influencers there are many people who demonstrate this kind of helpfulness and I am encouraging those influencers as well as our community of readers to nominate up and coming social media marketing leaders. You can find more details on that at the end of the post.

About the Methodology for this List:

Specific Scope: Rather than scan the entire social web, the starting data set for this list is having been named as a speaker for the SMMW18 conference. Mike Stelzner and Phil Mershon of Social Media Examiner do an amazing job of hand picking speakers for this conference and this list is an extension of their research and expertise into finding, qualifying and recruiting over 180 social media marketing speakers.

IRM Platform Assisted: Ranking of the people in this list leverages data and algorithms from Traackr, an influencer relationship marketing platform. Unlike the vast majority of lists like this that are published online, this list considers many more data sources than just Twitter. To provide a better sample across the web, Traackr ranking can include citations and links from data sources such as blogs, publications, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram, Pinterest, and Google+.

Ranking data sources and scoring: For the ranking, this list leverages a combination of data points including:

  • Relevance – A score that indicates how influential a person is to a specific topic based on the keywords you provide. Signals for relevance include keyword mentions, keyword diversity, content production rate, freshness of content and other contextual measures. In this case, it was “social media marketing” as well as 10+ derivative phrases.
  • Resonance – A score of how impactful the influencer is with their audience. Resonance measures engagement activity that occurs as a result of publishing (mostly social) content.
  • Reach – A score derived by the reach algorithm that takes into account followers, fans, subscribers, visitors and other audience metrics. Remember, this is more than just Twitter.
  • Audience – Overall social audience size

Each of these signal sources are factored into the algorithmic ranking for identified influencers with a focus on topical relevance, resonance of message with the audience and then audience reach. The result is a combination of broad based influencers as well as individuals with a very specific focus and very high resonance and relevance scores. What I like about pulling this list together is seeing a number of new faces as well as as a variety of disciplines and specialties represented.

This list of 50 industry experts speaking at Social Media Marketing World is worth checking out as you plan which presentations to see, who to follow online and who to meet.

Kim Garst @kimgarst
Live Streaming Strategist, Social Selling Pro, Keynote Speaker at Boom! Social
Presenting: How to Make Money With Live Video

Donna Moritz @sociallysorted
Digital Content Strategist, International Speaker, Visual Content Strategist at Socially Sorted
Presenting: Tips and Tools for Visual Storytelling on Instagram

Brian Fanzo @isocialfanz
Founder and CEO at iSocialFanz
Presenting: Facebook Strategy in Light of the Facebook Apocalypse

Koka Sexton @kokasexton
Advisor, SenderGen
Presenting: How to Turn LinkedIn Into a Funnel for New Leads

Madalyn Sklar @madalynsklar
Social Media and Digital Marketing Strategist, Blogger, Podcaster
Presenting: How to Up Your Twitter Game With Smart Tools

Dan Gingiss @dgingiss
Vice President, Strategic Group at Persado
Presenting: Why Social Media is Key to the Customer Experience

Ian Anderson Gray @iagdotme
Co-founder at Select Performers Internet Solutions
Presenting: How to Create Your Killer Live Video Show: Tools and Tips

Jeff Sieh @jeffsieh
Pinterest Manager at Social Media Examiner
Presenting: Visual Marketing for Non-Designers: Tips, Tricks, and Hacks

Viveka Von Rosen @linkedinexpert
LinkedIn and Personal Branding Expert, Co-founder and Chief Visibility Officer at Vengreso
Presenting: How to Best Use LinkedIn Native Video in Your Marketing

Neal Schaffer @NealSchaffer
CEO at Maximize Your Social
Presenting: How Brands are Breaking Through to Generate Results on LinkedIn

Josh Elledge @joshelledge
Founder at upendPR
Presenting: How to Get Traditional Media Exposure Using Social Media

Robert Rose @robert_rose
Founder at The Content Advisory & Chief Strategy Advisor at Content Marketing Institute
Presenting: Becoming an Audience First Company: How to Understand and Measure the Most Valuable Asset in Your Business

Gini Dietrich @ginidietrich
Chief Executive Officer at Arment Dietrich
Presenting: Crisis Communications: Tips From the Trenches

Carlos Gil @CarlosGil83
Founder, Gil Media Co.
Presenting: Snapchat Ads: How-to Use Snapchat’s Full Service Ad Platform

Darren Rowse @problogger
Founder and Keynote Speaker at ProBlogger
Presenting: 10 Things I Wish I’d Known about Blogging That Will Shortcut the Growth of Your Blog

Mark Schaefer @markwschaefer
Executive Director at Schaefer Marketing Solutions
Presenting: 10 Mind-Bending New Ideas for Our Social Media Marketing Future

Tamara McCleary @tamaramccleary
CEO at Thulium.co
Presenting: Innovating Your Way to Strong Social Media ROI

Mark Mason @masonworld
Quality Manager, Interface Products at Texas Instruments
Presenting: How to Make Your Podcast Stand Out: Tips from the Trenches

Rebekah Radice @rebekahradice
Founder at RadiantLA
Presenting: How to Make Visual Content Your Social Media Secret Weapon

Brooke B. Sellas @madsmscientist
Founder & Chief Executive Officer at B Squared Media
Presenting: Organizing for Social Success: Insource? Outsource? No Source?

Tyler Anderson @tylerjanderson
CEO / Founder at Casual Fridays
Presenting: Winning With Influencer Marketing: What Top Brands are Doing Now

Samantha Kelly @tweetinggoddess
Owner of Women’s Inspire Network
Presenting: How to Convert Twitter Conversations Into Customers

Ian Cleary @iancleary
Founder at RazorSocial
Presenting: 9 Content Marketing Tools to Drive More Traffic to Your Website

Mari Smith @marismith
Keynote Speaker, Brand Evangelist, Bestselling Author
Presenting: The Future of Facebook: What Marketers Need to Know for 2018 and Beyond

Mike Stelzner @mike_stelzner
CEO and Founder at Social Media Examiner
Presenting: Social Media Marketing in 2018: What the Newest Research Reveals

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Andy Crestodina @crestodina
Strategic Director at Orbit Media Studios
Presenting: Building Better Mousetraps: A Content-Driven Approach to Conversion Optimization

Bernie Borges @bernieborges
Advisory Board Member at OneMob
Presenting: The Secrets to Getting Employees to Engage on Behalf of Your Brand

Alex Khan @1alexkhan
CEO at Attractive Media GmbH
Presenting: Mass Seduction: Proven Techniques to Engage and Build Your Audience

Peg Fitzpatrick @PegFitzpatrick
Director of Social Media + Marketing at Kreussler
Presenting: How to Use Pinterest to Drive Long Term Traffic

Chris Penn @cspenn
Vice President of Marketing Technology at SHIFT Communications
Presenting: Seeing Into the Future: Predictive Analytics for Social Marketers

Michael O’Neal @inmikeswords
Host of The Solopreneur Hour Podcast
Presenting: Becoming an Interview Master and How it Can Massively Grow Your Podcast or Livestream

Brian Solis @briansolis
Principal Analyst at Altimeter Group
Presenting: The Past, Present and Future of Social Media

Park Howell @parkhowell
Founder and President at Park&Co
Presenting: How to Invest in Brand Storytelling to Earn the Greatest Return

Nicky Kriel @nickykriel
Social Media Consultant & Social Media Strategist at Nicky Kriel Social Media
Presenting: How to Use Twitter Data to Improve Your Content Marketing

Melanie Deziel @mdeziel
Brand Strategy Consultant and Speaker at Mdeziel Media
Presenting: 5 Branded Content Best Practices From the World of Journalism

Andrea Vahl @andreavahl
Social Media Consultant at Andrea Vahl
Presenting: Facebook Ads Strategy for Small Businesses

Jay Baer @jaybaer
Founder at Convince & Convert
Presenting: How to Prove Social Media Works to Skeptical Managers

Steve Dotto @dottotech
President at Galileo Consulting and Producer of Dotto Tech
Presenting: YouMake YouFortune on YouTube: Making Money on YouTube

Ann Handley @marketingprofs
Chief Content Officer at MarketingProfs
Presenting: Creating Better Content in Less Time: 5 Real-World Writer Secrets

Lee Odden @leeodden
CEO at TopRank Marketing
Presenting: How Content Plus Influence Equals Results: The Confluence Equation

Guy Kawasaki @GuyKawasaki
Chief Evangelist at Canva
Presenting: Achieving Social Media Success by Defying Conventional Wisdom

Shaun McBride @Shonduras
Owner Esports/Shonduras Inc
Presenting: How to Influence Influencers: The Creative Process

John Jantsch @ducttape
President at Duct Tape Marketing
Presenting: How to Grow a Highly Profitable Consulting Practice Without Adding Overhead

Jessika Phillips @jessikaphillips
Relationship Marketing Evangelist, President at NOW Marketing Group
Presenting: Relationship ROI: How to Grow Your Business by Focusing on Repeat and Referral Relationships

John Lee Dumas @johnleedumas
Host of the EOFire Podcast
Presenting: How to Grow Your Podcast Audience and Fuel Your Business

Roberto Blake @robertoblake
Owner at Create Awesome Media
Presenting: Mastering and Measuring YouTube Analytics for Video Marketing

Shep Hyken @Hyken
Chief Amazement Officer and Owner, Customer Service Speaker and Expert at Shepard Presentations
Presenting: How to Turn Social Customer Service Into a Marketing Strategy

Jasmine Star @jasminestar
Owner at Jasmine Star Photography
Presenting: How to Create 30 Days of Instagram Content in a Single Day

Bryan Kramer @bryankramer
Keynote Speaker, Emcee and Event Host at PureMatter
Presenting: How to Humanize Your Social Brand for Better Conversions

Brian Peters @brian_g_peters
Digital Marketing Manager at Buffer
Presenting: How to Build and Maintain an Authentic Community on Instagram

If you want to follow all 50 of these fine folks, then check out the speaker list on the SMMW18 conference schedule page.

What about non-digital influence? 

I think this is a great question because not everyone that is influential (especially in the B2B world) spends as much time tweeting, blogging and posting Instagram photos as many of the influencers listed above do. And yet they are highly influential.

For example, here are several more speakers that are pretty influential to me, even though they are not on the list above: Amisha Gandhi (client), Beverly Jackson, Brian Clark, Chris Brogan, Konnie Alex (client), LaSandra Brill, Shannon Paul, Tim Washer, and Ursula Ringham to name a few.

Suffice it to say, I think when you are deciding on which influencers to work with, it’s important to get out of the digital bubble and consider offline-specific influencers as well – especially in B2B.

Big Questions About Influencer Lists & Influencer Marketing:

  • How do you find the right influencers?
  • What do you collaborate with them on?
  • How do you measure influencer marketing performance?
  • Are there processes and formulas for success?

These are some of the most common topics that come up through my agency’s influencer content marketing consulting with brands like Dell, SAP, LinkedIn, 3M and even mid-market companies like DivvyHQ or Cherwell Software.  I’ll be tackling these questions and more in my presentation at Social Media Marketing World 2018. Here are the details:

How Content Plus Influence Equals Results: The Confluence Equation
Thursday, March 1st at 4:10pm Room: 32AB
Content marketing and influencer marketing are hot topics for marketers all over the world as two of the most promising strategies for attracting, engaging and converting ideal customers. But how do you find the right influencers? What kind of content should you collaborate on? How do you best measure influencer and content success? Join Lee Odden to learn from his experience working with brands big and small to develop efficient and effective formulas for influencer content success.

I hope to see you there!

NOMINATE YOUR PEERS!

I know some folks are feeling left out and others would have added other social media marketing speakers to this list. Lists are exclusive by nature, but I think it would be amazing for the experts on this list as well as our readers would nominate up and coming industry social media marketing pros that are consistently providing useful expertise, leadership and engaging with their communities.

Please leave full name, title, company and Twitter handle (or other social profile) of your nominee in the comments. I will follow this list up with a People’s Choice style list of Rising Social Media Stars after the conference.


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Your Online Presence Feeds This Automated Knowledge Base

2/26/2018

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Users can ask Molly questions about people in their network, which are then automatically answered according to data scoured from social media

A startup launched by Chris Messina (creator of the hashtag), Esther Crawford and Ethan Sutin last summer is looking to scrape data from various social media channels to generate a centralized database for every individual user. The platform, Molly, allows users to ask questions and receive automatic answers according to the data scoured from all over the individual’s online presence.

The idea is to eventually make Molly into an AI chatbot of which anyone could ask questions about anyone to simplify the exchange of information that is readily available online, but can be a pain to look for. For example, a user could ask the bot where to suggest meeting a friend for coffee, and the bot would answer based on both parties’ preferences.

Right now Molly answers questions regarding featured profiles—mostly famous or high-profile people who want one place where they can answer fans without having to repeat the same thing over and over. Questions that can’t be answered automatically from their Instagram, Facebook or Twitter profiles are forwarded to users and saved for future responses. The platform also sends quizzes to build up its information base.

According to Tech Crunch, once Molly opens profiles to the public, everyone will be able to control access to their own database, so so not only approved people can use the tool to look into a user’s social profiles. So far the startup has raised $1.5 million in funding, although it is not making attempts to monetize the service just yet.

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Smaato Serves Record Mobile In-App and Video Impressions in 2017

2/26/2018

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Smaato, a global real-time advertising platform for mobile publishers and app developers, announced that the company delivered record advertising impressions in Q4 2017, posting a 60% increase over Q4 2016.

The results were published in Smaato’s Q4 2017 Global Trends in Mobile Advertising Report, which offers key insights into the worldwide mobile programmatic advertising landscape based on in-depth analysis of the quarter’s ad impressions on the Smaato platform.

“Mobile advertising is growing extremely fast worldwide, especially in high-value categories including video and targeted in-app content,” said Arndt Groth, President of Smaato. “Smaato as a platform has experienced a substantial increase in both volume and pricing, a trend we expect to continue as we expand into other markets and create innovative new products for buyers and sellers.”

The report also notes that Smaato delivered 87% ad spending growth in the Americas and 61% growth in EMEA, the two regions with the highest increases. In 2017, the company also observed several massive growth factors that have changed mobile advertising significantly in the past few years — namely, significant growth from mobile video and in-app advertising.

In-app advertising accounted for 96% of global ad spending. In-app advertising has taken over the mobile advertising market, growing from 80% of total ad spending on the Smaato platform in 2016 to 96% in 2017. In-app’s domination of mobile ad spending last year was a global phenomenon, with in-app holding at least an 87% share of ad spending in each of the top 20 mobile advertising markets worldwide. Compared to mobile web, in-app ads also boasted much higher eCPMs, more user engagement and increased advertiser demand in Q4 2017.
Mobile video advertising increased by 14X. Video, which can offer higher engagement advertising to a more captive audience, took off in popularity in 2017. Across all of the top 10 mobile advertising markets, mobile video ad spending has increased by at least 6X over the past year, with in-stream pre-roll showing the highest increase in demand. In addition to a huge volume increase, Smaato also measured a mobile video eCPM increase of 70% from 2016 to 2017.

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February 26, 2018 at 04:38AM
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mHealth News: The Headlines You Might Have Missed

2/26/2018

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mhealthHere are some of the top stories in healthcare, telemedicine, and mobile health that our sister site mHealthWatch has been monitoring this past week.

Stayhealthy Leverages Pop Culture to Achieve Healthier Outcomes for Brands and Consumers
As difficult as it may be for some companies in the industry to admit, healthcare can be perceived as being exceedingly boring — especially for those of us needing to take appropriate steps to improve our own health.

Santa Clara Family Health Plan Taps Healthx Mobile Engagement Suite to ‘Engage and Activate Their Members’
This week, Healthx, Inc. — a leader in cloud-based digital engagement solutions for healthcare payers — announced a new partnership with Santa Clara Family Health Plan (SCFHP), a local, public, not-for-profit health plan dedicated to improving the health and well-being of the residents of Santa Clara County, California.

PresenceLearning Expands Its Battery of Offerings
PresenceLearning, a leading telehealth network of live, online special education related service providers, is announcing an addition to the research base for the equivalency of remote psychoeducational assessments featuring the Reynolds Intellectual Assessment Scales, Second Edition (RIAS-2).

SEERS AI Enters China and Hong Kong Medical Imaging Market
SEERS AI, a leader in algorithm based image enhancement has entered the digital healthcare market in a partnership with several Hong Kong and China based telehealth providers to bring direct to consumer medical image AI tool for the Hong Kong and China region.

Toughened Up: SnapMD Bolsters Virtual Care Management Programming Interface
SnapMD, a full-service telehealth technology solutions provider, recently announced that it has “significantly upgraded” its Virtual Care Management (VCM) telemedicine platform by adding custom patient groups, and advancing the workflows and rules engine within their administrative interface.

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February 26, 2018 at 04:05AM
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Google Releases Leaderboard At MWC To Rank Web Site Speed Tools To Verify Increases

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At Mobile World Congress (MWC) on Monday, Google will release several tools to increase and verify the speeds of mobile websites. The Brand Leaderboard is an infographic that illustrates the leaders in mobile speed from Forbes Most Valuable Brands list. Leading the group is ESPN.com with a 1.4-second website load time. Apple follows with 1.5 seconds. Starbucks, Lexus, and Zara round out the top three with 1.6 seconds, 1.8 seconds and 1.8 seconds, respectively. 

Some 53% of websites are abandoned when a mobile visit takes more than three seconds to load the page, according to Google data. 

For starters, the mobile Speed Scorecard allows site owners to compare the mobile speed of their website with other companies' websites, based on real world data from the Chrome User Experience Report. The report, a database of real user latency data, powers the Speed Scorecard. It shows the speed of thousands of page web site load times in 12 countries across the globe.

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A site should load and become usable within five seconds on mid-range mobile devices with 3G connections -- and within three seconds on 4G connections -- wrote Jon Diorio, group product manager of Google Ads, in a blog post. And even one-second improvements could increase conversion rates.

A slow mobile site doesn't just frustrate customers -- it can limit a company's business. "In retail, we see that for every one-second delay in page load time, conversions can fall by up to 20%," wrote Diorio.

So along with the Speed Scorecard, Google introduced the Impact Calculator, a tool that estimates the revenue impact that could result from improving the speed of a mobile site. It can tell site owners the amount that is gained by reducing load time by two seconds versus one second.

Google recently added expanded support in accelerated mobile pages for Shopping ad campaigns. Later this year, AdWords will begin processing click measurement requests in the background to speed up how quickly a landing page loads.





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February 25, 2018 at 11:10PM
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Motorola: Don't Be Compulsive About Your Phone Use

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Motorola is out with a new campaign it’s calling Phone-Life Balance.

That’s right, the inventor of the mobile phone now worries that people are being a bit too compulsive about their phone habits.

There’s a bit of irony there. Makes me think of Amazon’s recent move to open brick-and-mortar book stores in a number of markets after single-handedly decimating the physical book store industry.

The Motorola campaign is multifaceted and includes a clever new video from Ogilvy called “Hello, Vacation,” that depicts some rather sad behavior on the part of real vacationers—glued to their phones instead of taking in the wonders of the world at which they are physically present, like the pyramids in Egypt, the Eifel Tower, Old Faithful to name a few.

The spot ends with this message: “connected? or disconnected? next vacation try a little phone-life balance.”

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Another Ogilvy spot will be released soon.

As part of its broader phone-life balance effort, Motorola developed a global study of phone use behaviors in partnership with Harvard’s Dr. Nancy Etcoff, a psychologist and expert in mind-brain behavior and the science of happiness.

The study produced this startling and somewhat sad statistic: 53% of Gen Z respondents described their phone as a best friend. Reminds me a bit of the movie “HER” about a guy (Joaquin Phoenix) who falls in love with the voice of his computer’s operating system.

And a third of respondents prioritize their smartphone over engaging with people they care about and want to spend time with.  Not that much time, I guess.

In addition to the Ogilvy spots, Motorola has taken other steps to promote phone-life balance including an online quiz consisting of 10 questions to better understand your relationship with your phone. You can take the quiz atphone-lifebalance.com.

Also, Motorola is working with the SPACE Phone-Life Balance App, which offers a 60-day program to help smartphone users become more mindful of their phone usage.

There’s other stuff, but I think you get the general idea.

I think we all know how awesome smartphones can be.  But if you’re focused on it while touring the pyramids or some other amazing site, yeah you probably need help.  

 





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