What's Hot In Digital: June 2015

The Smart Insights View

Keep up with the latest changes in digital marketing by taking a look at some of the most important blogs, news, updates and resources from the last month.

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The Smart Insights View

Need to know about the latest changes that matter in digital marketing? Here, Dr. Dave Chaffey of Smart Insights gives his personal assessment of the most significant changes this month.

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Insights from KPCB US and global internet trends 2015 report

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Each year towards the end of May, Mary Meeker of KPCB creates a must-read review of digital marketing technology focusing on mobile. Here’s my summary

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We all know the popularity and importance of mobile apps today, but they’re not perfect. One of their limitations is integration between apps. Button is a new technology that seeks to solve this problem and it has signed up some marquee apps.

Marketing implications of the new EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

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If you market to audiences in Europe, big changes are afoot in data protection – read our analysis by Ardi Kolah for the low-down

The BIG Platform Changes

To maintain visibility of your brand and grow engagement with your online audiences you need to keep on top of the latest features and algorithm updates big five technology platforms, that's Google, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube. These platforms innovate relentlessly, with new changes daily. We monitor these and here alert you to the changes that really matter so you can assess the relevance of these to you.

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Google updates Google Trends and adds 4 new features.

Google’s new mobile location extensions

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Google shares new research about changes in local search behaviour and how to use extensions to deliver relevant local ads

Twitter Objective-based campaigns now available globally

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The biggest platform change is that Twitter have rolled out their Objective based campaigns globally.

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Facebook starts to roll out ‘Place Tips’, and looks to get retailers on board with free beacon devices

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A new update from Google on the changes that need to be implemented by 15 September 2015

Sharing your questions and comments

We're keen to help by answering your questions, so anything that's bugging you do ask via our Answers forum or your preferred social network. Here's the pick of the Q&A for this month - do get involved and share your expertise too!

How well does #MarketingAutomation work for you?

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We'd love to hear from all B2B Marketers using or considering MA. Please complete our short survey to share and receive the recommendations.

Data management software recommendations?

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We need somewhere to store our C-suite database that (ideally) links with HubSpot for inbound/outbound campaigns. Can anyone recommend anything?

Are you using historical SEO?

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The Blogging Tactic No One Is Talking About: Optimizing the Past

Our latest analysis and recommendations for Premium members

To keep Smart Insights members at the cutting-edge of digital we update our content each week as new resources or updates to existing guides, templates or training modules.

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With the importance of content marketing in marketing today, storytelling has become a more important skill. So, we’ve asked brand psychologist Jonathan Gabay to develop a guide explaining a process to support storytelling with examples to inspire.

With organic reach on the wane in Facebook, more brands are having to ‘pay to play’ on Facebook. Our new guide explains the ad options in Facebook and examples of best practices.

It can be difficult to know where to start when creating or updating your digital strategy. Our workbook gives you a tried-and-tested structure based on the Smart Insights RACE Planning framework.

Our Expert member webinar this month was also about Facebook but going beyond advertising to look at all the top changes on the platform.