What's Hot In Digital: August 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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The People Behind Google’s New ‘Alphabet’ brand

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The biggest news in Digital this month is the creation of Google's 'Alphabet' which you're sure to have heard of in the media - we looked at the people behind the move.

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This free download summarises the most popular digital marketing platforms based on a survey of more than 1,000 marketers.

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Now we're over half way through 2015 we've been rounding up the key stats which summarise adoption of technology.

2015 Landing page design trends

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7 examples of landing page design techniques inspired by the growth in mobile usage

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The latest free report on digital media and technology use from Ofcom presents some interesting stats on digital technology use in the UK

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Pew Research centre releases latest research on the social media activity of 1,907 US adults. The results show strong growth for some platforms.

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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Instagram continues to gear up for monetisation and will be open to smaller businesses advertising.

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Facebook annouce ‘M’. A personal assistant that will sit inside of messenger and will be able to complete tasks for users

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!

Moz have released their annual SEO ranking factors report

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Every two years, Moz surveys the opinions of dozens of the world's brightest search marketers and runs correlation studies to better understand the workings of search engine algorithms. It is highly useful for finding out what tactics work in SEO

What is the future of advertising on the worlds fastest growing social network?

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We debate how big an impact Instagram's newly released ads API will have on digital advertising.

Is anyone thinking of utilising Amazon text ads for your own campaigns or for client campaigns?

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Amazon is introducing text Ads. Robert Dicks asked if anyone was considering using them.

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 our focus on digital stats we have updated our regularly updated stats compendium - it's in two parts - user adoption and benchmarking.

Danny Bermant has also refreshed our popular influencer outreach guide with the latest tools and updated process.

We've also included our new RACE Planning Active Elearning Module in case you missed it in late July.