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Weekend Edition: Best Practices for Marketing Budgets

We all have to do it eventually — develop a year-long marketing budget. There are lots of approaches (do we budget based on a percentage of revenue? or a fixed amount?), but what are the best practices for this important process?In this paid partnership series with...

540: (1)

Did Facebook and Google collude to kill a competing ad platform? Strange numbers are appearing in Shopify stores. What happens when you remove Accelerated Mobile Pages from your web site. A case study on one of TikTok's most successful advertisers.Go Premium! No...

539: Instagram is the Only Jewel Left in Meta’s Crown

The surprising effect this holiday season's 6 billion out-of-stock messages had on e-commerce revenue. Is Instagram the only refuge from Meta's overpriced ads — and if so for how long? Also: Consumers wish you would tweet more. Details on a new...

538: Mark Zuckerberg Hates Ovaries.

Meta is blocking ads for women's health... the lawsuit that could change how media buyers interact with Facebook... Finally, Yoast gets keywords tracking... Twitter's present to content marketers... and more.Go Premium! No ads, more stories, and extended...

537: Step 1: Strap VR Headsets to Cows. Step 2: Profit.

A Facebook labour dispute might be delaying your ad campaigns. Google is trying to catch up on manual actions. Instagram's new feature is great for control freaks — I mean "brand managers." Microsoft rolls out new ad features. And more.Go Premium! No ads, more...

536: Do Outbound Links Actually Do Anything for Your SEO Any More?

Metaverse? Try Meta-yahn. Consumers seem uninterested, but will the streaming platform losses be your media buying gains? Also: We settle once and for all whether outbound links really do anything for SEO any more. TikTok shares new data on the value of influencer...

535: The Google Ad Error Message Nobody Wanted to See

A terrifying error message on Google Ads' platform is causing nightmares for marketers... will machine learning eventually control everything about our Facebook ads? Andrew Foxwell weighs in... A Wordpress vulnerability so bad the platform is telling its users to...

534: A Pandemic of Product Returns?

Is your lack of stock hurting your SEO? What are consumers doing with their holiday gifts now? Why returning them, of course. UGC gets tantalizingly close to taking over TV. As does TikTok. Go Premium! No ads, more stories, and extended deep-dive weekend episodes —...

532: Because… Who Wants Fruit? Amirite?!

Super Saturday has come and gone, and the numbers did not look good. TikTok's new livestreaming app hits a legal roadbump. A big bug on a big platform may have affected conversion reporting.Go Premium! No ads, more stories, and extended deep-dive weekend episodes...

531: See You Wednesday!

A quick programming note: As we get closer to the holidays, news tends to slow down a bit — today's a good example... not a lot going on, so we're going to pool today's and tomorrow's stories into a single episode tomorrow (that's...

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