What's New with Twitter?

The folks over at Clix Marketing alerted me to the fact that Twitter has made some important targeting and advertising updates this summer. For marketers, these changes are actually quite helpful!

They Renamed The Publisher Network

Most recently, Twitter renamed their Publisher Network to the "Twitter Audience Platform". Along with that came two additional objectives: Tweet engagements and video views. Twitter users can now retweet and favorite directly from an ad, giving much more opportunity for engagement. For those of you who like interstitials (I'm still on the fence) they have added creative features to the media type as well. You can learn more about it on the Twitter blog.

Live Event Targeting

Viva la live moments! Now marketers can track and deliver messages to just the right users as an event unfolds in real time. This is made possible via an event calendar on Twitter. Great for planning months in advance, for meetings, events, conferences of note etc. in your industry.

Brand Spankin' New Ads Editor

For large scale campaigns, you can take your planning and edits offline in excel now.  Bonus, you can create new campaigns by entering campaign information into excel too via the Twitter ads editor.

New Ways to Buy Mobile App Install Ads

Via Twitter: "Optimized action bidding and cost per install bidding are now available to all advertisers running Twitter mobile app promotion campaigns with conversion tracking enabled." Get more details via the Twitter blog.

8 Marketing Blogs You Should Be Reading

Tactics and tools help make a marketer grow their business as well as their skills. I don't always have all the answers and I love going through and getting recommendations from some of the best. The top industry blogs I get my information and education from help me fine tune my campaigns and/or introduce me to tools that can aid in lead gen.

I like to stay on top of the trends for SEO, SEM and good content creation. I feel like the tide is always turning and it's best to capitalize on what is out there NOW.

There are so many blogs out there with information overload, but I find myself going to these 8 on the regular. I find that most marketers want to learn what makes people "tick", but these blogs talk about what makes people "click" -- and frankly, that's what we're all after in online marketing, isn't it?

Here's my top marketing blog list!

Hubspot Blog 

With separate sections for Marketing, Sales and Agencies, this blog is my go to. I may be cheating since I've used them as our CMS though.

Marketo Blog

An all encompassing site on best practices for all channels of marketing.
 

Kissmetrics 

More strategy driven, with a variety of content ranging from infographics to analytics, I like this blog for analytical insights as well as the free guides they offer.
 

Marketing Profs 

Insights from both seasoned and new marketing professionals. Great email newsletter and resources for professional development.
 

CopyBlogger 

Content writing and copyrighting articles. Great insights into SEO friendly copy and trends.

Moz Blog  

SEO tips and tricks. Content optimization for social media, various channels and strategies for link building, blogging and more.
 

Search Engine Land

Industry news and trends in SEO and SEM. Tips about Google Ads, content optimization and marketing platforms to use, as well as a myriad of other topics all web-related.
 

Simply Measured 

Focused on social media, resources and results-based analytics on how to perform better across social channels like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram

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