May – SEO and marketing news

May – SEO and marketing news

Brexit blamed for dramatic fall in UK business registrations With Brexit looming, many foreign companies are leaving the UK or withholding investment. French companies have invested in 48% fewer businesses in 2016-17 than the previous year. Belgium have invested 38% less, and the Netherlands report a 52% drop. In what is being called a business…

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April – SEO and marketing news

April – SEO and marketing news

Google wants to make audio content searchable Google is now aiming to make audio as easily searchable as text or images. In an interview with Pacific Content, Google Podcast Teams lead Zack Reneau-Wedeen said: “The way that we’re approaching the problem fits really nicely with Google’s mission to organize the world’s information and make it…

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Marketing after Facebook

Marketing after Facebook

In what seems like a carousel of screw-ups, Facebook may be facing the one screw-up that will end it all. Facebook, after a massive breach in user privacy involving Cambridge Analytics, could be in store for some massive regulations on how it shares users’ data with advertisers on a global scale.

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March – SEO and marketing news

March – SEO and marketing news

As New EU Data Regulations Loom, Grapeshot Empowers Marketers to Increase Digital Scale and Delivery with Contextual Intelligence The company Grapshot, through contextual intelligence, is claiming to be able to work with and thrive with the impending GDPR, which is going into effect on May 25th. Through real-time context and not relying on cookie ID…

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February – SEO and marketing news

February – SEO and marketing news

Marketers don’t expect the sky to fall with GDPR With enforcement coming on May 25th, many marketers are fretting over the vagueness of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and exactly how much consent they need to acquire from customers on what they can do with their personal data. Just as many are approaching it,…

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January – SEO and marketing news

January – SEO and marketing news

Two-thirds of EU marketers considering leaving the UK because of Brexit With Brexit looming over the ever shrinking horizon, 31% of EU nationalists living and working in Britain are considering leaving the UK, says a survey conducted by Marketing Week’s parent company Centaur. These results confirm a growing fear within the industry that talent will…

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LinkedIn launching new talent data tool, Talent Insight

LinkedIn launching new talent data tool, Talent Insight

Last October LinkedIn announced it will be launching its new talent acquisition site in mid 2018, Talent Insights. Using analytics to dive deep into big data, LinkedIn wants to bring corporations and start-ups alike information on talent pools, skill sets and other companies workforce composition. Geared towards HR professionals, users will be able to make…

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