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More on Web Traffic Rankings for Demand Generation Vendors

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Last week’s post on Web traffic rankings of demand generation vendors generated a couple of private responses from vendors, pointing out that the Alexa statistics include traffic to operational subdomains for client landing pages and user log-in. In itself, this doesn’t bother me, since it provides data on actual use of the systems.

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Not the CDP Daily News

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June 19, 2018 Google Invests $550 Million in Chinese E-Commerce Merchant JD.com Source: GlobalNewswire Just in case you had doubts that Google is serious about competing with Amazon in retail, consider this: Google just invested $550 million in Chinese e-commerce merchant JD.com.

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2017 Retrospective: Things I Didn't Predict

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In no particular order, things I didn’t quite expect this year include: - pushback against the walled garden vendors (Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple, etc.) But I’ve seen other creative approaches such as scanning purchase receipts (in return for a small financial reward, of course) and even using satellite photos to track store foot traffic.

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Everstring Takes Another $65 Million and (More Important) Launches Predictive Ad Targeting Solution

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Building a true DMP with access to the full range of ad exchange traffic is a major step beyond previous efforts. It puts Everstring in competition with a new set of players, including the big marketing clouds – several of which have their own DMPs, with big data compilers, and ad targeting giants such LinkedIn, Google , and Facebook.

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Ranking the Demand Generation Vendors by Popularity (Yes, Life Really Is Just Like High School)

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It offers quite a few ways to measure interest in a vendor: Web searches, blog mentions, Google hits, and site traffic among them. After a close analysis of the alternatives, I have decided the Alexa.com traffic statistics are the best indicator of vendor market presence. Google and YouTube.)

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Why Social Media Really Matters

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Some of this may be due to the fact that it’s much easier to buy search advertising (think Google AdWords ) than other types of online ads. But I think the primary reason is that search serves as a gateway to other Internet activity—so marketers wishing to drive traffic to their own Web sites need search advertising to make this happen.

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Alsa Marketing Adds Multi-Language Capabilities to Low-Cost Marketing Automation

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Also can capture results of Google Adwords campaigns and has a URL-shortener to track traffic from social media. Users can import lists, compose and send emails, build landing pages, execute multi-step event-triggered campaigns, monitor Web behaviors, score leads, exchange data with SugarCRM or (soon) Salesforce.com , and run reports.