Vimeo has acquired Echograph, an iOS app that lets users create animated GIFs, or more specifically cinemagraphs. The deal will bring Echograph’s team into Vimeo’s fold and aim to expand the app to all mobile platforms. Echograph will remain a standalone app but will now be free (it previously sold for $2.99). This appears to […]

In Yesmail Interactive’s white paper, “Mobile Email Design: Marketing Fit for the Small Screen,” the company offers an overview of the challenges to designing emails for mobile devices. It also highlights the two tactics that can be used: scalable design and responsive design. Mobile email’s surge According to Yesmail, 36 percent of emails were opened […]

KISSmetrics, a Web analytics provider, has put together an infographic showing how businesses can track social media ROI by tracking users. Here are some of the “stops” along the way of the 15-day roadmap the company lays out: –

According to Nielsen, Shopkick is the No. 4 shopping app in terms of reach among smartphone users in the U.S. Amazon is No. 1 with a 19 percent reach, followed by eBay with 17 percent, Groupon with 13 percent and Shopkick with 10 percent. Starbucks (8 percent), Walgreens (6 percent), Barcode Scanner (6 percent) and […]

Nearly 42 million unique users claimed Facebook Offers since its launch last year, according to COO Sheryl Sandberg during the company’s recent fourth-quarter earnings call. In October, Facebook revealed that 75 percent of offers claimed on its social network happened as a result of a user seeing a story in their news feed about a […]

Elizabeth Yin is CEO of LaunchBit. She and her friends launched Email Newsletter Report Card, which grades email marketing campaigns in five categories and churns out results in the form of an infographic. During the course of grading her own newsletters through the system, Yin has seen three common issues: 1)

Brainshark isn’t a fictional supervillain, the sequel to the goofy sci-fi thriller “Deep Blue Sea” or a term you need to look up on Urban Dictionary. It’s a company that gives businesses and marketers fresh ways to create, deliver and use online and mobile video presentations. While there are other presentation-based websites that give marketers […]

Leads360, a lead-management software company, has put together a timely infographic about love. More specifically, the company offers an overview of how to best use text messages to win love, leads and revenue in the sales process. It’s based on the Leads360’s recent study, “Text Messaging for Better Sales Conversion,” which found that sending text […]

If you’re a marketer or webmaster who has yet to dig into what schemas are, you could be missing out on clicks and other benefits. Schemas are HTML tags that webmasters can use to mark up their pages in special ways recognized by major search engines. “On-page markup enables search engines to understand the information […]

According to a recent survey from Eloqua, CMO.com and Software Advice, B2B marketers indicate that third-party lead generators yield the highest volume of leads, followed by search engine advertising and in-house email marketing. The survey found that 34 percent of B2B marketers around the world say third-party lead originators produce a high quantity of leads, […]