As digital assistants become more pervasive, how will marketers adapt? Columnist Scott Rayden outlines the steps you can take to help your brand stay ahead of this emerging trend. Scott Rayden on September 28, 2017 If I were writing this post even a year ago, I’d (still) be focusing on the mobile experience. Even … Continue reading CMO audit series, Part 5: The rise of digital assistants
By Gennaro Cuofano August 22nd, 2017 With a staggering 20% of queries going through our vocal assistant and its incredible growth; no surprise Voice Search got elected as the most important phenomenon of 2017. Away from the buzzwords and hype, personal assistants search optimization (PASO) is a reality. I want to show what we learned … Continue reading Voice Search: Personal Assistants Search Optimization
Part 1: Customer journey — the greatest strategic need Part 2: Untangling the web of mobile technology Part 3: Media channels (it’s not what you think) Part 4: The convergence of UX and performance marketing Part 5: The rise of digital assistants Part 6: Analytics About The Author Scott Rayden Scott Rayden … Continue reading CMO audit series Part 1: Customer journey — the greatest strategic need
Microsoft, iProspect Coin ‘Relevance Score,’ Analyze Impact Of Digital Assistants On Advertising by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, March 14, 2017 The Relevance Score for searches through personal assistants will become the next evolution of a quality-like score used by Google to determine the ranking of content from typed search engine queries, according to Jeremy Hull, VP … Continue reading Microsoft, iProspect Coin ‘Relevance Score’ And Impact Of Digital Assistants On Advertising
by Laurie Sullivan@lauriesullivan, January 13, 2017 Google bridges its virtual assistant Home with a downloadable smartphone app that can help marketers in optimizing for voice search. Some believe the next step will be pulling in the data to analyze and optimize cross-channel campaigns. With the growth of voice assistants, voice data will become a … Continue reading Marketers Search For Campaign Data From Virtual Assistants
Eric Seal — December 22, 2016 — December 22, 2016 Move over, Alfred and Jarvis—Alexa, Siri, Cortana, and Google Home are on the job, and these digital assistants are answering local search queries better than ever before. Digital assistants are great at what’s becoming known as “conversational search”—queries that use actual conversations instead of the … Continue reading How to Use Digital Assistants to Improve Local Search
Columnist and Microsoftie Christi Olson discusses the company’s personal shopping assistant and provides some thoughts on how marketers might adapt to this new technology. Christi Olson on December 8, 2016 This year, I decided to up my Black Friday and Cyber Monday game by researching my purchases in advance, so I knew exactly … Continue reading Using shopping assistants to fill your shopping carts, online
by Laurie Sullivan, Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, September 6, 2016 Juniper Research forecasts that more than $12 billion of annual ad spend will come through voice assistants by 2021 — up 3,000% on estimated spend for 2016 — bringing new paid-search opportunities. While there are plenty of opportunities for brands and apps digging into voice search, … Continue reading Virtual Assistants Could Create New Life For Paid Search
Columnist Eric Enge recaps the SMX West 2016 keynote by Googler Behshad Behzadi, who envisions a not-too-distant future in which voice search becomes more ubiquitous — and may even replace the search box. Eric Enge on April 4, 2016 On March 1, Behshad Behzadi, Google’s director of conversational search, gave a keynote address at … Continue reading The rise of personal assistants and the death of the search box
by Debra Carpenter November 24, 2015 Follow @hello_itsdebNovember 24, 2015 What does the term virtual assistant (VA) mean to you? If you’re a little confused, look no further. I’ve prepared a quick guide for those who are interested in learning about hiring, becoming, or evaluating virtual assistants. What is a virtual assistant and when do … Continue reading Your Quick Guide to Virtual Assistants
