Tag Archives: Signal

Rumors of pre-Black Friday layoffs at Amazon look like a clear recession signal

  By Clint Rainey November 14, 2022   First Meta, Stripe, Snap, and Twitter. Now Amazon: A round of mass layoffs is coming for the e-commerce juggernaut. According to reports on Monday, Amazon is preparing to lay off as many as 10,000 employees, marking its largest-ever round of job cuts, though only about 1% of … Continue reading Rumors of pre-Black Friday layoffs at Amazon look like a clear recession signal

Signal AI Intelligence Graph Makes Sense Of The World’s Unstructured Data

Signal AI Intelligence Graph Makes Sense Of The World’s Unstructured Data by Laurie Sullivan  @lauriesullivan, July 15, 2022 Signal AI, a global data insights company, this week announced the launch of its External Intelligence Graph, which provides a view into the relationships between a company and other real-world topics such as consumer trust. The nine-year old … Continue reading Signal AI Intelligence Graph Makes Sense Of The World’s Unstructured Data

Google New Ranking Signal To Support Skin Tones In Image Search

Google New Ranking Signal To Support Skin Tones In Image Search by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, May 12, 2022 Google plans to incorporate a new signal into image ranking, as well as introduce a new type of schema to help make its image search results more racially inclusive and diverse.  The scale will represent … Continue reading Google New Ranking Signal To Support Skin Tones In Image Search

Gains In Digital Publishing Revenue Signal Recovery For UK

Gains In Digital Publishing Revenue Signal Recovery For UK by Rob Williams , April 27, 2021 Numerous publishers saw a jump in web traffic as pandemic lockdowns kept people at home — where they spent more time with digital news and entertainment. Fortunately for publishers in the U.K., that increased activity translated into healthier sales … Continue reading Gains In Digital Publishing Revenue Signal Recovery For UK

How to Optimize for Core Web Vitals and the New ‘Page Experience’ Signal

Stuart Clark September 16, 2020 A look at Google’s new page experience signals called Core Web Vitals, how to optimise for them and why they present an exciting opportunity for marketers. Back in May, Google announced a new ranking signal called page experience that’s due to roll out at some point in 2021. At the … Continue reading How to Optimize for Core Web Vitals and the New ‘Page Experience’ Signal

Ascendant Network, Signal Study Confirms Customer Focus Pays Off

Ascendant Network, Signal Study Confirms Customer Focus Pays Off by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, June 14, 2017 Feeling special goes along with consumers searching for a relationship with brands. Some 60% of consumers participating in a survey scheduled for release Wednesday said they favor retail brands that make them feel like a valued customer, and 42% … Continue reading Ascendant Network, Signal Study Confirms Customer Focus Pays Off

Twitter’s Custom Profiles signal when DMs with brands’ bots are handed to a human

Twitter’s new Custom Profiles are the equivalent of an email signature for direct messages. Tim Peterson on February 22, 2017   For all the talk of artificial intelligence, chatbots aren’t that smart. Brands are increasingly automating their customer services channels on social networks like Twitter and Facebook Messenger, but brands’ bots can’t handle all customers’ … Continue reading Twitter’s Custom Profiles signal when DMs with brands’ bots are handed to a human

Do the Moz & Raven retreats back to basics signal the rise of point solutions over marketing suites?

After years of martech companies assembling and launching all-in-one marketing suites, recent news suggests the tide has turned. Contributor and Third Door Media CEO Chris Elwell suggests what this might mean — renewed focus on single-point solutions and on the bottom line. Chris Elwell on August 24, 2016   Two companies in the martech space … Continue reading Do the Moz & Raven retreats back to basics signal the rise of point solutions over marketing suites?