AMP

Mastercard takes top position as leading sonic brand Shell and Apple complete the top three McDonald’s, Disney and Intel fall compared to 2019 rankings Voice is identified as an increasingly key sonic branding element Global sonic branding agency amp announced that Mastercard has topped its annual Best Audio Brands Ranking 2020 (BAB 2020), moving up from position 72 in 2019 and dethroning last year’s winner McDonald’s to take the top spot. Introduced in 2019, the Best Audio Brands Ranking is the first of its…

Searchmetrics Q4 2019 study reveals retail websites are failing to satisfy informational searches for consumer electronics Bestbuy.com is the most visible website in Google’s (Google.com) page one results when people search for consumer electronics topics such as computers, laptops, video and mobile phones according to a new Searchmetrics study. Second and third are Amazon.com and Walmart.com. For searches related to mobile phones, t-mobile.com is the most visible on page one, followed by bestbuy.com. However, nearly…

Ecwid E-commerce Platform Delivers Dynamic Content to Help Merchants Grow Their Stores and Revenue Ecwid, a leading global software-as-a-service (SaaS) e-commerce company with more than 1.5 million merchants in more than 175 countries, introduced a simple and efficient email solution that utilizes the latest advancements and functionality in the AMP open-source project for email technology, to enable dynamic, updateable content for email e-commerce. Ecwid has developed a smart email solution that allows e-commerce…

53% of mobile site visitors leave a page that takes longer than three seconds to load (according to Google). According to a 2017 Akamai study, even a 100-millisecond delay in website load time can hurt conversion rates by 7 percent. For a business, an extra second of mobile loading time can mean the difference between a great quarter and trouble. That’s why Google introduced a little something you’ve probably heard of, way back in 2016: Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP). Read More: Google AMP for Gmail: A Marketer’s View…

The Announcement Is a Part of Google’s Initiative to Help Brands Better Assess Ad Performance Google is progressively changing its technology to benefit advertisers. The advertising community has been receiving periodic updates about the changes that Google is making in their platforms. The search engine giant recently announced that now, advertisers, globally, will have advanced capabilities to test AMP performance. What is AMP? Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) are pages that load quickly on Mobile phones. Launched by…

The Call Tracking & Analytics Platform’s Deeper Integrations with Google Make AI-Powered Call Intelligence Data More Valuable to Marketers Leading call tracking software provider, Invoca has announced that it has launched enhanced integrations with Google Ads and Google Marketing Platform (formerly AdWords and DoubleClick, respectively). The company has also announced additional support for Google Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP). The improved integrations with Google’s suite of ad tools allow users of Invoca’s AI-powered…

Email AMPed-up It’s rare when something stirs up the attention of both email marketers and the tech community at large, but AMP for Gmail did just that. Seems there’s power in the Google name. Ever since the internet giant announced its expansion of AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) to Gmail, there’s been plenty of inside scuttlebutt amongst email industry insiders, as well as some open criticism of the idea. As a long-time B2B marketer, what struck me as most significant about the announcement was the larger…

As you may have seen in the news, Google recently announced the introduction of its Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) capabilities to email. AMP for email will enable developers to create more engaging, interactive, and actionable email experiences, from being able to continuously update information like flight times to being able to RSVP for an event directly within the inbox. The possibilities that AMP for Gmail holds are incredibly exciting, and it will provide companies even more ways to capture attention and provide…

Marketers and advertisers can create AMP landing pages directly from the Instapage platform Instapage, the post-click optimization platform for advertisers, is bringing the Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) framework to landing pages. With AMP capabilities on Instapage, marketers and advertisers will be able to create AMP landing pages directly from the Instapage platform. AMP is a Google-backed open-source project that allows for faster page load speeds on mobile devices, enabling marketers and advertisers to provide a…

PEOPLE Is First Meredith Brand to Launch on AMP Stories Meredith Corporation announced that it is among the beta publishers launching AMP Stories, which was created in collaboration with the open source AMP project and Google. AMP Stories provides a mobile-focused format for delivering news and information as visually rich, tap-through stories. PEOPLE is the first Meredith brand to work on developing the format for the developer preview at the AMP conference in Amsterdam. "AMP Stories have extraordinary potential to…

Series C funding for Leadspace was led by Arrowroot Capital and JVP to support continued AI product leadership and customer growth in the US, and Israel World's leading B2B audience management platform for marketing and sales, Leadspace has raised $21 million in Series C funding, led by Arrowroot Capital and existing investor Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP). As B2B organizations increasingly use big data and AI to drive more targeted relevant engagement and faster growth, Leadspace's latest funding round would drive…