Bryant Garvin speaking on Amazon advertising at SMX West 2019. Amazon can deliver customers at unmatched scale, but it requires significant seller investment compared to running campaigns on Google, Todd Bowman, senior director of Amazon and eRetail at Merkle, told the audience at SMX West in San Jose, California, last …

Bing announced a new URL submission tool at SMX West 2019. Last week at SMX West, Bing announced it is now allowing webmasters, publishers and site owners to submit 10,000 URLs per day to its search engine for crawling and indexing. It was a 1,000x increase in the previous quota …

Over the past 18 months, we’ve gone from legacy ads to expanded text ads to newly expanded text ads to responsive search ads. Which ones work better? How should I transition? The “Text Ad Reboot” session at SMX West gave attendees a lot of information to consider to make your …

One day after Google said it would be consolidating the data within the Google Search Console’s performance report to the canonical URL, the company decided to start the preview of the consolidated data view on Thursday, a month or so earlier than they planned. If you login to Google Search Console …

Six new species of tentacle-nosed catfish have been discovered in the Amazon and Orinoco River basins. A close-up of the tentacles of a male Ancistrus patronus. The male’s tentacles look like the eggs that the male cares for. Image credit: Jonathan W. Armbruster. The new catfish are all members of …

A new species of oviraptorosaur has been unearthed in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia. Gobiraptor minutus. Image credit: Do Yoon Kim. Named Gobiraptor minutus, the new dinosaur is thought to have lived between 80 and 70 million years ago (Cretaceous period). The ancient creature was a member of Oviraptorosauria (oviraptorosaurs), …

  If you can’t beat or join them… force feed ’em? That appears to be Instagram’s latest strategy for IGTV, which is now being shoved right into Instagram’s main feed, the company announced today. Instagram says that it will now add one-minute IGTV previews to the feed, making it “even …

  Netflix today is launching a new feature on iOS devices that will help make it easier to watch its shows when you’re offline. The “smart downloads” feature, as it’s called, will automatically delete a downloaded episode after you’ve finished watching, then download the next one — but only when …

  It’s a foregone conclusion that app makers will get at least some data on how you use their product. How much data do you really expect, though? Maybe which buttons you tap or the length of sessions? According to TechCrunch and analytics company App Analyst, some popular iPhone apps …

  Samsung sells more phones than any other company, but its most recent financial results show mobile profits are leveling off. After nine years of Galaxy phones, Samsung is reportedly planning to pull out all the stops to turn things around with the upcoming Galaxy S10. There will be three …