Social Media Smarts: 2014 Digital Marketing Winners & Losers

ClickZ Social Mon 13th Jan 2014 2014 Digital Marketing Winners & Losers These 5 key factors will separate those that make big gains in their digital & social media marketing efforts from those that will not in the pivotal year ahead. Latest Social stories from ClickZ Facebook Buys Branch for Reported $15M in Effort to Boost News Feed Quality Facebook is starting its first ever operations in New York after purchasing conversation startup, Branch, for a reported $15 million. - Liva Judic Gmail-Google+ Integration Leaves More Questions Than Answers A new Gmail feature connects Google's mail service to Google+. If you don't have someone's email, but that person is on Google+, you can presumably email that person. - Jessica Lee Facebook to Eliminate Sponsored Stories As of April 9, domain and open graph sponsored stories will no longer be served to users. - Jennifer Slegg 10 Social & Digital Media Predictions for 2014 It just wouldn't be January without making some predictions about what the coming year will bring in digital marketing and social media. - Michael Della Penna Pinterest Acquires VisualGraph to Boost Image Recognition Pinterest acquired two-man startup VisualGraph, an image recognition and visual search platform. Many say this move primes Pinterest to be a leading image search engine and ideal place to advertise products. - Jessica Lee More stories from ClickZ CES 2014: What Got Mindshare Excited Mon 13th Jan 11:20 Heineken to Young Men of the World: Dance More, Drink Slow Mon 13th Jan 09:00 Convergence and Info-Literacy in 2014 Mon 13th Jan 08:30 2014: The Year Marketing Automation Gets the Recognition It Deserves Mon 13th Jan 08:00 2014 Local Marketing Checklist Mon 13th Jan 07:00 A Digital Resolution for 2014: Break Bad Habits in Ad Tech Mon 13th Jan 06:30 7 Ways CRM Will Help You Prepare for Christmas 2014 Mon 13th Jan 06:00 What is Digital Engagement? Sun 12th Jan 17:00 VIDEO: Omnicom and Airwave APAC on Mobile and Smart TV Advertising Fri 10th Jan 17:00 How Much Does Transparency Matter in Native Advertising? Fri 10th Jan 11:26 More stories from ClickZ Follow ClickZ ClickZ Live & SES Events SES London February 10-13, 2014 SES Jakarta March 18-19, 2014 ClickZ Live New York Mar 31-Apr 3, 2014 ClickZ Live Toronto May 14-16, 2014 ClickZ Live Shanghai May 28-29, 2014 More ClickZ Live & SES Events Social Resources Best practices in extracting data from social media Social media and cloud computing 8 steps to a better social media mix More Social Resources