Before we begin, can you tell me what the most visited site on the Internet is? I’ll wait. Now be honest, did you have to open your phone to look it up? If the answer is yes, you’re probably not shocked to find out that the answer was Google. On November 13, 2006, Google purchased […]
Google recently announced that the average position metric will be sunset in September 2019; claiming that the metric is not intended to reflect where ads are showing in the SERPs. Late last year, Google introduced four new metrics known as Prominence Metrics which we believe will essentially replace the average position reporting metric. These metrics […]
Yahoo Search is no more. Well, let’s be clear — you can still search for things on yahoo.com (if you’re doing that for some reason) but the power behind that neon purple facade has been coming from a new place since (at least) January 17th with the full transition of all accounts estimated to take […]
To help ourselves, our clients, and the industry orient themselves in this new voice-powered ecosystem, we launched the PMG Voice Lab. The initiative is a long-term investment in research, analysis, and experimentation in the field of voice search and voice-enabled technologies and opportunities. In our first Voice Lab analysis, we put the top voice-enabled technologies […]
In the PMG Voice Lab’s first analysis, we put the top voice-enabled technologies to the test to see how their AI capabilities compare, and most importantly, identify what brands can do to optimize their content for voice search. Download your copy of PMG’s voice search white paper, Why Voice Matters: Identifying the Latest Opportunities in Voice […]
We at PMG (and other digital marketers) use Google products day in and day out, but in recent weeks, we’ve experienced some out of the ordinary occurrences that, in short, have thrown us for a loop. Maybe you can relate? DoubleClick Outage Nearly ten years to the day after Google’s acquisition of DoubleClick, the advertising […]
We’re already placing our bets to see how long Google continues allowing advertisers to make static text ads. Ads that look like this blog’s title are already commonplace and it’s only going to get more complex (while also WAY more accurate and relevant). In this day and age, it just doesn’t make sense to slap some […]
“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true” – James Branch Cabel Despite these times, I have always leaned to a more optimistic perspective. Needless to say but the last 7 months have been trying for our world. The global fight against terror, […]
You down with UGC? Yeah, you know me! Not me literally, but that’s what some advertisers might soon be saying thanks to a new ad format being rolled out on Reddit. Unfamiliar with Reddit? Well, it’s a popular timesuck “news source” letting users from all over the world share news stories, random tidbits, […]
June 28, 2016 – a day that will live in infamy. Hopefully not, but maybe. After letting the dust settle on the Fourth of July holiday weekend, we at PMG have continued to notice a disturbing, but familiar, trend. Google Brand CPCs (average cost-per-click) are on the rise. Yes. Again. This time, in mobile. What […]