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Topsort, an auction-based advertising startup, now valued at $110M after seed round

TechCrunch

When Regina Ye was in college, she was a Shopify seller and recalls being so fed up with advertising solutions that she spent finals week staying up late to figure out how ads worked on Facebook and Amazon. “It I was an early adopter of B2B marketplaces, but advertising was this black box. Where will our data go when cookies disappear?

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South Africa’s Flow gets funding to automate social media advertising for real estate agencies

TechCrunch

With its APIs, Flow connects to the websites of estate agencies and property developers and automates advertising for them on social media channels like Instagram and Facebook. Flow intends to use the funding to include other social media platforms such as TikTok and LinkedIn and other advertising channels like digital out-of-home billboards.

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Beware the rise of ‘ghost jobs’ — fake job openings with no intent to hire

CIO

A job listing advertisement on a digital platform costs next to nothing, but the intelligence it can provide a company — even without any intent to fill the position — can be significant. Ng suggests the need for greater transparency in the publication of job advertisements and possible regulations to limit this practice.

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Teach yourself growth marketing: How to perform growth experimentation through A/B testing

TechCrunch

A crucial difference between typical advertising programs and growth marketing is that the latter employs heavy data-driven experimentation fueled by hypotheses. How to properly do A/B tests A/B testing, or split testing, is the process of sending traffic to two variants of something at the same time and analyzing which performs best.

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Performance marketing agency MuteSix bets on content and data to boost DTC e-commerce

TechCrunch

But LA-based performance marketing agency MuteSix didn’t wait that long to build its business around scaling DTC brands. And we’re a performance agency; everything we do is based on results. Why do you think that performance marketing is the right fit for DTC? How is MuteSix different from other agencies?

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3 disruptive trends that will shape marketing in 2022

TechCrunch

But this change also shifted the power away from social media advertisers such as Facebook and Snap, who went from having unfettered access to user-level browsing and buying data to now receiving only aggregated information, often limited to the past 24 hours. ” Predictions for 2022.

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Vital Web Performance

David Walsh

The W3C has been working on this with the new Event Timing and Element Timing API , and has defined some new Web Vital metrics to describe the different ways that slow performance can impact a webpage. This pattern made the page load performance numbers look great, but the user still feels like the site is slow. All for just $10/mo.