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On October 3^rd, Oliver Wilke, Head of Sales & Business Development APAC Syndacast took center stage at the Content Marketing Forum 2016 at the Intercontinental Hotel; presenting methods that drive successful advertising campaigns to target audiences.

The points discussed in at the forum were:

1. How to create successful contextual advertising campaigns
2. Understanding the types of targeting methods available that include, day-parting, geo-targeting, behavioral targeting, and placement targeting
3. Learn expert targeting techniques that effectively transform non-engaging campaigns into hot, lead-generation campaigns
4. Key success factors in developing efficient and successful content campaigns to leverage influencers as your key opinion leader

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Wondering how does 2015 look on the social-sphere? Here’s a run-through of the state of social media in Thailand based on an infographic by the DAAT (Digital Advertising Association of Thailand).

Social Media Subscribers in Thailand

Facebook is in the lead with 30 million subscribers, followed by YouTube at 26.2 million subscribers and twitter and Instagram at 4.5 million and 1.7 million respectively.

Thailand Demographics
On the social front, research shows that 52% of Facebook users are male while 48% are female. There are also slightly more male users on YouTube at 50.8% and 49.2% female users. Instagram sees more female users at 65% female and 35% male.

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If you are looking to advance your business or online campaign in Southeast Asia, here are some important statistical data you just might want to learn about before you start. We have broken the infographic down into 5 different sections so you can easily grasp everything important under each header. Listen up closely if you’re business is related to “Organic Food”.

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What makes a business thrive? What makes the gear in people’s heads go round and round? Who devises strategies behind the scenes, implements them and it works without a hitch? The answer: The Chief Marketing Technologist Officer (CMTO).

What is a “Chief Marketing Technologist Officer“? A CMTO is a person who is a hybrid between a marketing, IT and strategist personnel all bundled into one. This title is growing in popularity amongst Fortune 500 companies around the world. In fact, according to chiefmartec.com, 81% of companies now have a solidified CMTO role. Comparatively, this is a huge improvement than last year where there was only 71% of CMTOs available. It is predicted in 2014, there will be another 8% adding to this particular role in the next 24 months! more

Online business in South East Asia? These stats for Thailand, Singapore and Indonesia might be useful for you.

SINGAPORE:
-Population: 5,460,302
-Internet Penetration: 73%
-Internet Users: 3,971,3188
-Mobile Internet Penetration: 64%
-Average time spent using mobile internet: 1 hour 57 minutes per day

THAILAND:
-Population: 67,448,120
-Internet Penetration: 26%
-Internet Users: 17,770,139
-Mobile Internet Penetration: 24%
-Average time spent using mobile internet: 5 hours 7 minutes per day

INDONESIA:
-Population: 25,160,124
-Internet Penetration: 15%
-Internet Users: 38,191,873
-Mobile Internet Penetration: 24%
-Average time spent using mobile internet: 5 hours 7 minutes per day

There are total of 200+ ranking factors; a fact that we all know but how do each factor actually effect your website rankings? This infographic serves as a good starting point to gain more insights into what you could do to help improve your website’s organic ranking in Google and other search engines.

TECHNICAL SEO CORRELATION WITH SERP | ON-PAGE FACTORS MATTER

Length of URL: 0.16

Keyword in Title: 0.12

Existence of Description: 0.06

Existence of H2: 0.05

Site Speed: 0.04

Existence of H1: 0.03

Keyword in Domain Name: 0.03

Video Integration: 0.03

Keyword in Description: 0.02

Keyword in URL: 0.01

THINK RESPONSIVE | RESPONSIVE RANKS BETTER

Responsive Website will have the backlinks of your original website just like that

Google ranks sites optimized for mobile higher in mobile search

90% of smartphone searches results in a purchase or a visit to a business

67% of users claim they are more likely to purchase from a mobile-friendly website

Google Likes Repsonsive

61% of visitors will return to Google to find a site that is easily readable

CREATIVE CONTENT | GOOD CONTENT CAPTURES LINKS

Videos on landing pages increase conversion by 86%

77% of your audience read blogs

65% of your audience are visual learners

Post with videos attract 3 times more inbound links than plain text post

89% testimonial effectiveness rating as a content marketing tactic

SOCIAL SIGNALS | SOCIAL SIGNALS IMPROVE SERP

Social Signal Experiment: 6 websites, same niche.

The results:

100 Google+ followers: 14.63% ranking improvements

300 Google+ votes: 9.44% ranking improvements

70 Facebook share & 50 likes: 6.9% ranking improvements

50 Tweets: 2.88% ranking improvements

The year of 2014 is upon us and as a result, big changes are expected this year. In the field of digital marketing, a lot of predictions have been floating around since 2013 about the big things that will emerge in 2014. Without a doubt, many predictions are said to come true.

Here’s our Digital Marketing Trends 2014 infographic breaking it down for you:

Following up on rumors and speculations (plus our predictions), we’ve combined our research into this infographic, breaking down into four sections:

• Content Marketing – Content marketing has been around since 1895 and is still in practice today. Content marketing is not a new concept but it will continue to grow and be optimized. Many businesses are looking into content marketing to expand their brand’s services and credibility. In result, they often reach their target audience (via social media) and fulfill expected KPI (Key Performance Indicators) goals.
• Advertising – Like content marketing, this concept is not new. However, it’s the type of advertising that is expected to be prominent in 2014. With the implementation of DMP or Data Management Platforms, advertisers can now target specific audience groups and individuals to ensure their ads will show only to them.
• Big Data – The era of Big Data is upon us. Big data, as the name implies is the collection and storage of large collections of data which cannot be processed manually or one program. It’s impacts are still yet unknown.
• Mobile Marketing – Interestingly, mobile marketing is slowly emerging and establishing itself to become one of the more dominant forms of marketing. More people are using their portable devices to conduct business on the go. To top it off, many websites are opting for for a mobile compatible design, according to Google’s Responsive Web Design. The more responsive web design a website has, the more probability people will return to your website and continue doing business with you.

Google’s famous hummingbird algorithm officially rolled out this past September 27, 2013 which meant a whole of changes were coming to the SEO world. Many speculated if hummingbird was going to affect their rankings which have been in good standing even after the Penguin and Panda updates rolled out way back when. Many theories buzzed through SEO communities about its impacts but nobody could truly identify what hummingbird really did. Was it a just a cute name masking something big from Google? Maybe. Maybe not. It’s too early to pinpoint hummingbird’s real intention.

To non-SEO specialists (like you or me), the new algorithm makes searching a whole lot easier; results are pulled from websites and displayed on the front page in forms of interactive graphs, sliding image galleries or even showcasing music and videos. Life became simpler. Search queries although not exclusively keyword based, were showing results related to the search query regardless if it had the exact match keywords or not.

To better understand what this is or better known as Conversational Search/Query Search, here’s a breakdown of hummingbird in the form of cute birds in our very own Hummingbird infographic!

Doing business has drastically changed these past few years. It is no longer about making sure you have an online presence for your business; that is a given. Try doing a mental list of your competitors; do they have some sort of website running? More than likely the answer is yes.

Having a website for your business is not an option anymore but a must. It’s because the world has turned digital, and your market and consumers along with it. So if simply having a website no longer makes the cut what does? Running banners? Adwords?  Doing SEO? Why yes, of course, but there’s more to it now.

Online business success is now all about staying up-to-date with digital trends; especially keeping an eye out for emerging trends and to quickly adapt your business accordingly. Now, if you haven’t had the time to look into what’s new and coming your way, we have. So what should you look out for this year onwards? None other than: Mobile, Social Media and Content Marketing. Why? Here’s why:

Mobile Trends:

– Global smartphone users will reach 2 billion by 2015.
– Across all industries, mobile internet traffic is increasing at a rate of 3.5% per month.
– Tablet users access search 73.9% of the time. More than any other devices.
– Mobile share of internet traffic increased by 25% this year.
– Out of 4 billion mobiles in use, 1.08 billion are smartphones.
– Mobile web traffic share has increased from 5.42% in Q1 2012 to 10.44% in Q1 2013.
– Tablet web traffic share has increased from 5.93% in Q1 @012 to 10.58% in Q1 2013.

Social Trends:

– The fastest growing Facebook and Google Plus demographics are users between 55 to 64 years old (56% in Google Plus and 46% in Facebook).
– Other social media networks such as LinkedIn has over 200 million users.
– Every 2 seconds, a new member joins LinkedIn.
– Pinterest has over 50 million users.
– 40 million photos are uploaded to Instagram daily.
– In Q1 2013, Facebook sees 665 million active users daily.
– 80% of users prefer to connect with brands on Facebook.
– 23% of Facebook users check their account at least 5 times every day.
– Twitter sees a 44% growth rate form 2012 – 2013.
– There are over 288 million active twitter users daily.
– YouTube has over 6 billion hours of video watched per month.
– There are over 1 billion unique monthly visitors to YouTube.
– Google Plus has over 359 million monthly active users.
– 33% of active users have grown between 2012 – 2013 on Google Plus.

Content Marketing Trends:

– Content is the top reason why people follow social media.
– 68% of consumers spend time reading content from brands they’re interested in.
– 37% of marketers claim blogging is the most valuable type of content marketing.
– Companies with over 10,000 employees use 18 different content marketing tactics.
– Articles with images get 94% more views.
– 62% of marketers blog or plan to blog in 2013.
– Blogs give websites 434% more indexed pages and 97% more indexed links.
– B2B companies that blog generates 97% more leads per month.
– 91% of B2B marketers use content marketing.
– 86% of B2C marketers use content marketing.
– 62% of companies outsource content marketing