B2B Marketing News: B2B Data Onboarding Insight, Google’s New Ad Formats, Marketing Campaign Performance Study, & LinkedIn’s Employer Branding Guide

Google Shares Sneak Peek At New Advertising Features
Google has offered a look inside several of its new forthcoming Google Ads features, including responsive display and mobile ads that animate static imagery and better white space formatting, highlighted in a showcase of examples from firms that have tested the new tools, Google recently announed. Search Engine Journal

Twitter is testing a new ‘Liked by Author’ label for tweets
Twitter has tested the ability for tweet replies on the platform that have been liked by the post’s author to show a red heart liked-by-author badge and similar text designation, with the aim of making it easier to spot top tweet replies in lengthy reply chains, Twitter recently announced. TechCrunch

Videoconferencing hinders creativity — study
When it comes to conceiving creative ideas among teams of two, brainstorming in person has been shown to produce 15 percent more ideas than doing so over remote video meetings using Zoom or similar technology, according to newly-released report data of interest to digital marketers published in the journal Nature. Philstar

Listeners Like What They Bought From Podcast Ads. But They Have Ad Complaints Too.
Podcast listeners are more receptive to advertising presented in the audio format, with 80 percent of podcast listeners having said that marketing messages heard during a podcast didn’t negatively affect the content’s quality, while 70 percent noted that they preferred ads which were read live during a podcast rather than prerecorded — two of several findings of interest to B2B marketers contained in recently-released survey data. InsideRadio

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Google to allow users to control brands and topics they see in ads
With a forthcoming new My Ad Center feature, search giant Google will allow users a choice to see either more or less advertising content from specific brands or about certain topics, along with other ad customization features, while retaining the ability to turn ad personalization features off, Google recently announced. Campaign US

LinkedIn Publishes New Pocket Guide to Effective Employer Branding
When it comes to how organizations are succeeding with employer branding on Microsoft’s LinkedIn professional social platform, prospective customers are some six times more likely to convert when they are exposed to a combination of brand and acquisition messaging — one of numerous findings of interest to B2B marketers contained in newly-released data from LinkedIn (client) offered in guide format, along with a selection of digital outreach strategy success stories. Social Media Today

What Do Marketers Think Is Most Important in Influencing Campaign Performance?
Smart audience targeting, ad creative, audience reach, and data quality came out on top as the most important tactics affecting …read more

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