Digital Marketing Services is now 3X Bigger Than Advertising [Borrell]: Since Borrell starting tracking digital services in 2008, it’s tripled, now measuring $681 billion in the United States SMB market, with an emphasis on medium sized businesses (more than 25 employees). The market for service providers remains extremely fractured.
And online spend exceeds traditional advertising spend for the first time: Check the latest numbers for your market.
Related at Google – New Degrees of Connection [Various]: Google is further exploring context options with related features, including…
1) Additional search filters like near me, open now and ratings for related results in the mobile Local Stack [SEL];
2) Related questions for broad (often informational) searches [Quicksprout];
3) Trending searches added to auto-fill feature [Mashable]
Google Finally Reveals How to Improve Your Local Ranking [StreetFightMag]
