Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence are two major technologies that regulate the pace of innovation and introduce a radical shift in every industry.

Blockchain brings the major transformation in the financial sector. In fact, the companies are going for a test approach especially the banking sectors towards the blockchain technology.

If we compare the other centralized technologies blockchain makes the work safer, smoother and transparent. While there is much impact on the financial sector but blockchain can also play an important role in the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI). In general, every technical aspect has its own degree of complexity as well as business implications but the combined use of the two may be able to create the entire technological and human paradigm from scratch.

Depending on who can access and verify the information stored on it, there are many potential ways to use a blockchain, apparently, there are varying levels of security and transparency. Ultimately, it is a way of recording data, transactions, and information in a more decentralized way. AI or machine learning, on the other hand, operates on a centralized, closed system, accomplish its task.

Decisions made by AI algorithms are increasing. Those results are being utilized, and they are still being audited by humans to ensure the accuracy of those decisions. That verifies the efficiency of ongoing machine learning. This is a tedious task, as enormous amounts of data are fed into AI algorithms. Sifting through each decision point becomes complex.

Here the auditing process becomes greatly simplified by recording each of these points on the blockchain, making it more secure and easier to assess. The complete and transparent view of the decision-making process of AI technology is an important step in validating AI’s usefulness. This can be safely stored on the blockchain, yet still accessed by AI decision-making processes as necessary.

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Let’s check out an example of the Healthcare Industry: There is a mutual understanding, where technology includes safely storing medical records and checking them against current best practices to make the most accurate diagnoses and treatment plans possible. It reduces a lot of human work.

When comes to the part of the entertainment, machine learning will help in suggesting the next best enjoyable video to be watched. With the help of blockchain, our preferences and viewing history can be kept safe. Work is made easier and convenient with artificial intelligence algorithms.

Combined abilities of blockchain and AI will allow maximizing benefits. The possibilities are endless with the recently developed innovations of AI and Blockchain.

#2018Trending: Google AdWords is now Google Ads

Recent update: The Senior vice president Sridhar Ramaswamy who leads Google's ads, explained about the rebrand. He said the reason behind the rebranding is the company has been getting constant feedback over the past few years.

As Google has acquired new ad products, to get leads it has become more complex over the past two decades. This made advertisers, agencies, and publishers hard to recognize and select the appropriate google product for their needs. With the point of rebranding, it helps in locating “where we want the product to go" Along with the latest trends of rebranding, Google is also coming up with new solutions that simplify its advertising offerings.

Going ahead, Google's ad products will be segmented into three major brands.

1. Google AdWords is now Google Ads

2. Google Marketing Platform (A combination of Double Click advertiser products and Google Analytics 360)

3. Google Ad Manager

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Let's know what are these three major changes and its impact:

1. Google AdWords is now Google Ads

Firstly, whether it's a search ad, display ads, app ads or YouTube video ads etc., this serves as the front door for advertisers to buy on all google surfaces.

Google is also laughing something new as smart campaigns, which is a default mode for advertisers. It allows advertisers to identify the actions based on priorities whether store visits, purchases or phone calls. With the use of machine language the images, texts are optimized and drive to respective actions.

2. Google Marketing Platform

Google Marketing Platform assists to plan, buy, measure and optimize digital media all in one place.

Dan Taylor Managing Director for platforms said about the Google Marketing Platform as it helps in growing need for collaboration.

The Marketing Platform adds a new integrations centre. Unifying DoubleClick and Analytics 360 as a single platform has come for the advertisers who were integrating the two products on their own.

3. Google Ad Manager

The Final Change unifying DoubleClick for Publishers (DFP) and DoubleClick Ad Exchange (AdX) has been a three-year process. Jonathan Bellack, the director of product management for publisher ad platforms said, “Marketer demand for addressable advertising has moved us to a place where all buying will be programmatic,”

Google Ad Manager will assist publishers to monetize at all the new places where people are engaging. For example live streams, connected TVs, Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP), and platforms like YouTube and Apple News, Bellack explained.

Artificial Intelligence is already in a dynamically evolving phase by revolutionizing industries one by one.

Advent increase in technology affects the business strategies and operations. AI holds a huge potential in the field of digital marketing by providing a better customer experience, targeted marketing, and predictive analysis that gives a major impact in obtaining high ROI to business.

AI and Digital Marketing

Marketers were hesitant to incorporate artificial intelligence into their strategies. While with the broad impact AI continues to be important for business. Marketers witnessed confidence by practical application. They observed that there is less confusion with the application and reaped significant benefits.

Let’s check out how AI can impact digital marketing. What are the capable areas where AI can tremendously boost digital marketing?

1. Makes Your Decisions Easier with Predictive Marketing

Want to know how it works?

Here we go! Whenever a user browses on internet new data is generated and that is collected for AI analysis. The data which is obtained can reveal the information like user needs and future actions. Based on this data marketing can be optimized to get the most relevant information.

This further reduces the sales-cycle work as the relevant information is handed over to customers all at one go. The predictive campaigns can drastically reduce customer research on the product. From the view of marketers, they can continue to analyze the buyer through data and even make the customers back.AI-enabled algorithms will have a huge impact and challenge the current ‘hotshots’ like SEO. With AI powering chances of trends such as SEO, banner ads become obsolete.

2. Personalizing the user experience

This is the major breakthrough where AI can create a significant impact. The major concept of a marketer, in fact, the belief of a marketer is a customer is a king. When it comes to digital marketing content is the king. So, if the content marketing strategy is aligned with artificial intelligence it could show the ultimate impact. Based on data gathered such as customer interests, buying behavior and especially on customer search, customized content campaigns can be conducted.

Chatbots are another example of AI interference which is designed to interact with the customers. This would completely enhance the user experience. Traditional chatbox and text communication will soon give away to a multi-dimensional approach with sensory abilities such as voice and touch. It gives the complete virtual experience as talking to a real person with consciousness.

Augmented reality, will help a user to make an easy decision as they are able to perceive the product even before purchasing. This will regulate a quicker response from the customer and in turn generates the revenue.

3. Using image recognition to get maximum ROI

 Image recognition was confined only to identify the objects but with the emerging technology, AI can assist to get the complete information of an image. This can be used in various ways for various sectors.

For Banking Sector for making the fastest payment process and improve the customer security.

The social media outreach is more with the images. According to the research the world population shares around 4 billion images a day. Machine language software will look for images in social media and compare it to a large image library to draw relation. AI will help to align the marketing strategies in order to extract maximum Return on Investment.

Conclusion

 Finally, we can know much better than we ever did.  Artificial intelligence will bring marketers and customers closer in the coming years. There will be mutual benefits to customers in a better understanding of a product and marketers have a better understanding of consumers. Artificial Intelligence acts as a link between Customer and marketer.

With artificial intelligence as the connecting link between them, it would be interesting to see how digital marketing turns out in 2018. Predictive analysis will Optimize decision making and better sales-cycle. But this time both customers and brands would be on the winning side.

Let’s watch how marketers are going to use this Artificial Intelligence and multiply their revenue.

Recently, Facebook updated Ads Manager app with a suite of new creative tools, via mobile device advertisers can create an ad content. In 2015, Ads Manager app was introduced. This mobile solution was introduced for creating and monitoring Facebook ads.

Today, image-based content for Facebook ads had to be created outside of the Ads Manager app. Advertisers would have to save the image to their phone and upload it to Ads Manager. With this new update, Ads Manager is a step closer to being an all-in-one mobile solution for Facebook advertisers. Advertisers can edit the ad images and they can create the advertisement itself, directly from the Ads Manager app.

This new update to Ads Manager can now be downloaded on iOS and Android. Read more for further assistance with Facebook ads:

 

Facebook Ads Manager now offers the following creative tools:

Text Overlay & Text Policy Checker: Incorporate text within an ad, select different fonts, adjust the text’s positioning, and alter clarity. This text policy will be based on Facebook’s guidelines.

Image Cropper: Crop images to fit within ads and Page posts.

Templates: Ad templates are fully customized and comprised.

 

Shapes, Stickers & Logos: Add a logo, stickers, and shapes to customize the ad and showcase important information.

Color Filters: Adjust the look of an ad by adding color filters.

Are you ready to know how to make effective PPC ads?

Learn more about Pay-Per-Click Marketing Basics and its best practices in PPC keywords, ad targeting, and much more!

Instagram opened new IGTV platform for long-form video, making it possible for all users to upload hour-long video content that will live within the standalone app.

As we all know about IGTV the trending news and a part of a global community of a billion monthly actives on Instagram. As Kevin Systrom (CEO), launched Instagram’s new IGTV platform, offering up a variety of stats around video consumption on the platform.

Research says on Instagram, viewers are watching 70 percent more video than they did just last year. An entirely new category of video now exists, and it’s being made by creators. Teens may be watching less TV, but they’re watching more creators online. That makes Instagram one of the largest and most engaged audiences anywhere in the world, by making a clear pitch that it aims to be a formidable competitor to YouTube. The IGTV video content is optimized to fit how users watch video on their phones with full-screen vertical videos. Content will start playing as soon as a user clicks on the TV-shaped icon on Instagram or opens the IGTV app.

What announcement made by Instagram :

You don’t have to search to start watching content from people you already follow on Instagram and others you might like based on your interests. You can swipe up to discover more switch between “For You,” “Following,” “Popular” and “Continue Watching.” You can also like, comment and send videos to friends in Direct.

There are no ads on IGTV right now, but the CEO did say that the video platform was obviously a reasonable place to offer advertising options.  According to the news report, some advertisers are already reporting they are shifting their Facebook ad to Instagram because of Facebook’s rising ad costs. The launch of IGTV offers the potential for an entirely new platform for Instagram ads something that only sparks more interest in Instagram from advertisers wanting more affordable ad options.

Instagram will also look to ways for creators to monetize their content an effort Facebook has been focused on for a while now.

The launch of IGTV is really exciting because it now means that Instagram covers all the bases. Influencers will be able to post photos and videos to their feed, make Stories that last for 24 hours, stream live videos and make these new 60 minute TV shows. It also means that influencers will no longer need to redirect their audiences to YouTube, they will be able to post all of their content in one place.

The IGTV platform within Instagram and standalone app began rolling out globally on Android and iOS, and, according to Instagram, it should be available to all users over the next coming few weeks.

The glimpse of content marketing, it’s inescapable as success comes down to engagement. Maybe you have a broody branding, products and a hard-working team, but if you’re not engaging your customers through content marketing tactics, you’ll never reach your full potential. Simply put, without engagement, a key component of your marketing strategy somewhat will be missing with the audience.

Do you really want to know how successful content marketers engage themselves with day to day updates? 

Then let’s take a look at some of the top digital marketing blogs tips for engaging audiences with their facts and prospects.

Set Engagement Objectives

If you have a business goal of improving the customer experience, a key KPIs might be the rate of customer service issues that are handled—via different channels like social media, email and your website. Once you have outlined your engagement goals and objectives, as well as the metrics to monitor them, you can map those goals with your content marketing strategy.

Aligning content topics and general content goals with your engagement objectives will help to keep your content focused and reveal any gaps where there no content to support an objective.

Sharpen Your Social Sharing Tactics

Think beyond your own social media channels when it comes to social sharing, which means focusing on ways to encourage readers to share with their own audiences. Social Sharing is one of the most powerful ways to get your content shared across the social media. Tools like Canva it helps to make it easy to create images formatted for social media with text, images, and graphics.

Target Personas, Not Demographics

Lots of digital marketing blogs focus on a specific niche, but there are several reasons for the targeting of various personas.  They mostly, encourage engagement by allowing the content to speak to its audience with specialized language and a baseline understanding. To the reader, it translates as authority, and it’s much more engaging. The focus on marketing personas also helps organize the site’s menu structure.

Be a Storyteller

Few things are more engaging to an audience than a good story. There are different ways to be a storyteller, but the most important thing is to establish a connection with your audience. Most successful content marketers share enough about themselves or their brand so that their audience can relate. They use their own experiences to illustrate a point through storytelling.

Ask them to Engage

The more engaging your content is, the more people will have something to say about it, which leads to the converted into comment either on your blog or on social media. However, people are more likely to respond if they’re asked to do so. Give readers a nudge with a question at the end of your blogs that directly asks for their opinions.

Create Engaging Content Like the Pros

There’s no doubt that digital marketing blogs are valuable resources on many different levels: The content is useful, and the blog itself is a testament to the effectiveness of the strategies they talk about.

When people visit their favorite blog mostly, they don’t just pay attention to the content, they will look at the visuals, the placement of the share buttons and storyteller style. Most of all pay attention to how and why people get engage and ways to apply these tips to their own content marketing strategy.

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In Instagram Business Page, Instagram ads are more resembling than Facebook ads. As Instagram ads are quickly evolving, businesses with more options like increases brand awareness and website visits.

Picture Ad

This picture ad format is the first ad in Instagram ads. Advertisers have the option to create sponsored posts featuring a product or service they offer. They also have the option to add calls to action that leads to the appropriate page on the different business’ website. These all include phrases such as “shop now”, “install now”, “sign up”, “learn more”, etc.

                     

Picture and Interactive Navigation Ad

If you want to get next level with your Instagram ads, try the picture and interactive navigation ad. This ad assimilate a tool that allows viewers to build their own personal product without leaving Instagram! For every category chosen, the advertisers are directed to a new Instagram page that includes information regarding the categories.

Multi-Photo Carousel Ads

With Instagram’s carousel ads, advertisers are able to showcase multiple photos within a single ad by including a link to the brand’s website/webpage. The creativity of displaying carousel ads lies in the advertiser’s hands. You can be “storyteller” with a sequence of photos, or simply display the product what you are advertising by using different shots.

30 Second Video Ads

To develop a “cinematic flavor”, Instagram has rolled out 30-second of video ads. Prior to this recent launch, ads were limited to the basic Instagram video length of 15 seconds. These ads allow advertisers to move audiences through visual inspiration.

       

Instagram Marquee

Recently launched by Instagram, a new tool called ‘Marquee’ that allows advertisers to drive mass awareness and reach within a short period of time. This will be the perfect for showcasing a new product or for any business that wants to address on current topics.

Aside from the above-mentioned Instagram ads formats, advertisers are now able to publish a photo and video advertisements in a landscape format. Instagram ads are effortlessly making their way into the paid social scene.

With a community of more than 500+ million users, advertisers from large, medium and small businesses globally have the ability to generate clicks to a website, increase mobile app installs, increase video views, as well as massive awareness.

Do share your valuable feedback in the comment box about different types of Instagram Ads. Soon we’ll get back with some more informative blogs trends on Instagram.

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Artificial Intelligence is a visual communication by machines. As Google wants AI to make more ads. This made the lives of galore in an easy way. As Adwords users have been getting emails telling them to expect new ads in their groups and if they don't disable them they will start showing after two weeks.

Random advertisements would not be helpful in gaining revenue if they are not related to what the customer needed. This is what Google has taken advantage of ads using Artificial Intelligence. Thus, Ads can be automatically generated with the help of searches and additional signals. In Google Adwords, users submit display ads in groups that share sets of common parameters such as keywords. This being made more variations of ads in a group for better performance but manually creating an ad variation is not an easy task.

Adwords Ads are going to be created by Artificial Intelligence

Google Adwords is an online advertising service where advertisers pay to display advertisements.This lets the users submit display ads that share sets of common parameters like keywords. To improve ads performance, a combination of human appraisal and machine learning is used to create a high-quality ad proposal. Relevant content from the user account is used to create ad suggestions which include existing ads, extensions, and landing page. Google also uses additional signals such as keywords and targeting in order to optimize the ad copies.

On April 29th, 2018 was a starting date when ad suggestions start appearing on the Adwords Recommendations page. These changes have been made clear to the advertisers through emails. However, confusions surrounded some changes because of some contrasting terms like you can manually apply or you can disable the ads but after two weeks it will automatically enable unless you manually remove them. Moreover, the terms also state that an email notification will be sent for each ad, but this still depends upon the configuration of your account.

Confusion For Adwords Advertiser

Unfortunately, this lucent idea has some loopholes. If keywords will determine the ads to be generated or are to be sponsored by a particular brand, this should be closely monitored to be able to satisfy not only the consumers but also the brands who will lay for the advertisements.

The idea of automatically generating ads using AI is definitely a good point for Google and is likely to increase its revenue in the long run. It might even be a good thing for the advertisers because they get a better chance to be advertised as often and be known. But as mentioned earlier, there is a greater chance of misleading keywords that might promote somebody else’s rather than them.

Conclusion

Artificial Intelligence is really a sensation and it is getting more better. More and more companies are investing in this technology in hope for a better revenue. However, there is an always a doubt whenever somebody uses it, Google for that matter soon it will going to introduce AI in this way. Once again, Google has proved that technology is the most powerful source of income.

Creation of Solid Link-Building Strategy.We all know about keywords and backlinks are two separate parts of SEO. However, these work best when used together to make a well-optimized and high-ranking website.

Link building remains one of the most important factors of SEO.Which means getting links from diverse domains is extremely important for SEO. In other words, seeing several sites promoting others page keeps Google happy. The more domains that link to you, the more endorsements Google sees and your site climbs the ranks, which makes Google happy and you too.

The Best Strategies For Successful Link Building

There are many effective link-building strategies which can help improve your site’s visibility.

If you want to get clever about link-building, then you should build up a database of websites that have linked to you in the past.

You should do this because these sites are probably already interested in your content. Therefore, they are more likely to be fans of the new content you produce. You can use tools like Google CSE and Ahrefs Site Explorer to easily compile a unique list of potential linkups.

Believe it or not, you can also use the link building strategies of your competitors to your advantage. Most of them are likely to be investing in link building and may have built lots of solid links already. But don’t worry, this just means they’ve done the hard work for you.

All you need to do is research to replicate their link profiles. It’s perfectly ethical, so why not be a bit resourceful?

How to use Keyword Research to Guide Your Link Building Strategy

Link-building strategies are a must. But to get ahead of the crowd you need to use everything in your armoury. Using keyword research to back up your strategy can make your site stronger and boost your ranking.

Keywords and backlinks go hand in hand with the pillars of SEO.

We should always consider about keywords and link building work together before content is published. When content is strategic, you will successfully secure links and expand keyword ranking. Remember, you can’t rank for absolutely everything. One well-utilized keyword is as valuable as fifty that are out of your reach.

Let’s take a look at how to effectively carry out keyword research.

Analyze your Website for Keyword Opportunities

The best way to start is to perform an audit of your site. This will identify the best ranking opportunities for your site. This can be carried out by analyzing existing content and seeing how it could be improved or recycled into new content. In your audit, your goal should be to identify the underlying themes and keywords which will allow improvement. Once you figure this out, you can target these keywords by creating blog posts and pages that are focused on the theme and intent.

Analyze Competition Sites which are already Ranking for the Keywords.

Competitors are taking a vital step towards Ranking for the Keywords. By examining your competitor’s pages you can see what they are doing to rank the keywords that you are targeting.If Google is providing you with snippets or images for your relevant keyword, take this as an indication. Search results show you what searchers are looking for. This will tell you what content you should be creating. A crucial mistake that even SEO experts make is ignoring domain authority. Try to figure out what is driving successful ranking in your unique competitor pages. Take a close look at the pages that are ranking for the keywords you want to use.

For Creating Better Result Generating Content

Take your research to your next content brainstorming session and incorporate it into your plan. Do it the same as your competitors do, but in a better way. At this point, you need to start implementing your link building strategy. This can be done by analyzing competition’s linked pages.

If you follow these tips, you have a strategic plan for your content that serves user intent for specific search terms.If you do implement these two tactics in your link building strategy your page will start ranking well and it will bring more relevant traffic.

 

These days Social media marketing tool is becoming every company taste sensation. Flourishing of social media channels, social media influencers, and the explosion of content everywhere, marketers are finding it hard to make out with this flow of change. Dealing with change and some people just do not know how to accept that the world is different and how things used to be done is now an aspect of the past. Social media marketing is the present and future, for the evolution of companies brand.

A bulk of people are taking care of the social media for needs of their company. This doesn’t solve the problem. In fact, the more people are involved, the more complicated it gets. That’s the reason why many companies are now turning to artificial intelligence to improve their social media performance.

By using AI-powered tools to increase social media effectiveness, Several companies save their time and use humans for more vital tasks as well.

Some AI-powered tools are there to improve social media marketing efficiency, come let's see what are they….

1. Content creation

One of the most important aspects of social media marketing that is also the most time-consuming is content creation. It cannot be denied that content creation forms a vital part of any marketing campaign, and the volume of content is increasing by the minute. Years ago, there would be one campaign in six months, now there are six campaigns a month. Using automated tools to generate content saves time and helps produce faster results.

2. Content optimization

Another critical element of social media marketing is content optimization. This is necessary to ensure more visibility and more traffic to a website or social media channels. Without proper optimization, content that deserves more focus might fall behind. This is when bots are most useful, to analyze content, find the content that deserves more attention and optimizes it accordingly.

3. Customer service

This is one area where improvements are constantly necessary. Customer service forms a vital part of any business, and even though chatbots or other AI tools aren’t replacing humans anytime soon, they are revolutionizing customer service. Bots are increasingly being used to help customers to find quick answers to queries, handle a large volume of calls, and even converse with callers. Chatbots are also helping brands target social media users to improve their shopping experiences, help them with personalized product suggestions, and use all the interaction data to capture more details insights.

4. Consumer data

The huge amount of unstructured data and the constantly changing algorithms make it increasingly difficult to reach the right target audience. AI-powered tools are used for segregating noise from relevant data and create an ideal customer profile by mining consumer information. These tools analyze the available data to follow patterns that create the ideal customer avatar. A customer avatar makes it easy for companies to filter through the noise and reach the right audience.

5. Social media monitoring

Social media continues to be the most valuable platform for getting the attention of prospects in real time and helping then through the sales funnel, eventually making a sale. Social media monitoring tools, powered by advanced AI algorithms.

6. Influencer marketing

Businesses seek to associate with the influencers that match with their brand. To make that match stronger and more accurate, AI tools are used. AI tools search through hundreds of social media influencers to find that matches with the DNA of the business. Social media marketing isn’t going to be taken over by machines anytime soon, but the right mix of humans and AI tools can make the process of social media marketing smarter and more efficient.

7. Buyer Personas

It’s been proven in many research studies that buyer personas can deliver tremendous improvements in social media marketing ROIs. However, key persona attributes such as habits, work environments, and purchase motivators are hard to define and even harder to use for tagging each user with. This is where AI-powered social media tools help. These personas make it super-easy for brands to target their marketing and promotional messaging at the right audiences, at the right time, and via the right channel.

Moving Ridge with Social Media Marketing

The merging of two powers “Social Media Marketing & Artificial Intelligence”, Exhibit tremendous results in the field of companies and marketers.  In the mindset of a good outcome. Do share you overpriced response to this blog.