Digital Marketing News: Google Brings Multiple Thumbnails to Video Results, Facebook’s AR Ads Plan, Twitter Adds Multiple List Feature, & More

B2B Personalization Strategies Pivoting As Buyers Require Confidence, Consensus
A new survey from Gartner reveals that there is plentiful high-quality buying information available to B2B buyers, even to the point where 50 percent view the large amount of trustworthy data at hand as overwhelming. Demand Gen Report

[embedded content]

Giphy to partner with Oracle Data Cloud’s Moat to measure viewability
Animated GIF image firm Giphy has partnered with Oracle Data Cloud’s analytics and measurement platform Moat to measure branded GIFs used with in-app and via mobile and desktop landscapes — a move aimed at providing greater validation to branded content on the service. Marketing Land

Google starts highlighting key moments from videos in Search
Google has given content creators the ability to incorporate multiple thumbnail images from the same video, which will all appear in search results linked to various spots within a video, using new markup code, the search giant has recently announced. TechCrunch

Instagram Benchmarks: Use of Video Increasing
Among Instagram business pages, larger brands are more likely to use video according to newly-released study data, also showing that text brevity sees a performance boost for brands of all sizes. MarketingCharts

Facebook will bring AR ads to the News Feed fall 2019
Facebook has announced that three new advertising unit formats will become available in the coming months, including playable ads, augmented-reality (AR) ads, and ads containing polls, each offering new options for digital marketers utilizing the platform. VentureBeat

A Study With Publicis Media Finds That Twitter Is a ‘Look at This’ Destination
Twitter is foremost a “look at this” social media destination, YouTube is primarily a learning target, while Instagram and Facebook fall into the “look at me” category, newly-released survey data shows. Adweek

Facebook to shut down its group stories feature next week
Facebook has begun shutting down its group stories videos and images feature, an addition the social media giant implemented just last December, citing the feature’s lack of usefulness among users. CNET

Twitter just turned lists into multiple timelines you can swipe between
Twitter has given its 139 million active daily users the ability to expand up to five lists into new alternate timelines on the service, and has made it easy to switch between each custom timeline, offering marketers and brands a simpler way to segment information on the platform. The Verge

Report: Facebook News Feed getting 60% of total ad spend across Facebook, Instagram
Facebook’s is the top spot for news feed ads, garnering some 60 percent of relative spending, according to newly-released report data that also showed Instagram’s feed was second, at 20 percent, followed by Instagram stories ads. Marketing Land

Audience Targeting Proves A Crucial Search Marketing Trend
Audience targeting was the top search marketing technology affecting search engine marketing strategy according to newly-released survey data. At 86 percent, audience targeting topped keywords, which came in at 83 percent, and re-marketing, which had 76 percent, the new survey data showed. MarketingCharts

ON THE LIGHTER SIDE:

A lighthearted look at the evolution of new products by Marketoonist Tom Fishburne — Marketoonist

New Fitness Tracker Monitors Amount Of Exercise Users Watch On TV — The Onion

TOPRANK MARKETING & CLIENTS IN THE NEWS:

• Lee Odden — Why Experience Matters [Video] — The New Economy

If you’ve found your own top B2B content marketing or digital advertising stories from the past week, please let us know in the comments below.

Thanks for joining us, and we hope you’ll return again next week for more top digital marketing industry news. In the meantime, you can follow us at @toprank on Twitter for even more timely daily news. Also, don’t miss the full video summary on our TopRank Marketing TV YouTube Channel.