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05 th Apr 2013

Greenlight joins roster of expert panelists at leading advanced search marketing show, ionSearch 2013

Greenlight has joined the ionSearch roster, with two members of the agency’s SEO team taking part in panel sessions. ionSearch 2013, one of the UK's leading search and social marketing conferences, takes place on April 18th -19th at the Carriageworks Theatre, Leeds, UK.
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07 th Feb 2013

Google’s “Enhanced Campaigns” – A challenge for advertisers?

Google‘s “Enhanced Campaigns”, will prove a challenge to advertisers, the biggest being that of how third party tracking solutions can integrate into it. As it currently stands, advertisers could be forgiven for thinking Google is upping its game against third party tracking solutions and trying to create a system whereby any solution outside of Google’s is rendered less useful, says Angela Knibb, campaign manager at the agency.
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05 th Feb 2013

Apple knocks Amazon UK off top spot to become the most visible site for Brown Goods

The latest data from Greenlight shows that in the lead up to Christmas, a total of 12 million searches were made on Google UK for Brown Goods and Amazon, which in August was the most visible site to these searches, was knocked off its perch by none other than Apple!
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31 st Jan 2013

Facebook ad revenues are up - challenge is in how it can increase monetisable engagement between users and advertisers

Facebook has shown strong performance in Q4 with revenues up 40%. Its mobile ad sales have more than doubled on the previous quarter to total $306m, and now account for 23% of the Social Network’s overall ad revenues. The challenge now is in how it can increase monetisable engagement between users and advertisers whilst maintaining quality in terms of both targeting and also user experience. Graph Search is capable of doing this at the local business level, but getting increasingly more from big brands is the big challenge.
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14 th Jan 2013

Google Shopping: Get Ready for the Big Changes!

Google has announced its shopping space, Google Shopping, will, for merchants, shift to a paid model of Product Listing Ads (PLAs). This will be rolled out in countries where PLAs are currently live including the UK. Migration will commence 13 February 2013 and completed by Q2 2013. Come July, the results will be only in the format of paid PLAs and the previous natural shopping results will no longer appear.
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12 th Dec 2012

Google has re-launched a UK mortgage comparison service

Research from Greenlight shows that Google’s entry into both credit cards and car insurance had less than a 1% impact on what people clicked on when they searched Google for those products. According to Andreas Pouros, Chief Operating Office at Greenlight, initial evidence suggests the same to be true for mortgages.
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23 rd Nov 2012

Google’s ‘Remarketing in Search’ programme could have huge impact on existing remarketing approach

Google recently launched a new beta ‘Remarketing in Search’, that could have a substantial impact on the way we traditionally use remarketing. It aims to take the benefits of remarketing and leverage them within the search engine results pages (SERPs).
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