B2B Marketing News: Biggest B2B Differentiators Study, Facebook Buys Giphy, LinkedIn Prepares Stories, & Facebook’s New Video Chat

B2B Decision-Maker Survey: COVID-19's Impact on Marketing, Buying, and Sales 65 percent of enterprise B2B buyers now view online interactions as being more important than traditional vendor conversations, one of several findings of interest to digital marketers contained in newly-released U.S. B2B pandemic response survey data. MarketingProfs Facebook just bought Giphy Facebook has acquired popular animated GIF image platform Giphy in a $400 million move that will likely bring deeper integration with both Facebook-owned Instagram and its messaging features, the social media giant announced.Engadget LinkedIn Stories Is Almost Here: Will It Reinvent the B2B Social Media Landscape? LinkedIn (client) has tested its variation of the popular ephemeral stories format. When rolled out to the Microsoft-owned platform's 690 million users, LinkedIn Stories would bring B2B marketers on the platform a new digital storytelling tool option. MarketingProfs Brand Awareness is Top of Mind in Email Signature Marketing 82 percent of marketers seek brand awareness from email signature marketing, topping the list of objectives in recently-released survey data, which also showed that 48 percent look to drive website traffic via email, while just 19 percent are looking for customer retention, the survey found. MarketingCharts Google is auditioning candidates to succeed the third-party cookie With the use of traditional Web tracking cookies largely being abandoned, Google has continued its testing of the firm’s recently-announced Privacy Sandbox alternative, which still works with the ad auction format, the search giant announced. Digiday ANA Report Finds Most Marketers Have Supplier 'Diversity' Programs, About Half Impact Marketing/Ad Services While some 75 percent of marketing firms incorporate supplier diversity initiatives, just 40 percent is specifically for advertising services, one of several findings of interest to digital marketers in recently-released report data from the Association of National Advertisers (ANA). MediaPost Facebook's 'Messenger Rooms' Multi-Participant Video Chat Option is Now Available to All Facebook has launched its Messenger Rooms video messaging feature with a global release that includes up to 50 video participants and the ability to drop in via Facebook’s feed, the firm recently announced. Social Media Today Reddit overhauls ad sales, with a new boss from Pinterest Reddit has tapped a former Pinterest and Google advertising leader in a new move aimed at bringing more brand advertising activity to the platform, a shift that has also seen the firm restructuring its sales team to adjust to changes brought by the global health crisis. Digiday Pandemic Sentiment Shifts From 'Acute' To 'Transitory,' Here's What Consumers Want From Brands Some 56 percent of global consumers say that they now approve of brands advertising primarily as normal, according to recently-released survey data of interest to online marketers. 10 percent of respondents, however, said that they somewhat disapprove of brands returning to normal advertising, while 5 percent strongly disapprove, the survey noted.MediaPost Marketers at B2B Firms Tout the Value of Social Media 37 percent of B2B decision-makers see a brand's social media presence as the biggest online differentiator, according to newly-release survey data, followed by the digital experience and self-service options both at 33 percent, and content marketing and community involvement, both at 31 percent. MarketingCharts ON THE LIGHTER SIDE: A lighthearted look at “communicating in a crisis” by Marketoonist Tom Fishburne — Marketoonist Freelancer Channels Inner Don Draper to Write $15 Blog for Used Car Dealership — The Hard Times TOPRANK MARKETING & CLIENTS IN THE NEWS:

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