Marketing Day: Amazon preps for holidays, Google acquires Famebit & Instagram news

[Marketing Day] [Featured Story] Featured story [Is your content share-worthy? 4 questions to ask] Oct 12, 2016 by Kerry Jones Contributor Kerry Jones explains why raising eyebrows, sparking emotions and creating teachable moments are more important than counting backlinks. From Marketing Land [Amazon aims for faster holiday shipping by limiting new 3rd-party sellers] Oct 12, 2016 by Matt McGee Merchants new to Fulfilled By Amazon service can't use it until December 19. [After 4 months & 125M+ pages indexed, where are we with AMP?] Oct 12, 2016 by Kristi Kellogg Contributor Kristi Kellogg recaps a session from SMX East 2016 in which Google, Condé Nast and Vox Media share successes and challenges with Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP). [I’ll stop the world and link with you] Oct 12, 2016 by Julie Joyce Wondering why a link builder gives a link to someone? Contributor Julie Joyce takes us through a few failures and successes that can help you better understand why people link. [Google acquires Famebit to give creators more branded content opportunities] Oct 12, 2016 by Amy Gesenhues With more than 25,000 videos created via its platform, Famebit bills itself as the leading self-service marketplace in the branded video space. [Navigating the new waters of live content] Oct 12, 2016 by Caitlin Jeansonne As more social media platforms dive into live content, which channel should you focus on? Columnist Caitlin Jeansonne offers tips to help you develop a live-content strategy and decide which platform works best for your audience. [How Facebook is dealing with ads overcrowding the News Feed, explained in 42 seconds] Oct 12, 2016 by Tim Peterson As the ratio of ads to posts in people's news feeds maxes out, Facebook is diverting those ads to more places, like Instagram, its ad network and Groups. [What marketers should know about Instagram’s latest tests and rollouts] Oct 12, 2016 by Andrew Waber Columnist Andrew Waber discusses new and potential changes to Instagram's ad formats and capabilities -- and what marketers should do to prepare for them. [MarTech Today: Expedia’s smile recognition, mobile wallet’s future & Google’s quality updates] Oct 12, 2016 by Barry Levine Here's our daily recap of what happened in marketing technology, as reported on Marketing Land and other places across the web. From Search Engine Land [Best practices for personalizing content at the local level] Oct 11, 2016 by Digital Marketing Depot Searchers now use a wide range of devices to shop for nearby products and services, yet it’s a challenge for brands to find consumers online in the “near me” moments that matter. [Rethinking today’s attribution problem in digital marketing] Oct 12, 2016 by Christi Olson Proper attribution modeling is one of the biggest challenges facing marketers today. 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