General Digital Marketing
One of the top news sources for marketing & advertising’s digital & tech transformation.
Since 1930, Ad Age has represented stability and traditional journalistic values for the marketing & advertising industry.
One of the old heads of the marketing publications, ad age focuses on creative strategy & brand marketing.
One of the most important sources for digital marketing and advertising news. Especially regarding industry trends like privacy or automation.
As an adtech entrepreneur and marketing influencer, Neil and his team often have sharp insight into current events that cuts through the jargon and group think fog.
The only agency on this list, Portent’s blog often contains the most interesting POV’s on technical performance marketing on the web.
Ad Exchanger – Data Privacy Roundup
Highlights the most important data privacy & marketing regulatory updates from GDPR to CCPA, it’s a must read for anyone advertising with audiences or using pixels.
A publication from global lawfirm, Norton Rose Fulbright, that provides concise, informative POVs on the latest privacy regulations.
Wired’s privacy content focuses on the user perspective of data privacy, helpful as a less technical primer and to understand how the general public views the issue.
This coverage focuses on data breaches & hacks that affect users’ sensitive data. Key for understanding potential vectors of exposure of data.
Provides up to date information about recent hacks and security breaches, helping to inform preventative measures to reduce risk.
TechRadar provides IT professional focused coverage of major threats, events, and regulations for the industry. Key to understand in digital marketing as these systems underpin all ad platforms.
Cybersecurity focused news with detailed and technical explanations of new threats, and attack vectors, which can help ad tech professionals design more resilient systems.
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One of the oldest & most trusted industry publications for SEO & PPC advertising.
Another of the oldest SEO & PPC publications which provides timely information for professionals.
Cut out the middle man and go straight to the source to find out what Google has to say about it’s own products and plans.
Provides up to date technical news & analysis of Google & Bing algorithms & ad platforms, helping advertisers identify opportunities.
PPC Hero’s blog offers a great, beginner friendly content to help create basic QA Checklists and ensure that your ad fundamentals are checked off.
One of the best industry news publications focused entirely on social media marketing & advertising, providing reviews of algorithm changes and techncial opportunities often overlooked by other outlets.
Offers tactical, practical, ground level insights, trends & POVs for unlock social media’s potential for marketers.
Resources, tools, and overviews of key aspects of day to day management of both paid and organic social media accounts.
Provides news focused on social media strategy and trends opportunities for leadership decision making.
PPC Hero’s blog offers a great, beginner friendly content to help create basic QA Checklists and ensure that your ad fundamentals are checked off.
Formerly “Marketing Land”, MarTech remains one of the most trusted voices in both programmatic advertising & the marketing technology spheres.
PPC Hero’s blog offers a great, beginner friendly content to help create basic QA Checklists and ensure that your ad fundamentals are checked off.
TTD is the largest independent DSP on the market, giving it a unique insight into open web, programmatic advertising and trends.
Ad Week’s programmatic coverage provides news for guiding ad strategy and leadership level insights into current trends.
One of the oldest & most trusted industry publications for SEO & PPC advertising.
Another of the oldest SEO & PPC publications which provides timely information for professionals.
Provides up to date technical news & analysis of Google & Bing algorithms & ad platforms, helping advertisers identify opportunities.
One of the top blogs capturing the current best practices and fundamentals of content marketing.
Hubspot’s blog offers insightful articles on content marketing trends and idea starters for how to begin leveraging them on your website or ad media.
Formerly “Marketing Land”, MarTech remains one of the most trusted voices in the marketing technology & AdOps sphere.
Thought leaders in marketing technology, providing insights and POVs into the news & trends affecting the industry today.
Avinash Kaushik is one of the leading lumninaries of the big data movement, his articles show a sharp understanding for how data is used in reality in organizations and how we should transform its use to help create a better world.
Delivers practical tutorials and articles for how to use Data Science in your day to day workflow as a marketer, up leveling your effectiveness and productivity.
“Story Telling With Data” is one of the foundational text for good data communication, the blog offers bit size reads that help improve your data literacy.
Provides insightful and practical news, ideas, & POVs on how data and data science can improve businesses & operations.
A expert in data communiation that has worked with dozens of fortune 500 companies, Stefanie Evergreen provides insights into how to improve you data visualizations.
The premier, peer reviewed, scientific journal focusing on empirical and theoretical quantitative research in marketing.
While this blog focuses on financial quant macros & approaches, many are adaptable to digital marketing as they are functionally mini economies with auctions functioning similarly to securities markets.
Emarketer is the premier trend data reporting service for marketers looking to understand user behavior trends and purchasing patterns.
Statista offers a broad range of vetted statistics from demographic data to consumer trends and industry growth, if you need a data set this is a good place to start.
Every couple months, Pinterest publicizes the emerging trends on their platform, often foreshadowing major shifts in taste as its users tend to be taste makers and early adopters of fashions.
Etsy periodically provides data on trending items and searches that provide insight into the most fashion forward internet citizens are discovering.
WGSN is the taste making provider for the fast fashion industry (among others), providing insight years in advance of what will be popular to help the world biggest brands prepare.