The International Search Summit New York will soon be upon and marketers from across the US and beyond will be coming together to talk about the latest developments, tactics and tips for international search marketing and hear from expert practitioners … Read More
In order to compete with electronic payments provider PayPal (3 million users in France) and to take part of the new European launch of payment platforms by the end of 2013 — which is going to be sponsored by powerful … Read More
When you’re translating your content into different languages, localising visual content is just as important as text content – yet has added complexities to ensure the finished product is an accurate representation of the original and suitable for the intended … Read More
As almost 1 in 4 internet users globally are Chinese, it is little wonder that international marketers are fast gathering their troops as part of a mission to conquer the future battlefield that is China. To date, however, there are … Read More
After nine months of preparation, tens of hours of close cooperation between Yandex and Webcertain employees, hundreds of corrections and rewrites, endless meetings in Moscow, London and Barcelona, the first edition of the Global PPC Manager Course has just finished. … Read More
The day finally arrived… and the mounting speculation and leaked pictures about Apple’s launch of a “budget” iPhone proved true: the lower-end iPhone 5C is here and will be available in various colourful designs. Pundits have argued that Apple have … Read More
Launching a website in a foreign market is very challenging. You might have translated your website into a target language and after a few months, you realise it did not have as much success as you were expecting. In short, … Read More
Multi-screen is no longer some fancy buzzword used and applied only by a select, savvy few; it’s the reality. The trend is clear across the board: mobile devices are eating into the PC’s share of the internet traffic pie, and … Read More
As you can probably imagine, Webcertain collates a lot of data on global markets. Today marks the first release of our quarterly Budget Allocation data which examines how marketers are moving their online marketing priorities from region to region. The … Read More
It is with great sadness that we are writing this tribute, having heard the news that Ilya Segalovich, co-founder and CTO of Russia’s biggest search engine, Yandex, has died suddenly at the age of 48. A Yandex statement revealed that … Read More
If you frequently surf the international content waters on the web, you’ll have noticed the plethora of articles which state that ‘going global has never been easier’ and that ‘the potential has never been bigger’. While I won’t quibble with … Read More
In what is yet another testament to the rising global ambitions of Yandex, Russia’s leading search engine now offers a PPC expert test for non-Russian speaking marketers. Upon successful completion of the test, which is in English and can be … Read More
Search marketing campaigns in different languages and for different markets often pose unique challenges which cannot always be foreseen when the initial strategy is defined. And sometimes local factors emerge that create the need to slightly change the strategy after … Read More
Some people are probably starting to think that I am developing an unhealthy fascination with Mary Meeker, in the professional sense of course! But it is really her job to keep abreast of current trends and emerging technologies, so it … Read More
Knowing the French you will likely expect the top sites visited by the French to be French websites, right? Wrong. According to the latest data from (French) Mediametrie* from April 2013, you have to go all the way down to … Read More
