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Britain Turns to Social Media to Promote 2012 Games

Britain's national tourism agency is turning to social media to promote the country well before the start of the 2012 Olympic Games. VisitBritain is quite aware of the tourism value the Games can deliver - roughly $2 billion. It wants to increase that amount through savvy marketing with Facebook and Twitter and local blogs to tempt tourists to go beyond the beaten path in London - as well as entice other sporting, cultural and business events. "Outsmart Our Competitors"   [...]
Posted: Friday, January 29th 2010

Dockers Links TV Tag, Content Site in Super Bowl Ad

Dockers is advertising during the Super Bowl for the first time since 2002 with an integrated campaign that includes technology provided by a mobile music discovery application provider and a branded content site to engage the consumer more deeply than a 30 second spot during the game could. Men Without Pants Dockers has partnered with Shazam to develop the "Men Without Pants" TV commer  [...]
Posted: Friday, January 29th 2010

Dearth of Mobile Coupons Leaves Shopper Money on Table

Just more than half of consumers (51%) across 11 countries including the US used mobile phones for in-store activities such as comparison shopping and getting peer feedback, product information and coupons, during the 2009 holiday shopping season, according to a study by Motorola. The "Motorola 2009 Retail Holiday Season Shopper Study" found that this number increased to 64% among Generation Y shoppers ages 18  [...]
Posted: Thursday, January 14th 2010

OneRiot Jumps on Real Time Ad Bandwagon

Digsby, an IM and Twitter client, is integrating a new real time ad platform into News Feeds - a reflection of the growing influence of Twitter and other social platforms that stream day-to-day online conversations. Digsby is one of the first developers to use a new ad platform developed by OneRiot, a search engine whose focus is on real time messages. Called RiotWise Trending Ads, it streams ads related to trending topics on the social web by displaying   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, December 23rd 2009

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 12/14/09

Account Moves: TVGuide.com has selected PubMatic to optimize its ad revenue. Strategies: Package-goods players are ramping up online spend. Email Marketing: Embedded video in e-mail slows  [...]
Posted: Monday, December 14th 2009

Premium Twitter Accounts Expected by Year's End

In a VentureBeat interview last week, co-founded Biz Stone described in greater detail Twitter's plans to launch a revenue model before year's end. As in previous discussions, Biz Stone reiterated that Twitter would not charge users for existing usage habits; the company plans t  [...]
Posted: Monday, August 24th 2009

EyeWonder Helps Fox, GE Pontwificate with Users

To promote Season One of "Dollhouse," out on DVD and Blu-ray on July 28, Fox Home Entertainment launched a rich media ad that streams Twitter tweets and enables users to engage in conversation through the ad itself. The unit was developed with help from EyeWonder and Moxie. It showcases tweets from the feed of Eliza Dushku, star of "Dollhouse," and encourages users to jump in by logging in with existing Twitter accounts. Submissions are manually screened, after which tweets are permitted t  [...]
Posted: Thursday, July 23rd 2009

Nestle Puts Tweets Inside Ad Units

Food mogul Nestle has turned to Twitter for an ad campaign to promote JuicyJuice, reports AdAge. Juicy Juice is not the first brand to integrate Twitter into an ad campaign, but it is the first to allow users to post tweets within an ad unit that appears anywhere on the web. The ad unit will be tested for one month on mom-targeted sites   [...]
Posted: Friday, June 12th 2009

Meebo Unifies SocNets, Content Sites on Engagement Platform

IM service aggregation site Meebo has launched "multi-network IM access," which enables users to unify other social graphs on its platform, including major social networks and gaming sites. A sharing interface also enables them to swap content with greater ease. "Content sites interested in increasing the volume of content sharing, but without their own social graph, can use the multi-network IM feature to expand their reach and drive social interactions," the company said. Mother-driven   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, June 10th 2009

Twitter to Remain Ad-Free, Founder Says

Micro-blogging service Twitter - which enjoyed incredible user growth over the past few months - will continue to steer clear of advertising as a source of revenue, according to founder Biz Stone. Earlier this year, bloggers speculated that Twitter may begin to monetize the site by inserting advertisments directly into users' conversation streams - a  [...]
Posted: Thursday, May 21st 2009

Fueled Mainly by Media, Twitter Rides TiVo-Style Hype

A new study argues social media has reached its tipping point, with 83% of the online population now using it in some form -- and more than half do so on a regular basis. Despite its popularity, socnet platforms -- including Facebook, Twitter and the like -- have failed to demonstrate prowess as marketing tools, and possibly never will, according to Knowledge Networks, which released the report, titled "How People Use Social Media."   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, May 20th 2009

Motivated by Knowledge, Users Tweet Nearly 3 Hours Per Day

Though recent media accounts suggest that some Twitter users jumped on the microblogging bandwagon to make friends, find new-business leads or feed their egos by racking up high numbers of followers, a recent survey from MarketingProfs, LLC finds that a larger number of tweeters are doing it because they want to learn new things and get information quickly, MarketingCharts   [...]
Posted: Monday, April 27th 2009

SocialMedia Uses 'Friend' Endorsement in Ads

Palo Alto-based SocialMedia, a company specializing in advertising across social networks, has released a new form of advertising called the "WOMI," or Word of Mouth Impression. WOMI offers customized ads based on an interactive format, using conversations between friends as an endorsement. SocialMedia found that messages that came from trusted friends were more m  [...]
Posted: Friday, March 13th 2009

adjix Penetrates Twitter with Embeddable Text Ads

Revenue-sharing ad network Adjix launched an ad format that lets users embed text ads within "tweets" (Twitter posts). When users use Adjix2Twitter to post to their Twitter accounts, a small text link appears at the end of their tweet. The linker must approve the ad before it is sent. See video demonstration. Advertisers can set accounts up so anyone can run their ads. Conver  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, March 3rd 2009

How-To: Lessons Worth Learning from Twitter's Success

This How-To was syndicated from Rohit Bhargava's Influential Marketing Blog. Mr. Bhargava is the SVP at Ogilvy PR and author of Personality Not Included. By any measure, the growth and popularity of Twitter has been phenomenal. To say that Twitter has   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, February 25th 2009

Twitter Raises Over $35M in Series C

Last week, a Series C funding round for Twitter drew $35 million from Institute Venture Partners and Benchmark alone; other participants, like Union Square Ventures and Spark Capital, did not divulge the amount they contributed to the social network. In a blog post about the round, co-founder Biz Stone admitted the socnet hadn't been seeking financing, but ultimately felt it was "an offer we couldn't refuse." Prior to th  [...]
Posted: Monday, February 16th 2009

Trends in Leadership Conferences: Fewer Keynotes, More Tweeting

Two-thirds (62%) of global conference organizers say the demand for executive conferences increased in the past three years. 46% claim it is still growing despite the recession, according to a survey by Weber Shandwick (  [...]
Posted: Friday, February 13th 2009

University-Focused Microblogging Platform Exits Beta

Wiggio, a Twitter-style microblogging service for college students, came out of beta last week. Microblogging is an increasingly popular form of real-time communication that went mainstream with Twitter. It is the process of publishing short, conversational messages to a large number of readers, which can instantly respond or disseminate the message to others. Like Yammer, a subsc  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, February 4th 2009

Vivaty Widgetizes Sponsored Virtual World Scenarios

Social virtual world Vivaty launched Vivaty Everywhere, a way to embed "scenes" from the virtual world onto other social sites, including Facebook, Flickr or digg. In tandem with its launch, Universal Music Group and BarelyPolitical have prepared two themed scenes that users can disseminate. To promote The Cosmos Rocks, an album by Queen + Paul Rodgers, Universal created the   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, October 29th 2008

Neolane Deploys Campaigns from One Silo to Multiple Media

Enterprise marketing software firm Neolane has launched Cross-Channel Marketing Optimization, which enables marketers to create, manage and execute campaigns across multiple platforms. Marketers are under increased pressure to spread their campaign efforts across a panoply of media. But because there is no central location for campaign development and execution, many organizations maintain a "Frankenstein monster" of intersecting platforms -- that is, num  [...]
Posted: Monday, October 6th 2008