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Dismiss Google+ At Your Own Risk

Anything that can boast a 112% higher engagement is worth a second look. That is just one of the figures that Simply Measured (the social media analytics firm) released yesterday. Since February, two more brands from the Interbrand Top 100 list (Xerox and Nike) have activated pages, bringing the total to 64 of those 100. (The top 10 for Google+ engagement include Nike, Coke, Star  [...]
Posted: Thursday, May 10th 2012

Jelli Offers Terrestrial Radio with Social Media Analytics, Ad Engagement

Social radio provider Jelli is claiming to have “reimagined the radio spot, making it more engaging and interactive.” Jelli promises a radio/social media mashup for advertisers, and now promises it can quantify those exposures with social media analytics. TechCrunch described Jelli  [...]
Posted: Thursday, May 3rd 2012

NBCUniversal Announces Social Gaming Network, Promises Advertisers 115 Million Fans

NBCUniversal yesterday announced what it calls an “arsenal of digital and Social TV opportunities” with the Universal Games Network (UGN). UGN will aggregate all of NBCU’s online, mobile and social gaming efforts around a single platform. The solution will allow fans to play games, engage and consume content, amass reward points and redeem them for real and vir  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, May 2nd 2012

Smaller Tech Companies Value Blogs Highly for Marketing

At first glance, tech companies have abandoned blogs, observes content management solution (CMS) provider Percussion Software. But not so fast: While just 20.5% of mid-market tech companies have a corporate blog, software companies—particularly smaller ones—are more likely to maintain one for content marketing. So Percussion found in   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, May 1st 2012

"Organic Growth" Is A Valuable Marketing Strategy, Just Not Enough By Itself

Just what is an “organic” strategy? By some definitions, it is an inbound marketing strategy, centered around word of mouth and through engagement. But MarketingTech founder Douglas Karr does not believe it is enough. Karr is also the president and CEO of DK New Media, and as he described, at least one client has invested marketing dollars in just the one strategy—organic growth. Karr likened an † [...]
Posted: Tuesday, April 24th 2012

Top News: AmazonSupply | ESPN Cross Platform Strategy | "Enquirer" on iPad | Digital CW Annoys Stations

Ad Technology: Amazon Goes After B2B Market With AmazonSupply The App That Zaps Junk Mail - And The Postal Service Business Strategies: Inside   [...]
Posted: Monday, April 23rd 2012

E-books Sales to Figure Prominently in Bertelsmann Results

In its preliminary report on 2011 results, Bertelsmann pointed to "rapidly growing" e-book sales at Random House and a good performance of the advertising-driven businesses as one of the drivers for its growth. Unfortunately, the company also said, this growth was offset by other factors such as planned start-up losses for new growth platforms and the weak business performance of some of the printing operations, as well as declines in the replication and direct-marketing businesses.   [...]
Posted: Thursday, February 9th 2012

Marketing Data Roundup: Android mobile web browsing grows 400% in Q2

Following are recent findings by various studies on marketing and advertising-related topics. For a more in-depth look at some of these subjects, visit our sister site, MarketingCharts.com. Android Mobile Web Browsing Grows 400% in Q2 The volume of mobile web browsing from Android phones grew by 400% between Q1 and Q2 2010 in the US,   [...]
Posted: Monday, August 30th 2010

The Golden Road (to Unlimited Branding)

While 1960s countercultural jam band pioneers The Grateful Dead do not have an image associated with the traditional business world, they do have much to teach marketers, writes Copyblogger.  [...]
Posted: Thursday, August 12th 2010

Top Industry News for 7-26-10: NBCU unveils online ad network

Ad Buying & Planning: NBCU launches own digital ad network. Mobile Marketing: Industry group to study how a mobile nation uses media. Social Media: Calculating the   [...]
Posted: Monday, July 26th 2010

Inbound Marketing Costs Less

Marketers who spend more than 50% of their lead generation budget on inbound marketing channels report a significantly lower cost per sales lead than those who spend 50% or more their budgets on outbound marketing channels, according to the "State of Inbound Marketing Report" [pdf] from internet marketing firm Hubspot. Average Cost Pe  [...]
Posted: Friday, April 30th 2010

Real Estate Apps Give Agents New Ad Option

Recently-released apps for real estate agents, developed by Visionary Apps, have tweaked this model to give agents an overt way to advertise their services and mine for prospective leads while not disrupting the user experience - at least not too much. The apps - Complete Foreclosures and Complete Homes - list homes for sale nationwide. The Complete Foreclosures app has proven to be popular, making into Apple’s top ten business apps. It lets  [...]
Posted: Thursday, March 25th 2010

Apple Seeks to Leapfrong Geo-Locational Players with Own App

There have been signs that Apple was interested in the geo-locational and mobile advertising market. Now a patent the company recently filed provides a clearer roadmap as to what Apple may have in mind - a social networking app using geo-locational capabilities that could put it well ahead of Foursquare and other  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, March 23rd 2010

San Francisco's BART Adds Augmented Reality

San Franciso's subway system, the BART, is the latest entity to use augmented reality to grab customers' - or in this case, riders' - attention with a message. Developed by metaio, the application - called junaio - shows transit data such as station locations and estimated arrival times. Riders point the phone's camera and find directions to the nearest BART station and a list of estimated arrivals for the next several tr  [...]
Posted: Friday, March 12th 2010

Virtual Goods, Apps, Even E-Cards Part of Facebook's Valentine's Day

Virtual goods, apps and (by now) old-fashioned e-cards are among the various ways one can send a Valentine's Day message on Facebook this year. Virtual goods appear to be the most popular vehicle, although final tallies won't be made until after the holiday on Sunday. 220 Million Virtual Gifts and Counting FarmVille players have already sent more Valentine virtual gifts - 220 million - than all the 152 million Valentines Day cards exchanged all year,   [...]
Posted: Friday, February 12th 2010

How to Market to People Who Don't Trust Their Friends

A whopping 75% of consumers don’t believe their peers will give them good advice or information about a company, according to Edelman's latest trust barometer. Last year that number was 55%. Yet at the same time activity on social networks such as Facebook shows little sign of slowing. What are marketers to make of these two distinct but conflicting trends - especially as more brands are devoting a greater portion of their online advertising   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, February 10th 2010

Coke’s Cause Marketing Campaign Ties to Super Bowl, as Pepsi Sits Out

Coca-Cola is jumping on the cause marketing bandwagon with a campaign that extends its Open Happiness theme while giving Facebook fans an advance look at its upcoming Super Bowl ads - and while taking advantage of Pepsi’s decision to sit out the Super Bowl. Each time a Facebook user passes a virtual Coke along to a friend, a $1 donation by Coke to Boys & Girls Clubs of America is   [...]
Posted: Friday, January 29th 2010

Facebookers Donate to Haiti

More than one-third of Facebook users in the US, UK and Australia have donated money and/or goods to relief efforts aimed at the January 12, 2010 earthquake which struck Haiti, according to a joint survey conducted by Facebook and The Nielsen Company. Money Leads the Way Donations of money were by far the most popular type of aid  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, January 26th 2010

8 Tips for Hiring a Social Media Expert

Because it is meant to look fun, putting together a social media campaign - or integrating one into a larger online initiative - can be surprisingly difficult. There are many challenges to capturing and engaging user interests online - starting with finding the right person to lead that effort, says Andrew Ballenthin, president of Sol Solutions. That point was driven home last December when Ballenthin  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, January 19th 2010

Retailers Can Lure Moms with Social Media, Free Stuff

Retailers trying to influence moms should pay close attention to their social media efforts and also focus on free items, promotions and discounts, according to a Retail Advertising and Marketing Association (RAMA) survey conducted by BIGresearch. It found that women with children at home are more likely to use Facebook (60.3%), MySpace (42.4%) and Twitter (16.5%) than average adults (50.2%, 34.4%, 15.0%, respectivel  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, January 19th 2010