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Marketo Introduces Integrated Social Marketing Automation

If customers spend little time interacting with branded social pages, the trick becomes to capture them where they spend the majority of their time; interacting with one another. Marketing automation provider Marketo claims to have solved that problem. In his keynote at Marketo Summit 2012, President and CEO Phil Fernandez announced that the company "is   [...]
Posted: Thursday, May 24th 2012

Top News: MillerCoors Severs DraftFCB | Fuse DM, Video | "Twitter Pro?" | Weather.com SoMe Alerts | Spotify Arrives on iPad

Ad Technology: Google Inside adSense Blog: Introducing Redesigned Payments Pages Agencies: MillerCoors Shakes Up Shops, Cuts Ties With DraftFCB Business Strategies: 12 Reasons to   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, May 2nd 2012

Surprise: Consumers Want Email, But Want It Their Way

Marketers were right to worry about getting blacklisted and spam-filtered—that is until most consumers became bargain hunters. Market research from email solution provider BlueHornet (reported via eMarketer) found that as of February 2012, 95% of U.S. email users had joined email lists to receive discounts. What that suggests is that consumers are perfectly willing to share personal information with retailers, in excha  [...]
Posted: Thursday, April 19th 2012

Local Service Companies Intrigued by Pay Per Call

Local service companies such as attorneys, dentists and credit and debt counseling firms are primed to embrace pay per call advertising platforms next year. Pay-per-call models in general are poised to experience explosive growth in 2010, according to Telmetrics. If 2009's activity is any guide, it will be local campaigns driving adoption next year - the number of local search pay-per-call advertising programs the company monitors tripled from January 2009 to June 2009,   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, December 16th 2009

Cox Keeps ValPak Now That It's Digital

Cox Enterprises has decided to keep Largo, Fla.-based Valpak in its corporate family after announcing last year that it was exploring its sale. A number of factors no doubt went into this decision, including the likely dearth of offers during the sharp recession. However Valpak has begun to aggressively enter new forms of media - and Cox has said it believes it has a promising future   [...]
Posted: Friday, December 11th 2009

VSS Forecast: Comms Spending to Top $1 Trillion

Total communications spending will decline 1% in 2009 to $882.6 billion, but will grow 3.6% per year over the next five years to more than $1 trillion,  according to a report from private-equity firm Veronis Suhler Stevenson (VSS). This growth will make communications the third fastest-growing sector (behind mining and construction) of the US economy through 2013,   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, August 5th 2009

Coupious Couples With Local Merchants for On-Demand Coupons

Coupious, a mobile marketing platform that delivers on-demand, location-based coupons to smartphone users, is testing out its service at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. After downloading Coupious from the App Store (for iPhone and iPod Touch) or the Android market (for T-Mobile G1s), smartphone users browse deals in their immediate location (or up to 50 miles away), identified using the phone's GPS technology. Once they find a  [...]
Posted: Friday, May 22nd 2009

Nike Adds SocNet Sharing Feature to Marketing Emails

Beginning with a February 12 inbox blast, Nike incorporated a ShareThis button to the bottom of email messages promoting its Lunartrainer+iD product line. ShareThis enables users to share portions of an email -- or website -- with friends across the networks they use, giving otherwise static messages a potentially "viral" quality. It and functionalities like it are dubbed "share with your network" (SWYN) links. News of Nike's SWYN inclusion was reported by the   [...]
Posted: Monday, February 23rd 2009

Email, Search & Display Show Strongest Online Performance

A large majority of marketing executives say email, search marketing, and display ads are their company's top performing advertising channels, and many plan to increase spending on them in 2009, according to a survey from Datran Media.   [...]
Posted: Thursday, February 19th 2009

Google: Checkout Icon Increases Ad Click-Thru 10%

On its Google Checkout page, Google claims a "Checkout" icon can increase ad click-through by 10%. (At least one client, Fred Lerner of e-commerce network Ritz Interactive, claims the Checkout icon increased clickthroughs by 23%.) What's more, Google Checkout users purportedly convert 40% more than shoppers that haven't used Checkout in the past. Google Checkout  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, January 7th 2009

55% of CMOs Are Disinterested in Social Networks

Despite the cultural phenomenon that Facebook and MySpace have become in the past few years, 55% of top-brand CMOs said they're not too interested (22%), or not interested at all (33%), in incorporating these and similar social-networking sites into their marketing strategies, according to a survey by Epsilon, MarketingCharts   [...]
Posted: Monday, December 1st 2008

Consumer Segments Spend Differently in Tough Economy

Though nearly all consumers are facing economic uncertainty, their responses to economic difficulties differ - but not along conventional demographic lines, according to Acxiom Corporation's first Retail Consumer Dynamics Study (RCD), reports Retailer Daily. The   [...]
Posted: Friday, October 31st 2008

One Easy Fix Could Cure Email Marketers' Impotence

As wallets slacken and consumers grow more conscious of where their money is going, online retailers have become more aggressive about using email to promote discounts. A recent report found online shopping is more appealing as gas prices increase. Armed with this and other optimistic forecasts, nearly three-fourths of internet retailers are prepared to survive the economic climate -- an  [...]
Posted: Monday, October 27th 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

Best-in-Class Companies to Raise Analytics Budgets

Facing increasing market pressure, 60 percent of top-performing ("Best-in-Class") companies plan to increase budgets for customer analytics and segmentation technologies next year to find more sophisticated ways of identifying key trends and commonalities among customers, according to an Aberdeen Group report (  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, September 23rd 2008

AdLeads Let Display Ad Marketers Charge Per Lead

Pontiflex has launched AdLeads, a cost-per-lead (CPL) ad marketplace for online marketers. The system enables users to run direct response or display ads -- including rich media -- on a CPL pricing model. Advertisers only pay for qualified leads, "not for clicks and impressions that might never convert," beams spokesman Leo Tignini. Marketers can also purchase bra  [...]
Posted: Monday, September 15th 2008

Billboards Identify Shoppers by Past Purchases ... and by Sight

In the film Minority Report, a wanted criminal undergoes black market surgery to have his eyes changed, worried that the bots -- and ads -- in his society will be able to visually identify him. The convict then walks into a shopping mall, where his new eyes are scanned with a telltale spark. Mistaking him for the eyeballs' former owner, a nearby Gap billboard exclaims, "Hello, Mr. Yakamoto! Welcome back to the Gap! How'd those assorted tanktops work out for you?"   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, August 26th 2008

Microsoft Ups Business Search Efforts

Microsoft is adding a new Search Business Group, which may indicate an increased sense of importance around certain search applications, such as mapping and geo-targeting. Internal reorganizations in Redmond are viewed in the context of an eternally evolving ecosystem of internal politics and external market forces, so such moves often do not result in actual changes in behavior or product developments. That said, mapping executive Jeff Kelisky will head the newish effort. He   [...]
Posted: Thursday, August 21st 2008

Retailers Pressured to Drive Lifetime Customer Value

58 percent of retailers say the top pressure that influences their loyalty-program decisions is the need to develop lifetime customer value, according to research conducted by Aberdeen Group, reports MarketingCharts.   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, August 6th 2008

Behavioral Targeting Ad Spend Poised to Grow, with Help from Online Video

Spend on behavioral targeting will increase to $4.4 billion by 2012, up from $775 million this year, with online video a major driver of that growth, according to eMarketer (via MarketingCharts). Growth in the next couple of years is expected to gradually increase (to 1.7 billion in   [...]
Posted: Monday, June 23rd 2008