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Top News: DG Buys Peer39 | Porsche's QR Strategy | Google, FB Lobby | FB Revenue Falls | Netflix Vs. Comcast

Business Buzz: TV Ad-Services Company DG Buys Ad-Tech Startup Peer39 for $15.5 Million Business Strategies: How time of day   [...]

New Regs Coming for E-Mail Marketers

New privacy legislation introduced in the House of Representative last month along with two recent actions by the Federal Trade Commission suggest that email marketers are likely to find new regulations - and new interpretations of existing legislation -  impacting their industry. There are several provisions in a proposed bill on online privacy that are worrisome to the industry, according to comments made by panelists during the annual Email Experience Council's legislative webinar update.  [...]

eBay Launches Rainforest Preservation Marketing Efforts

eBay has launched two green initiatives to position itself as a conservationist in the eyes of consumers. The online marketplace has unveiled a new green shopping hub that will help consumers find millions of green products, and launched its eBay Green Team Challenge that commits the online giant to save up to a quarter of a million acres of rainforest for consumers who reuse,   [...]

Delta's DOOH Campaign Targets New York Frequent, Int'l Flyers

A digital out-of-home campaign aimed at increasing awareness of Delta Airline's flight schedule in the New York City area accomplished its task - by a measure of more than 28%. From February to mid June, the airline and its ad agency, Digitas, ran a campaign using both DOOH and traditional media.  Edison Research, which surveyed consumers prior to the launch and during it, also found that business travelers' perception of Delta's international schedule increased by 26% and overall awareness b  [...]

Does Whitelisting Work? Origins Test Says Yes

Sender reputation is still an important metric for email marketers to monitor even as ISPs shift to a domain-based reputation system. Whitelisting is a key tactic in maintaining a positive sender reputation - and as a recent test by Origins Natural Resources Inc., discovered, it can also le  [...]

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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   [...]

VW Races to iPhone with GTI Ad-App

Volkswagen is, not surprisingly, launching a marketing campaign for its upcoming 2010 Volkswagen GTI. What is surprising is that the campaign is rolling out in the form of an iPhone App – and at least for the time being - will be limited to that platform. The free app, which is called "Real Racing GTI," puts players on the fictional Mayapan Beach racetrack, and is tied to a contest in which, the New York Times   [...]

Ford Outpaces Industry with 25% Digital Spend

Ford Motor Company is spending 25% of its marketing budget on digital and social media programs, double the amount of any of its competitors, according to a recent report from BusinessWeek. Industry experts expect that other auto companies are soon likely to follow Ford down the same digital path, though perhaps not quite as aggressively. J.D. Power & Associates estimates that the averag  [...]

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EU 'Net Marketers Optimistic About Online Advertising

European advertisers choose online advertising over traditional media like TV, newspapers, and magazines, according to research by the European Interactive Advertisers Association (EIAA). Just 8% of the advertisers studied for the EIAA annual Internet Ad Barometer report (pdf) said they cut budgets for online advertising. Seven i  [...]

Unwanted 'American Idol' Text Message Backfires on AT&T

This week AT&T Wireless sent a text message to a "significant number" of its 75 million customers, promoting the Tuesday premier of American Idol, a popular show where Americans compete for pop stardom. The wordy SMS read: AT&T Free Msg: Get ready for American Idol! AI 8 starts this Tues (1/13) at 8pm on FOX. Check out AT&T's official AI web site from you [sic] PC - www.att.com/idol for the latest info on our $1MM sweepstakes, test your AI IQ by playing the trivia game  [...]

Stella McCartney Brings Her '09 Collection Mobile

Design house Stella McCartney partnered with ad network Millennial Media to bring its 2009 collection from the runways to mobile phones. The campaign runs through January and marks the Gucci Group subsidiary's first foray in mobile marketing. Its objective is to "extend the brand into mobile while maintaining a stylish image and enabling the consumer to get a view into the spring and summer fashion lines,"   [...]

Facebook Campaign Quadruples NYT Fan Figures

Last week New York Times president Scott Heekin-Canedy released an eight-page memo praising the success of the newspaper's Facebook advertising campaign, which went live in the days following the Presidential election. "The goals [...] were to increase our number of Facebook fans; raise awareness of NYTimes.com as an interactive news center; and engage the Facebook community in a conversation about the election outcome," Heekin-Can  [...]

McCain Pummels Obama in Search Ad Relevance; Neither Does Great

While Sen. Barack Obama has historically outdone Sen. John McCain in terms of social media savvy, McCain bests him in sponsored search and targeted advertising. Unfortunately, neither candidate does exceptionally well in the latter regard. Author Jonathan Mendez of search engine marketing blog Optimize and Prophetize conducted an analysis of how well McCain and Obama fare in se  [...]

TiVo: Good Ads Don't Get Skipped!

Viewers are less likely to skip ads they consider relevant to them, reports TiVo (via AdWeek). The company just released its May 2008 data from PowerWatch, its second-by-second commercial audience measurement service. Data was gleaned from 20,000 TiVo users. Findings from the survey: All demographic segments time shift and fast-forward through commercials at a high rate.   [...]

American Idol Charity Effort Tests Sponsors' PR Savvy; ExxonMobil Proves a Peach

Direct marketing firm SendTec examined the TV sponsors for Idol Gives Back, an event during which American Idol viewers were admonished to donate to charities. Sponsors included ExxonMobil, Ford, Coca-Cola, AT&T, iTunes, Allstate and the M·A·C AIDS Fund. The study profiles how well ExxonMobil, iTunes, Ford and Coca-Cola maximized their public relations. ExxonMobil  [...]

Digital Post Office of Love Draws Flirty Texters to Chicago Art Museum

The Museum of Contemporary Art liaised with Cellit Mobile Marketing to launch an interactive campaign to get singles texting each other. This was part of a campaign to generate buzz for its First Friday event on February 1. The Digital Post Office of Love, a one-day Valentine's Day-inspired event, drew 2,500 people. The event featured a special interactive display where visitors could post messages to other attendees. "We wanted to create a fun and engag­ing activity and to  [...]

Low-Maintenance Dating Site Turns $10MM in 12 Months

A free online dating site that began as a class project for an aspiring ASP.NET programmer has turned $10 million in profit in 12 months. According to The New York Times, Plenty of Fish has attracted over 600  [...]

Arizona Jean Employs Social Marketing to Push New E-Store

Formerly owned by JC Penney, the Original Arizona Jean Company is now independent. And though the jeans have been available for 23 years at the department store, they had never been marketed directly to the teen audience it's geared toward, according to a mini case study by DM News. That's where T3 agency stepped in to help launch an online marketing campaign. A content-rich   [...]

Land Rover, AdMob Connect with Big Spenders on iPhone

For high net worth customers, Land Rover partnered with AdMob. Its resulting campaign targeted smartphone users and took advantage of AdMob's new ad unit, exclusive to the iPhone (see video), which has a store-locator in the banner itself. Of those who clicked on the Land Rover mobile ad, 23 percent of customers responded to at least one call-to-action on the landing page: 88 percent watched the video, 9 percent enter  [...]

MTVU, Microsoft Partner for Activist Web Series

MTV's mtvU network is expanding online, thanks in part to a partnership with Microsoft. MtvU is a 24-hour college network broadcast to 750 universities in the US. Together the companies will launch a new online video series called "Cause Effect." It will feature two student activists a week, each "using Windows Live Messenger to take action on behalf of a social cause,"   [...]