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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

Retailers Reach Shoppers with Tweeter Holiday Deals

Major retailers in the US are using Twitter this holiday season to engage in instant, one-on-one conversations with their customers about sales, service and technical issues, shopping news, and other topics. The move represents the growing emergence of Twitter as a medium that can serve a range of previously separate outreach functions - including advertising, customer service, and news. Approximately 59% of online retailers plan to increase their use of Twitter this holiday season,   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, December 1st 2009

Technorati to Reposition as Blogger Rival

Technorati, at one time the go-to place to locate popular blogs by topic, is planning a strategy that will pit it against the industry it once attempted to organize and aid. The company is now in the process of hiring writers with the objective of creating its own content site, according to TheNextWeb, which published a letter discreetly sent to bloggers last week: Become a Techn  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, September 8th 2009

Dell, Moonfruit Claim Twitter Campaigns Effective

At a Twitter for Brands event hosted by New Media Age in London on Friday, Dell representatives said they have seen tangible uplifts in sales which can be directly attributed to marketing on Twitter. The brand's Twitter account has driven $3 million in sales since it began operation in 2007. Moonfruit, a website builder, also said Twitter campaigns have helped the brand. Moonfruit said it spent around 10,000 pounds ($16,400) on prizes for the campaign  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, August 25th 2009

Twitter to Add Latitude/Longitude Data to Tweets

Twitter is preparing to add an additional detail to each and every tweet published by its users: location, according to co-founder Biz Stone on the Twitter Blog. "A new API will allow developers to add latitude and longitude to any tweet," wrote Stone, adding that with "accurate, tweet-level data" you can immediately toggle to the tweets from users in your neighborhood or city -- even if you do not follow them. It w  [...]
Posted: Friday, August 21st 2009

Only 8% of Advertisers Deem Twitter an Effective Promo Tool

Though Twitter is currently a media darling, only 8% of advertisers and consumers think it's an effective promotion tool, according to (pdf) results from a LinkedIn Research Network/Harris Poll. The study found advertisers are more likely than consumers to know about Twitter and are more likely to believ  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, July 28th 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

Twitcam Brings Livestreaming to Twitter

Live video streaming firm Livestream has launched twitcam.com, an ad-supported app that lets users add live streaming video to their Twitter feeds. The offering works like popular Twitter app Twitpic, which enables users to log in with an existing Twitter account, upload an image and then automatically updates their Twitter streams with a link to the image, as well as any message they include. Following suit, Twitcam.com u  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, July 22nd 2009

Printcasting Democratizes Magazine Publishing

A company called Printcasting is experimenting with a way to compel more advertisers and readers to print magazines with model that allows nearly anyone to be a magazine publisher. Printcasting ("People-powered Magazines") lets would-be publishers choose articles and blog posts, insert them in a template of their choice, then print and distribute the resulting "magazine" themselves, The New York Times   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, July 21st 2009

Obama Campaign Makes Cannes Coup

Obama's political -- and media-fluent -- campaign for President last year won the two major awards at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival this year. Submitted by Obama for America, the effort swept two Grands Prix in both the Titanium and Integrated Lions categories. The Obama campaign incorporated tactical use of traditional TV advertising, grassroots campaigning, the ability to mobilize via an iPhone app,   [...]
Posted: Monday, June 29th 2009

Veodia Snaps Up Screen Capture Startup

Enterprise video firm Veodia has purchased ScreenToaster, a web-based screen recording platform vendor based in Paris, France. ScreenToaster enables users to record the contents of their screens, then share and stream those videos in Flash format. The content can be embedded onto sites or sent via email. It launched in private beta eight months ago; the founders say it has enjoyed 40% month-to-month average user grow  [...]
Posted: Friday, June 19th 2009

Twitter to Launch Verified Accounts for Public Officials, Brands, Celebs

Facing a lawsuit with Tony La Russa, the manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, who complained about someone impersonating him on the site, Twitter is implementing a Verified Accounts process. La Russa sued Twitter in early May for cybersquatting, trademark infringement and misappropriation of his name and likeness, after someone registered the handle "tonylarussa" on Twitter and posed as the Cardinals manager. The suit has been settled out of court,  [...]
Posted: Monday, June 8th 2009

IAB Doc Seeks to Nail Down Social Media's ROI

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has released the Social Media Ad Metrics Definitions (pdf), a document whose objective is to help "marketers better understand the true ROI of participatory communication," stated VP-Industry Services Jeremy Fain. The sheet divides the social media landscape into three major categories (and associated metrics): General Social Media Sites. Quantifiers includ  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, May 6th 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

Twittad Brings Sponsored Hashtags to Land Rover Effort

Land Rover launched an integrated campaign using Twitter and out-of-home venues like billboards and taxi TVs. The campaign uses "hashtags," or words used in tweets that make it easier to follow a conversation via online searches, in out-of-home venues to spread word of the Twitter-based effort, reports MediaBuyerPlanner. The effort attempts to build conversations around   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, April 21st 2009

Facebook Eclipses Google Referrals on Some Sites

For a handful of sites where users enjoy passing recreational time, Facebook refers more traffic than does search giant Google. Such sites include CafeMom, Evite, video site Tagged.com, Twitter, and gossip sites PerezHilton.com and Dlisted. Advertising Age called the trend "surprising," given that web users go to Google to work out "where to go next;" Facebook, in contrast, is more like an online space to loiter. The social network generates slightly over one-third of Google's unique visit  [...]
Posted: Thursday, March 12th 2009

Social Networks, Blogs More Popular than Email

More than two-thirds (67%) of the global* online population visits social networks and blogs, and participation in these "member communities" is now the fourth most popular online category - behind search, portals, and PC software, but ahead of personal email use, according to research from Nielsen Online (  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, March 10th 2009

Growing Interest in Widgets, Web-TV Features Drives US Adoption

A growing appetite for video on-demand (VoD) libraries and customizable widgets that are accessible through TV sets will pave the way for adoption of such enhanced video services in the US, according to a recent report from Parks Associates. The research finds 33% of US broadband users are interested in widgets, and almost 50% are interested in pre  [...]
Posted: Thursday, March 5th 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 Users Black Out to Protest 'Guilty Upon Accusation'

Avatars on Twitter are blacking out their avatars in protest against a new law, Section 92A, that has passed in New Zealand. The law stipulates that internet service providers (ISPs) "adopt and reasonably implement a policy that provides for termination, in appropriate circumstances of the account of a repeat [copyright] infr  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, February 17th 2009