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Middle-Aged Moms Swoon over New Moon

Adult women are responsible for a big portion of ticket sales for the recently released 'The Twilight Saga: New Moon' film, which took in $140.7 million opening weekend and $42.5 million the following weekend. While "Twi-hard" teen girls were the expected and most obvious fan base, it is now clear that the vampire-meets-werewolf film has also drawn in their mothers, who are flocking to social media sites to discuss and promote the film as eagerly as their Millennial offspring. As an exampl  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, December 1st 2009

NBC Taps SocNets to Generate Olympic Buzz

With 100 days left until the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, NBC Universal is adding a variety of new high-tech and social media features to its main Olympics website, NBCOlympics.com, to generate interest in the games and boost video views of the events. NBC is aiming to build on the success of its live and taped online video offerings during the 2008 Beijing Olympics, which attracted tens of millions of users. As an added feature to its existin  [...]
Posted: Thursday, November 5th 2009

New Twitter 'Lists' Connect Pro Sports Fans

The National Hockey League (NHL) is using Twitter’s new "Lists" tool to connect and share online conversations by its fans regarding the league’s individual teams. The league’s initiative is among the first examples of a major brand using the recently-debuted Twitter “Lists” function, which lets users create groupings of their favorite users that others can easily keep tabs on. The feature enables users to fo  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, November 3rd 2009

Food Bloggers Cook up Big Business

Club Med is putting together a week-long conference that will gather together popular food writers and bloggers - to mingle, network and share tricks of the trade - but that also will be open to other guests and members of the public who pay a hefty fee to stay at the resort during the conference and hob-nob with their favorite foodies. The event, "Food Blogger Camp by Club Med," is part of a growing movement by companies to bring together influent  [...]
Posted: Friday, October 23rd 2009

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 10/22/09

Web 2.0 Trends: Internet advertising is just about the only bright spot in Q3 reports of two major newspaper publishers, Gannett Co. and McClatchy Co. The New York Times sets 7 digital priorities. Th  [...]
Posted: Thursday, October 22nd 2009

Move Over, Mama: Marketers Find Daddy Bloggers

Marketers seeking wholesome platforms with dedicated niche audience have a new well from which to draw: daddy bloggers. Mommy blogs like Dooce and The Pioneer Woman have enjoyed years of success and fawning attention from advertisers like Nike and houseware retailers, which lavish such publications with sponsorship and aesthetically pleasing advertisements. What's more, their audience is broad, aggressive and   [...]
Posted: Friday, August 28th 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

Twitter to Move into Business Mainstream

More than eight in 10 Twitter users, most of whom represent small businesses, expect their company's use of the popular microblogging tool to increase in the next six months, according to a recent, informal survey from MarketingProfs.   [...]
Posted: Monday, June 1st 2009

Sears and Kmart Try the Social Media 'My'

Hoping to ingratiate themselves to today's social media-savvy shoppers, Kmart and parent company Sears are test-driving two new community sites: MySears and MyKmart. Built with help from consumer review socnet Viewpoints, the site enables users to write reviews, view polls and blogs, and follow either retailer on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn. Videos, a "featured revi  [...]
Posted: Thursday, May 7th 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

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

1 in 10 Adults Has Microblogged -- on Twitter or Elsewhere

Over one in ten (11%) online adults in the US say they have used Twitter -- or a similar service –- to share updates about themselves or view updates about others. What's more, those who use Twitter have a greater affinity for mobile devices, according to new research from the Pew Internet & American Life Project (via MarketingCharts. The most recent Pew study on th  [...]
Posted: Thursday, February 19th 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

Biz Stone: Twitter to Charge Brands for Use

Twitter co-founder Biz Stone has confirmed the microblogging network will begin charging companies for certain components of its service. Rumors that Twitter may start charging for use began taking concrete form in November. "We are noticing more companies using Twitter and individuals following them. We can identify ways to make this experience even more valuable and charge fo  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, February 10th 2009

Agent Provocateur Taps Modern Women Through Social Media

With help from agency StrawberryFrog, lingerie label Agent Provocateur has made its foray into social media in hopes of engaging a digital user base over the long-term. Attention-grabbing elements that have characterized past Agent Provocateur campaigns -- images of celebrities riding mechanical bulls, or virtual   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, February 10th 2009

Veoh Revamps Video Search Plugin

Video site Veoh has released an update of its browser plugin, Veo Video Compass. Available for Firefox 3 and Internet Explorer 7, Video Compass gives users a changing array of videos related to search queries they conduct and pages they visit. The videos appear a stream at the top of their browsers. Clips are gleaned from Veoh -- whose videos are prioritized -- and YouTube. Users may play the media directly from the stream. Google, Yahoo and other major search engines are currently supp  [...]
Posted: Thursday, January 22nd 2009

One-Quarter of Americans Watch Video on Mobile Phones

Consumers in the US watch more TV and mobile video than those in Germany, Sweden and urban China. And while most still watch video on a PC, nearly a quarter (23%) watch video on a mobile device, according to results from the first phase of Cisco's Visual Networking Index (VNI) Pulse survey (  [...]
Posted: Friday, January 9th 2009