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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

Top US Companies in Need of "Twittervention"

Top US companies are missing out on a large portion of the potential Twitter holds for their businesses, according to two separate studies from PR firm Weber Shandwick and the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Both studies indicate that while Corporate America is familiar with Twitter, it is not taking advantage of the full range of Twitter’s business capabilities. (via MarketingChar  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, January 13th 2010

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

WOM Stars in Hollywood; Plays Leading Roles Elsewhere

Movie studios and music houses are tapping social media not only to generate digital word-of-mouth (WOM) appeal - a strategy first deployed to great success with the Blair Witch Project more than 10 years ago - but also to listen to fans' judgments of film and music and make decisions based on them.  Though Hollywood has always intuitively understood the power of WOM marketing, such buzz usually paled in comparison to the publicity generated by mammoth-sized advertising a  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, October 20th 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

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

Silverman Quits NBC, Joins Diller on Ambitious Production Venture

Ben Silverman is leaving his post as NBC Entertainment co-chairman come September, and will join Barry Diller of InterActive Corp. (IAC), parent company of Ask.com, to form a multi-platform production company. Marc Graboff, also co-chairman, will continue as chairman of NBC Entertainment and Universal Media Studios. He will report to Jeff Gaspin, former head of NBC cable unit and now-chairman of NBC Universal Television Entertainment,   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, July 28th 2009

Facebook App Lets Page Admins Host Live Video

This week Justin.tv launched "Live," an application that enables Facebook Page administrators to create a streaming video tab. The app features a Facebook live stream on one side, enabling watchers to chat, update their status for other viewers to see, and view friends that are also watching the content. It is positioned as useful for companies or public figures that wish to stream live footage -- and host conversation -- on their Facebook Pages,   [...]
Posted: Friday, July 10th 2009

Most Marketers Pursue Email, Social Media Marriage

Two-thirds of email marketers plan to integrate their email and social media campaigns in the second half of 2009. 48% have already formulated a strategy for achieving this initiative, according to a survey by StrongMail Systems, Inc.   [...]
Posted: Thursday, July 2nd 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

Meebo Unifies SocNets, Content Sites on Engagement Platform

IM service aggregation site Meebo has launched "multi-network IM access," which enables users to unify other social graphs on its platform, including major social networks and gaming sites. A sharing interface also enables them to swap content with greater ease. "Content sites interested in increasing the volume of content sharing, but without their own social graph, can use the multi-network IM feature to expand their reach and drive social interactions," the company said. Mother-driven   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, June 10th 2009

Starbucks Seeks to Stimulate Social Media Engagement

In its latest marketing campaign, Starbucks encourages tech-savvy coffee drinkers to disseminates its coffee manifestos -- and their own -- over social media. The campaign is expected to float on the viral potential proffered by the brand's nearly 1.5 million Facebook fans and 185,000 Twitter followers. The ads spout trite wit  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, May 20th 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

Trends in Leadership Conferences: Fewer Keynotes, More Tweeting

Two-thirds (62%) of global conference organizers say the demand for executive conferences increased in the past three years. 46% claim it is still growing despite the recession, according to a survey by Weber Shandwick (  [...]
Posted: Friday, February 13th 2009

MSFT's 'Gaze' Eyes Snap.com Territory

Aspiring to compete with technologies like Snap, which lets users preview content by mousing over hyperlinks, Microsoft is preparing an ad-infused offering called Gaze. Snap delivers "Snap Shots" of web destinations or content, using pop-ups that appear when users hover over hyperlinked text. Users can identify Snap-optimized links by the small Snap favicon perched   [...]
Posted: Thursday, February 5th 2009

Smart Versioning Optimizes Digital Ads on the Fly

Yesterday Eyeblaster launched Smart Versioning, a tool that lets users modify aspects of new or currently-running ads, including images, text, video, audio, typeface and language. Updates can be made dynamically, maximizing an ad's potential to convert users as marketers gather new data about them. The feature set promises to improve relevancy, cut costs and make global campaigns more amenable to local markets. It can be integrated into regional and s  [...]
Posted: Thursday, February 5th 2009

Data Vulnerability Plagues 44% of Retailer Wireless Devices

44% of the wireless devices used by retailers -- including laptops, mobile computers and barcode scanners -- could be compromised by data leaks and other security problems, according to the second annual Motorola AirDefense Retail Shopping Wireless Security Survey,   [...]
Posted: Thursday, February 5th 2009

SeeSaw Networks Adds 2,500 Locations

Place-based service SeeSaw Networks now lets advertisers reach consumers in stores and other shopping locations, with the addition of eight additional networks, reports MediaBuyerPlanner. SeeSaw announced partnerships with eight new networks including Digital Promo Network, InStore Vision, QuickStore24(TM), WNC Checkout, WNC Aisles, RDS Media, BuzzHub Network and Cabco’s TV Kart Network. The new n  [...]
Posted: Friday, January 30th 2009

Online Video: Primary Focus of 2009 Campaigns

Over two-thirds (67%) of advertising, marketing and media executives say online video is a primary focus in their 2009 digital marketing campaigns. They also expect to migrate from planning and experimentation to widespread implementation this year, according to a recent survey by PermissionTV, reports MarketingCharts.   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, January 13th 2009