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Just in Time for the World Cup and Olympics, Brazil Gains in Social Media Creds
The 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro are four years away and the World Cup, two years, but that has not stopped marketers from considering campaigns to target the country. Sterne Agee analyst Sam Poser points out in a research note that Nike is already planning its marketing for these events (via the Oregonian).
Even if actual campaigns have not yet been crafte [...]
Posted: Wednesday, February 1st 2012
Facebook is the Social Network to Beat in Brazil
Visitors to Facebook.com in Brazil reached 36.1 million visitors--for an increase of 192 percent in the past twelve months--to surpass Orkut as the leading social networking destination in the market, according to new figures from comScore.
Not only is this a coup for Facebook as it continues to face off against rival Google, but it is [...]
Posted: Wednesday, January 18th 2012
Diageo Steps Up Facebook Presence with New Cross-border Deal
Diageo and Facebook have inked an advertising deal in the millions of dollars, according to a report in the Financial Times. Diageo has been using the Facebook platform for advertising for the past year or so, but with this deal it hopes to expand its relationship to emerging markets, such as Brazil, and to develop better information mining techniques for the Facebook community.
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Posted: Monday, September 19th 2011
Referrals, Data Mining Best in Targeting Various Ethnic Groups. Not Statistics
Minorities are significantly more likely than Caucasians to view social networking as a means of spreading word about and getting support for causes, according to Georgetown University's Center for Social Impact Communication. It found that 65% of Hispanics and African-Americans strongly or somewhat agree that online social networking sit [...]
Posted: Monday, June 6th 2011
New Rules of the Road for Global Online Marketing Campaigns
News flash. Online ads in India perform better when written in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and other regional languages compared to English creatives! Apparently these localized ads attract more internet users, according to a survey by Ozone Media and reported in the Economic Times.
If that wasn't surprising enough, the study also found that resident Indians res [...]
Posted: Wednesday, March 30th 2011
3DTV Shows 1st Rate Promise
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Posted: Thursday, December 23rd 2010
AP Builds Local LatAm Mobile Offerings
The Associated Press will be delivering local news stories from six Latin American newspapers across its AP Mobile news network through a content distribution deal with Grupo de Diarios América (GDA). Regional newspapers added to its network include: El Tiempo (Colombia), La Nación (Costa Rica), El Comercio (Ecuador), El Nuevo DÃa (Puerto Rico), El PaÃs (Uruguay), and El Nacional (Venezuela).
AP first entered the international market last year wi [...]
Posted: Friday, March 19th 2010
Facebookers Donate to Haiti
More than one-third of Facebook users in the US, UK and Australia have donated money and/or goods to relief efforts aimed at the January 12, 2010 earthquake which struck Haiti, according to a joint survey conducted by Facebook and The Nielsen Company.
Money Leads the Way
Donations of money were by far the most popular type of aid [...]
Posted: Tuesday, January 26th 2010
Mobile & Web Plays Seek US Hispanics
A host of new mobile and online ad initiatives - including those from Yahoo and the Orange Advertising Network -Â have just been launched with the intent of targeting the 46-million-strong US Hispanic market.
In building off its already-strong mobile homepage, Yahoo is making its Spanish-language counterpart, Mobile en Español, available on more than 1,900 mobile device models. The site offe [...]
Posted: Monday, November 16th 2009
Bandwidth-Thirsty Developing World Poses Threat to Web's Bottom Line
Photo-sharing sites, social networks, and video distributors (e.g., Flickr, Facebook, YouTube) are booming in developing nations like Turkey, India, and Brazil - but struggling to turn a profit from online advertising alone.
Internet entrepreneurs have always operated under the ideals of uniting everyone in a single online "village" by providing free services to [...]
Posted: Tuesday, April 28th 2009
Obama to US: Broadband for All!
In his regular weekly YouTube address to Americans, President-elect Barack Obama announced broadband connectivity would be a top priority in a massive public works campaign he will direct while in office.
"It is unacceptable that the United States ranks 15th in the world in broadband adoption," he said. In terms of average internet speed, the US lags behind South Korea, Hong Kong, Sweden and Be [...]
Posted: Tuesday, December 9th 2008
Britons Rank Highest in 'Promiscuity Index'
Men and women in Great Britain rank first among industrialized western nations on the international "Promiscuity Index," a measure that incorporates their total number of sexual partners and one-night-stands, according to Bradley University, as reported in London’s TimesOnline.
Germany, The Netherlands, the Czech Republic and Australia ro [...]
Posted: Thursday, December 4th 2008
Global Companies to Increase Commercial Card Usage
More than seven in ten (74%) financial, treasury and cash management executives from 11 countries polled are satisfied with their commercial payment card programs, according to Visa Inc.'s Global Cash Management Survey, MarketingCharts [...]
Posted: Friday, November 7th 2008
ad:tech Knuckles Down, Cuts Miami Off Roster
ad:tech, which hosts about 11 digital marketing conferences per year worldwide, has decided to cease operating its Miami show.
ad:tech Miami launched in 2007 and caters primarily to marketing and advertising professionals targeting the Hispanic and Latin-American communities. Previous attendees received an email this week stating, "due to current economic conditions, ad:tech has made the decision to cancel its Miami event in 2009."
The letter was signe [...]
Posted: Monday, November 3rd 2008
Youth No Longer Defined by Age; Consumers Stay 'Younger' Longer
The traditional demographic definition of "youth" is no longer applicable in today's society, and marketers should target consumers based upon their engagement and participation in youth culture rather than by chronological age, according to the "Golden Age of Youth" study from Viacom Brand Solutions International (VBSI), writes M [...]
Posted: Monday, October 27th 2008
Carat Revises Global Ad Spend Forecasts
Carat lowered its growth forecasts for global advertising expenditures in 2008 and 2009, predicting 4.9 percent growth in 2008 (vs. 6.0 percent it estimated in March) and a growth of 4.8 percent in 2009 (vs. a 4.9 percent estimate in March), [...]
Posted: Tuesday, September 2nd 2008
Dell's Cheap 'Vestro' PCs Target Emerging Markets
Setting its eyes on a neglected niche, Dell is marketing a suite of low-cost computers to emerging markets like China and India.
Dell's Vestro units -- two notebook and two desktop PC models -- were built in Shanghai and shall target small business owners. Prices start at 3,299 yuan ($475) for the notebooks and 2,999 yuan ($440) for desktop PCs. They will be sold in 20 countries across Asia, Africa and Latin America, [...]
Posted: Thursday, August 28th 2008
Mexicans Use Phones to Pay for Meals, Taxi Trips
Major banks in Mexico, including Citigroup Inc. and BBVA, are partnering with mobile operators Telefonica SA and Iusacell to launch a mobile charge service, reports Reuters.
Mobile users will soon be able to link savings accounts to their phones, so payments can be made to restaurants or taxis, for example, via text message. The offering is targe [...]
Posted: Tuesday, August 26th 2008
Rocky Road Ahead, Say Agency Execs
The downturned economy may have finally rocked the agency world, as industry execs observe a decline in client spending in all regions except emerging markets.
About half (46%) of North American ad agency CEOs report that their clients have cut spending since a year ago, AdAge writes, citing a Worldwide Partners survey of 90 agency CEOs. Just one in ten said their clients are putting more money into marketing.
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Posted: Thursday, August 21st 2008
Fans Worldwide Follow Olympics Online
Fans from the 10 countries* measured by Nielsen Online visited Beijing2008.cn, the official website of the Beijing Games, at a rate of nearly 930,000 per day, during the first week (Aug. 9-15) of the competition, Nielsen reported (pdf) - MarketingCharts writes.
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Posted: Wednesday, August 20th 2008