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B2B CEOs Cautious About, But Warming To, Social Media Marketing

B2B Magazine reports that business-to-business (b2b) marketers are increasingly leveraging social media, with the newly ad-friendly LinkedIn ahead by a length. The magazine reveals in its report "B2B Social Media Marketing: A Surge In Adoption" that when b2b marketers were asked to choose the one most important method that they use for their social outreach, LinkedIn was the clear leader at 30%, followed by Facebook   [...]

Top Global Brands Thrive Despite Economy: #1 Apple Grows 19%

The world's biggest brands have continued to grow in value during the current economic uncertainty, according to WPP company Millward Brown's annual BrandZ "Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands" study. The #1 brand for the second year, Apple, rose 19% in value and is now worth $182.9 billion. IBM grew 15% in value to $  [...]

Local Ad Dollars Go Mobile And Online: Who Buys Them, In What Formats?

Local ad spending will experience a compound annual growth of 2.6% through 2016, but online and mobile will lead the way with double-digit growth, compared to TV, radio and print. And technology and retail will lead that growth, with local search leading the formats. That according to BIA/Kelsey's Media Ad View reports, which projects that local ad revenues   [...]

Freemium Creates "Happy To Pay" Customers for Video, Radio, Services

Pandora lets you try it out. So does Audible.com for audiobooks, Norton for security, the New York Times with its 10 articles per month paywall. This is "freemium," aimed at tempting paid subscribers with free content, and it works. A new study conducted by iYogi Insights, the research division of the on-demand remote tech support services provider, reveals that 42% of consumers subscribe to  [...]

Top News: HP Awards PC Business | AmEx Brand Innovation | Groupon Reports Profit | Millennial Media Doesn't | Google Ads Trump Facebook | Social Brand Blunders

Ad Technology: Volvo Launches China's First RTB-based Advertising DoubleClick co-founder targets publishers with content-meets-commerce service Publishers   [...]

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Top News: Yahoo Turmoil | Search Engine Rankings | Second Guessing Second Price | Amex Tests SoMe Commerce

Ad Technology: Debunking Ad-Tech Myths Agency News: Little Caesars Taps BFG 9000 for National Creative Brand Takes a Tweeting Campai  [...]

Top News: Target Shops Agencies | Experian Offloads | Gap's Digital Campaign | Cloud "Tipping Point?"

Agency News: Target Out Talking to Media Agencies Spark Wins Orbitz Media Account Dell Moves Consumer Advertising to Y&R Best Practices:  [...]

Dismiss Google+ At Your Own Risk

Anything that can boast a 112% higher engagement is worth a second look. That is just one of the figures that Simply Measured (the social media analytics firm) released yesterday. Since February, two more brands from the Interbrand Top 100 list (Xerox and Nike) have activated pages, bringing the total to 64 of those 100. (The top 10 for Google+ engagement include Nike, Coke, Star  [...]

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Top News: E-Tail Spending Skyrockets | Google Defense | "Do Not Track" Looms | AOL Keeping Publications

Ad Technology: Exponential Interactive Launches Appsnack, Global Mobile Advertising Solution For Brand Advertisers Business Strategies: Creating True Accountability for the Customer Experience Campaig  [...]

More Marketers, Advertisers Trust And Conduct Media Audits

At the Association of National Advertisers’ annual Advertising Financial Management Conference yesterday, the Media Audit Council (MAC) presented results of a recent survey as part of the conference’s “Insights From Advertisers Who Have Embraced Media Audits” panel discussion. MAC had conducted the survey to better understand perceptions of marketing and procure  [...]

comScore Releases Mobile Metrix 2.0, Proves Utility With Initial Findings

comScore has announced the U.S. launch of Mobile Metrix 2.0, its next generation mobile behavioral measurement service. To prove Mobile Metrix 2.0’s utility, comScore released some first-round findings. Among them, 82% of time spent with mobile media happens via apps. Mobile Metrix 2.0 brings comScore’s Unified Digital Measurement to smartphone devi  [...]

Demographics: Wealthier Men Outpace Women In Online Shopping

Never mind the perception that men dislike shopping. They spend plenty online, reports USA Today. According to digital performance company iProspect, 19 million affluent American men are online, the majority of them shopping, and about half of them spend $4,000+ per year. Leading the growth trend? Luxury items, particularly clothing and accessories. Affluent men pref  [...]

Top News: Online Political Ads | Target Dumps Kindle | Hyperlocal Mobile Scale | LinkedIn Tops Conversions | Tumblr Ads | Amazon Web Shows

Business Buzz: 2012: Year of the Online Political Ad [INFOGRAPHIC] Business Strategies:  [...]

Email Marketing: Mobile Will Overtake Web-Based Email This Summer

It will be a quiet shift, but a huge one. In June of this year, predicts the email deliverability firm Return Path, more people will read email on mobile devices than on webmail or desktop clients. To marketers, this means a lot of work, describes DMNews.   [...]

Smaller Tech Companies Value Blogs Highly for Marketing

At first glance, tech companies have abandoned blogs, observes content management solution (CMS) provider Percussion Software. But not so fast: While just 20.5% of mid-market tech companies have a corporate blog, software companies—particularly smaller ones—are more likely to maintain one for content marketing. So Percussion found in   [...]

Brand Execs Agree: Social Media Provides ROI But It's Immeasurable

Brand executives may not need convincing on the benefits of social media: A February 2012 survey of 329 such executives in the U.S. revealed that the majority had seen positive bottom line reports, say the experts at eMarketer. They in turn analyzed data from the digital consultancy PulsePoint Group and the Economist Intelligence Unit. Those executives whose companies had established an extensive social media presence re  [...]

comScore Validated Campaign Essentials (vCE) Signs More Leading Brands

Digital measurement powerhouse comScore has released a shortlist of major brands that have signed on for its validated Campaign Essentials (vCE) for measurement of their online ad campaigns. The new round of brands will use vCE to validate whether the ads in their campaigns were delivered in-view, in the ri  [...]

Streaming Entertainment Skyrockets, Authentication On The Rise

Some compelling evidence for the value of in-stream and preroll marketing. Streaming entertainment is strongly on the rise, according to DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group. As Hollywood Reporter describes, consumer spending on home entertainment rose in Q1 by 2.5% to $4.45 billion—largely due to the strength of streaming video. Subscription streaming rose an est  [...]

Newspaper Website Traffic Up, But Subscribers Elusive

Good news for newspaper websites and their advertisers. Newspapers improved upon website traffic in the first quarter of 2012 with a 4.4% increase year-over-year in adult unique visitors (113 million) and a 10% increase in adult average daily visitors (25 million). That according to the Newspaper Association of America (NAA), citin  [...]

Research: Mobile Nets "Teeming With Streaming" From Ad-Friendly Providers

Mobile networks are “teeming with streaming,” finds Sandvine, the provider of broadband network solutions for fixed and mobile operators. Sandvine has released its Internet traffic trends report “Global Internet Phenomena Report 1H2012,” based on data from a selection of Sandvine’s 200-plus customers spanning North America, Europe, Middle East and Africa, Caribbean and Latin America and Asia-Pacific. The news is good for  [...]