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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 $  [...]

AOL Patch Wobbles | Brands' Social Currency | Campaign Seeks Torturers | Regulators Target Facebook | Groupon Payout Lawsuit

Agency News: JWT Appoints a Pair of Chief Creative Officers in New York Business Strategies: For AOL, a Costly Gamble On Local News Draws Trouble Taco Bell, BK and Others   [...]

Mullen's "Talent Hub" | NHL Digital Power | POM Deceived | Google Buys Streamer | Facebook Buys Gifter

Agency News: Mullen Opening West Coast 'Talent Hub' Business Strategies: The NHL's Digital Power Play Campaigns of Note: Coca-Cola exec claims   [...]

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Ad Technology: Adometry Leverages Attribution Data in a New Media Modeler Agency News: Weber Shandwick Picks Up Diet Pepsi Branding: For Brand Extensions:   [...]

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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  [...]

Users Want Ease of Decision More Than Engagement

Surprise! Online buyers don’t necessarily want to “engage” with a favorite brand. And they will switch favorites in a hurry to the brand that makes the buying decision easier. That according to research and advisory services firm Corporate Executive Board (CEB). CEB has found that consumers feel overwhelmed with information and usually want want less of it (including marketing mes  [...]

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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   [...]

Top News: Chirpify Music Platform | Google Cloud Storage | Patents Boost Android | CrowdStar Quits Facebook

Business Buzz: Chirpify launches digital music platform Business Strategies: P&G Leans on Digital in Corporate-Image Push Corporations Must “Put on a Human Face” to   [...]

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Ad Technology: Amazon Goes After B2B Market With AmazonSupply The App That Zaps Junk Mail - And The Postal Service Business Strategies: Inside   [...]

Sunset for Company Blogs? Perhaps, But Blogs Still In Demand for Content

It is difficult to believe that anything worth saying can be said in 140 characters or less. A USA Today story observes that a number of U.S. companies, Bank of America included, are abandoning the company blog, in favor of the “nimbler tools requiring less time and resources, such as Facebook, Tumblr and Twitter.” An interesting turn of events: As of 2008, blogging was seen as the  [...]

Spotify Pens Global Promotional Deal With Coca-Cola

It is official: Music-streaming service Spotify has signed a strategic partnership with Coca-Cola. Spotify will provide a brand app for the beverage giant inside the Spotify desktop app, alongside brand apps for AT&T, McDonelds, Intel and Reebok. In return, Coca-Cola will feature Spotify as the centerpiece of its "Year of Music" campaign in 2013. The announcement broke on Ad Age, which repo  [...]

Gillette Sponsors AOL's Launch into the Male Consumer Lifestyle Space

AOL has launched its first site aimed at men's consumer lifestyles, together with BermanBraun. Sponsoring the site, called Mandatory, is Gillette. The site will feature a range of content from video showing viewers how to become a Renaissance Man in 60 seconds or an interactive map of every micro and macro brewery in Ameri  [...]

Game-maker Bows to Power of Social Media

The ending to Mass Effect 3 left many gamers disgruntled--to the point that a petition to the Federal Trade Commission was filed complaining about how the game maker used deceptive advertising in its description of the game. Now its appears Electronic Arts and BioWare are about to cave—but probably not because they fear an inquiry from the FTC. Rather, it is the fury of their fan base they are seeking to appease, which has gaining momentum and a microphone via social media.   [...]

New App Pricing Models May Emerge Under 4G

The newly released updated iPad from Apple has made clear to consumers just how quickly data can be consumed on a 4G network. Reports are emerging about consumers who steamed through their plan's capacity within days. The problem, as one such account in the Wall Street Journal explained, is not solved merely by cutting back on video consu  [...]

Bing Promotes Itself with Adam Lambert Twitter Campaign

Microsoft has booked American Idol alumni Adam Lambert to give a live performance at the Bing Lounge in Portland, Oregon on March 25th. As part of the promotion, Bing is offering an exclusive meet and greet access to one Twitter follower and guest at the show. To win, users have to retweet specific tweets from the @Bing handle to be entere  [...]

Apple May Take Another Shot at Social Networking with Chomp

Apple's social network, Ping, has arguably been one of the company's few failures. Its $50 million acquisition of app search engine company Chomp—first reported by TechCrunch--may be part of a larger plan by Apple to try again. At the very least, speculates Search Engine Land's Greg St  [...]

Pinterest Can Work for Tech Brands Too

There is little doubt that Pinterest is rapidly gaining traction—thus making it a site for marketers and brands to watch. But what kind of brands? For the most part, Pinterest would seem to appeal to female-oriented companies and activities, given its 94%  [...]

Walgreens Steps Up Focus on Check-ins

Walgreens is experimenting with a slew of mobile ad initiatives based around check-ins. The goal of these campaigns is a simple one: get customers into the stores via their mobile devices. Walgreens tapped location-based service LocalResponse for the project,   [...]