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Marketo Introduces Integrated Social Marketing Automation

If customers spend little time interacting with branded social pages, the trick becomes to capture them where they spend the majority of their time; interacting with one another. Marketing automation provider Marketo claims to have solved that problem. In his keynote at Marketo Summit 2012, President and CEO Phil Fernandez announced that the company "is   [...]

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.   [...]

Top News: MillerCoors Severs DraftFCB | Fuse DM, Video | "Twitter Pro?" | Weather.com SoMe Alerts | Spotify Arrives on iPad

Ad Technology: Google Inside adSense Blog: Introducing Redesigned Payments Pages Agencies: MillerCoors Shakes Up Shops, Cuts Ties With DraftFCB Business Strategies: 12 Reasons to   [...]

Surprise: Consumers Want Email, But Want It Their Way

Marketers were right to worry about getting blacklisted and spam-filtered—that is until most consumers became bargain hunters. Market research from email solution provider BlueHornet (reported via eMarketer) found that as of February 2012, 95% of U.S. email users had joined email lists to receive discounts. What that suggests is that consumers are perfectly willing to share personal information with retailers, in excha  [...]

Holiday Shoppers Take Mobile Barcode Scanning Mainstream

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As They Ramp up Social Commerce, Will Brands Remember the Social Piece?

Last week Proctor & Gamble began selling Pampers diapers and wipes - along with an assortment of other products such as Tide, Oral B, Olay and Pantene - through its Pampers Facebook page. P&G has sold its products before via Facebook, namely its pre-sale of Pampers Cruisers with Dry Max; this initiative, though, it   [...]

Discount Site Groupon Goes Hyper Local

Groupon, a site that offers deep discounts for local services such as restaurants, auto detailing, spas and holistic healing, is refining its segmentation even further: in some markets, such as Washington, DC, it has begun offering hyper local discounts. Instead of a coupon served up to the entire region of Northern Virginia, the District and southern Maryland, viewers can ask to see only, say, coupons from southern Maryland. Launched in November 2008 in  [...]

Cox Keeps ValPak Now That It's Digital

Cox Enterprises has decided to keep Largo, Fla.-based Valpak in its corporate family after announcing last year that it was exploring its sale. A number of factors no doubt went into this decision, including the likely dearth of offers during the sharp recession. However Valpak has begun to aggressively enter new forms of media - and Cox has said it believes it has a promising future   [...]

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Senate Sniffs Out Shady Direct Marketing

A recently released Senate Commerce Committee staff report is taking aim at the dark side of 'aggressive' online direct marketing, and has singled out shady and controversial practices by three companies - Affinion, Vertru and Webloyalty, in addition to the hundreds of retailers that have used their services. The report details purchase procedures in which consumers rarely realize they are signing up for a monthly cl  [...]

FDA Declares War on Fruity Cigarettes

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is exercising its recently acquired regulatory authority over the tobacco industry by targeting online ads for cigarette products that are aimed at youth. In this case, the government agency has sent warning letters to several companies selling flavored cigarettes through their websites, directing them to either cease their marketing or sales or bring the products in  [...]

Netflix Model Channels High-End Fashion

A new website is now offering women the chance to rent up to 160 different designer dress styles for a fraction of their retail cost - and then return them after they've been worn. In a model similar to that used by Netflix, Rent the Runway is a rent-by-mail service that loans expensive dresses from designers like Diane Von Furstenberg and Proenza Schouler for about one-tenth their in-store cost. The site, which finishes testing this week, also is  [...]

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 09/21/09

Ad Networks and Analytics: 10 social media strategies from top brands. Seven reasons to ramp up paid search. AdMob vies for mobile advertising network leadership. Agenci  [...]

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,   [...]

Coupious Couples With Local Merchants for On-Demand Coupons

Coupious, a mobile marketing platform that delivers on-demand, location-based coupons to smartphone users, is testing out its service at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. After downloading Coupious from the App Store (for iPhone and iPod Touch) or the Android market (for T-Mobile G1s), smartphone users browse deals in their immediate location (or up to 50 miles away), identified using the phone's GPS technology. Once they find a  [...]

Mobile Marketing Growth Stunted by Per-Message Fees

Per-message fees may kill the business model for SMS and MMS-based marketing, concluded a panel at the CTIA Wireless 2009 Mobile Life conference. 24% of consumers who have received an mobile-based offer respond to such messages,  according to a July survey by the Direct Marketing Association. Given that more than 2.6 billion text messages are sent every  [...]

Case Study: Crutchfield's eNewsletter Makeover

Email marketing faces numerous obstacles: spam filters, high bounce rates and a generation of consumers that are inattentive to marketing messages that do not directly address their interests, or allow for external control, organization, and management. And many marketers do not capitalize on the "key marketing moment" of the first interaction -- or the welcome email -- with just 76% of the l  [...]

Offers.com: Another Day, Another Deal Site

Vertive, an Austin-based performance marketing company, launched a search engine for online deals and coupons, writes Search Engine Land. The site, Offers.com, provides coupons and deals from more than 1,000 merchants. Each is classified by product or service into more than 150 categories with the option of further categorizing these into deals, coupon co  [...]

Link between Subject Line Length, Email Clicks Weaker than Thought

Though shorter email subject lines correlate with higher open and click rates, subject-line word order and content may be just as important to email performance, according to research by Epsilon.   [...]

Google: Checkout Icon Increases Ad Click-Thru 10%

On its Google Checkout page, Google claims a "Checkout" icon can increase ad click-through by 10%. (At least one client, Fred Lerner of e-commerce network Ritz Interactive, claims the Checkout icon increased clickthroughs by 23%.) What's more, Google Checkout users purportedly convert 40% more than shoppers that haven't used Checkout in the past. Google Checkout  [...]

'Best' Holiday Ads: Target, Wal-Mart, Best Buy

Asked which retailer has the best holiday TV commercial, consumers ranked Target, Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Macy's, and Kohl's as favorites, according to a survey conducted for the NRF's Retail Advertising and Marketing Association by BIGresearch. Other retailers on the top 10 list include Sears, Kmart, JCPenney, Old Navy, and Toys "R" Us. (See   [...]