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Microsoft's Xbox LIVE Beats iPad In Video Viewing, And Has Ad Platform

Sure, you can watch digital TV on your iPad, but suppose you want to watch it in your living room? It seems that the xBox gaming console is the most popular non-computer device to watch streaming video, edging out the Apple iPad by 28.2% to 27.1%. Advantage, Microsoft, which owns the Xbox LIVE digital media delivery service. AllThingsD’s Peter Kafka describ  [...]

Deloitte Digital: A New Marketing Strategist Born Of An Old Consultancy

Investment accelerates Deloitte's leadership position in the global digital market Deloitte Digital, a global service line focused on helping clients harness digital technologies to transform their businesses. Deloitte Digital promises to provide clients with a suite of strategy, creative, user experience, engineering and implementation services across mobile, web, social and di  [...]

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  [...]

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   [...]

"Organic Growth" Is A Valuable Marketing Strategy, Just Not Enough By Itself

Just what is an “organic” strategy? By some definitions, it is an inbound marketing strategy, centered around word of mouth and through engagement. But MarketingTech founder Douglas Karr does not believe it is enough. Karr is also the president and CEO of DK New Media, and as he described, at least one client has invested marketing dollars in just the one strategy—organic growth. Karr likened an † [...]

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Another Concept Car For Marketers to Consider

On display at SXSW is a concept car from General Motors that can stream video. It is the second-generation connected research Chevy Volt and while the market got a sneak peak at its connectivity at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this year, advances have been made since then, USA Today reports. Now the Chevy Volt sports two modified Galaxy Tab tablets that support wir  [...]

E-books Sales to Figure Prominently in Bertelsmann Results

In its preliminary report on 2011 results, Bertelsmann pointed to "rapidly growing" e-book sales at Random House and a good performance of the advertising-driven businesses as one of the drivers for its growth. Unfortunately, the company also said, this growth was offset by other factors such as planned start-up losses for new growth platforms and the weak business performance of some of the printing operations, as well as declines in the replication and direct-marketing businesses.   [...]

Pepsi Turns Recycling Into an Interactive Marketing Moment

Pepsi Co is borrowing from the interactive vending machine model in a new campaign it is testing in several cities. It has installed 1,500 of its so-called Dream Machine interactive kiosks in more than 20 states to date. The kiosks do more than accept recycled bottles and cans. They also offer discounts and coupons at places like Dominos, Johnny Rockets,  [...]

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Marketing Data Roundup: Android mobile web browsing grows 400% in Q2

Following are recent findings by various studies on marketing and advertising-related topics. For a more in-depth look at some of these subjects, visit our sister site, MarketingCharts.com. Android Mobile Web Browsing Grows 400% in Q2 The volume of mobile web browsing from Android phones grew by 400% between Q1 and Q2 2010 in the US,   [...]

The Golden Road (to Unlimited Branding)

While 1960s countercultural jam band pioneers The Grateful Dead do not have an image associated with the traditional business world, they do have much to teach marketers, writes Copyblogger.  [...]

Top Industry News for 7-26-10: NBCU unveils online ad network

Ad Buying & Planning: NBCU launches own digital ad network. Mobile Marketing: Industry group to study how a mobile nation uses media. Social Media: Calculating the   [...]

Technology is the Secret to Getting Men Involved in Couponing, Shopping

Women are primarily responsible for clipping coupons - but men are more likely to seek out coupons if they are online or can be delivered via mobile phone. So says research by The Integer Group and M/A/R/C Research. Coupon, retailer, and brand websites come in right behind newspapers as places where men actively seek out coupons. The increased interest in online coupons indicates that men who are seeking coupons   [...]

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  [...]

Digital Agencies That Aren't So Digital

Digital agencies may talk the talk when it comes to online marketing, but preliminary findings of a survey suggest that they do not follow what they preach. Andrew Ballenthin, president of Sol Solutions, recently conducted a sample review of integrated marketing agencies to see where they were at in their own application of social media as part of their digital media services. One hundred websites were analyzed and within that group 5  [...]

Real Estate Apps Give Agents New Ad Option

Recently-released apps for real estate agents, developed by Visionary Apps, have tweaked this model to give agents an overt way to advertise their services and mine for prospective leads while not disrupting the user experience - at least not too much. The apps - Complete Foreclosures and Complete Homes - list homes for sale nationwide. The Complete Foreclosures app has proven to be popular, making into Apple’s top ten business apps. It lets  [...]

Apple Seeks to Leapfrong Geo-Locational Players with Own App

There have been signs that Apple was interested in the geo-locational and mobile advertising market. Now a patent the company recently filed provides a clearer roadmap as to what Apple may have in mind - a social networking app using geo-locational capabilities that could put it well ahead of Foursquare and other  [...]

Marketers Consider Centralized Decisioning

Although only 25% of marketers currently use centralized decisioning technology, another 40% plan to, according to [pdf] a new study from marketing technology provider Unica. "Centralized decisioning" technology coordinates outbound and inbound marketing through a single system maintaining a comprehensive contact and response history. By allowing marketers to centralize the matching of customers to marketing messages and offers, the technology is   [...]

Marketers Adopt Emerging Channels

More than eight in 10 marketers plan to leverage at least one emerging marketing channel in the next 12 months, according to [pdf] a new study from marketing technology provider Unica. Almost Everyone Uses or Will Use Emerging Channels The internet, combined with broad consumer adoption of mobile, social and rich media technologies, has set in motion a chain reaction in the fragmentation of media and the proliferation of market  [...]

Adspace's New Metrics Offer DOOH Reach, Frequency

Adspace Digital Mall Network is adopting new audience metrics by using Scarborough Research’s mall visit estimates as its base. Scarborough reports the number of people visiting malls and frequency of visits, giving media buyers reach and frequency estimates to help evaluate mall advertising. Addition of Reach and Frequency Historically, Adspace has built its rate card based on mall traffic and applying Nielsen viewing data to the traffic figures to generate overall impr  [...]

Valpak Launches Mobile Coupon Apps

Direct marketer Valpak is taking its coupons mobile. Valpak has recently launched free mobile coupon applications for the Android, iPhone, iPod Touch, and Palm Pre mobile and smartphone platforms. Valpak delivers more than 17,000 offers through the mobile couponing app platform, the same as those available in digital format on Valpak.com,   [...]