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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  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, May 16th 2012

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  [...]
Posted: Monday, May 14th 2012

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  [...]
Posted: Thursday, May 10th 2012

Jelli Offers Terrestrial Radio with Social Media Analytics, Ad Engagement

Social radio provider Jelli is claiming to have “reimagined the radio spot, making it more engaging and interactive.” Jelli promises a radio/social media mashup for advertisers, and now promises it can quantify those exposures with social media analytics. TechCrunch described Jelli  [...]
Posted: Thursday, May 3rd 2012

Google: Why a Mobile Site Over An App?

Google in its adSense blog has offered some pearls of wisdom about prioritizing between mobile sites or mobile apps. Aren't apps the step-change evolution over mobile sites? Not necessarily, advises Google’s app expert Tuyen Nguyen, who offered some questions to consider. First, decide how you want users to access content. Mobile sites require users to have data access, while apps enabl  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, May 2nd 2012

"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 † [...]
Posted: Tuesday, April 24th 2012

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  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, April 14th 2010

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,   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, March 16th 2010

San Francisco's BART Adds Augmented Reality

San Franciso's subway system, the BART, is the latest entity to use augmented reality to grab customers' - or in this case, riders' - attention with a message. Developed by metaio, the application - called junaio - shows transit data such as station locations and estimated arrival times. Riders point the phone's camera and find directions to the nearest BART station and a list of estimated arrivals for the next several tr  [...]
Posted: Friday, March 12th 2010

Premier Retail Networks Adds Fresh Market Stores as DOOH Grows

Premier Retail Networks has contracted to provide its in-store Checkout TV Network to Associated Food Stores Inc.'s newly acquired Fresh Market stores. Associated Food Stores has purchased 34 Albertsons stores throughout Utah, and will be rebranding them as Fresh Market. "Because our customers are our top priority, we wanted a way to inform them about upcoming promotions and product specials in a way that would add to their shopping experience at Fresh Market… which PRN’s Checkout TV N  [...]
Posted: Monday, February 15th 2010

Digital Coupon Growth Outpaces Inserts

During 2009, the growth rate of digital coupons outpaced the typical annual growth rate of free standing insert (FSI) coupons by a factor of more than 10-1, according to Coupons.com. Coupons.com annual data indicates that savings US consumers obtained from digital coupons grew 170% in 2009, compared to a typical annual growth rate of 8-16% for FSI coupons. Printed savings from Coupons.com and the  [...]
Posted: Monday, February 15th 2010

Virtual Goods, Apps, Even E-Cards Part of Facebook's Valentine's Day

Virtual goods, apps and (by now) old-fashioned e-cards are among the various ways one can send a Valentine's Day message on Facebook this year. Virtual goods appear to be the most popular vehicle, although final tallies won't be made until after the holiday on Sunday. 220 Million Virtual Gifts and Counting FarmVille players have already sent more Valentine virtual gifts - 220 million - than all the 152 million Valentines Day cards exchanged all year,   [...]
Posted: Friday, February 12th 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

DOOH Signs Get Smarter under Intel, Microsoft

Intel Corp. and Microsoft Corp. are envisioning a new generation of so-called smart signs that can recognize the age, gender and height of people in front of them. These digital signs could also serve as on-the-spot providers of raw analytics, conveying back to retailers what products and images have received the most attention on the store floor (via the Wall Street Journal).   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, January 12th 2010

Alternative Paths to Online Cause Marketing

URL Shorteners, new revenue-sharing models and the latest in real time search are a few alternative online paths for cause marketing - a space that has come to rely heavily on the internet to get its message out. Consumers who have supported cause marketing efforts are most likely to respond to communications via email, websites and social media networks, according to a study from Cone Research. Another study late last year, by   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, January 12th 2010

Online Charities Make Final Push for 2009

2009 will be known as the year when charities learned to work online communication channels to maximum advantage, if the number and breadth of these campaigns are any indication. Such anecdotal evidence is backed up by a recent study by Convio that found that charities with an online presence can expect to reap more than $4 billion during this holiday season, writes   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, December 30th 2009

SocNets Don't Fare Well in Online Video Promotion

The manner in which people decide which show or video clip to watch on either TV or the internet is very similar - with verbal word of mouth (in-person conversations or phone calls) scoring well above social media as a regularly used source, and TV ads and search engines also playing major roles, according to a research report from Knowledge Networks. The report, "How People Use Video Navigation," explores how advancing technology and increasing viewer control are changing expectations about  [...]
Posted: Monday, December 21st 2009

Virtual Goods Reap Real Sales

Specialty youth-apparel brand Boy Meets Girl is teaming up with online fashion game/community Fashion Fantasy Game to drive real-world sales with virtual goods. As part of the promotion, all Fashion Fantasy Game members will receive a free virtual version of the Boy Meets Girl  [...]
Posted: Friday, December 4th 2009

Retailers Reach Shoppers with Tweeter Holiday Deals

Major retailers in the US are using Twitter this holiday season to engage in instant, one-on-one conversations with their customers about sales, service and technical issues, shopping news, and other topics. The move represents the growing emergence of Twitter as a medium that can serve a range of previously separate outreach functions - including advertising, customer service, and news. Approximately 59% of online retailers plan to increase their use of Twitter this holiday season,   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, December 1st 2009

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 11/30/09

Ad Industry: Ad industry produces ads and logos in response to pending privacy legislation. Holiday Shopping: Amazon tops Black Friday retail web traffic. After 'Black Friday,' industry   [...]
Posted: Monday, November 30th 2009