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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  [...]

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   [...]

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,   [...]

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   [...]

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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   [...]

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  [...]

How to Market to People Who Don't Trust Their Friends

A whopping 75% of consumers don’t believe their peers will give them good advice or information about a company, according to Edelman's latest trust barometer. Last year that number was 55%. Yet at the same time activity on social networks such as Facebook shows little sign of slowing. What are marketers to make of these two distinct but conflicting trends - especially as more brands are devoting a greater portion of their online advertising   [...]

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Retailers Can Lure Moms with Social Media, Free Stuff

Retailers trying to influence moms should pay close attention to their social media efforts and also focus on free items, promotions and discounts, according to a Retail Advertising and Marketing Association (RAMA) survey conducted by BIGresearch. It found that women with children at home are more likely to use Facebook (60.3%), MySpace (42.4%) and Twitter (16.5%) than average adults (50.2%, 34.4%, 15.0%, respectivel  [...]

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 01/13/10

Campaigns: Coors deploys handheld game to bars for Super Bowl build up. Search: Google threatens to pull out of China, citing censorship, hack attacks. AdWords' policy adjustment for display   [...]

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  [...]

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 12/17/09

Ad Platforms: AOL clarifies what Seed could mean for advertisers. Search: Google unveils tool to see how others view a website. Google enhances analytics API.   [...]

Local Service Companies Intrigued by Pay Per Call

Local service companies such as attorneys, dentists and credit and debt counseling firms are primed to embrace pay per call advertising platforms next year. Pay-per-call models in general are poised to experience explosive growth in 2010, according to Telmetrics. If 2009's activity is any guide, it will be local campaigns driving adoption next year - the number of local search pay-per-call advertising programs the company monitors tripled from January 2009 to June 2009,   [...]

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 12/15/09

Strategies: The future of geo-targeting is here. Stats: Study: connecting with friends via Facebook more popular than texting, email. Retailer emails   [...]

Female Consumers Increase Social Networking

A majority of U.S. women use social networking sites, and half of them say social networking sites influence their shopping habits. These are some of the key findings from a new study on online socials networking among women performed by social media platform SheSpeaks. According to the SheSpeaks Second Annual Media Study, 86% of U.S. women now have a profile on at lea  [...]

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 12/10/09

Media: AOL to think locally now. Pluribus & Guggenheim Acquire Eight Nielsen Brands, Including THR, BB & Adweek. Online Ad Strategies: Using SEO to   [...]

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   [...]

Retailers Enlist E-cards to Cut Through Crowded Inboxes

In an attempt to make their messages stand out in increasingly cluttered online mailboxes this holiday season, a number of retailers are using digital greeting cards to entice customers into their stores. Dancing with Elves OfficeMax is continuing its popular ElfYourself.com campaign for the third year. By uploading photos to the platform, consumers can create fr  [...]

WOM Stars in Hollywood; Plays Leading Roles Elsewhere

Movie studios and music houses are tapping social media not only to generate digital word-of-mouth (WOM) appeal - a strategy first deployed to great success with the Blair Witch Project more than 10 years ago - but also to listen to fans' judgments of film and music and make decisions based on them.  Though Hollywood has always intuitively understood the power of WOM marketing, such buzz usually paled in comparison to the publicity generated by mammoth-sized advertising a  [...]

Social Media Drives Increased Email Use

Despite an initial hypothesis that increased time on social networks might be taking Americans away from their email, a Nielsen Company analysis found that the heaviest social media users actually use email more, perhaps because of the steady stream of messages that social networks dump into participants' inboxes. For the informal r  [...]