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Product Videos and the Conversion Factor

With videos appearing in the 70% of the top 100 search results, companies cannot afford to ignore this channel. So concludes Kissmetrics, which gathered a number of case studies and statistics—including the one above—to make the case that well-done product videos almost inevitably lead to increased sales. It points to housewares e-tailer StacksAndStacks.com, which has said that visitors were 144% more likel  [...]

Toyota Drives Car Closer to Its New Role of Online Marketing Channel

Toyota told us one was coming and now it is almost here: an automobile that not only connects to the Internet but embraces it. As more automobile makers move in this direction, this will become another channel available to digital marketers. Called the Fun-Vii, the concept car debuted at the Tokyo Motor Show this week. Its sleek exterior mimics the look of a smartphone, with both the exterior and interior able to be adjusted to fit the driver’s mood, PC Magazine   [...]

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Transactional Emails as Another Marketing Channel

The list of novel mediums on which to place an online ad continues to grow, from airline boarding passes to checking account statements. Transactional emails - those emails that confirm a purchase or order or delivery - are another,   [...]

Top Weekly Tools: MixRank and Competitors' Campaigns | Post-call Surveys | Google Link Buying

MixRank Provides Insight into Competitors' AdSense Campaigns MixRank has a new competitive intelligence service that allows a company to see AdSense campaigns for similar - that is, competing - products including which strategies have been most successful for those companies. Users can also see the sites that are directing the m  [...]

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Ad Technologies: Google acquires Simplify Media for streaming technology. Microsoft not opposed to Google web video plan. Adobe upgrades Flash, aiming to p  [...]

Industry Buzz & News: 4/22/10

Online Ad Market: Google partners with Bazaarvoice, brings consumer ratings to product searches and ads. Apple corners in-app ad market with changes to developer agreement. Ad Targeting: ShareThis unveils display ad targeting  [...]

Industry Buzz & News: 4/21/10

Ad Technologies: Adobe calls it quits on Flash for the iPhone. Social Media: Is Foursquare's growth boxed in? Spotting the creators of peer   [...]

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Industry Buzz & News: 3/26/10

Publishing: Magazines use the iPad as their new barker. U.K. newspapers to charge for web access. Measurement & Analytics: Facebook Insights to   [...]

Marketers Leverage Customer Initiated Interactions

A sizable majority of North American and European marketers use customer initiated interactions as marketing opportunities and have control of inbound marketing, according to [pdf] a new study from marketing technology provider Unica. Marketers Personalize Customer Initiated Interactions Seventy-three percent of marketers say they currently use targeted/personalized messages in at least one inbound channel. There is notably mor  [...]

One Billion Tweets Strong, Twitter Contemplates Charging for Use

Microblogging service Twitter may be brewing a pay-to-Tweet model for businesses using it to promote wares or connect with consumers. Twitter enables users to publish "microblogs" of up to 140 characters apiece. Last month it ranked among the fastest-growing social networks -- racking up 343% growth year over year. It received between $1 million and $5 million in VC funding   [...]

Juice Media Selects ExactTarget to Handle Email Marketing

Juice Media has selected ExactTarget to power its email marketing efforts. Juice plans to integrate Exact's email marketing platform into its "CRM and Web 2.0 marketing platform," according to DM News. Called JuiceMetrIQs, Juice's "CRM 2.0 platform" ini  [...]

Online Merchants Increasing E-Commerce Budgets for Apps, Services

Nearly 8 of 10 web retailers (78.2 percent) - among chain retailers, catalog companies, virtual merchants and consumer brand manufacturers - plan to increase their spending on e-commerce applications and services this year, according to an Internet Retailer survey of e-commerce technology spending intentions, wri  [...]

For Search Engines, Privacy is the New Black

Major search engines, including Yahoo, Google and MSN, are bending over backward to update retention policies, minding concerns that consumer search data sits in their hands for far too long, according to ZDNet. Recently Ask publicly announced the development of AskEraser, which purges search data completely. And on M  [...]

FIM Buys Ad Tech Firm to Boost MySpace Ad Revenue

Fox Interactive Media has acquired Strategic Data Corp., an ad technology firm that News Corp. hopes will help it maximize the ad revenue for several of Fox's properties, including MySpace, AdWeek reports. SDC uses an ad-serving technology that maximizes the value of each served ad by using yield optimization. FIM plans to use SDC's technology to  [...]

Office Live Leaves Beta, Goes Live with adManager

Office Live, Microsoft's suite of products aimed at helping businesses create a website and develop online advertising for it, has left beta testing is now available. The web-based program, which had been in beta for the last eight months, offers businesses website building and hosting, email accounts and customer management tools, CNET reports. As expected, Office Live includes the be  [...]

ARF Writes the Book on Online Advertising

A new book set to be released in early 2007 by the Advertising Research Foundation attempts to demystify the online advertising market. The Online Advertising Playbook, which will be released in early 2007, is a 320-page handbook for advertisers that need a core understanding of online advertising, ClickZ reports  [...]

Conversions the New Bullseye for Web Marketers

Web marketers are beginning to embrace conversion rates over traffic data as the metrics of choice to measure online advertising's effectiveness. There are two main modes of converting website visitors - the search mode and the pitch mode - writes Scott Brinker, president and CTO of Ion Interactive, in Ad Age. In search mode, the conversion rests in the hands of the user and is organic; paid keywords and SEO are used to  [...]

Salesforce.com, NetSuite Integrate Google AdWords

On-demand customer relationship management software has moved from support for email marketing and the display of real-time data via dashboards to the new must-have - paid search, writes CRM Buyer (via E-Commerce News). Both Salesforce.com and NetSuite  [...]

DoubleClick Starts Carve-Up

DoubleClick, the online technology giant that agreed to sell itself to a group of private investors recently, announced it is piecing off its Enterprise Marketing Management products to Aprimo, a provider of such services to large corporations. When DoubleClick first announced it was o  [...]