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Cola Brands Continue Quest for Happiness

The Coca-Cola Company is launching a new social media program that will send three bloggers around the world in search of what makes people happy, as part of the latest push in the soft drink brand's "Open Happiness" campaign. Coke, which announced the online campaign at the beginning of the year, appears to be highlighting the very same themes of optimism and positivity shared by its arch-rival, Pepsi-Cola, through its "Refresh Everything" promotion. As part of the Coke "Expedition 206”  [...]

Veodia Snaps Up Screen Capture Startup

Enterprise video firm Veodia has purchased ScreenToaster, a web-based screen recording platform vendor based in Paris, France. ScreenToaster enables users to record the contents of their screens, then share and stream those videos in Flash format. The content can be embedded onto sites or sent via email. It launched in private beta eight months ago; the founders say it has enjoyed 40% month-to-month average user grow  [...]

LinkedIn, Sage Ink Engagement-Building Promo Deal

UK-based tech firm Sage has inked a partnership with LinkedIn to promote its ongoing Business Brains campaign. TrainYourBusinessBrain.com subtly promotes Sage's business services and software offerings while streaming video interviews from "business brains," such as Yo! Sushi founder Simon Woodroffe, and material from the Krypton Factor. Five mental agility tests also give users their "business IQ." The site will be promoted across certain p  [...]

Trends in Leadership Conferences: Fewer Keynotes, More Tweeting

Two-thirds (62%) of global conference organizers say the demand for executive conferences increased in the past three years. 46% claim it is still growing despite the recession, according to a survey by Weber Shandwick (  [...]

SanDisk Uses Social Channels to Push Cyber Monday Sale

Data storage firm SanDisk enlisted Cohn & Wolf to promote a three-day sale across social networks. Sale items include MP3 players, Flash memory cards and USB drives, for example. Instead of advertising with ads and flyers, SanDisk hopes to "reach consumers in an engaging way," reports ClickZ. Using social media instead of ad buys also made the effort a lot cheaper, a SanDisk spokesman admitted. Calling it a "seeding campaign," Cohn  [...]

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News Releases Not Just for Press, Serve Wide Variety of Functions

Press releases have historically been used by PR professionals to attract the attention of journalists and media outlets, but today's online news releases are now used by many types of marketers and small-business owners seeking to reach bloggers and customers, improve SEO results and drive website traffic, according to a  [...]

Journos Use New Media More than PR Pros Think

Getting real-time, 24/7 online access to company news and reaching responsive and efficient PR representatives still rate high on journalists' wish-lists. However, reporters increasingly source stories from new forms of media as well, according to research from Bulldog Reporter and TEKgroup International, Inc, MarketingCharts   [...]

Most Online Media Outlets Use Video to Cover News

Nearly two-thirds (65%) of "web influencers" at media outlets with an online presence say their organizations use video in online coverage of news stories, and 77% believe the use of online video will increase over time, according to a survey by D S Simon Productions, writes MarketingCharts.   [...]

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Journalist Views on Social Media's Influence on Reporting Differ by Beat

Journalists actively read and create online content, but their level of engagement varies by beat. And political reporters lead the pack, according to a new study of North American journalists' views of social media, particularly blogs, MarketingCharts reports. The study from Brodeur and   [...]

How-To: Using Twitter to Build Brand Integrity

Enterprise blogging has been lauded for its ability to "humanize" a company and make distant executives feel available to ground-floor customers. Twitter can serve the same purpose much more quickly. Twitter spearheads the "microblogging" trend, where people air thoughts and share information in real-time while observing a 140-character limit. Here are tips for get  [...]

American Idol Charity Effort Tests Sponsors' PR Savvy; ExxonMobil Proves a Peach

Direct marketing firm SendTec examined the TV sponsors for Idol Gives Back, an event during which American Idol viewers were admonished to donate to charities. Sponsors included ExxonMobil, Ford, Coca-Cola, AT&T, iTunes, Allstate and the M·A·C AIDS Fund. The study profiles how well ExxonMobil, iTunes, Ford and Coca-Cola maximized their public relations. ExxonMobil  [...]

Google News to Host Content from Major Media Services

The Associated Press reports that Google has begun hosting AP-produced news, as well as the content of three other major news services. By hosting the stories and photographs proffered by other news sites, Google no longer has to send users to other destinations in order to read complete versions of a story. Other news organizations included in the deal include the UK's Press Association, Agence  [...]

Communications Spend to Reach $1 Trillion in '08; Internet to Surpass All Ad Segments in 2011

Total communications spending increased 6.8 percent to a record $885.2 billion in 2006, having expanded at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.9 percent from 2001 to 2006 (and exceeding GDP growth in both periods), according to exclusive data released today by Veronis Suhler Stevenson (VSS), MarketingCharts   [...]

Coke Catches Viral Fever, to Host New Coke-Mentos Clip

A wary Coca-Cola at first distanced itself from the exploding Diet Coke and Mentos viral video phenomenon, fearing a loss of control over its brand, but it has now fully embraced the concept. Coca-Cola has signed a formal deal with Fritz Grobe and Stephen Voltz, the creators of the first exploding Diet Coke-Mentos video, and using an exploding-soda video has unveiled its most recent "Coca-Cola Chall  [...]

Bubble Burst Onliners' Status; Second Boom Hasn't (Yet) Brought It Back

In the early days - back when people were saying, "Have you heard of the Internet?" - marketers looked askance at careers in interactive marketing. It was risky and low status. It would take the half-decade from 1993 to 1998 for it to become the hot market that college students everywhere sought to join. In the couple years of the first internet boom, ad agencies paid premiums of 20 percent to hire interactive media buyers, promoted inexperienced account and creative staff and in many cases caus  [...]

Cross-Media Study: Web a Dominant Buyer Influence

DoubleClick's annual Touchpoints Survey reveals that the web is t  [...]

Unilever: Will Triple Online Spend

Unilever, noting the success of integrated online campaigns it has run for brands like Axe, Dove, Hertog and Conimex, said it would triple spending on online marketing in the coming year, according to Poynter Online. Unilever claims of online ad spending intentions have proven optimistic in the past, however. In pre-bubble days, Unilever even once said it would spend $1 billion in online marketing, a strategy that got lost on the wa  [...]

WB to Debut TV Series on AOL First

AdWeek: WB's 'Jack & Bobby' to Debut on AOL The WB Network will air the debut of a new series, "Jack & Bobby," on the AOL network before it airs on television. Time Warner owns both networks. The online preview is billed as the first time a complete debut episode has been shown online before broadcast. WB hopes the event will generate an online buzz for the September 12 premiere.   [...]

PETA Site Integrates with Cow Pope Events

PETA, that bastion of terrible taste, certifiable insanity and incredibly creative and over-the top PR stunts, showed up yesterday at St Patrick's Cathedral with a Popemobile displaying their 10-foot statue of a cow dressed as the Pope, complete with a bovine crucifix. The stunt is integrated with their ever-expanding   [...]

Dean Advisor: Campaign Won Growth by Sacrificing Control

iMedia: Mouse Pads and Shoe Leather iMedia's interview with Howard Dean campaign helper David Weinberger provides a review of what worked with the explosive growth of the Dean campaign's grassroots effort. The main message: by giving up control over the movement, the campaign sacrificed predictability for rapid growth. The conversation draws interesting parallels in brand marketing.   [...]