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The CW Creates Digital Studio, Announces Fall "Slate"

While the TV networks are feeling threatened by the online video draw, The CW (Home of "Gossip Girl," "Vampire Diaries" and "90210") has chosen to join the bandwagon. The CW has announced the creation of the CW Digital Studio (CWD), which it bills as an "all-new destination for fresh, original content created exclusively for the digital platform." Launching this fall, CWD wi  [...]
Posted: Monday, May 21st 2012

Top News: Y&R Falkland Flap | Best of CLIOs | MS E-Bookstore | Apple Gaming Dominates | NBC's Streaming Olympics

Campaigns of Note: Ad Steps Into Falklands Dispute; Y&R Condemns Local Office's Work CLIO Awards: Best of the 2012 Winners How Beer Companies   [...]
Posted: Monday, May 7th 2012

Top News: Anheuser-Busch Scolds UFC | Digital Future "Blight?" | Commissions for "Likes" | Vevo Original Shows

Ad Technology: Issuu: A Tool for Marketing, Not Just Magazines Greystripe® Introduces PC-to-Mobile Ad Targeting with ValueClick Audience Mapping Technolo  [...]
Posted: Thursday, April 26th 2012

Is Age More A Factor Than Gender In Social Media Habits?

Facebook alone enjoys broad adoption across age groups and genders, reports Netpop research. As MarketingProfs described the findings, “Other social media sites do not have such ubiquitous appeal." Using women as an example, Facebook's penetration is about 90% among socially-networked adult Americans, and about 92% for networked women aged 18-34; and 35+. But YouTube is far mo  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, April 24th 2012

Top News: Mobile ad opportunities | Steve Jobs dies at 56 | Microsoft may bid for Yahoo

Online Ad Market: Opportunity knocking in mobile ads sector. Business Strategies: Why Microsoft should bid for Yahoo. Microsoft backpeddles,   [...]
Posted: Thursday, October 6th 2011

Mobile Apps Find It Harder to Resist the Temptation of the Kids' Market

Children, as anyone who has watched Saturday morning television can attest, are a huge buying group for many brands, despite their lack of earning power. The lure of this market is increasingly attracting digital advertising - despite pushback from the government that shows no sign of letting up. The NPD Group released a report about the growth of children consuming digital media - and presumably the accompanying ads - nearly the same day as the House Subcommittee on Commerce,   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, October 5th 2011

FTC Keeps Up the Pressure On Children's Online Privacy

Children may not be breadwinners but they certainly have a voice in how a household’s income is spent. Hence, they are eagerly courted by marketers, both on television and increasingly, online. In most cases, such wooing is relatively benign, in the form of kid-friendly content and design. Netflix, for example, just launched its “Just for Kids” section of the website, designed for better navigation for this  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, August 16th 2011

The Shifting Environment for Children's Interactive Ads

Changes appears to be on the horizon for marketers using digital media and advertising strategies to target children, as illustrated by a recent string of unrelated events: the outcry over children running up tabs on Smurf Village app; the Federal Trade Commission's recent guidance on advertising to children, including online advertising, and most recently, a new emphasis by   [...]
Posted: Friday, May 13th 2011

3 Steps to Tailoring a Virtual Goods Campaign to Young People

The bottom line for any successful virtual goods campaign is to really tell a story - and not merely use the campaign as a dressed up excuse to display a product, says Chris Davis, SVP at Gaia Online, a social community for people in their teens and 20s that has used virtual goods in campaigns for Disney's Alice in Wonderland movie and Toy Story 3 video game, to name a few recent examples. This holds true for campaigns aimed at a younger demographic -   [...]
Posted: Monday, June 28th 2010

Facebook, Twitter Grow More than 100%

The Facebook and Twitter social networking sites both experienced triple-digit growth in 2009, according to the comScore Digital Year in Review. Facebook surged to the number one position among social networks for the first time in May 2009 and continued its strong growth trajectory throughout the yea  [...]
Posted: Friday, February 12th 2010

Bargain-Hunting Consumers Choose Print Ads over Online

Age, gender and educational level all play a role in whether a consumer will more inclined to seek out bargains from online ads or print ads, according to a new Adweek Media/Harris Poll survey. In general, the survey found that newspaper and magazine ads are considered the best place to f  [...]
Posted: Monday, January 25th 2010

FDA Declares War on Fruity Cigarettes

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is exercising its recently acquired regulatory authority over the tobacco industry by targeting online ads for cigarette products that are aimed at youth. In this case, the government agency has sent warning letters to several companies selling flavored cigarettes through their websites, directing them to either cease their marketing or sales or bring the products in  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, November 10th 2009

Ford Outpaces Industry with 25% Digital Spend

Ford Motor Company is spending 25% of its marketing budget on digital and social media programs, double the amount of any of its competitors, according to a recent report from BusinessWeek. Industry experts expect that other auto companies are soon likely to follow Ford down the same digital path, though perhaps not quite as aggressively. J.D. Power & Associates estimates that the averag  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, October 21st 2009

Millennials Highly Receptive to Permission-Based Email

Members of the Millennial generation around the world are more digitally connected and more willing to receive permission-based email messages than other segments of the population, but are at the same time more wary and concerned with security and privacy, according to the most recent 2009 Global Consumer Email Study from Epsilo  [...]
Posted: Friday, September 18th 2009

Kids' Online Time Jumps 63% in 5 Years

The number of children between ages two and 11 who go online totaled nearly 16 million in May 2009 and comprised 9.5% of the active internet-using universe in the US. There also has been a 63% increase since 2004 in the amount of time this group spends online, according to (pdf) data from Nielsen Online (  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, July 15th 2009

Half of Communicators Think Twitter's a Fad

More than half (54%) of professional communicators think Twitter is a fad and believe that the burgeoning number of users and tweets will eventually reach a plateau and likely decline, according to a poll by Rag  [...]
Posted: Thursday, July 9th 2009

To Protect Economy, China Sets Limits on Virtual Currency

Online transactions with virtual currency in online gaming has become so widespread in China that the government fears it will affect the actual economy, The New York Times reports. The country is currently one of the world's largest markets for massive multiplayer online games (MMOGs) like World of Warcraft; tens of millions of youth are reportedly trading virtual goods for real money or  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, July 1st 2009

SocNets Still Not Viable Commerce Platforms

Though online social networks continue to post dramatic growth, users still see them as as a way to communicate and interact with one another rather than a means for conducting e-commerce, according to the most recent Consumer Internet Barometer report from The Conf  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, June 24th 2009

Military Ramps Up Social Media Savvy in Pursuit of Fresh Recruits

After condemning them as potential tools for terrorism just six months ago, the US Army is now using Twitter and Facebook to pursue new recruits. Tomorrow's soldiers "live in the virtual world," observed Lt. Gen. Benjamin Freakley (via Newsday), citing Facebook as key to speaking to 18- to 24-year-olds. "You could friend your recruite  [...]
Posted: Friday, May 1st 2009

Netflix Connects Users with Facebook

Online consumer entertainment retailer Netflix, which publicized intentions to focus more on its online content streaming service, is expanding its internet presence through a partnership with social networking site Facebook. Using the Facebook Connect extension of the social networking platform, Netflix customers who are Facebook members can seamlessly link both accounts, the company explains. This will allow Netflix customer  [...]
Posted: Thursday, March 26th 2009