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Local Ad Dollars Go Mobile And Online: Who Buys Them, In What Formats?

Local ad spending will experience a compound annual growth of 2.6% through 2016, but online and mobile will lead the way with double-digit growth, compared to TV, radio and print. And technology and retail will lead that growth, with local search leading the formats. That according to BIA/Kelsey's Media Ad View reports, which projects that local ad revenues   [...]
Posted: Thursday, May 17th 2012

Top News: GM Quits Facebook | Agencies After Accenture, Deloitte | Ebook Suit Forward | Mobile Shoppers Like Text

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Posted: Wednesday, May 16th 2012

Google, DudaMobile Offer A Five-Minute Web-To-Mobile Site Conversion

It has been a little over a month since Google partnered with DudaMobile, the do-it-yourself mobile website builder. The partners are offering a quick “test drive” to see what a converted website looks like in a mobile format, with a rating (1 to 5) of mobile friendliness. The companies on April 5th announced a joint effort to expand GoMo, a Google-led initiative to help businesses “Go Mobile.”   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, May 9th 2012

New App Pushes Newspaper Display Ads, Daily Deals to Facebook

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Posted: Friday, May 4th 2012

Top Toolkit News: Lyris' real-time conversion and revenue tracking

E-Mail Marketing Lyris has released a real-time conversion and revenue tracking tool as part of its HQ application that allows marketers to view how visitors respond to e-mail and site content while tracking campaign results in real-time. The tool provides data on a campaign's visitors, click-throughs, conversions and revenues generated by specific e-mail. Market Research Ma  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, July 20th 2010

Virgin Gives Free Tickets to 'Influencial' Tweeters

Virgin America is turning to Twitter again to market its latest destination, Toronto. Unlike an earlier foray on Twitter, this time the airline is being a little more selective about who is getting the offer. Virgin America has teamed up with Klout,  a start up that "identifies influencers across the social web" to find the most likely Twitter users to give away free tickets from San Francisco or Los Angeles  [...]
Posted: Friday, June 25th 2010

My Favorite Online Marketing Tool

Every week, it seems, vendors introduce new tools for online marketing - from analytics applications to email marketing suites to online video tools. The constant onslaught got us at MarketingVOX thinking: of all these offerings, which do marketers like the best? We asked around and following are the results of our informal survey. Onl  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, May 19th 2010

4 Tricks to Battle Banner Ad Blindness

The display ad industry may be a $20 billion business with such giants as Yahoo and Google throwing millions at its development, but it has yet to solve a fundamental problem: consumers have learned long ago to ignore banner ads. The industry has a name for the problem - banner blindness - and even such luminaries as Google's Neal Mohan, vice president of product management, has referred to it at industry events. "Consumers have really learned to ignore all the banner ads they see on the I  [...]
Posted: Monday, March 22nd 2010

The North Face Sends Texts to Users Near Stores in Location-Based Campaign

The North Face is taking advantage of geo-targeting capabilities on mobile devices to send text messages to potential customers whenever they are near a store that carries North Face gear. The campaign is based in and around New York, San Francisco, Seattle and Boston, and text alerts are sent only to those who have opted in to receive such messages, reports The New York Times. Such location-based advertis  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, February 23rd 2010

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 12/04/09

Ad Campaigns: New Droid ad claims iPhone is clueless. Southwest Airlines tests Facebook video contest. Online Media: Google CEO deflects blame for news media woes. Google   [...]
Posted: Friday, December 4th 2009

Only 8% of Advertisers Deem Twitter an Effective Promo Tool

Though Twitter is currently a media darling, only 8% of advertisers and consumers think it's an effective promotion tool, according to (pdf) results from a LinkedIn Research Network/Harris Poll. The study found advertisers are more likely than consumers to know about Twitter and are more likely to believ  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, July 28th 2009

Mobile Search in W. Europe to Hit 2.3B Euros by '13

Mobile search ad revenues in Western Europe will grow from €39 million in 2008 to €2.3 billion in 2013, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 125.4%, according to a report from BIA's The Kelsey Group (via MarketingCharts).   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, July 28th 2009

EyeWonder Helps Fox, GE Pontwificate with Users

To promote Season One of "Dollhouse," out on DVD and Blu-ray on July 28, Fox Home Entertainment launched a rich media ad that streams Twitter tweets and enables users to engage in conversation through the ad itself. The unit was developed with help from EyeWonder and Moxie. It showcases tweets from the feed of Eliza Dushku, star of "Dollhouse," and encourages users to jump in by logging in with existing Twitter accounts. Submissions are manually screened, after which tweets are permitted t  [...]
Posted: Thursday, July 23rd 2009

Mobile Coupon Users Want More Junk Food

Consumers in the UK who have redeemed discounts and coupons via their cell phone prefer to receive offers for cookies, chips, candy and other snack items rather than necessities such as toilet paper and soap, according to a mobile survey conducted by Mobilize Systems to gauge consumers' interest in different types of product promotions offered via mobile devic  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, July 22nd 2009

Hacked Accts Divulge Twitter's Thirst for Solvency ... and Meditation

A French hacker that managed to penetrate a number of sensitive Twitter employee accounts has leaked documents that reveal the company's financial ambitions, pending profit models and a "growing sense of entitlement" among its workers, Valleywag reports. The hacker, who goes by the pseudo Hacker Croll, accessed the email, Paypal, Amazon, Apple, AT&T, MobileMe, and Gmail accounts of higher-ups  [...]
Posted: Thursday, July 16th 2009

Patent Filings Divulge Ad Model for Kindle

Over the last 30 days, the US Patent Office has published several patents for Amazon that lend insight on the company's future plans for its Kindle book reader. One patent, filed in December 2006, will grant customers that purchase a print copy of a book the ability to access the electronic version as well. Two other patents go into detail about incorporating targeted advertising in on-demand content on Kindle. Under the terms of the patents, Amazon could inserts ads throughout its eboo  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, July 7th 2009

Most Marketers Pursue Email, Social Media Marriage

Two-thirds of email marketers plan to integrate their email and social media campaigns in the second half of 2009. 48% have already formulated a strategy for achieving this initiative, according to a survey by StrongMail Systems, Inc.   [...]
Posted: Thursday, July 2nd 2009

FetchBack Brings Privacy Data, Opt-Outs to Behavioral Ads

This week, FetchBack began adding a link in its behavioral ads that tell users how such ads were delivered -- as well as how they can opt out. "By providing greater consumer disclosure and clarity, Fetchback can enhance the consumer's ability to exercise meaningful choice," said President/CEO Chad Little. "It was only logical to deliver this information within the ad itself, rather than have consumers go to an advertiser’s privacy policy to fish through for details." Spearheads of the be  [...]
Posted: Friday, June 12th 2009

Image Ads Appear in AdSense Link Units

Users that implement AdSense Link Units can now add image ads to their marketing mix. Link Units are alternative text links to text ads that showcase topics relevant to the content on your site. When visitors click on them, they are brought to a standard, ad-infused AdSense page. Now those pages contain relevant image ads in addition to text. Prese  [...]
Posted: Thursday, May 28th 2009

Online Classifieds Use Doubles in 4 Years, Eat Newspapers' Profit

A study by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project finds that nearly half (49%) of global online adults used online classified ads at some point -- compared to 2005, when 22% of online adults had used them. On any given day, one-tenth of online users (9%) visit an online classified site, up from 4% in '05.   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, May 27th 2009