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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   [...]

Microsoft Research: Target Young Men Online, But Know Their (Changing) Habits

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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  [...]

Industry Calls for Standardized Email Metrics

The Email Experience Council is pushing to standardize metrics it has developed after a two-year research endeavor that included surveying dozens of email broadcast vendors. The bottom-line reason for its call for industry-accepted metrics, it says in its blog, is that it has become impossible to compare response and deliverability rates when terms are based on different calculations. The   [...]

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 12/16/09

Campaigns: New York Media partners with Clickable for local web ad sales. Email Marketing: AOL's take on permission versus request. Sharing content generates most emails. Search:   [...]

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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   [...]

Risk Info in Pharma Ads Ignored by 41% of Americans

More than four in 10 (41%) US consumers pay little or no attention to risk information presented by pharmaceutical companies in their TV commercials, and only half (50%) pay attention to such disclosures in print ads, according to a study by ORC Guideline, which attributes the problem to information overload. The research, which is the latest effort in the company's "Und  [...]

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 12/02/09

Online Media: Google offers publishers limit on free news access. New AOL gambit could undermine premium content goals. Ad Metrics: Under threat, Nielsen accelerates plan to measure online video. Ad Indu  [...]

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Online Ad Platform Snares Nielsen for Household-Level Targeting

Nielsen and DataLogix are working together to push household-level online ad targeting, using Nielsen’s PRIZM demographic and lifestyle data. The move, both companies say, will improve the ability of online advertisers to reach consumers most likely to buy their products and services. Quest for Household-Level Accuracy The combined effort represents the first time brand advertisers will be able to use Nielsen’s PRIZM segmentation at a household-level of accuracy in the  [...]

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  [...]

Online Media Ad/Promo Use Eclipses Traditional Among SMBs

For the first time, the small and mid-sized businesses using online media for advertising/promotion has eclipsed the percentage using traditional media, reports The Kelsey Group and ConStat. The ongoing Local Commerce Monitor study examines SMBs and how they spend ad and promotional budgets. The report also found: SMBs reduced spend on ads and promotion 23.5% from August '08 to '09 Spend on websites and profile pages rose 26.8% in the same time period, despite a marked   [...]

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  [...]

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).   [...]

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  [...]

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  [...]

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.   [...]

Online & Email Newsletters Jump 475%

The number of online and email newsletters jumped from 1,053 to 6,055 over the last five years, an increase of 475%. Meanwhile, print-only newsletters decreased 43% from 7,395 to 4,180, and those in both print and electronic formats remained about the same (4,859 vs. 4,949), according to Mediafinder.com. The newsletter data reflects listings in the 2009 edition of the Oxbridge Directory of Newsle  [...]

Online Display Spend Rises 8.2%; Ad Spend at Large Falls 14.2%

Total measured ad expenditures in the first quarter of 2009 plunged 14.2% vs. a year ago, to $30.18 billion, according to data released by TNS Media Intelligence (via MarketingCharts). This plunge followed a 9.2  [...]

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.   [...]

April's Top Ad Networks: Platform-A, Yahoo Lead Pack

AOL's Platform-A remains the top ad network in the US, reaching nearly 176.5 million US internet users, or 91.5% of the total audience, based on April ad-network rankings released by comScore, Inc, reports MarketingCharts. Platfor  [...]