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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

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

Too Intrusive? Too Conservative? Here's How Promoted Tweets Can Work

Twitter has introduced - partially, with more details to follow - its long-awaited path to monetization. Called Promoted Tweets, the ad platform lets advertisers bid on keywords on a CPM basis. The ad shows up in a related search but remains fixed so it doesn’t disappear in a torrent of Tweets. Users will only ever see one Twitter ad at a time, which will retain all the functionality of a regular Tweet including replying, retweeting, and favoriting,   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, April 13th 2010

Industry Buzz & News: 4/01/10

Publishing: iPad to launch with payload of ads. Publishers bet future on iPad they have not seen yet. Amazon gives way on e-book pricing.   [...]
Posted: Thursday, April 1st 2010

Local Reviews Gold for Advertisers - If They Have a Plan in Place for the Disgruntled

Smart Momma, a baby gear and gifts retailer, started tracking visitors to its site when it did a redesign in 2008 - which was also around the same time that it started using an online reputation management company, Ratepoint. According to owner Heather Burns, the site’s visitors increased threefold from June 2008 to June 2009. From December 2008 to December 2009, visitors increased by 16%. Revenues increased more than 100% from all of 2000 to all of 2009.   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, March 10th 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

AOL Rebrands on the Cheap

AOL is preparing for its spinoff from Time Warner on Dec. 9 with a new look and go-to-market strategy. The company has unveiled a new logo - or rather, a set of interchangeable logos - to promote the breadth of the company's content and digital assets. "It's one consistent logo with countless ways to reveal," AOL said in its announcement. More details about the strategy will be revealed on D  [...]
Posted: Monday, November 23rd 2009

Print Publishers Step Up Mobile Efforts, Big-Time

More than 70% of US print publishers in a recent survey say that mobile is receiving more attention at their publication this year than last, though only about one-third believe they have a well-developed plan for attacking and conquering the mobile market, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC), which conducted the research.   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, September 22nd 2009

Twitter Adds Ad/Spam Clause to ToS

Late last week, co-founder Biz Stone sent an email to news outlets informing them of changes to Twitter's Terms of Service. An overview appears on Twitter's blog; but in short, they follow thus (from the blog): Advertising—In the Terms, we leave the door open for advertising. We'd like to keep our options open as we've said before. Ownership—Twitter is allowed to "use, copy, repr  [...]
Posted: Monday, September 14th 2009

Dell, Moonfruit Claim Twitter Campaigns Effective

At a Twitter for Brands event hosted by New Media Age in London on Friday, Dell representatives said they have seen tangible uplifts in sales which can be directly attributed to marketing on Twitter. The brand's Twitter account has driven $3 million in sales since it began operation in 2007. Moonfruit, a website builder, also said Twitter campaigns have helped the brand. Moonfruit said it spent around 10,000 pounds ($16,400) on prizes for the campaign  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, August 25th 2009

GOOG Local Business Adds Link-to-Coupon Feature

A recent addition to the Google Local Business Center enables companies to link directly to coupons listed on Google Maps. Links can go to all coupons or individual ones. The little-known coupon feature in Google Maps was introduced two years ago and has received little visibility -- something that may change slightly with the integration of direct links to coupons,   [...]
Posted: Monday, August 17th 2009

Bing May Power Yahoo Search

As the two companies draw close to concluding a long, tumultuous courtship, word has it that Microsoft's Bing may, in the future, power Yahoo's search engine, Advertising Age reports. The revenue share-based liaison would make Yahoo, the second most widely-used search engine in the United States, a more formidable competitor against Google, which   [...]
Posted: Monday, July 27th 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

Facebook Advertisers: Target by Member, Non-Member, Multiple Countries, Birthday

Facebook has released three new filters for its ads program, equipping advertisers to make addressable audiences more granular. Connections lets advertisers target the members of groups, pages, or events they own. They can also target users that aren't already members, meaning ads encouraging either participation in a group, or joining a group, go directly to the most relevant user without any overlap. All Face  [...]
Posted: Thursday, July 16th 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

Twitter to Launch Verified Accounts for Public Officials, Brands, Celebs

Facing a lawsuit with Tony La Russa, the manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, who complained about someone impersonating him on the site, Twitter is implementing a Verified Accounts process. La Russa sued Twitter in early May for cybersquatting, trademark infringement and misappropriation of his name and likeness, after someone registered the handle "tonylarussa" on Twitter and posed as the Cardinals manager. The suit has been settled out of court,  [...]
Posted: Monday, June 8th 2009

Twittad Brings Sponsored Hashtags to Land Rover Effort

Land Rover launched an integrated campaign using Twitter and out-of-home venues like billboards and taxi TVs. The campaign uses "hashtags," or words used in tweets that make it easier to follow a conversation via online searches, in out-of-home venues to spread word of the Twitter-based effort, reports MediaBuyerPlanner. The effort attempts to build conversations around   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, April 21st 2009

Glam 'Tinkers' with 'Twitter for Journalists'

Lifestyle content network Glam Media has launched Tinker, a Twitter-style platform tailored to journalists, bloggers and PR professionals. Crucially, Glam also claims Tinker is "the first safe monetization model for brand advertisers" seeking exposure in the microblogging space. In tandem with Tinker, a Tinker Micro-Blogger Network was released. Tinker aggregates conversations on specific topics or events being discussed on Twitter, Friendfeed and Facebook, among other brands. This way, us  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, April 1st 2009

Twitter Posts Meteoric 1,382% YoY Growth

Twitter experienced 1,382% year-over-year growth in February 2009, with the number of total unique visitors increasing from 475,000 in February 2008 to seven million last month, according to Nielsen Online. This increase makes Twitter the fastest growing member community site for the month.   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, March 25th 2009

Google Tests Ads on iPhone Apps

VentureBeat has confirmed that Google is testing an ad program on Urbanspoon, an iPhone application that introduces local restaurants to users; and Backgrounds, a mobile wallpaper directory. The ads are text-based and feature one company at a time, just below the browser bar. Clicking on it guides users to information about the advertiser; or, in some cases,   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, March 18th 2009