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Top News: DG Buys Peer39 | Porsche's QR Strategy | Google, FB Lobby | FB Revenue Falls | Netflix Vs. Comcast

Business Buzz: TV Ad-Services Company DG Buys Ad-Tech Startup Peer39 for $15.5 Million Business Strategies: How time of day   [...]

More Brands Eyeing the Interactive TV Ad Format

Just before the start of the holidays a handful of companies announced plans to add interactive TV to their online marketing strategies. InterContinental Hotels Group said it would expand its booking solution across the Android platform for the Kindle Fire and other Android tablets --- as well as Google TV. "As consumers embrace new devices like tablets and interactive televisi  [...]

New Regs Coming for E-Mail Marketers

New privacy legislation introduced in the House of Representative last month along with two recent actions by the Federal Trade Commission suggest that email marketers are likely to find new regulations - and new interpretations of existing legislation -  impacting their industry. There are several provisions in a proposed bill on online privacy that are worrisome to the industry, according to comments made by panelists during the annual Email Experience Council's legislative webinar update.  [...]

4 Additional Ways to Sell to Mobile Consumers

Local coupons.  Check. The ability to pay for a purchase directly from your phone. Check. Maybe a touch of augmented reality technology to add some flair.  Check. These have become the staples of any sophisticated mobile marketi  [...]

eBay Launches Rainforest Preservation Marketing Efforts

eBay has launched two green initiatives to position itself as a conservationist in the eyes of consumers. The online marketplace has unveiled a new green shopping hub that will help consumers find millions of green products, and launched its eBay Green Team Challenge that commits the online giant to save up to a quarter of a million acres of rainforest for consumers who reuse,   [...]

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4 Things to Remember As You Twitter

Recently Alex Payne, an engineer at Twitter, posted the following message: "If you had some of the nifty site features that we Twitter employees have, you might not want to use a desktop client. (You will soon.)" This seemingly benign Tweet, which has since been deleted from Payne’s Twitter stream, resulted in storm among third party Twitter developers - and inspired a revisit of rules marketers should keep in mind as they use this medium to promote their own companies and products.   [...]

Southwest, Smith Clash Illustrates Blogs' Marketing Role

It has been suggested that social media has pushed aside, to a certain extent, more traditional forms of marketing outreach such as press releases and corporate blogs. But the recent clash between Southwest Airlines and actor-director Kevin Smith illustrates blogs are necessary when you have a story to tell that goes beyond 140 characters. They also, when the content is compelling enough, can outperform other forms of marketing. Person of Size The clash between Smith and S  [...]

1.1M Nestle Cookies Sent in Virtual Goods Campaign

A recent virtual goods campaign for Nestle Toll House resulted in more than 1.1 million Nestle Toll House virtual cookies sent, an ad engagement rate of 3% and a 17% purchase intent lift of 17%. For users on Facebook who participated in the campaign that translated into more than 4,300 photos uploaded. The campaign, developed by AdNectar, inserted Nestle Toll House branded cookies into the catalogs of top Facebook applications. As people sent them, an  [...]

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Vaseline's Interactive Ad Gets Skin in the Game

A pre-role ad for Vaseline's Sheer Infusion skin lotion has generated more viewer engagements than typical pre-roll ads because of the interactive features embedded in the video, according to video ad network ScanSout. ScanScout ran a campaign for the Unilever brand this fall using a new ad format it recently introduced called "Super Pre-Roll Unit." It's a normal pre-roll, but  [...]

McDonald's Augments Brand with Avatar Campaign

McDonald's is introducing its own version of augmented reality - marketing-style - in conjunction with this Friday's opening of the expected blockbuster film Avatar. The fast food chain has developed an interactive game that explores Pandora, the world where Avatar takes place, via high-resolution, 360-degree views - among  [...]

Delta's DOOH Campaign Targets New York Frequent, Int'l Flyers

A digital out-of-home campaign aimed at increasing awareness of Delta Airline's flight schedule in the New York City area accomplished its task - by a measure of more than 28%. From February to mid June, the airline and its ad agency, Digitas, ran a campaign using both DOOH and traditional media.  Edison Research, which surveyed consumers prior to the launch and during it, also found that business travelers' perception of Delta's international schedule increased by 26% and overall awareness b  [...]

Does Whitelisting Work? Origins Test Says Yes

Sender reputation is still an important metric for email marketers to monitor even as ISPs shift to a domain-based reputation system. Whitelisting is a key tactic in maintaining a positive sender reputation - and as a recent test by Origins Natural Resources Inc., discovered, it can also le  [...]

Grocery Stores Spiff Up Digital Offerings

Grocery stores are increasingly turning to digital strategies - from mobile Apps to industry-specific ad platforms - to enhance their overall sales. An example of the former is Whole Foods Market, which rolled out an iPhone App earlier this year and has now launched a version of its e-commerce site optimized for web-enabled mobile devices  [...]

Cox Keeps ValPak Now That It's Digital

Cox Enterprises has decided to keep Largo, Fla.-based Valpak in its corporate family after announcing last year that it was exploring its sale. A number of factors no doubt went into this decision, including the likely dearth of offers during the sharp recession. However Valpak has begun to aggressively enter new forms of media - and Cox has said it believes it has a promising future   [...]

Luxury Retailers Gravitate to Stigma-Free Mobile Coupons

Certain brands like Crate & Barrel are more willing to offer coupons via smartphones compared to traditional avenues. That's because mobile coupons - delivered via sleek and expensive smartphones - are sexy and novel, says Greg Grunberg, co-creator of Yowza, a mobile computing application that allows users to search for nearby, participating retailers either via zip code or by using the device's GPS. Retailers in Yowza's program include Toys R' Us, Babie  [...]

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 12/09/09

Media Strategies: NYTimes, Washington Post partner with Google to create living stories. Digital publications may be a hard sell. Yahoo to sell HotJobs for right pric  [...]

EyeBuyDirect Builds Sales with Share-to-Social, Analytics

EyeBuyDirect.com, a site that sells prescription eyeglasses, has been using a mix of strategies to convert causal browsers to sales. These strategies range from virtual imaging tools for the frames, to simple online surveys, to feedback analytics - to a twist on the push to social buttons that are becoming prevalent on email marketing messages. The multi-tiered approach has been a winning one, according to Roy Hessel, CEO of EyeBuyDirect.com: the sit  [...]

Online Recipe Sites See Pre-Thanksgiving Surge

Online recipe and cooking sites are hot commodities right now and - if last year's stats are any indication - are not likely to see any decrease in traffic before the end of the year. In 2008, the first and highest peak in visits to these sites took place on the days before Christmas and Thanksgiving - the second happened three to four days prior to the holidays, according to Heather Dougherty, research director at Hitwise, who   [...]

NASA Puts Social Media on Rocket Trajectory

NASA's move to give 100 Twitter users front-row seats at the Kennedy Space Center for the Nov. 16 liftoff of the space shuttle Atlantis propelled the US space agency into the stratosphere of trending topics the day before the launch. The 100 tweeters, also known as tweeps, attracted more than 150,000 followers, making the event the third-most-popular topic for the day. In an   [...]

Luxury Brands Move Online to Compete with Discounters

Saks Fifth Avenue, the upscale brick-and-mortar retailer, is experimenting with short online “private event” sales as means to compete with increasingly popular high-end discount websites. Saks' new offering, called "Fashion Fix," comes as the luxury department-store chain struggles to find new sources of revenue in the current economy. Though luxury retailers have traditionally been slow to adapt to web-based sales and maketing tactics, a recent Bain & Co. report projects 20% growth i  [...]