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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.   [...]
Posted: Monday, March 8th 2010

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  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, November 4th 2009

VW Races to iPhone with GTI Ad-App

Volkswagen is, not surprisingly, launching a marketing campaign for its upcoming 2010 Volkswagen GTI. What is surprising is that the campaign is rolling out in the form of an iPhone App – and at least for the time being - will be limited to that platform. The free app, which is called "Real Racing GTI," puts players on the fictional Mayapan Beach racetrack, and is tied to a contest in which, the New York Times   [...]
Posted: Monday, October 26th 2009

'Family Guy' Leads Windows 7 Viral Push

Microsoft has recruited the Griffin-family characters from the popular TV show "Family Guy" in an effort to shore up its marketing push for new operating system Windows 7, which is launching today. While such 'celebrity' endorsements are hardly new, this particular campaign represents a novel twist for online video campaigns. For starters it is not an ad, but a half-hour show, scheduled to run on Nov. 8 without traditional commercials. Instead, "Family Guy Presents: Seth & Alex's Almost Live   [...]
Posted: Thursday, October 22nd 2009

Web Retailers Cope with Shipping-Charge Rejection

In response to consumer demands for low or no-cost shipping and the increasing role shipping costs play in online purchase decisions, a growing number of top online retailers are planning free shipping promotions during the 2009 holiday season, the Wall Street Journal reports. The moves come as a slew of industry studies and internal retailer data confirm that shipping charges rank as one of the bigge  [...]
Posted: Thursday, October 22nd 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

NBA Launches Online Rule Book to Polish Image

The National Basketball Association (NBA) has just launched a new online video rule book on its website that illustrates more than 100 regulations - including everything from traveling and dribbling violations to technical fouls - through video clips from recent and high-profile league games. The site is the league’s latest effort to regain the confidence of fans, many of whom are frustrated with the sport’s officiating practices  [...]
Posted: Monday, October 19th 2009

iBokan: Confessions Of An iPhone App Developer

A recent evaluation of a pricing experiment by iPhone developer Team iBokan, presented as a guest blog on TechCrunch, reveals some of the things app developers should try to avoid. Armed with app download tracking tools and a post-hoc common sense, developer Bo Wang shares insight into the cogs of app development, as well as lessons learned from a pricin  [...]
Posted: Monday, March 23rd 2009

Social Networking: Community Enabler or Detriment?

The debate on the effects of social networking is building steam, with supporters praising its ability to bring people together -- and critics warning against obsessive use, the Globe and Mail reports. In 2008, more than one in three adult i  [...]
Posted: Monday, March 9th 2009

Unwanted 'American Idol' Text Message Backfires on AT&T

This week AT&T Wireless sent a text message to a "significant number" of its 75 million customers, promoting the Tuesday premier of American Idol, a popular show where Americans compete for pop stardom. The wordy SMS read: AT&T Free Msg: Get ready for American Idol! AI 8 starts this Tues (1/13) at 8pm on FOX. Check out AT&T's official AI web site from you [sic] PC - www.att.com/idol for the latest info on our $1MM sweepstakes, test your AI IQ by playing the trivia game  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, January 14th 2009

Facebook Campaign Quadruples NYT Fan Figures

Last week New York Times president Scott Heekin-Canedy released an eight-page memo praising the success of the newspaper's Facebook advertising campaign, which went live in the days following the Presidential election. "The goals [...] were to increase our number of Facebook fans; raise awareness of NYTimes.com as an interactive news center; and engage the Facebook community in a conversation about the election outcome," Heekin-Can  [...]
Posted: Monday, December 1st 2008

Uni Devs Hack Victoria's Secret Collegiate Campaign

Last summer Victoria's Secret launched Pink Collegiate, a college-level clothing line featuring licensing partnerships with 33 schools. Shoppers can buy Pink products branded with labels and logos of participating universities, including the University of Texas, Boston College and the University of California, Berkeley. I  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, November 25th 2008

comScore: Users Just Not That Into Mobile TV

Both awareness of and interest in watching TV on a mobile device are low, reports MediaWeek. The findings come from comScore, which surveyed over 2,000 mobile users. 41 percent of men and 59 percent of women said they were not interested in watching TV shows on their mobile devices. Usage of mobile TV remains very much in the early adopter stage and is primarily made up of young men. 65 per  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, April 25th 2007

MySpace Could Finally Start Making Serious Ad Money

Advertising revenue from MySpace could finally start to rise substantially - two years after the social-networking site was bought by News Corp., writes BusinessWeek. In 2006 MySpace accounted for just $90 million in ad sales for Fox Interactive. This year, though, an analyst at Merrill Lynch says that could skyrocket to $271 million. A good portion come fr  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, April 4th 2007

Carat Digital Makes Gains in Interactive TV

Carat CEO David Verklin has managed to not only grow his Carat Digital shop but also engage the entire industry in a discussion, according to MediaPost. Carat regularly convenes what are called Digital Exchange sessions with Verklin and the heads of other interactive agencies. The sessions are designed to bring together others with a stake in the future of the growing interactive   [...]
Posted: Friday, March 30th 2007

Media Buyers Win When Portals Bid against Each Other

Ad agency The Gate Worldwide had online portals and publishers bidding against each other in an innovative online auction, with the prize being online advertising dollars from a Gate client, reports MediaPost. The advertiser, State Street Global Advisors, will run most of its ads on AOL, which won the bidding process. MSN will run a smaller ad   [...]
Posted: Thursday, March 29th 2007

IAB: Here's How to Measure Lead Quality

The Interactive Advertising Bureau, with the help of online marketers and ad networks, has laid out guidelines to help members determining the quality of online leads, reports ClickZ. The guidelines come in a new document titled "The Marketer and Agency Guide to Lead Quality" and are meant for those using the web for sales lead generation. The IAB is hoping to make it easier for marketers weighing ad buys and other decisio  [...]
Posted: Monday, March 19th 2007

Microsoft Offers to Pay Companies for Using Live Search

Microsoft has confirmed a trial program that pays companies for having their workers use Live Search on the job. The "Microsoft Service Credits for Web Search" program will give companies credits based on the number of searches performed, CNET reports. The credits can be redeemed for products and training. Search blogger John Battelle   [...]
Posted: Monday, March 19th 2007

Google Looking for More Audio Ad Testers

On its Inside AdWords blog, Google has issued a call for more participants in its trial of Audio Ads, the company's radio ad service. The call for testers includes reports that the interface of the system has received high marks from current users. The creation process, too, is said to be efficient, with the entire process running only a few days from creation to when the ad actually runs. To  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, March 14th 2007

SearchIgnite: Brand Advertisers Benefit from Panama

Early results for Yahoo's Panama platform point to better ad performance for brand advertisers and more efficient search results for users. Search and media management firm SearchIgnite notes that the early results from its clients and those of sister firm 360i show that Yahoo's market share among advertisers stabilized after Panama launched, after having declined last year, ClickZ reports. SearchIgnite also found t  [...]
Posted: Friday, March 9th 2007