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B2B CEOs Cautious About, But Warming To, Social Media Marketing
B2B Magazine reports that business-to-business (b2b) marketers are increasingly leveraging social media, with the newly ad-friendly LinkedIn ahead by a length.
The magazine reveals in its report "B2B Social Media Marketing: A Surge In Adoption" that when b2b marketers were asked to choose the one most important method that they use for their social outreach, LinkedIn was the clear leader at 30%, followed by Facebook [...]
Posted: Friday, May 25th 2012
Top Global Brands Thrive Despite Economy: #1 Apple Grows 19%
The world's biggest brands have continued to grow in value during the current economic uncertainty, according to WPP company Millward Brown's annual BrandZ "Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands" study. The #1 brand for the second year, Apple, rose 19% in value and is now worth $182.9 billion. IBM grew 15% in value to $ [...]
Posted: Wednesday, May 23rd 2012
AOL Patch Wobbles | Brands' Social Currency | Campaign Seeks Torturers | Regulators Target Facebook | Groupon Payout Lawsuit
Agency News:
JWT Appoints a Pair of Chief Creative Officers in New York
Business Strategies:
For AOL, a Costly Gamble On Local News Draws Trouble
Taco Bell, BK and Others [...]
Posted: Wednesday, May 23rd 2012
Mullen's "Talent Hub" | NHL Digital Power | POM Deceived | Google Buys Streamer | Facebook Buys Gifter
Agency News:
Mullen Opening West Coast 'Talent Hub'
Business Strategies:
The NHL's Digital Power Play
Campaigns of Note:
Coca-Cola exec claims [...]
Posted: Tuesday, May 22nd 2012
Top News: Nestle Reassigns | Sam's Club Content | GM Drops Super Bowl | China Regulates Android | Yahoo Divests | Facebook Sputters
Agency News:
Nestle Reassigns Coffee-Mate, Looks at New Agency for Nesquik
Mediabrands Spinoff Network Will Be Called BPN
Business Strategies:
Sam's Club's Content Marketing [...]
Posted: Monday, May 21st 2012
Top News: WS & Diet Pepsi | Performance Marketing Winners | Kindle Fire Ads | Facebook IPO | Twitter Privacy
Ad Technology:
Adometry Leverages Attribution Data in a New Media Modeler
Agency News:
Weber Shandwick Picks Up Diet Pepsi
Branding:
For Brand Extensions: [...]
Posted: Friday, May 18th 2012
Squatters Seize, Control Brand Names On Pinterest
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Posted: Wednesday, May 16th 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
Top News: HP Awards PC Business | AmEx Brand Innovation | Groupon Reports Profit | Millennial Media Doesn't | Google Ads Trump Facebook | Social Brand Blunders
Ad Technology:
Volvo Launches China's First RTB-based Advertising
DoubleClick co-founder targets publishers with content-meets-commerce service
Publishers [...]
Posted: Tuesday, May 15th 2012
Top News: Yahoo Turmoil | Search Engine Rankings | Second Guessing Second Price | Amex Tests SoMe Commerce
Ad Technology:
Debunking Ad-Tech Myths
Agency News:
Little Caesars Taps BFG 9000 for National Creative
Brand Takes a Tweeting
Campai [...]
Posted: Monday, May 14th 2012
Dismiss Google+ At Your Own Risk
Anything that can boast a 112% higher engagement is worth a second look. That is just one of the figures that Simply Measured (the social media analytics firm) released yesterday. Since February, two more brands from the Interbrand Top 100 list (Xerox and Nike) have activated pages, bringing the total to 64 of those 100. (The top 10 for Google+ engagement include Nike, Coke, Star [...]
Posted: Thursday, May 10th 2012
Top News: E-Tail Spending Skyrockets | Google Defense | "Do Not Track" Looms | AOL Keeping Publications
Ad Technology:
Exponential Interactive Launches Appsnack, Global Mobile Advertising Solution For Brand Advertisers
Business Strategies:
Creating True Accountability for the Customer Experience
Campaig [...]
Posted: Thursday, May 10th 2012
Top News: Advertise In Pauses | Google Invests in Content | Affluents Spend $224B | Yahoo Headhunter Quits | Agencies Need Digital Officers? | Ongo Paywall Folds | Tumblr Sued on Copyrights
Ad Technology:
Microsoft Find a Pro Directory: Getting Help with Your adCenter Campaigns
Agency News:
Organic Named Digital Agency of [...]
Posted: Wednesday, May 9th 2012
Users Want Ease of Decision More Than Engagement
Surprise! Online buyers don’t necessarily want to “engage†with a favorite brand. And they will switch favorites in a hurry to the brand that makes the buying decision easier. That according to research and advisory services firm Corporate Executive Board (CEB). CEB has found that consumers feel overwhelmed with information and usually want want less of it (including marketing mes [...]
Posted: Tuesday, May 8th 2012
Top News: Y&R Falkland Flap | Best of CLIOs | MS E-Bookstore | Apple Gaming Dominates | NBC's Streaming Olympics
Campaigns of Note:
Ad Steps Into Falklands Dispute; Y&R Condemns Local Office's Work
CLIO Awards: Best of the 2012 Winners
How Beer Companies [...]
Posted: Monday, May 7th 2012
Top News: Pepsi Resurrects Jackson | EBay/Paypal Localize | Responsys Email Tools | FB Privacy Concerns | FB IPO Figures
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Posted: Friday, May 4th 2012
Smaller Tech Companies Value Blogs Highly for Marketing
At first glance, tech companies have abandoned blogs, observes content management solution (CMS) provider Percussion Software. But not so fast: While just 20.5% of mid-market tech companies have a corporate blog, software companies—particularly smaller ones—are more likely to maintain one for content marketing.
So Percussion found in [...]
Posted: Tuesday, May 1st 2012
Brand Execs Agree: Social Media Provides ROI But It's Immeasurable
Brand executives may not need convincing on the benefits of social media: A February 2012 survey of 329 such executives in the U.S. revealed that the majority had seen positive bottom line reports, say the experts at eMarketer. They in turn analyzed data from the digital consultancy PulsePoint Group and the Economist Intelligence Unit.
Those executives whose companies had established an extensive social media presence re [...]
Posted: Tuesday, May 1st 2012
Top News: Clearstream's Video Analytics | Digiday's Content Marketing Launch | FTC vs. Google | Marketers Pressure ICANN | Last-Click Overrated? | Clout Not "Klout" | Pinterest's Waning Interest
Ad Technology:
Clearstream Launches Clearview - Advanced Video Analytics Technology to Audit and Evaluate Online Video Venues
Brands:
Oscar de la Renta reinvents social commerce via [...]
Posted: Friday, April 27th 2012
Top News: Anheuser-Busch Scolds UFC | Digital Future "Blight?" | Commissions for "Likes" | Vevo Original Shows
Ad Technology:
Issuu: A Tool for Marketing, Not Just Magazines
Greystripe® Introduces PC-to-Mobile Ad Targeting with ValueClick Audience Mapping Technolo [...]
Posted: Thursday, April 26th 2012
Top News: Chirpify Music Platform | Google Cloud Storage | Patents Boost Android | CrowdStar Quits Facebook
Business Buzz:
Chirpify launches digital music platform
Business Strategies:
P&G Leans on Digital in Corporate-Image Push
Corporations Must “Put on a Human Face†to [...]
Posted: Wednesday, April 25th 2012
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 [...]
Posted: Tuesday, April 24th 2012
Top News: AmazonSupply | ESPN Cross Platform Strategy | "Enquirer" on iPad | Digital CW Annoys Stations
Ad Technology:
Amazon Goes After B2B Market With AmazonSupply
The App That Zaps Junk Mail - And The Postal Service
Business Strategies:
Inside [...]
Posted: Monday, April 23rd 2012
Sunset for Company Blogs? Perhaps, But Blogs Still In Demand for Content
It is difficult to believe that anything worth saying can be said in 140 characters or less.
A USA Today story observes that a number of U.S. companies, Bank of America included, are abandoning the company blog, in favor of the “nimbler tools requiring less time and resources, such as Facebook, Tumblr and Twitter.â€
An interesting turn of events: As of 2008, blogging was seen as the [...]
Posted: Monday, April 23rd 2012
Top News: Publicis Q1 | FCC Requires Disclosure | MS Sunsets PCs? | Pepsi Dominates BuzzFeed
Ad Technologies and Vendors:
Publicis Posts 13% Hike in Q1 Revenue
Campaigns of Note:
Marketing Hotels as Places Full of Fun and Discovery
Legal/Regulatory:
FCC about to [...]
Posted: Friday, April 20th 2012