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New SocNet Tools Seek Missing Revenue Link

CMOs are seeking better ways to link social media advertising and investments with related revenues. Some companies, most notably Procter & Gamble in the UK, have begun experimenting with "pay for engagement" strategies. In September, the company decided to pay publishers when a consumer downloads a game or otherwise indicates he or she has interacted with the site instead basing compensation merely on site visits or number of eyeballs. (  [...]
Posted: Thursday, December 10th 2009

Virtual Goods Reap Real Sales

Specialty youth-apparel brand Boy Meets Girl is teaming up with online fashion game/community Fashion Fantasy Game to drive real-world sales with virtual goods. As part of the promotion, all Fashion Fantasy Game members will receive a free virtual version of the Boy Meets Girl  [...]
Posted: Friday, December 4th 2009

Marketers Jump on E-Reader Data Bandwagon

For now, e-readers are strictly a retail play - for $259 and up, a consumer can purchase a device - along with the content to read on it - from Sony, Amazon and Barnes & Noble. That, however, has not stopped marketers from planning for the day when these devices - which In-Stat says are poised to grow into a $2 billion market by the end of next year - will eventually provide mobile advertising opportunities.   [...]
Posted: Friday, December 4th 2009

Retailers Reach Shoppers with Tweeter Holiday Deals

Major retailers in the US are using Twitter this holiday season to engage in instant, one-on-one conversations with their customers about sales, service and technical issues, shopping news, and other topics. The move represents the growing emergence of Twitter as a medium that can serve a range of previously separate outreach functions - including advertising, customer service, and news. Approximately 59% of online retailers plan to increase their use of Twitter this holiday season,   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, December 1st 2009

Zappos 'Overlays' Interactive Video for Nike

Zappos is leveraging its recently announced partnership with Overlay.TV to produce interactive video ads for Nike products on its retail website. Though Zappos has hopes to deploy the technology across its entire site, Nike shoppers are the first to enjoy the benefits of the clickable videos, which are fully integrated with the site's   [...]
Posted: Monday, November 30th 2009

'Cyber Monday' Expected to Lure 97M Shoppers

The initial numbers for Black Friday are giving retailers hope that the holiday season will be better than expected. According to comScore, consumers spent $913 million online on Thanksgiving and Black Friday - about 10% more than last year, when consumer spending drastically slowed just as the holidays approached. Web marketin  [...]
Posted: Monday, November 30th 2009

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 11/30/09

Ad Industry: Ad industry produces ads and logos in response to pending privacy legislation. Holiday Shopping: Amazon tops Black Friday retail web traffic. After 'Black Friday,' industry   [...]
Posted: Monday, November 30th 2009

Tweeting Celebs Hawk Products for Profit

A growing number of marketers are using a burgeoning group of celebrities, bloggers and popular internet users to send ad messages to their personal followings on Twitter. Services such as Ad.ly, Izea, and Peer2 are paying popular and well-known users to send short messages of advertising text via their social networking profiles on behalf of paying advertisers such as Microsoft, NBC, Charter Co  [...]
Posted: Monday, November 30th 2009

Tech Meets Turkey-Day: Searches Yield Better Insights

During most of the year, web analytics focused on the food industry - including dining, cooking and grocery shopping - reveal fairly stable trends that tend to occur over long periods of time. Thanksgiving season in the US, however, is a clear exception. During this unique period, marketers have the once-a-year opportunity to use the web as a barometer for Americans' food tastes, as well as their eating and cooking habits. They can also see the extent to which consumers are turning online   [...]
Posted: Friday, November 27th 2009

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 11/25/09

Ad Strategies: Verizon challenges a Sprint marketing claim. Online Media: Group of magazine publishers said to be building an online newsstand. MediaNews Group, Belo   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, November 25th 2009

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   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, November 24th 2009

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 11/24/09

Ad Strategies: Apple iPhone ad succeeds where AT&T fails. Online Media Strategies: News Corp. joined by rivals weighing Google block. Google to   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, November 24th 2009

Toys R Us 'Mobilizes' Holiday Shoppers

Beginning the weekend of November 21-22, 2009, retailer Toys R Us will offer mobile shopping capabilities to its customers that go beyond just informational services. The move, which promises to take toy-buying to the next level, will offer transactional capability via mobile device, writes RetailerDaily.com. M-Commerce in Action Toys R  [...]
Posted: Friday, November 20th 2009

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 11/19/09

Ad Procurement: Three ways clients can push ad agencies to save money. Email Marketing: Managing email subscriber expectations during the holidays. Email   [...]
Posted: Thursday, November 19th 2009

Websites, Apps Root Out Black-Friday Deals

As Black Friday and Cyber Monday draw near, a slew of new online websites and tools are springing up to help consumers locate the bargains they want. Deal News and BlackFriday.org are two examples of sites that have recently made improvements. Deal News, which has tracked Black Friday offers online for several years, has tweaked its iPhone App that does the same. Version 2 adds a number of new features, including deals that both been leaked and confirmed for  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, November 10th 2009

SocNet Experiments Bode Well for Holiday Season

Inspired by the results of experimental social media campaigns, some major retailers are gearing up to roll out more elaborate social networking campaigns than they did last year. Though overall online ad spending among retailers is expected to increase this holiday season, details have emerged over the last several weeks that indicate merchants plan to use more of this money on sites such as Twitte  [...]
Posted: Friday, November 6th 2009

Tava Screens Grab Buyers at Retail POS

A Vancouver-based company is on track to introduce digital media screens in grocery stores and other retail chains that will get shoppers' attention using biometric technology. The screens, which will enable tava to target consumers at the point of sale with ads - and also will use sensors and biometric face readers to conduct market research -  is already in select Whole Foods stores, according to the vendor Tava Touchpoints. Now, the compan  [...]
Posted: Friday, October 30th 2009

Retailers Clear Q3 Hump; Ramp Up for Holidays

Amazon's recently announced Q3 earnings are not as telling for online marketers as, say, the hopeful results delivered by Yahoo,  Google and   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, October 28th 2009

Top Brands Tap iPhone as Personal Shopper

Sportswear icon Nike, Inc. is one of a growing number of high-profile consumer fashion brands creating mobile applications that promote the ease and social benefits of personal shopping. The company recently launched a new iPhone application that enables users to design their own customized sneakers and order them straight from the app. The move is the latest by a major fashion brand to provide consumers with personalized shopping experiences that extend beyond websites and onto mobile device  [...]
Posted: Friday, October 23rd 2009

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 10/23/09

Web 2.0 Trends: Amazon: Earnings are up; Kindle is best seller. It's official – Facebook is king of the social networking scene: MySpace has conceded defeat in contest to become the largest online social network. Dailymotion, Europe’s biggest online video challenger to YouTube  [...]
Posted: Friday, October 23rd 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

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 10/22/09

Web 2.0 Trends: Internet advertising is just about the only bright spot in Q3 reports of two major newspaper publishers, Gannett Co. and McClatchy Co. The New York Times sets 7 digital priorities. Th  [...]
Posted: Thursday, October 22nd 2009

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 10/20/09

Web 2.0 News and Trends: Start-up health sites are increasingly leveraging social networking and advertising trends.  Ford, NFL find limited success in   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, October 20th 2009

Nintendo Cuts Wii Price 20%

Following moves by rivals Sony and Microsoft, Nintendo plans to drop the price of its popular gaming console 20% to $199. Sales of the unit have leveled recently, in line with a gaming market that has also seen a decline. According to NPD, August sales o  [...]
Posted: Thursday, September 24th 2009

Pizza Hut, blinkbox Liaise for Low-Maintenance Dinner Dates

In a relationship forged by agency Blue Barracuda, Pizza Hut Delivery is partnering with online film/TV aggregator blinkbox.com to offer discounted films when users order a pizza. Films available for streaming under the liaison will include "Gran Torino" and "Body of Lies" -- enabling those the utilize the service to create a dinner-and-a-movie experience without leaving home. "Combining an oven-hot pizza with instant video streaming is a quick and simple way to give customers a complete n  [...]
Posted: Thursday, September 3rd 2009