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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
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
Top News: Target Shops Agencies | Experian Offloads | Gap's Digital Campaign | Cloud "Tipping Point?"
Agency News:
Target Out Talking to Media Agencies
Spark Wins Orbitz Media Account
Dell Moves Consumer Advertising to Y&R
Best Practices: [...]
Posted: Friday, May 11th 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
[...]
Posted: Friday, May 4th 2012
Weather Channel at 30: A Local Ad Champ
The Weather Channel companies (TWCC) turned 30 yesterday, having first broadcast on cable on May 2, 1982. Since then it has gone online and mobile, and with a strategic relaunch (exclusively sponsored by Anheuser-Busch's Bud Light Lime), 95% of weather.com's 1 billion monthly page views now have a new look.
The online properties are more personalized, “to help consumers better forecast and plan their lives†with a [...]
Posted: Thursday, May 3rd 2012
Email Marketing: Mobile Will Overtake Web-Based Email This Summer
It will be a quiet shift, but a huge one. In June of this year, predicts the email deliverability firm Return Path, more people will read email on mobile devices than on webmail or desktop clients. To marketers, this means a lot of work, describes DMNews.
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Posted: Wednesday, May 2nd 2012
Google: Why a Mobile Site Over An App?
Google in its adSense blog has offered some pearls of wisdom about prioritizing between mobile sites or mobile apps. Aren't apps the step-change evolution over mobile sites? Not necessarily, advises Google’s app expert Tuyen Nguyen, who offered some questions to consider.
First, decide how you want users to access content. Mobile sites require users to have data access, while apps enabl [...]
Posted: Wednesday, May 2nd 2012
Top News: MS Backs Nook | The Anti-Groupon | WPP Lifts Forecast | Social Cola Wars | Hulu Less Free
Ad Technology:
Meet the anti-Groupon
Agencies:
WPP Lifts Forecast
Campaigns of Note:
Flexjet [...]
Posted: Monday, April 30th 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
"Organic Growth" Is A Valuable Marketing Strategy, Just Not Enough By Itself
Just what is an “organic†strategy? By some definitions, it is an inbound marketing strategy, centered around word of mouth and through engagement. But MarketingTech founder Douglas Karr does not believe it is enough.
Karr is also the president and CEO of DK New Media, and as he described, at least one client has invested marketing dollars in just the one strategy—organic growth. Karr likened an †[...]
Posted: Tuesday, April 24th 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: Wikipedia Errors | LeBron James Social | Brands Migrating from TV? | Samsung Claims More Infringements
Ad Technology:
Innovid Announces Interactive Video Ad Studio Enhancements
Marketo adds social platform with Crowd Factory acquisition
Branding:
60% of Wikipedia articles about companie [...]
Posted: Thursday, April 19th 2012
Top News: Mobile search | Apple to defend e-book pricing | SEO tips
Mobile Marketing:
Mobile search ads: What makes them click?
Legal/Regulatory:
Twitter sues 'spamming' websites.
Apple preparing to [...]
Posted: Friday, April 6th 2012
Top News: Facebook digs deeper into search | DNT | Google's online store
Search:
Facebook delves deeper into search.
Man vs. Machine: Could Facebook’s people-sourced search beat Google’s algorithm?
Does Google [...]
Posted: Friday, March 30th 2012
Top News: UK mobile ad spend jumps | Bypassing Google Maps | 5 common SEO mistakes
Online Ad Market:
Two Bing marketers fired for 'mismanaging company assets,' violating procurement policy.
Mobile Computing:
Free mobile apps 'drain battery faster'.
Global:
Spending on UK mobile advertising [...]
Posted: Tuesday, March 20th 2012