Here’s a slide from Mary Meeker’s recent presentation in New York at the CM Summit What it demonstrates is the disconnect between where people are spending their time and where advertisers are spending their money. Or, more specifically, the Internet isn’t getting its fair share of advertising dollars and perhaps its best days are still […]
It looks like today is the day that Yahoo integrates more closely with Facebook to make both sites more popular and therefore more valuable to advertisers. The idea seems to be that now you can go to Yahoo.com and access your Facebook interactions right alongside the news, weather and other RSS feeds you’ve organized for […]
The White Pages printed telephone directory in Montreal is now available only if you ask. Can the printed Yellow Pages be far behind? First of all, it’s a wonder that the White Pages even exist at all today as there is an entire generation of cell phone users whose numbers aren’t even listed in the […]
Google search just keeps on winning the monthly search engine game even though Bing has had a major marketing push and comes as the default search engine for Windows 7. So, it still makes sense to us to make sure you’re using Google to it’s potential before worrying too much about the other search engines.
Coupon redemption seems to becoming more fashionable as 61% of households with income over $100,000 have redeemed a coupon within the last six months according to a study released by coupons.com There has been consistent decline in coupon redemption over the past several years until the recession hit. In 2009 coupon redemption increased 27% with […]
Facebook continues to grow and continues to show a lot of potential for advertisers and, we think, a lot of that potential is for local display advertising. There are several reasons for this rapid growth. The obvious one is that Facebook continues to be popular and surprisingly popular with the older crowd, the crowd that […]
If you’ve been keeping an eye on social media, knowing that it is something big but not knowing how it will change and what a reasonable ROI is, you’re not alone. First, is it working for anyone yet? Ok, this tell us that some companies think it’s working but still most can’t find a way […]
We keep a close eye on search engine usage, especially since Bing came online a few months ago with quite a big media splash. Before Bing Google was getting roughly 70% of all searches. Now, Google is still the big winner with 65.7% of the searches going through them. And, it’s been rather steady […]
The traditional competition for local advertising dollars between radio, TV and newspapers has morphed to a new arena with the rise of the Internet. It’s been happening for quite awhile where the local rep offers your dealer a TV or radio spot, a newspaper ad and then bundles in a banner ad on their site. […]
Several unrelated studies have come out recently trying to determine where consumers get information before going into a store to make a purchase. Billions of local advertising dollars are at stake as SMBs are looking for the best place to spend their precious advertising dollars and brand managers want to control their brand message locally. […]