Last month Intel unveiled a digital signage concept that will open up new digital opportunities at retail and ultimately change the face of point of sale signage. You wouldn’t know it from the cheesy, low-budget announcement video from Intel, but this will be big. This POS concept has a small camera that processes male/female, height […]
The Wall Street Journal is about to launch a New York City Metro section to fill a need for local news and pull advertising dollars away from other NYC papers. As the New York Times has dedicated more ink to national news this left an opening. The fledgling New York Sun covered local news well, […]
According to a recent report from comScore, social network sites continued to grow in 2009. Other findings from the report give marketers even more reason to consider social sites for local advertising. With numbers like these it’s no wonder that McDonald’s has developed local fan pages in Facebook so local stores can promote their own […]
Its easy to get caught up in the “wow” of an Ad Builder when the customization happens before your eyes, but what is less obvious but just as powerful is the process improvement potential. A well designed and constructed Ad Builder will solve real problems. These problems are inherent in manual processes: errors, time delays, […]
Here’s a study from Shes Connected that relates to online newspapers and local advertising. They asked women how comfortable they would be with different ways for social networking sites to make money. Not unlike the revenue model question newspapers are asking their readers for online newspapers. Display advertising is the big winner with 62% very […]
According to a recent Harris Interactive study reported by eMarketer, consumers attitudes about mobile coupons are still tepid, even though the projections are for rapid growth in the next few years. I think that consumers interested in shopping go online before they get in the car and head for a store. So, it makes more […]
In this blog we talk a lot about localization. Technology allows us to know where a consumer is geographically when they’re reading an online ad and, much like your local newspaper, we can feed an ad loaded with information about a local dealer for a specific brand. Not much of a shock to anyone’s system. […]
Anyone concerned about advertising on a local level is interested in the survival of newspapers. Will the print edition go away? Will they go completely online? How do we best reach local consumers? If you have a Kindle or you’re going to buy the iPad, you’ve noticed that they offer subscriptions to newspapers, delivered right […]
One of the biggest changes in the World Wide Web that I’ve seen since 1995 is that it has become so much more local. As it gets more local, from an advertising point of view, it starts to act more like a local newspaper in that we know where the reader is. (Who knew back […]
As the Internet matures brand managers are starting to understand the need to connect consumers from their brand site to their local dealer to complete the sale. And, most often the first step should be to the dealer’s site, since the consumer is already online. Unfortunately, most dealer locators link the consumer to the dealer’s […]