We say “only” 28.1 billion videos were watched online in February because in January Americans watched a staggering 32.4 billion according to comScore Video Matrix Service. Here’s the breakdown for February. This dovetails nicely with the articles I’ve been reading and what we are hearing from clients about the need to add videos to their […]
Yesterday Twitter began testing ads in a program it calls Promoted Tweets which they are exposing to less than 10% of their users. We believe that social media sites are worth watching and even experimenting with but we don’t think it’s ready just yet for a big part or anyone’s media budget. Here’s an interesting […]
Just in case you’re wondering about what your fellow marketing executives are thinking about for 2010, here’s a good chart that will put your mind at rest, or make you nervous. Surveys like this are difficult to get too excited about because some things just don’t make sense, like 52.6% of companies don’t use Cinema, […]
I’ve always felt comfortable in saying to dealers that 70% of everyone who walks into their store went online first. I’ve gotten that statistic from many different studies. Maybe now I should up that percentage to 97% as this recent study from BIA/Kelsey shows. Here’s a quote from Kelsey, Yes, I would agree that if […]
Local advertising is changing as SMBs shift dollars to digital outputs from traditional media. One of the questions I get a lot is, “What about Bing?”. Here’s why I tell SMBs to concentrate their limited resources on Google Local Search for now and we’ll wait and see about Bing. Google beats Bing by 6.6 times […]
I attended a Direct Marketing Association conference last year that felt more like the “Online Marketing Association” versus the typical direct mail cheer leading sessions of yesteryear. it used to be that the USPS Postmaster General addressed the DMA with everyone hanging on his every word. There was an air of stability to the whole […]
There is an avalanche of news lately about geolocation and how when you’re on the Internet we can track approximately where you are and this changes everything for local and national advertisers. Two recent examples come from Facebook, last week they offered advertisers the opportunity to buy ads limited to certain cities. Now, according to […]
Now Facebook is getting in on the local ad game according to a recent blog post. Here’s a screen shot that shows how an ad can be targeted for a specific city. This is just another opportunity for your dealers to present themselves online in their local market. Granted, this is only for some cities […]
It’s still a tough market out here for local and national advertising spending but it’s clear that local online advertising is going to take dollars away from traditional advertising in the coming years. Here’s how eMarketer sees things evolving. It looks like local traditional advertising will decline each year while local online spending will start […]
The Custom Publishing Council (CPC) announced an official name change last week. It will now be known as the Custom Content Council (CCC). Formed in 1999 to represent custom publishers and content creators — anyone buying a luxury auto lately has seen their work. A slick 4-color magazine with articles about road trips, new technology […]