Ok, it’s in the U.K. and not the U.S. but it is still a major milestone when Internet advertising spending exceeds television advertising spending, even if it is in another country. The Internet spend this year is at 23.5% of all advertising spending and television came in at 21.9% of marketing budgets. They expected this […]
This new video was posted Sept. 7th and referenced at the QuantumDigital Marketing Innovation & Discovery Summit last week by Jeffrey Stewart. “Social Media Revolution” puts all the buzz about social media into perspective. It moves fast and is worth a view or two. Click here to play..
The better our metrics become the more we realize how precious each lead is. Here is a benchmark study from Pontiflex that you may find helpful when measuring your own program. They define basic fields as first name, last name, e-mail address and postal address. Premium information is telephone number, social networking username, geo-targeted information […]
I was on a speaker’s panel earlier this week and the hot topic was social media. I was surprised at the number of people in a room full of mature marketing, technical and manufacturing people who had Facebook pages, just about everyone. We discussed the value of brands being on Facebook and not surprisingly the […]
Twitter just announced that as an option you can now share your location on a tweet-by-tweet basis. And, at www.twitterfall.com we can watch tweets by location. On a news front it would be interesting to watch tweets only coming from the scene of a major event. That might even trump cable news for learning about […]
A recent Pew Internet Report (.pdf) shows an astounding growth in the use of video sharing sites across all age brackets with the totals nearly doubling since 2006. Fully 62% of all adult Internet users have watched a video on sites like YouTube.com. The most surprising statistic for me was how video sharing outpaced such […]
Permission marketing guru Seth Godin spoke out recently on social networking and businesses interest in it. The video is linked here. Godin echo’s a sentiment I often tell those I connect with on LinkedIn: “This LinkedIn thing is like most things in life. It’s more about what you put in it vs. expecting something back”. […]
As advertising, especially local advertising, is being reinvented right before our eyes it’s fun to watch new things come into view and then either morph into something worthwhile or go away. Recently in a meeting with a brand manager and their advertising agency the subject of Twitter came up and I think we all agreed […]
A savvy client just forwarded me excerpts of the 2009 digital future project release highlights from the Center for the Digital Future at USC Annenberg School for Communication. He is trying to coax his Fortune 500 company to into the 21st century as it relates to how they use the Web with their retailers. He […]
A recent study by Borrell Associates entitled Local Ads Moving to Social Networks found that 20% of the ad spend on social networks was from local advertisers. They were surprised as most of us are at thinking that a local retailer could be so savvy to so quickly tap into this phenomenon. They go on […]