Social Media
Multi-Screeners Research Online
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (iab) just released a study about multi-screen users and has some good information about how consumers are distracted as they watch TV while they simultaneously surf the Internet on a second device. The real danger here is that television commercials become less effective as consumers tune out during breaks in the […]
Read MoreHere’s Why You Should Send Mom an E-card this Year
Marketing today is in a constant state of change as we have to keep a watch on consumer behavior and the new technologies that have an impact on the way consumers shop. Here’s a chart from EdisonResearch.com that should remind us how much things have changed in the last few years. If you sell to […]
Read MoreLet Your Dealers Help You Go Local Social
There is a lot of interest recently in whether or not advertisers will flock to Facebook in the coming years to make them worth their current market valuation. BIA/Kelsey thinks that advertisers will spend more on social in the coming years as they are referenced in a recent blog post at MarketingCharts.com US social media […]
Read MoreGoogle + Going –
Social media should be a big part of your retail advertising strategy. When used in conjunction with your local retailers, it’s free and effective, that’s as good as it gets. Providing tools in your marcom portal for dealers to post your content on their Facebook page is a must. Once you have your Facebook execution […]
Read MoreShift in Ad Budgets to Earned/Owned Media
Advertising is in the middle of a huge evolution/revolution. Traditional advertising expenditures are taking a hit as marketers move to digital, this according to an article on eMarketer.com: According to a February report from the Society of Digital Agencies (SoDA), digital marketers worldwide are investing a greater portion of their total marketing budget online this year, which […]
Read MoreHost It or…Nothing
Here is a study that asked over 300 digital marketers what they think of the information they have at their disposal to measure the effectiveness of their digital marketing efforts. Overall, this research tells us that these marketers believe that digital marketing will work, they just can’t prove it or improve it. So, if professional […]
Read MoreSocial Media Spending is Growing Rapidly
Here is a graph from a recent CMO study about the predicted growth in social media spending. This is pretty impressive even before you realize that it’s difficult to spend a lot of money on social media because for the most part it’s free of publication costs. For those of us interested in local market […]
Read MoreIntegration of Big Data is a Big Deal
As we move more and more to digital channels for advertising and marketing, the more data we have and the more we see how important it is to integrate, in near real-time with all the important data being collected across the enterprise. This chart comes from an article on eMarketer.com and quite nicely matches the issues we […]
Read MoreLost Decade for Newspapers
Recently there is a lot of analysis around what is going to become known as the lost decade of newspaper revenue. Here is a helpful chart in that it separates the print from the online revenue. The highlighted boxes show the big picture. Total revenue has fallen 50% since 2003. If you look at just […]
Read MoreNewspaper Ad Revenue in Q1?
There are some inklings in the newspaper business that Q1 2012 ad revenue for some newspapers may increase over Q1 2011. I get this information from the Reflections of a Newsosaur blog where he also published this chart. This chart certainly prints a horrible picture since 2006 and even the rumor of a good Q1 […]
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