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  • Teen girls today are influential social connectors who seek out information about brands from a wide range of sources and share that information frequently in their social circles, using a mix of face-to-face interaction and social media, according to a study by Varsity Brands and the Ketchum Global Research Network.

  • Visits to Facebook accounted for 10.28% of US Internet traffic in the week ended November 13, 2010, up 63.5% from the same period a year earlier, according to according to Experian's Hitwise Intelligence.

  • US Internet advertising revenues reached an estimated $6.4 billion in the third quarter of 2010, a record high for the online ad industry and 17% higher than the same period in 2009, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PwC.

  • National retailers are marketing via social networking channels—particularly Facebook, but also Twitter—at increasing levels, integrating their online and physical properties via those channels and using their rapidly increasing fan and follower bases to build stronger brand experiences, according to a report by Media Logic.

  • Americans viewed more than 4.6 billion online video ads in October 2010, with Hulu delivering a record 1.1 billion video ad impressions during the month on the strength of fall TV viewership, according to comScore Video Metrix. Meanwhile, Google Sites maintained its position as the top online video property during the month, reaching a milestone of 2.0 billion video viewing sessions.

  • To launch your marketing programs, you need the green light from your internal executives—and that means building the business case for new media and new programs. Here's how to convince B2B executives that mobile poses a high-opportunity, high-ROI marketing channel—and can make a significant impact with their business-centric audiences.

  • Customer retention is ultimately driven by value. Even the best segmentation, targeting, positioning, creative messaging, or promotion with flawless execution will fall flat in the absence of value. To succeed, customer retention must be a top-down, companywide initiative. Here's how to get there in six steps.

  • Companies have discovered that a virtual-engagement strategy provides a new channel for reaching target audiences. Virtual-engagement platforms remain open 24/365 for connecting with prospects, customers, and employees around the globe. No wonder virtual engagement is on its way to becoming a key component of innovative companies' marketing mix.

  • Some of the funniest comedy skits have been spoof TV spots—and they closely follow proven DRTV principles to make their sketch more believable and more poignant: They grab your attention; they frame a problem that needs to be solved; they state their offer as the solution; they show the product in use; and they ask for the order—a lot.

  • The use of Twitter among the nation's largest corporations has nearly doubled: 60% of companies listed on the 2010 Fortune 500 have a corporate Twitter account with at least one tweet issued in the previous 30 days, up from 35% who did so a year earlier, according to research from the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. Meanwhile, 56% of Fortune 500 companies have a Facebook profile.

  • Companies that deliver high-quality customer experiences via new media are rewarded for their efforts, often in the form of higher brand awareness and likelihood to purchase among those who engage, but that loyalty can be hard to find and hard to keep, according to a survey from Cone.

  • Nearly four in ten mobile users (38%) say they're dissatisfied with most of the apps currently available from their favorite brands, and 69% agree that if a brand's mobile app isn't useful or easy to use, it contributes to a negative perception of the brand, according to a survey from EffectiiveUI.

  • Fully nine in ten consumers notice digital ads in the first 10 seconds of visiting a webpage, and in that period, consumers who fixate on such ads are as emotionally engaged with ads as they are with webpage content, according to research from the Online Publishers Association (OPA), which explores the effectiveness of OPA Ad Units.

  • Social marketing is growing up: Not only have activity levels across social communities risen, but the number of brands now applying more focused and disciplined approaches to their social media communities has increased significantly over the past year, according to a study by ComBlu.

  • Leading with price in your messaging suggests your brand has nothing else to say or show for itself. And that's not good for a host of reasons.

  • You can segment your list and version your broadcast campaigns with different offers and creative, but the real power of personalization and relevance lies in trigger-based email, because behaviorally targeted trigger-email campaigns get 30% higher open and click-through rates and three times the conversion rates of broadcast email.

  • During the holiday season, how do you reconcile the high-pressure needs of your small business with your family's desire to roast chestnuts on an open fire? Having a virtual phone service can help, as can these 12 small-business phone tips for the 12 days leading up to Christmas.

  • The success of your email-marketing campaigns cannot be determined without proper focus on what reports are telling you, and reporting on click-throughs is a critical way of determining how engaged your audience is. But you need to be able to translate link reports into successful email-marketing campaigns.

  • The US online display advertising marketing rebounded sharply in the third quarter of 2010 with $1.284 trillion worth of display ads delivered to Internet users during the period, up 22% from $1.050 trillion a year earlier, according to data from the comScore Ad Metrix.

  • Exposure to impressions of organic search results, paid search results, and online display advertising—and specific combinations of such media—produces both a measurable lift in brand favorability and likelihood to purchase, according to a study by iProspect and comScore.