Archive for the ‘Advertising Agencies’ Category

Today In Online Marketing News | Thursday, July 3, 2008

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

Should You Invest in the Long Tail? By Anita Elberse | Harvard Business Publishing. "It was a compelling idea: In the digitized world, there’s more money to be made in niche offerings than in blockbusters. The data tell a different story." Debating the Long Tail By Chris Anderson | Harvard ...

Today In Online Marketing | July 1, 2008

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

CBS Completes CNET Purchase, Broadens CBS Interactive Biz Unit MediaBuyerPlanner.com "CBS has completed its $1.8 billion acquisition of CNET Networks, and has merged the company into a new and expanded CBS Interactive business unit, according to Radio Ink. ComScore ranks the new unit as the eighth-largest web network worldwide." Performics Becomes ...

Today In Online Marketing News | Monday, June 30, 2008

Monday, June 30th, 2008

Online ad spend growing at "phenomenal rate" By Helen Leggatt | BizReport.com. "Ten percent of all advertising spending across all media will be on online ads according to recent forecasts released by IDC." Bringing Health Records Online By Catherine Holahan | BusinessWeek.com. "When he worked in the emergency room, Dr. James ...

Today In Online Marketing | Friday, June 20, 2008

Friday, June 20th, 2008

Brought to You by . . . Anyone? By Peter Whoriskey | The Washington Post. "One of the nation's leading sponsors of online media, Rob Wrubel lays out as much as $20 million a month for Internet ads. Over time, his firm's ad buys have supported a wide spectrum of ...

Today In Online Marketing | Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

5 ways to ruin your industry reputation By Sean Cheyney | iMediaConnection.com. "Why is it that some people appear to repel business while others have an abundance of business everywhere they look? On both the buy side and the sell side, a handful of missteps can ruin your industry reputation ...

Today In Online Marketing News – Wednesday May 21, 2008

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

Here are some of the articles that caught my attention today: Wednesday May 21, 2008 Online Search Ads Faring Better Than Expensive Displays By Stephanie Clifford and Miguel Helft | The New York Times. “In the past few years, Web publishers have made a big bet on booming online advertising revenues. ...

Today In Online Marketing News – Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

Here are some of the articles that caught my attention today: Tuesday, May 6, 2008. The X Factor: The risky business of ad banners By Sean X Cummings | iMediaConnection. Cummings argues, “The way most agencies conceptualize banner ads is seriously flawed. The internet is a fundamentally different consumption medium than ...

Agencies Look To Engage Consumers – A Recap From Agency Executives

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Ok, so I have been on an “engagement” kick lately. What better than to look at how the big spenders, the agencies are looking to engage users? I blogged about Saatchi & Saatchi’s Toyota Campaign with YouTube a few days ago – the campaign was very well done. Below is a ...

Toyota’s Engagement Campaign with YouTube

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

Knowledge @ Wharton published by the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania provides some great analysis of current business trends. I frequency read the Marketing section and would encourage all readers to subscribe to their RSS feed here. Of particular interest was an article by the publication titled, Getting Engaged: ...

The Offline Impact of Online Ads

Monday, April 7th, 2008

There was a blog posting in Mashable last night that discussed Magid Abraham’s (CEO of comScore) findings in a recent study. Abraham noted that “online campaigns increase sales more at advertisers’ retail cash registers than on their websites.” The report goes on to state that it is not that ...