Social Media Advertising As mobile technology grows, a big opportunity arises for brands, mobile ads on Twitter are an intrinsic part of the user experience. According to Twitter, sixty percent of their 200 million active users log in via a mobile device at a rate of at least once per month. So the company sought to better understand the behavior of … Continue reading »
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Next Phase of Mobile Games – Interview with Tapjoy SVP, Chris Akhavan
As written for Technorati Everyone wants a piece of the mobile pie, but display ads and banners aren’t working; e-mail contact with consumers is archaic and attention spans are short. One of the few industries getting it right in the mobile space is gaming: an industry often overlooked or marginalized by the business world. According to a report compiled by … Continue reading »
Value-exchange Advertising – Interview with SponsorPay
As written for Technorati San Francisco is a hotbed of innovation. It’s the kind of place where last week’s ad:tech interactive advertising conference and this week’s Gamification Summit can meld into an entirely new and effective product. Value-exchange advertising is one of those, new methods. Value-Exchange Advertising Display advertising, especially on mobile platforms, doesn’t work for users. As the technology industry … Continue reading »
Facebook Men Are Cheap. I’m Talking Ads, Not Dates
As written for SocialMediaToday Facebook Advertising According to financial analysts Facebook Q4 revenue (including payments, fees) could reach $1.5 billion. Digital marketing technology company Kenshoo says that just over 20 percent (20.3 percent) of the company’s ad revenue is now coming from mobile. And as per eMarketer, almost four billion dollars in advertising budgets were spent on Facebook ads … Continue reading »
SiSoMo Makes Luxury Products Shine
As published in Business2Community A study released by Martini Media today reports agency executives estimate that 37 percent of mass marketers’ branding dollars are spent in digital marketing (online display, video, mobile), whereas only 31 percent of luxury marketers’ budgets are spent in that space. At the same time, research indicates that trend shifting in … Continue reading »
5 Things to Look for in an Ideal Mobile Ad Network
As published on Social Media Today State of Mobile Advertising Speaking at the Mobile and Web Developers Conference in San Francisco last week, Opera Software’s EVP, Mahi de Silva, issued the company’s State of the Mobile Web assessment. As part of their industry insight series, Opera conducts the definitive analysis of the key trends affecting the mobile Web worldwide. Each … Continue reading »
What’s Hot, What’s Not in Advertising – ad:tech Survey [Infographic]
Lots of exciting trends and technologies were revealed at last month’s ad:tech conference in San Francisco. The conference included a total of seven keynotes and 35+ breakout sessions covering topics, including things like display advertising, mobile, social, video, media and more. The Local Corporation conducted a random sampling of 115 survey respondents to determine what was particularly hot … Continue reading »
New Marketing for an Opt-In Culture – Interview with Simon Kelly, COO of Story WW
Article first published as New Marketing Approach to an Opt-In Culture – Interview with Simon Kelly, COO of Story WW on Technorati. Content Marketing Strategies I was introduced to Story Worldwide at the Content Marketing Strategies Conference, hosted by Dlvr.it. Story is the next generation media agency that applies storytelling techniques and pragmatic measurements to drive exceptional brand marketing and … Continue reading »
Marketplace for Good Content – Interview with VIRURL CEO, Francisco Diaz-Mitoma
Article first published as Marketplace for Good Content – Interview with VIRURL CEO, Francisco Diaz-Mitoma on Technorati. Introduced at the Content Marketing Strategies Conference, hosted by the folks at Dlvr.it, VIRURL is a new platform that pays you to share links to videos, articles and games. “Our company charter is to make sure that the content is entertaining and consumable,” … Continue reading »
TiVo: Vignettes Helping Maintain TV Viewer Engagement in a DVR World
Article first published as According to TiVo: Vignettes Helping Maintain TV Viewer Engagement in a DVR World on Technorati. In a DVR world, who watches commercials? That was the lead-in on one of the slides presented by Greg DePalma, Vice President of Audience Insights at TiVo. Indeed, fast forwarding with your DVR remote is now as commonplace … Continue reading »