First of all thanks to those of you asking me to write more often, much appreciated. One of the reason I didn't write too much recently lies in the fact that I started to work in a new company and I'm overwhelmed with new information to absorb and categorize. I wish I had a Wiki … Continue reading Would you have Google as your middle man?
Increase Marketing effectiveness: use behavioral targeting
It's been around for quite a while, the late 90's. But as privacy and technical issues are going away, marketers should consider behavioral targeting in their on-line advertising campaigns. For those who just missed it, behavioral targeting is the ability to deliver ads to consumers based upon their recent behavior viewing web pages, shopping online … Continue reading Increase Marketing effectiveness: use behavioral targeting
Marketing 2.0 is real-time: Google after the $20 billion US radio advertising
It's now effective, last Thursday Google began limited test of radio advertising. The system resulting from Google's earlier acquisition of dMarc Broadcasting (Jan 2006), extends the AdWord platform with the ability for advertisers to create and manage radio advertising campaigns as an additional channel to their web campaigns. Sounds like integrated marketing made easy. Google … Continue reading Marketing 2.0 is real-time: Google after the $20 billion US radio advertising
Online spending trends in B2B Marketing
Just a quick one to be shared for those of you mostly in B2B marketing, as I do, and wonder how online media investments are evolving more specifically in this environment. Here are some projection from http://www.eMarketer.com in a report they've just released Marketing Online: Trends and Tactics. To be noted that according to this … Continue reading Online spending trends in B2B Marketing
Do you master Marketing 2.0 metrics?
Dear fellow marketers, this is the time to check if you're on top of all the trendy acronyms that one must master to deal with the new media. Here is an interesting list I submit to your expertise: CTR: Click-thru rate CPM: Cost per thousand CPC: Cost per click Conversion Rate ROAS: Return on ad … Continue reading Do you master Marketing 2.0 metrics?
Social Network ad spending grows rapidly to $900M
Latest numbers tracked by eMarketer.com are showing that Marketing 2.0 is ramping up more rapidly than expected. This new 2007 Ad spending forecast, totaling $865M specifically in Social Networking ad, is far bigger than the last $280M estimate for 2006, still coming from eMarketer. This is pretty much in line with the 2010 forecasted $1.8 … Continue reading Social Network ad spending grows rapidly to $900M
Google rides the wave, Microsoft follows, Yahoo is in pain
Following our question about where Microsoft business model was going - read Hey Microsoft, are you becoming Googled? - and now that all 3 Internet titans have published their quarterly results, let's stop for a while and understand who is ahead of the curve. Assuming financial analysts and investors are doing their due diligence properly, … Continue reading Google rides the wave, Microsoft follows, Yahoo is in pain
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