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The Future of Content is here
Posted 27 Jan 2010 by Jim MunzTags: content, Content Marketing, Digital Media, Marketing, Media and Publishing, new media, User Experience

This example of a Tablet version for Times Sports Illustrated that represents the future of content in my mind. This is a true multimedia experience that will be demanded by consumers not just on tablet devices but web sites, phones, and TV. The future is here are you ready for it? + Read more

Internet Marketing Online Advertising - Only 14% of People Click on Ads
Posted 11 Dec 2009 by Marc OsofskyTags: Advertising, Content Marketing, internet marketing online advertising, Marketing, Online Advertising

comScore released a bombshell at the iMedia Brand Summit, and yet not everyone has heard about it and the conclusions are striking.  Briefly:   + Read more

Seth Godin, Acumen and the content marketing story it tells
Posted 02 Dec 2009 by Jim MunzTags: Advertising, Content Marketing, Marketing, Online Advertising, Online Marketing, User Generated Content

I received Seth Godin's daily update, as I do every morning, and it jumped out at me as an interesting content marketing approach. So instead of sending out preview copies of his new book "Linchpin" to the usual industry suspects he is offering people who receive his daily feed the opportunity to get a copy and review it ahead of it's launch date. This approach has a great content marketing spin with an online response marketer touch as well. + Read more

Building Brands Online - IAB and Bain Report
Posted 01 Dec 2009 by Jim MunzTags: Advertising, Advertising Landscape, business, Business Model, Content Marketing, Marketing, media, Media Advertising, Media and Publishing, new media, Online Advertising, Online Marketing

I've been following the changing trends in online media marketing and advertising and the challenges that face both audiences over the past couple of years. The IAB and Bain have recently released a report called Building Brands Online: An Interactive Advertising Action Plan. They cover a number of topics in the report including why you should care and what is needed to address the five key obstacles they outline in the report: 1. Ad formats and creative are not innovating with the medium. + Read more

AOL ventures into a new content marketing landscape
Posted 30 Nov 2009 by Jim MunzTags: Advertising, Advertising Landscape, Business Model, content, Content Marketing, Marketing, publishing

"Content is the one area on the Web that hasn't seen the full potential. Hopefully, we will spark a revolution of people doing content at a different scale," says Mr. Armstrong, a former advertising executive at Google. + Read more

Want to Engage your Sports Fans on their sites and Facebook? See how the New England Patriots are doing it.
Posted 13 Jun 2009 by Jim MunzTags: Advertising, application syndication, content syndication, Facebook, Marketing, media, Media Advertising, Media and Publishing, New England Patriots, sports marketing, Syndication

Fans want to share the love of their team with other fans. Providing a team sponsored multimedia experience that is updated daily on their own site is a perfect solution. The New England Patriots got a head start on delivering this possibility by using OView application syndication and engaging with Optaros to deliver the right experience. + Read more

Video Demo of Application Syndication with OView
Posted 16 Apr 2009 by Jim MunzTags: application syndication, Assembled Web, Content Marketing, content syndication, Facebook, Marketing, Media Advertising, Media and Publishing, multi-channel, Online Advertising, Online Marketing, oview, SaaS, Solutions, sports marketing, syndicate, Syndication, Video

Video demos of the Patriots Calendar App are provided to help you understand what is available for the fan of the New England Patriots and how we are managing this cross channel/cross domain micro-experience through OView. The Fan Experience + Read more

Sociable Ads: The Future or Advertising, or Just Another Banner?
Posted 14 Apr 2009 by John EckmanTags: Advertising, Advertising Landscape, Assembled Web, Business Model, Community, Marketing, media, Media Advertising, Metrics, Online Advertising, oview, Performance, Platform, Social Networking, Twitter, Web 2.0, Widget

Given the number of users who deploy ad-blocking software in their browsers, and the complete blindness to banner ads exhibited by most website users who haven't bothered to deploy ad blockers, it isn't surprising that the industry continues to seek a replacement (or at least a supplement) for the standard banner ad. + Read more

Reviewing the Groundswell
Posted 22 Jul 2008 by John EckmanTags: Blogs, Business Model, Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Community, Crowdsource, Direct Consumer Engagement, Drupal, Enterprise 2.0, Groundswell, Marketing, media, Online Advertising, Open Source, Social Networking, User Experience, Web 2.0

One danger of reviewing a book is the reality that the reviews ultimately say more about the reviewer, and the book he or she wishes had been written, than they do about the book which actually was written. It's in that context that I offer this review of Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technology, by Forrester Research analysts Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff, published by Harvard Business Press (note: disclaimers at the end of the post). + Read more

Advertising Online 2 Application Views, the Online Ad Alternative
Posted 08 May 2008 by Marc OsofskyTags: Advertising, Advertising Landscape, content syndication, Marketing, media, Media Advertising

The internet is now the #1 media channel at work and the #2 channel at home. Brands must effectively engage consumers online with content to remain relevant. But eye tracking studies and DoubleClick's own data show that consumers have learned to ignore online ad real estate, no matter what type of ad (video, widget, flash) it is. This begs the question - there must be a better way to engage consumers online with branded content. The answer is Application Views. + Read more

Advertising Online #1 - Agencies vs. Ad-blockers, Who will Win?
Posted 02 May 2008 by Marc OsofskyTags: Advertising, Advertising Landscape, Marketing, Online Advertising

It appears that we humans are quite adaptable. In a relatively short time, nearly all of us have learned to ignore ads on the internet. The best way to prove this is through eye tracking studies that capture exactly what we are looking at on a web page. A great visual representation of this is through the use of heat maps that show the greatest concentrations of attention as red, lesser attention as yellow and finally no color markings for areas of the website that failed to capture any attention. + Read more

Marketing to Women? Don't Ignore the Blogosphere
Posted 18 Apr 2008 by John EckmanTags: Advertising, Advertising Landscape, Amateur, Blogs, Community, content syndication, Demographics, Direct Consumer Engagement, Ecommerce, long-tail, Marketing, media, Media Advertising, Media and Publishing, Metrics, Online Advertising, Retail, User Generated Content, Web 2.0, Widget, WordPress

Brands who hope to market to women should no longer consider the blogosphere as an emerging or fringe channel, but should recognize the pervasive presence and increasing influence of women as authors, readers, and commentors on blogs. + Read more

Online Advertising Landscape Unclear
Posted 11 Apr 2008 by Jim MunzTags: Advertising, Advertising Landscape, Marketing, media, Media Advertising, Media and Publishing, Online Advertising, Online Revenue, ROI

With a potential deal looming in the online ad space between Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL, Google, and others, buyers of online ad space should be, and some of them are, showing concern. What this looming deal shows is the need for other options than what currently exist. + Read more

Media Widget = Content Syndication
Posted 24 Mar 2008 by Jim MunzTags: Blogs, Content Management, content syndication, Facebook, long-tail, Marketing, media, Media and Publishing, publishing, syndicate, Syndication, syndicatr, Web 2.0, Widget

A lot of activity is going on right now in the industry regarding widgets and how and why to use them. It seems daily another announcement is coming out about how someone is making available content to by shared on blog sites, Facebook, MySpace, and other web sites in an effort to improve the user experience on the site and at the same time monetize the additional audience exposure those sites bring for both the content owner and the publishing web site. + Read more

Understand NGI Media Adoption by Demographic
Posted 10 Jan 2008 by Bryan SpauldingTags: Demographics, Direct Consumer Engagement, Marketing, Media and Publishing

NGI marketers must understand demographic preferences. Consumer Media Adoption is Moving Online Consumers are rapidly adopting Emerging Media products and services, newer platforms will dominate as adoption grows Younger audiences are adopting emerging media channels Over time, the today's emerging channels will dominate the market link to image + Read more