‘Online Advertising’ posts

How Content Marketing, Harvard, Mapping Online Advertising: From Anxiety to Method discussion intersect

Posted by Jim Munz on 12 Jan 2010

“Instead of taking watching time as a measure of exposure, which is a substitute for audience attention, keyword advertising takes the language used in searches as a proxy for people’s interests, needs or cravings. In this context, the product that media (i.e. search engines) sell to advertisers is not the watching time of specific audiences, | View post »

10 Emerging Trends for Online Advertising and Content Marketing for 2010

Posted by Jim Munz on 24 Dec 2009

I believe these emerging trends in advertising and content marketing will change how we do business online well beyond 2010. The adoption of these trends may carry over into 2011 and some have already started to take shape. 1. Real time = Real Opportunities. The digital advertising space will evolve quickly around real time | View post »

Internet Marketing Online Advertising – Only 14% of People Click on Ads

Posted by Marc Osofsky on 11 Dec 2009

comScore released a bombshell at the iMedia Brand Summit, and yet not everyone has heard about it and the conclusions are striking. Briefly: comScore updated their “Natural Born Clickers” study and the main findings are shown in the chart below: Only 16% of internet users account for all clicks on display ads – down | View post »

Seth Godin, Acumen and the content marketing story it tells

Posted by Jim Munz on 02 Dec 2009

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 | View post »

Building Brands Online – IAB and Bain Report

Posted by Jim Munz on 01 Dec 2009

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 | View post »

Display Advertising – Top Performers List

Posted by Marc Osofsky on 21 May 2009

The top online advertisers are direct marketing companies driving traffic through display ads and efficiently converting them into customers. Here is a partial list of these top online advertisers ranked by impressions to date in 2009. I’ve included some of the names of the leaders within these companies because they don’t get the same attention | View post »

Video Demo of Application Syndication with OView

Posted by Marc Osofsky on 16 Apr 2009

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 As a fan of the New England Patriots the Patriots Calendar App, built using the Event | View post »

Sociable Ads: The Future or Advertising, or Just Another Banner?

Posted by John Eckman on 14 Apr 2009

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. Sociable Ads, a | View post »

Leveraging APIs to Grow Your Digital Footprint

Posted by John Eckman on 13 Apr 2009

While non-profit, community-oriented public radio stations aren’t usually seen as being at the forefront of Internet technology, National Public Radio has been quietly making very impressive moves in adjusting to a new set of user expectations and technologies we’ve termed the Assembled Web. As consumers have become increasingly sophisticated in their consumption (and control) of | View post »

Reviewing the Groundswell

Posted by John Eckman on 22 Jul 2008

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 | View post »