‘Online Marketing’ posts
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 »
Assembled Web vs. Siloed Web
Posted by Marc Osofsky on 22 Dec 2008
When talking about the internet, most companies we speak with still draw a picture with their websites in the center of the page, a big solid firewall above it and beyond that, the internet in “the cloud”. A customer, however, doesn’t see it this way at all. They go online and experience all companies “in | View post »
Advertising Online Alternative
Posted by Marc Osofsky on 08 May 2008
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. | View post »
Agencies vs. Ad-blockers, Who will Win?
Posted by Marc Osofsky on 02 May 2008
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 | View post »
Ecommerce strategy – 4 Top Myths
Posted by Marc Osofsky on 01 Apr 2008
Innovative retailers are challenging 4 key retailing rules of thumb to outperform rivals stuck in the old ways. A recent Harvard Business Review study provided rigourous qunatitative evidence of this fact and Business Week has written about the explosive growth of retailers taking new approaches. So what are these 4 retailing rules of thumb that may now | View post »
Corporate Website 2.0 – Modernista – 1st Postmodern Website
Posted by Marc Osofsky on 01 Apr 2008
Modernista has launched a radical new website to visually demonstrate that your brand/company is now everywhere on the web and beyond your complete control. I applaud them for their radical approach at hammering home this key point. The concept is pretty simple. They use Flickr, Facebook and Wikipedia as content containers for their work, company info, etc. | View post »


