Foursquare Selling Its Location Data Through Ad Targeting Firm Turn
As part of its efforts to generate new sources of revenue, Foursquare is working with ad-tech company Turn to allow advertisers to use its treasure-trove...
Category: Interactive marketing
Eric Schmidt’s Venture Cash Funds Data Startup
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt’s venture capital fund is part of a $3 million investment in a very young data startup. Israel-based Datorama just brought...
How Publicis-Omnicom Could Make Enormous Scale Equal Data Expertise
When Publicis Groupe and Omnicom Group announced their $35 billion megamerger Sunday, the first slide in the part of the investor presentation explaining the strategic...
Hill Holliday’s Ilya Vedrashko on the Trouble With Social Listening
Ilya Vedrashko is fascinated by digital interactions and what they tell us about people. Though his work heading a team of consumer-intelligence analysts at Hill...
Facebook Stock, Fueled by Mobile, Rises to Highest Price Since IPO
Facebook shares on Monday rose to their highest closing price since the day after its initial public offering amid optimism that the world’s largest social...
Best Practice Series: Strategic Online Reputation & Social Media Management
Overview Digital and social media provide unparalleled opportunities for organisations to connect and engage effectively and at low cost with customers and other stakeholders, and...
Best Practice Series: Managing Online & Social Media Reputation
Digital and social media provide unparalleled opportunities for organisations to connect and engage effectively and at low cost with customers and other stakeholders, and plays...
Six examples of brilliant marketing creative to enjoy with your coffee
Social Tacobell In the words of David, our intern, Taco Bell’s Twitter account ‘doesn’t feed out generic, bland, and often repetitive info’. Instead, those with...
In Tracking Users, Pinterest Lays Groundwork for Ad Business
Pinterest is continuing the lay the groundwork for its ad business. The company announced that it will start recommending pins and boards to users based...
Mini Mocks Weiner With Selfie From @CarlosDMotor
Mini’s attempt to ride the Anthony Weiner bandwagon with bathroom-mirror photo from a fake Twitter account was sophomoric and didn’t circulate widely. But it was...
PolitiFact Gives BuzzFeed Sponsored Post a ‘Pants on Fire’
If “native” ads are designed to mimic editorial content, should readers expect the same rigorous attention to detail that they find in news stories? In...
10 interesting digital marketing stats we’ve seen this week
Royal Baby news boom Experian Hitwise looked at the changes in online search patterns caused by the Royal Baby news on Monday. Their data shows...
Mentos Personalizes News Bulletins For the ‘Selfie’ Generation
Mentos is capitalizing on the narcissism that fuels social media by creating personalized news bulletins that make your Facebook activity look exciting enough to be...
Former NBC Digital Exec Launches Bomoda to Sell Luxury to the Chinese
The idea for Bomoda originated, as ideas often do, at a dinner. Brian Buchwald’s dining companion one night in fall 2011 was a Chinese woman...
Did Forbes Go Overboard Apologizing for Wrongly Outing the Irish President?
The Forbes spokeswoman said its actions have precedent. It has previously removed posts from the website and replaced them with apologies, she said, declining to...
10 awesome digital marketing campaigns from Nike
Livestrong This campaign may have lost some of its gloss since Armstrong’s downfall, but it’s still a good example of how Nike uses mobile to...
