TV Ban Looms For E-Cigarette Marketers
Big Tobacco has made a historic return to the airwaves and pages of consumer magazines with ads for e-cigarettes, but the days of regulation-free marketing...
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Vevo Hires Nielsen Digital Exec as First Revenue Chief
Like a lot of internet video companies, Vevo is pressing hard for ad dollars that would otherwise go to TV. That might explain why it’s...
Meet Kevin Weil: Twitter’s Ad Architect and Its Killer App
In an earlier life, Kevin Weil was a Ph.D. candidate at Stanford in theoretical particle physics. Today, as Twitter steams toward a public offering, the...
What does a perfect agile marketing strategy look like?
Culture Responsive marketing is still a relatively nascent area, focusing as it does on social media channels to underpin earned media wins. It requires experimentation,...
What Twitter’s Trendrr Buy Means for Social TV
The big news in social media this week was Twitter’s purchase of Trendrr. This is great for Twitter, which acquires great technology just in time...
The Next Big Ad War: Netflix vs. Hulu vs. Amazon
We’ve had beer wars, cola wars and, for those who remember, the legendary Macy’s versus Gimbels rivalry. Right now cellphone marketers are exchanging blow after...
Yep, That’s Just About Every Tech Commercial Ever [VIDEO]
“When I’m watching a commercial for a new tech device,” says the architect, “I’m looking for an ad that’s fun.” “That’s cool,” says the baker....
9 Examples of Brands Engaging in Social Media Banter
As brands strategize about how best to use social media to talk to consumers, they’re also increasingly talking to each other. The hope — whether...
Which Brand Vined it Best?
It’s time to get judgmental. Once again, we are going gossip-mag style and are pitting brands’ Vine efforts against each other for our own version...
Foursquare in Talks with Tech Firms for Strategic Investment as Ad Business Improves
Foursquare Labs Inc. is in talks with multiple large technology companies about a potential strategic investment, according to people with knowledge of the discussions. The...
Bring Your Facebook Life to Print with Likebook
Oversharing your life online is so 2012. If you want to be retro, self-obsessed and go against the mainstream notion that print is dead, then...
Facebook Seeks to Clarify How It Uses Member Data for Ads
Facebook is proposing to clarify how it manages user data for advertisements, as part of an agreement stemming from a settlement of a class-action lawsuit....
A bombshell from Kia: Lady Gaga, Twitter, YouTube, Shazam and the VMAs
YouTube On YouTube, the video has nearly reached 1m views. Expect this number to continue to rise dramatically riding the song’s popularity. Given that previous...
Twitter Buys Trendrr to Track Social Conversations Across Media
In an effort to make it easier for networks and publishers to display tweets in their programming, Twitter has bought the social-TV startup Trendrr for...
Golf Channel Has an Epic Fail on Anniversary of ‘I Have a Dream’ Speech
In the summer of 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. took the steps of the Lincoln memorial and, in front of a crowd of hundreds of...
Spotify ads: which is right for your brand?
Audio ads For free users, these radio-esque adverts play in between ten to twenty minutes worth of music for a time ranging from sixty seconds,...
