Recent ‘marketing’ News Stories

Dwell Time To Measure Digital Branding

Wednesday, 10th March 2010

A recent white paper from Microsoft Advertising discusses how the growth of digital as a branding channel is prompting the need for advertisers to know how effective their ad campaigns have been. Dwell Time is proposed as a measure of the effectiveness of digital branding. (more…)

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Social Media Still Not Considered Important By Marketers

Thursday, 4th February 2010

A survey of 250 U.K. marketing professionals has found that social media is still not being given enough importance by marketers. (more…)

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AOL Ranked Top US Ad Network

Friday, 22nd January 2010

According to data released by comScore, AOL Advertising was the top ad network in the USA in December 2009. ComScore’s reasearch results show that AOL Advertising had access to 187 million U.S. Internet users. (more…)

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Facebook Earned $1 Billion Revenue

Friday, 18th December 2009

Facebook looks all set to cross the $1 billion mark with their annual revenue for 2009. This figure is close to double the $550 million that was predicted to be their annual revenue for the year. (more…)

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Innovative Facebook Campaign Success For Ikea

Tuesday, 1st December 2009

The Swedish chain of furniture stores, Ikea, is creating a buzz on Facebook, for all the right reasons. (more…)

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Google Launches Go Mobile! Site

Friday, 6th November 2009

Google AdWords recently launched a new resource to help marketers reach mobile Internet audiences more easily. This service is called Go Mobile! (more…)

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View-through Conversion Tracking On Google Network

Tuesday, 6th October 2009

AdWords advertisers can now measure real conversion rates for display ad campaigns on the Google Content Network through a new feature called View-through Conversion Reporting. (more…)

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Nielsen Brings Market Intelligence To Facebook

Monday, 28th September 2009

Facebook and Nielsen are teaming up to provide a new service to marketers on the popular social networking site. Nielsen will make use of their vast marketing experience to help marketers reach all Facebook users more effectively. (more…)

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Facebook Ads Out Perform Google

Wednesday, 23rd September 2009

While it is true that in general that the effect of online ads on social networks is not quite as strong as the effect of online ads on search sites, it has been found that ads on Facebook have definitely begun to show very good results, even surpassing the performance of ads on search giant, Google. (more…)

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Research Confirms Online Advertising Drives Offline Sales

Friday, 4th September 2009

Online advertising is no longer meant only for online marketers. More and more studies are showing that online advertising can be beneficial for offline sales as well. (more…)

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Oprah Sues Online Marketers For Brand Abuse

Friday, 21st August 2009

Online Marketers Beware!

The above mentioned statement is only applicable to those online marketers who use the names or photographs of celebrities, to endorse their products without having taken the consent of the celebrities concerned.

While this has been a very common practice for a long time now, talk show host Oprah Winfrey has decided not to take this practise lying down anymore. (more…)

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Users To Decide Digg Ad Rates

Monday, 8th June 2009

Digg recently announced plans to set up a new advertising platform. This advertising platform will be different from ad offerings on other sites, as it will indirectly allow users to decide the price Digg will charge their advertisers for each ad. (more…)

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Mixx Debuts Ad Rating Service

Monday, 11th May 2009

The social book marking site Mixx has introduced a new service, called ‘the sifter’, which will enable “elite” members of Mixx to vote on five different ads of any format that an advertiser uploads, thus giving the advertisers an idea of which ad will be the most effective. (more…)

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The Terminator On Twitter

Friday, 24th April 2009

Soon to be launched movie, Terminator Salvation, has tapped into Twitter with a whole new concept for self promotion. (more…)

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Popular Brands Succumb To Sneaky Twitter Advertising

Tuesday, 14th April 2009

A number of popular brands have been recently caught paying for undercover publicity on Twitter. These brands are paying Twitter users, via the Magpie ad network, to tweet about their products. (more…)

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Twitter To The Rescue Of Small Businesses

Friday, 27th March 2009

In these days of recession, all possible money saving measures are helpful. As the saying goes, ‘A penny saved is a penny earned’. It has been found that the popular micro-blogging site Twitter is helping small businesses to do just that. (more…)

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Ad Targeting Options From Yahoo!

Monday, 23rd March 2009

Yahoo! Search Marketing has recently added some new features to help advertisers reach their target audiences. Better targeting will in turn mean more sales and more income, which means more value for the money, the advertiser spends on his campaign. (more…)

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Google Profiling User Behaviour To Target Advertising

Monday, 16th March 2009

It has long been known that Google collects large volumes of data from all interactions users have with its various products, services and networks. They have now launched a new set of ad features, based on all the user data they collect, and are calling it ‘Interest-Based Advertising’. (more…)

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Microsoft Closes adCenter Analytics

Friday, 13th March 2009

Mel Carson, Microsoft adCenter’s Community Manager, announced yesterday that they will close the adCenter Analytics program at the beta stage itself. (more…)

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Is Facebook Sending More Traffic Than Google?

Thursday, 12th March 2009

According to recent findings from the analytics company Hitwise, Facebook is now sending more traffic to some sites than Google. (more…)

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