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Foursquare and Yelp and Places, Oh My

by Dustin Diehl November 30, 2010

Over the past few weeks we’ve talked a lot about new coupon/deal/discount features that have been rolling out on popular location-based service platforms. Well, apparently, we’re not done. Last week, just in time for Black Friday, there were several announcements and examples that caught my eye: PepsiCo and Vons step it up on Foursquare – [...]

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Qwiki: Is This The Lazy Man’s Search Engine Or Is It Perfect For TV?

by Andrew Bagley November 22, 2010

Is Qwiki the next generation of web-based TV search?

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Integrated Digital Campaign Success Metrics Are Evolving

by Katie McNally November 17, 2010

With the increase of QR codes, SMS and other interactive calls-to-action we’re seeing increased expectations put on traditional media to perform to digital media standards. Not only are traditional budgets shifting more to digital, but those remaining dollars are starting to be measured in digital terms. Moreover, within the digital space itself, we’re seeing an [...]

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Retargeting: The Minority Leader

by Tina Perez November 8, 2010

Nielsen recently announced that they’ve been under-reporting web traffic by as much as 22% for years now. Apparently their systems weren’t tracking any visits to websites with URLs that were more than 2,000 characters. This may not seem like a big deal (how many URLs are more than 2,000 characters, right?) but in some cases, [...]

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Innovative or annoying? Ad units may impact your brand

by Travis Unwin September 15, 2010

Advertisers are constantly looking for new ways to get their message in front of consumers. Publishers respond to that need by creating innovative ad units designed to capture and keep consumer attention. And sometimes, it all goes horribly wrong. Take the new PageGrabber™ unit by Undertone Networks. This new “takeover” ad unit is inescapable. It [...]

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From Acquisition to Advocacy – The “Digital” Customer Lifecycle Funnel

by Greg Chapman September 13, 2010

According to numbers I “mashed-up” myself, taken from Forrester’s 2009 U.S. Interactive Marketing Forecast and an e-Marketer estimate, I pieced together the following estimate of advertising spend in 2011 (approximate, in U.S. billions): Television $70,432 31% Print  $56,256 23% Digital $34,080 15% Newspaper $29,536 13% Out of Home & Other $22,720 10% Radio $18,176 8% [...]

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