Post tagged "advertising"
6% of Mobile Ads Have a Social Media Call to Action
Millenial Media has added 3 new campaign types to the campaigns it measure in its monthly Scorecard for Mobile Advertising Reach and Targeting (S.M.A.R.T.): m-Commerce, Social Media …more…
JetBlue Marketer to Agencies: Find Me on Twitter
One basic way agencies can demonstrate digital chops to a potential client? Find him or her on Twitter. That’s the lesson to be learned from JetBlue’s senior VP-marketing and commercial, Marty St. George (who will be speaking on June 14 at TWTRCON NY), who decided to test agencies currently vying for the airline’s marketing account with this tweet: “We’re pitching our advertising AOR. Curious on digital savvy … first test is how many of the agencies will find me on Twitter.” …more…
Facebook knows I'm a 44 year old chump
I’m 44 years old and don’t really care who knows it. But serving me ads that target me as a 44 year old chump that will click through (yes, I did) and share my email address (no, I didn’t) on the promise of beta testing an iPad — well — that’s a bit much.
'Max the Tampax' Mobile Social Campaign Designed to Connect With Teens
Procter & Gamble has created a mobile social campaign designed to strike down young girls’ prejudices about tampons and educate them about the benefits of its Tampax brand, while leveraging the intimacy of the mobile phone and the adding viral elements to leverage teen girls’ propensity to share.
P&G tapped mobile marketing agency Phonevalley and media planning company Starcom MediaVest Group for the launch of the Tampax mobile campaign to reach girls ages 13-17 in France. It supports a Web campaign launched to promote the character of “Max the Tampax” and create a community around him on the Skyrock.com Web site.
Coffee Company Blends E-Commerce With Marketing On Facebook
Few companies so far have tried turning their brand pages on Facebook into online storefronts. Facebook pages been used almost exclusively as marketing tools — to build brand awareness generally, or to help drive traffic for specific promotions or special deals offline or on their main sites. But not to actually sell stuff directly.
Taking that rare step is Equator Estate Coffees & Teas, which is launching an online store on its Facebook page allowing fans to buy artisanal coffees without leaving the site.
“Social media is rapidly becoming a critically important vehicle for talking with our customers. Now, with our new …more…
Army of Tweeting Tax Pros Leads H&R Block Social Push
H&R Block’s new social-media plan has at its core a 1,000-member tax-professional team, chosen from 100,000 H&R employees across the country, who have been “social-media-qualified.” The tax team will answer questions directly, but also will “listen” in to concerns or problems being discussed within communities and forums and respond accordingly.
Social networks drive brand participation among women
According to a new edition of the SheSpeaks “Annual Social Media Study,” social networking profile penetration climbed from 58% of Internet users in 2008 to 86% in 2009. 80% of female Internet users said they …more…
Facebook to pass MySpace in ad spending in 2010
Marketers will spend $1.2 billion in paid advertising on social networks in the U.S. in 2010 — a 3.9% increase driven mainly by Facebook’s rapid growth, according to a new eMarketer forecast. …more…
How Saatchi & Saatchi’s Toyota Social Media Disaster Unfolded
An online backlash is growing against a smutty Toyota ad featuring a girl’s father and boyfriend having an innuendo-laden discussion about taking her virginity and “having her on her back” . The video was the winner of a Toyota-endorsed competition, the Clever Film Competition, which was organised by Saatchi & Saatchi. The running of the competition was the ad agency’s entry into Toyota’s live social media pitch which saw five social media campaigns being run for the Toyota Yaris.The video has been accused of having incestuous overtones and already generated consumer complaints …more…
Twitter users more likely to engage with brands
Tech and media research firm Interpret surveyed over 9,200 internet users in August 2009 and found that Twitter users are twice as likely to engage with brands—in multiple ways—than other …more…
