Archive for March 25th, 2010

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Mar
10

10 Essential Rules for Brands in Social Media

These days everyone seems to have advice about how to run your social media marketing program. There are so many tips floating around, it’s hard to know what truly essential strategies you should follow to effectively use social media to build your business. Questions abound: Do Facebook fans drive sales? Why should I fund forums for consumers to pillory my products, ridicule my service and tout the competition? And, whatever I decide to do, how I will I know if it’s working?

In the search for truth, sometimes social media is its own worst enemy. With a self-credentialed guru waiting at every click, finding actionable, fact-based insight is tricky.

So, in a modest attempt to bring a dose of sanity to this intellectual frat party, I’ve reined my impulse to lob more “personal picks” into the fray. Instead, I’ll follow the wisdom of an august data mining colleague to just “let the data speak.” Continue reading ’10 Essential Rules for Brands in Social Media’

25
Mar
10

Mobile Content Main Focus Of New Samsung Device

Samsung Mobile- Galaxy SSamsung unveiled it’s newest US-based smartphone at CTIA today, indicating the company’s new focus on mobile content.

The Galaxy S, as it’s being called, is an Android-powered smartphone that takes into account the three factors Samsung has identified as being the most important with today’s smartphones: screen, speed and content.  The latter of which being what the Galaxy S was designed around. Continue reading ‘Mobile Content Main Focus Of New Samsung Device’

25
Mar
10

Facebook: Facts & Figures For 2010

Here is  another great social media infographic / visualisation / chart or what ever you want to call them! This time it’s on Facebook Statistics for 2010, showcasing things like total users, global reach, mobile usage .etc along with a pretty cool timeline of the key milestones in Facebook’s history so far. Continue reading ‘Facebook: Facts & Figures For 2010′

25
Mar
10

HP: Digital Video Wall Installation

25
Mar
10

Toyota Auris: Multi-Marker Augmented Reality

25
Mar
10

VH1 “Smiles” on Mobile Marketing

VH1 is trusting the mobile channel to not only help promote its new reality series “Jessica Simpson’s The Price of Beauty,” but also to raise awareness and corresponding funds for Operation Smile.

Operation Smile, an organization with which Jessica Simpson has long been affiliated in the capacity of ambassador, helps children with cleft palates receive free corrective surgeries.

The “Send a Smile” SMS campaign encourages people to “donate a smile.” As a result, VH1 will donate $1 for every photo submitted up to $10,000. To participate, mobile users can send a smiling pic to 80366. Conversely, texting the keyword SMILE to 90999 will make a $5 donation. Continue reading ‘VH1 “Smiles” on Mobile Marketing’

25
Mar
10

Lindt backs chocolate bunny with first digital campaign

Upscale chocolate maker Lindt is running its first digital campaign in the UK, which promotes its Gold Bunny in the weeks before Easter.

An online advertising and email campaign is driving people to a website where they are challenged to find six hidden bunnies to be in with a chance of winning a kilogram of the product.

Integrated design agency Standout UK created the Flash-based site and the ad and email campaign. Continue reading ‘Lindt backs chocolate bunny with first digital campaign’

25
Mar
10

Behaviorgraphics Humanize the Social Web

In 2007 Charlene Li, then at Forrester Research, now running the Altimeter Group, along with Forrester ’s Josh Bernoff, Remy Fiorentino, and Sarah Glass released a report that introduced us to Social Technographics.  Forrester’s research segmented participation behavior on the social web into six categories, visualized through a ladder metaphor with the rungs at the high end of the ladder indicating a greater level of participation. Continue reading ‘Behaviorgraphics Humanize the Social Web’

25
Mar
10

The Digital Advertising Philosophy of Life: Case study: Discovery Channel’s campaign for its new nature

As a digital marketer, when was the last time you considered how online media could be used to reflect the core attributes of your client’s product? Or thought about how the creative could be applied to get the most out of the functionality of your ad space? When we’re faced with new campaigns, we often concentrate on the logistics of our placements – demographics, reach, cost, and such – without putting enough emphasis on how the placements could be infused with the essence of what’s being advertised, in a way that also engages consumers.

You’ve no doubt read by now about Discovery Channel’s introductory campaign for its new nature documentary series – and with good reason. It’s fast becoming a case study for the aforementioned exercise, and a lesson in best practices for buyers and planners looking to make a purposeful and relevant impact. Continue reading ‘The Digital Advertising Philosophy of Life: Case study: Discovery Channel’s campaign for its new nature’




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