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Socially-enhanced ads have higher recall, purchase intent, Nielsen study claims

April 20, 2010

Nielsen has released a study today that looks at the effectiveness of different kinds of Facebook advertising. The goal was to determine whether ads that leveraged a brand’s social network — which Nielsen is calling “earned media” — performed differently than traditional ad formats.
The big headline: Socially-enhanced advertising has higher recall and higher [...]

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Media consumption down during the recession…Were consumers avoiding ads?

April 19, 2010

Here’s a surprising bit of research: Consumers reduced the amount of time they spent consuming media during the recession, according to a Yankee Group survey reported on by eMarketer.
Media consumption dropped 17% from 2008 to less than 12 hours a day.
The one media exempt from the reduction was mobile.
Activities decreased almost across the board, [...]

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Three guidelines for business clarity

April 13, 2010

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A few weeks ago I read an article in the McKinsey Quarterly that used observations from behavioral economics to recommend simple guidelines for marketers. The conclusions were striking in how strongly they resonated with our thinking about how we approach our products and markets.

Make a product’s cost less painful
Don’t overwhelm [...]

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Top marketers look to web site traffic to measure social media effectiveness…but it’s just a start

April 13, 2010

More than 50% of marketers believe they will generate quantifiable results from their social media activities in 2010, but there’s little consensus on what to measure, according to Datran Media’s “4th Annual Marketing & Media Survey” as reported by eMarketer.
An earlier eMarketer roundup had shown that the base level tracking that most people apply to [...]

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Multi-channel branding fits the way consumers shop today

April 13, 2010

The lure of the Internet is that it’s a quick one-stop marketing solution — search, display, web site, conversion, sale — that puts a business within reach of the majority of U.S. shoppers.

This easy lure can obscure the value of creating a multi-channel brand, using multiple media and marketing messages, in order to stay prominently [...]

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Internet advertising shows strong momentum, and content helps to drive conversion

April 13, 2010

The recovering economy is driving bullish projections for online advertising. Two trends are apparent: the dollars will migrate toward the outlets with the largest and best performing audiences, and the trend towards leveraging social media tools in marketing continues to be a small portion of overall spend.
eMarketer has featured several research snippets and [...]

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