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Mobile coupons, please

December 23rd, 2008

Perhaps the current bad economy will prove to be the mobile tipping point.

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Article links:
Cents-Off Coupons and Other Special Deals, via Your Cellphone
Prime Time for Mobile Coupons
Why Won’t Mobile Marketing Learn From Online’s Lessons?
Musing:
Mobile programs in which users can get coupons sent to them based on their location, or based on signing up for a specific [...]

Week of 12.08.08/Top Stories

December 10th, 2008

GenerationsOnline/Cyber Monday?/MobileShopping/SocialAndAds
Generational differences in digital: Millenials, GenX, and Boomers
How and what they access is different, but all generations use digital to gather shopping information.

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Do marketers have the wrong Cyber Monday? (And Black Friday is hot online, too, by the way)
Cyber Monday is a created phenomenon. But maybe it’s catching on?

Atlas
Mobile Shopping - changing the [...]

Other good articles this past week / 12.01.08

December 10th, 2008

Issues of Interest
2009 to Be Transition Year for TV
Sports Fans Make Great Mobile Targets
Digital Marketing News
Widgets Are Made for Marketing, So Why Aren’t More Advertisers Using Them?
Digital News and Trends
Online Video Viewer Demographics
Retail and Products
What’s Next For Retail In ‘09
Stores become more creative to get shoppers to buy
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Week of 12.01.08/Top Stories

December 2nd, 2008

SocialOverinfluence/OnlineBargains/GoogleTV/18-24YearOlds
Trying something new this week - putting articles together in themes and offering my thoughts on the implications.
How do we listen to customers via social without being overly influenced by the voice of the few?
People freaking out about Motrin advertising and the brand’s response begs the question - does listening to chatter give too much [...]

That complicated young consumer

December 2nd, 2008

Ok, we know they are online a lot, but so what? How do we use that information to reach out to young people and do it more effectively?

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Article links:
Kids and Teens Are Always On
College Student and Teen Web Tastes
Are Young Adults Really Brand-Resistant?
Teenagers’ Internet Socializing Not a Bad Thing
Emerging Media Increasingly Inform Shoppers’ [...]

Other good articles this past week / 9.29.08

September 29th, 2008

Issues of Interest
College Students’ Social Networking
emarketer
Female Gaming on the Rise
emarketer
Study: Media, Technology Win Out Over Friends, Family
Adotas
Extending the Social Network
emarketer

Digital Marketing News
Video Ad Spend: Building to Steep Growth
emarketer
Mobile Ads Might Work with Teens
emarketer
The TV Ad Exodus, Part 2: Melding With the Web
ecommerce times
JupiterResearch: MySpace, Facebook need different approaches
biz report

Digital Commerce News
No Such Thing as Free [...]

Privacy Key As Mobile Ads Continue To Grow

September 25th, 2008

You talkin’ to me?

Picture: rohde-schwartz.com
Article excerpt:   Mobile advertising in the U.S. will hit $1.9 billion in 2012, according to a new forecast by market research firm Frost & Sullivan.  The report cited wireless operators’ development of new campaigns both on carrier portals, or “decks,” and off-deck, capitalizing on advertisers’ abilities to cover production costs and [...]

What’s Holding Up Mobile Advertising?

April 1st, 2008

I have a feeling this will be a subject of interest we cover all year.  Everyone is hungry to do more and more mobile, but what will it take for mobile to really take off?  Value!!

chart: eMarketer.com 
Article excerpt: Are mobile marketers moving ahead or merely spinning their wheels? ”2007 was not ‘the year of mobile [...]

Mobile Ads: Slow to Take Off

March 21st, 2008

Slow because we are treating cell phones like every other media!  Consumers don’t really want ads on their cell phones – they want relevant content.

Article excerpt:  Advertisers are shying away from mobile phones until they get clearer data on whether promotions on the small screen pay off . Even as ads on cell phones become [...]

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