Mele’s Musings

Week of 12.22.08/Top Stories

DigitalInStore/WhyAppsFail/Search&Display/CyberMonday
In a media democracy, which advertising media is most influential?
People are consuming media from all sorts of places, and that is changing the way companies reach out to consumers.

thestorytellingshow
Mobile coupons, please
Perhaps the current bad economy will prove to be the mobile tipping point.

theequitykicker
 
Social & Marketing - authenticity and attention grabbing
What are the highest ideals in [...]

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Social & Marketing – authenticity and attention grabbing

What are the highest ideals in marketing - being real, or doing things that grab eyeballs and get people to talk?

adweek
Article links:
Advertisers Face Hurdles on Social Networking Sites
Viral Video Hits Blur the Authenticity Line
The Secrets of Marketing in a Web 2.0 World
Retailers find Facebook friends in hopes of finding sales
Social Networks: Millions of Users, Not [...]

Tags: authentic, authenticity, Bike Hero, Facebook, social, Social advertising, social applications, social influence marketing, social marketing, social networking, viral marketing, viral videos, Web 2.0

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Week of 12.08.08/Top Stories

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.

flickr
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 [...]

Tags: Amazon, Atlas, barcode scanning, Black Friday, boomers, comparison shopping, Cyber Monday, Facebook, Gen X, Gen Y, generations, iPhone apps, mcommerce, millenials, Mobile, mobile advertising, mobile marketing, MySpace, online ads, online advertising, online shopping, online video, QR codes, retail, Shopping, Social advertising, social influence, Social Media, social network, social networking, sports, Target, television, TV, what's next, widget

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Is Social safe for advertising or not?

Leading marketers believe in the power of social. The question is WHAT to do with it.

facebook
Article links:
Learning to Work with Social Networks
Social Networkers Aren’t There for Ads
Musing:
The audience and the interest is there. Over 50% of those online use social networks, and they spend a lot of time there.
There is huge and lively [...]

Tags: Facebook, MySpace, online ads, online advertising, Social advertising, social influence, Social Media, social network, social networking

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Analyst: Half of ’social media campaigns’ will flop

Getting people to talk is not enough of a reason to move into social, says Gartner analyst.
 
marketingtwo.com
Article excerpt:   Sarner, an analyst with market research firm Gartner, has projected that over 75 percent of Fortune 1000 companies with Web sites will have undertaken some kind of online social-networking initiative for marketing or customer relations purposes. [...]

Tags: marketing, social, Social advertising, Social Media, social network, social shopping

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