lundi 27 décembre 2010

Social Media to See More Marketing Dollars in 2011 - eMarketer

According to a November 2010 survey of business executives around the globe by StrongMail, nearly two-thirds of companies will increase spending on email marketing, and 57% will put more dollars toward social media marketing. Search took a distant third place with 41% of respondents indicating they would spend more.

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lundi 11 octobre 2010

Etes-vous un influenceur?

Influenceurs est un court métrage assez sympa qui explore ce que signifie être un influenceur et comment les tendances et les idées deviennent contagieuses aujourd’hui. C’est réalisé par Paul Davis et Rojanathara Johnson.
via woweffect.be

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dimanche 26 septembre 2010

Why are so many things broken? Speech by Seth Godin



Infographics of the Day: How Segregated Is Your City?



Social Media Working Better for Retention Than Acquisition - eMarketer

While marketers started out in 2008 spending similar amounts on branding, customer loyalty and customer acquisition, by 2009 customer acquisition budgets had failed to grow as quickly as the others. Customer acquisition budgets more than doubled twice between 2008 and 2010, but they still lagged behind the even more dramatic growth of spending in other areas.

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(Video) Trespass: A History of Uncommissioned Urban Art



Van Gogh in Tilt-Shift



Art Vs. Advertising



Remove Hands When No Longer Strangers - PSFK

Nice street art... This bit of interactive street art has recently been spotted all over New York City. The creator is unknown, but a small line of text at the bottom says “Living Exercises.”

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mercredi 22 septembre 2010

Blending Paid, Owned and Earned Media for Branding - eMarketer

“Each medium offers distinct advantages, and it is important that all work together,” said David Hallerman, eMarketer senior analyst and author of the new report “Brand Marketing Online: Paid, Owned, Earned.” “The best approach is holistic, where each channel supports the others, as when paid advertising produces earned word-of-mouth, which stimulates traffic to owned microsites.”

While online has been primarily a direct-response-focused space, the trend toward more brand-focused spending is clear. By 2014 nearly 42% of online ad dollars in the US will be spent on branding.

Video and banners, along with search, make up the major paid-media online formats, with which marketers can spread their messages far and wide. Company websites and blogs, along with in-house email lists, provide the owned component, where marketers have complete control over messages and can offer content that fulfills their overall goals. And while word-of-mouth has always been a key driver of purchase decisions, earned media also has new importance with the rise of social media.

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lundi 13 septembre 2010

Being a social media marketing manager ..."Dilbert style".



40% of brand marketers think social creates new challenges to maintaining brand integrity

According to a study from branding agency MiresBall and KRC Research, 40% of brand representatives around the world felt social media posed new challenges to the integrity of their brand. More than a third said that social networking sites affected brands significantly enough to bring about changes in marketing strategy.

The report suggested that attempts to find superficial social success might be leading brands to create a presence on networks that did not fit with the brand’s personality or use other inappropriate campaigns in the hopes that one would go viral, even if it did not truly convey the brand’s message.

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vendredi 27 août 2010

Success tip for a happy marriage : don't forget the Babysiter



Le casque moto qui décoiffe...



Sex is dirty if...



PUMA Social honors the After Hours Athlete

A great & bold positioning by PUMA. Puma Social honors the After Hours Athlete. Forget calorie counting, fitness training, and hydration levels. PUMA Social reminds us that we are all athletes, even if the only time we run is to catch a cab home. From ping pong and foosball to darts and karaoke, PUMA Social is dedicated to after hours sports. Because we know it takes just as much effort to score a phone number as it does to score a goal. Bravo to Droga agency....

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iPad Media Strategy framework



lundi 9 août 2010

Inception Infographics Contest: Searching for the Architect...



Twitter users comment & upload content at least twice as much as average

eMarketer estimates there are 26 million monthly users of Twitter in 2010. That makes users of the microblogging service a relatively small minority of internet users, at 14.6%, and daily users are naturally even fewer in number. But their voice is disproportionately loud.

According to ExactTarget, daily Twitter users are highly active across the social web. They are about three times as likely as internet users on average to upload photos, four times as likely to blog, three times as likely to post ratings and reviews, and nearly six times as likely to upload articles.

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mercredi 4 août 2010

90% of tweets come from regular people, compared with just 8% from marketers.

Twitter may be a hot marketing channel, but it’s consumers who dominate the landscape and set the tone on the microblogging service. According to the “Twitter & the Consumer-Marketer Dynamic” white paper from digital marketing agency 360i, more than 90% of tweets come from regular people, compared with just 8% from marketers.

A major goal for marketers on Twitter is to enlist the help of those regular people in the form of brand advocacy. Brands trying to take advantage of the earned media potential on Twitter should be trying to spur both discussion and syndication—or retweets—of their content.

The white paper found that three-quarters of marketers’ tweets consisted of general information or news content. Marketers spent just 16% of their 140-character messages conversing with consumers.

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mardi 3 août 2010

The secret behind the Music used in Inception...



Meet the Class of Twitter HQ



Ethan Zuckerman: clever strategies to open up your Twitter world and read the news in languages you don't even know

Sure, the web connects the globe, but most of us end up hearing mainly from people just like ourselves. Blogger and technologist Ethan Zuckerman wants to help share the stories of the whole wide world. He talks about clever strategies to open up your Twitter world and read the news in languages you don't even know.

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10 Ridiculous iPhone Accessories [PICS]



I don't need religion... I'v got an iphone.



lundi 28 juin 2010

How Consumers Interact with Brands on Social Networks - eMarketer

“More than half of all Internet users now use social networks, and the percentage of social network users who talk about companies, either in organic conversations or on branded company pages, is growing,” said Ms. Williamson. “Consumers do pay attention and they do value positive interactions with companies.

“But while people trust their friends for advice and use social networks as part of their research process, social networks are long way from replacing search, if they ever will, as a source of information leading to a purchase.”

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vendredi 11 juin 2010

80% of US teen Internet users visit social networking sites at least monthly

Reaching teen influencers will mean taking advantage of earned-media opportunities and word-of-mouth that comes from highly trusted friends. Influencers are more likely than other teens to recommend a variety of products to their friends.

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