Posts tagged with 'agencies'
It was announced yesterday that Hearst Corporation will be acquiring digital marketing agency iCrossing in a deal reported to be worth $325m.
I've been asking iCrossing UK CEO Paul Doleman about the deal...
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by Graham Charlton
04 June 2010 09:00am
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No longer is brand marketing likely to remain the prerogative of conventional brand marketing organisations.
Whilst these organisations have great strengths in creativity, planning and campaign delivery, they exhibit fewer strengths online where a host of brand association, experience and conversation takes place.
There are others who are better placed to engage and create influence by blog, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter already thrive online. And they are the digital agencies...
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by Richard Walker
14 May 2010 11:22am
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There was a big hoo-ha last week as eMarketer’s recent research concluded that portals remain effective ad platforms. This came as Yahoo! was all over the press for attributing their financial recovery to a revival in online advertising spend.
Display advertising on Yahoo! has grown by 20% this quarter and the four big portals – Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft and AOL – all took in a total of $191,707 million in the US in advertising revenue between 2008 and 2011.
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by Harvey Sarjant
06 May 2010 10:01am
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Google announced yesterday that it is "retiring" its Google Advertising
Professionals program and that a new one, the Google AdWords Certification program, will be taking its place.
The good news: the previous $1,000 minimum 90-day ad spend required has been eliminated for
individuals who would like to participate, and the minimum 90-day ad
spend for agencies has been reduced to $10,000 from $100,000. That
means that more individuals and agencies will have the opportunity to
participate.
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by Patricio Robles
27 April 2010 09:00am
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Competition is always tough amongst ad agencies. And soon it may get even tougher. That's because media companies are moving in on agency territory.
In an article discussing Conde Nast's new creative services offering, AdAge's Brian Steinberg points out that "no one can really say they corner the market on how to make things work in paid
search, social media, or mobile marketing." So some media companies are likely to follow Conde Nast's lead in taking advantage of their unique positions to expand their relationships with marketers, and, they hope, their bottom lines.
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by Patricio Robles
26 April 2010 13:16pm
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Look on any marketing or web design company’s website and the chances are they’ll claim they do SEO. While some may do great work, some are just chancers.
Even amongst the specialist agencies, some businesses are much more effective at what they do than others. But how can you tell the difference between the well-qualified and snake oil merchants?
A few well placed questions should do the trick:
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by Kelvin Newman
06 April 2010 10:47am
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Every three years or so, advertisers decide to put all their media and marketing into a single agency network. Three years later, once they’ve seen their performance in the different marketing channels eroded, they head once more for the specialists.
It has been going on since the 80s, and it would be nice to see the cycle broken...
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by Paul Cook
11 January 2010 11:03am
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An interesting post by Erick Schonfeld at TechCrunch details how
Nielsen has been "gushing" about Facebook since it partnered with the
giant social network on a service called BrandLift, which is designed to help advertisers measure the effectiveness of their ad campaigns on the site.
One report Nielsen issued after it teamed up with Facebook highlights
just how much time consumers are spending on social networks, and
Facebook in particular. Another provided data showing that affluent
consumers are more likely to be using it than MySpace. The
obvious question: is Nielsen presenting objective data to advertisers or
is it overhyping its newest partner?
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by Patricio Robles
30 September 2009 10:12am
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Many Econsultancy members are in the business of regularly pitching for new business, or trying to grow existing accounts. Travelling and meeting people is part and parcel of winning work, but there are also various ways of using the internet to help you pitch to existing and prospective clients.
As such, I thought it would be a good idea to show you a bunch of tools that can be used to create and coordinate online presentations. They can be used for individual client work, or more publicly, to share your presentations with the wider world to increase exposure.
I believe that all of these tools are free, with the option to ‘upgrade to Pro’. There are others, but these are standout apps, and they're all worth checking out if you're not yet using them.
I hope they help you to win more business!
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by Chris Lake
03 September 2009 11:18am
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Has your relationship with your paid search agency soured? Are you in denial about bad service and performance, hoping that things will suddenly change for the better?
To mark the release of Econsultancy’s new Paid Search Agencies Buyer’s Guide, here are some warning signs that it might be time to take your paid search accounts to a more deserving agency.
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by Jake Hird
26 August 2009 10:35am
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