Marketer versus machine discussions dominate OMS 2012
If there was a theme to Econsultancy's session at the Online Marketing Summit in San Diego, it may have been marketer versus machine.
We looked at recent research studies that explore some of the major trends in marketing and technology and often, success has more to do with people and priorities than the technologies they use.
Q&A: DJ Waldow on community building
Community is a word used all too often in the social marketing world, but what does it mean exactly?
What are the different kinds of community that companies are building or assisting online, and how do they contribute to business goals?
We discuss the answers with DJ Waldow, the author of Econsultancy's new series of reports on the topic.
The first report, Starting a Community, is available now to Bronze members and above.
What's your Digital Vision?
At Econsultancy, we publish new ideas and research every day, but digital marketing is evolving too quickly to think that we have all the answers…or all the questions.
We want to know what creative people throughout the industry have on their minds and reward them for it.
Seven steps to sublime (or at least successful) subject lines
In a world increasingly driven by content that's hiding in an email or behind a Tweet, subject lines are more important than ever.
In advance of a talk later this week at the Internet Marketing Conference in New York, here are some of the approaches and best practices in crafting better subject lines.
Q&A: Ritesh Patel on Saying “No” to Group Discounting and “Yes” to Social Media
Ritesh Patel is renowned as a marketer specializing in pharma. But today, we ask him about the lessons in digital marketing an up-market Indian restaurant.
Agree to Disagree: TV vs Digital for reaching a large audience
We recently asked marketers whether TV was still necessary for reaching the masses. They disagreed with that idea by a large margin...but are they right? How do digital and TV match up when scale is the number one variable?
Moments in Needless Bi-Polarity: Apps vs the mobile web
Maybe it's because we in the media crave dramatic tension, or because anyone on the sell side of mobile has a vested interest, but the mobile web vs. apps debate is still raging. It shouldn't be...
How wise is the "conventional wisdom?"
In a discipline that's changing as rapidly as digital marketing, new ideas spread rapidly and even unproven concepts can have immense influence. They have the power to shape strategies and the budgets attached to them.
Sometimes those hot ideas turn into the next big thing, while others fizzle. But which ones? Econsultancy wants to know what you think.
Optimism and uncertainty in media: the C-suite looks to the future
A new study by Econsultancy explores the opportunities and challenges in media and publishing using feedback from nearly 500 media company CEOs and senior executives.
Our fatal attraction to numbers: Five data-related traps (Part one)
Marketers are adrift in a sea of data. Do we need a bigger boat? Some of the most common online data pitfalls are easy to identify, but hard to avoid. In Part One of this two-part series, we look at why 72.8% of surveys aren't valid -- and the phenomenon of testing against the wrong metric.



