The Super Bowl is arguably the most important day in advertising, and every year, as much attention is focused on Super Bowl ads as the game itself.
With social media such a big part of brand advertising today, it’s no surprise that many observers pay close attention to how social media is used by brands in conjunction with their multi-million dollar Super Bowl ads as outlined in our earlier Super Bowl post.
Super Bowl Sunday is no stranger to surprises. With brands spending countless millions on Super Bowl ad campaigns, doing the unexpected or revealing something new on America’s biggest day in sport is a no-brainer.
One of yesterday’s surprises came courtesy of an ad Paramount Pictures ran for the new Star Trek movie, Star Trek: Into Darkness.
This is Sartre.
This is me scratching an itch.
Although there are plenty of statistics that suggest people have scanned QR codes out and about, used Blippar watching television and Aurasma whilst reading their sportsday match programmes, I’m a bit of a sceptic.
Virgin’s provision of free WiFi on the London Underground, the service notably being free to use on Vodafone and EE, has led many to ponder how this will impact on marketing and advertising in the subterranean rat race.
Some have claimed augmented reality (AR) will start to take off as the technology matures along with marketers, and there’s a signal to enable web content for QR codes/ RFID and the like.
However, unless scanning is heavily incentivised, I’m of the opinion there are at least five reasons why this isn’t going to be heavily adopted, and you can agree or disagree in our comments section below.
In general, Premier League clubs were quick to see the potential of social marketing as it’s obviously a great way of communicating with fans.
We’ve previously blogged data that shows Chelsea are the top club in terms of social visibility, as well taking a more in-depth look at Manchester City’s social strategy.
And to find out which teams are most on-the-ball with new developments, I thought it would be interesting to look at which clubs have begun using Twitter’s new Vine app.
For the uninitiated, Vine is an iOS app that allows users to post six second video clips through Twitter. The images below are Gifs so may take a second to load, but you can click on them to link to the original Vine…
Australians already spend a large percentage of their time online, interacting on social media and spending on online shopping, but these figures are set to grow even further in the next few years, highlighting yet again the importance of having a working mobile website.
A new report by IBISWorld looks at how the average Australian spends their leisure time, attempting to predict how this will change by 2025, and everything points to the internet becoming even more entrenched in our everyday lives.
Not only will we be using the internet more, but we will be using it constantly on the go – at the gym, on the train, from our beds and even, at our kids soccer games.
Last week almost 1,000 marketers attended the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York for Econsultancy’s JUMP 2013 event.
The agenda for the multichannel conference included speakers from Coca-Cola, Abercrombie & Fitch, Adobe, Nokia and IBM.
Obviously it’s not possible to condense all the different tips and recommendations from the whole day into one blog post, but here are a selection of the most interesting points and takeaways.
A number of them were taken from Twitter using the hashtag #cometoJump, and unfortunately not all the quotes were attributed correctly. If you can claim any of the soundbites or know who said them, please let me know in the comments…
For a business as recognisable as Coca-Cola, marketing campaigns are aimed less at driving awareness and more at increasing loyalty and love for the brand.
At Econsultancy’s JUMP New York event Coca-Cola’s Christy Amador gave an insight into the overarching marketing strategy employed by the brand, with particular reference to its campaign at the London Olympics.
Amador said that Coke’s marketing content always follows two basic principles – it has to be both liquid and linked.
Liquid refers to the fact that the content needs to flexible and able to filter down through all areas of the brand’s marketing activities, but it also needs to be linked together.
Some companies spend a fortune coming up with enticing names for new products – and sometimes it goes disastrously wrong.
A memorable example is the Chevy Nova, which in Spanish roughly translates to the Chevy doesn’t-go.
Even if the name doesn’t mean something inappropriate, our research shows that gimmicky product names might not be as clever as their creators imagine.
Here’s a huge stat that hasn’t been getting much attention lately: nearly half of all marketing emails are now being read on mobile devices.
This is a really important trend, so I’ll repeat it in a different way. When you send your next email campaign, more customers will read it on smartphones than in a web browser (gmail, yahoo, hotmail, etc.).
Which begs the question: are your emails optimized for opens, reads and click-throughs from all these mobile users?
Much of the attention lavished on social networks as marketing platforms focuses in on large brands, many of which have invested heavily in these channels and can boast about large audiences.
One of the most popular social networks with brands has been Twitter, which is now generating hundreds of millions of dollars a year in ad revenue and may go public in the next year.
Social media monitoring company Brandwatch has recently undertaken a study to unveil how Twitter is transforming the way we watch TV.
The study, which analysed Twitter conversation during 50 of the top UK and US TV shows has highlighted a number of key TV ‘dual screen’ behaviours.
It has outlined the TV shows are taking full advantage of their Twitter presence in order to grow and retain a loyal customer following.
The digital scene across the Asia-Pacific region is already booming, but industry experts are also predicting that APAC businesses will begin to rethink their current digital plans this year, finding alternative ways to enhance their online offerings to better appeal to consumers.
But what else is expected to happen across the region this year?