Mele’s Musings

Week of 9.02.08 / Top 5

TVAdTargeting/DigitalOutdoor/CorpBlog/SocialAds/DigitalAppliances
TV’s Future Looks Like Web’s Present
Will web-like targeting save TV advertising?

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Mall Advertising Goes Digital
Are we ready for Minority Report-like advertising?

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Marketing Moves to the Blogosphere
Perhaps the action of starting a blog in and of itself is a path to moving a company toward more open communication.

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New Facebook Ads Help Connect Users with Advertisers
Is [...]

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Marketing Moves to the Blogosphere

Perhaps the action of starting a blog in and of itself is a path to moving a company toward more open communication.

Picture: rodjohns.typepad.com

Article excerpt:   Jason Calacanis, who got into blogging early and big, has quit. He co-founded a network of blogs called Weblogs in 2003, before the medium cracked the mainstream, and then sold it [...]

Tags: blog, corporate blogs, Technorati

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New Facebook Ads Help Connect Users with Advertisers

Is the answer interaction or data?

Picture: images.ientrymall.com
Article excerpt:  In its mission to make the world more connected, Facebook is helping its users connect more with its advertisers. The social networking site has begun testing a handful of new ad formats allowing users to interact with their Facebook friends within the ads themselves. The offerings are [...]

Tags: engagement ads, Facebook, interactive, MySpace

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A Home Network Where Your TV Talks to Your Fridge

The internet will truly be everywhere.

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Article excerpt:   Across the consumer electronics industry, leading players are revamping their audio and video equipment for a future centered around the Internet, a world in which televisions, stereos and computers — even dishwashers and refrigerators — can communicate with each other over a wireless home network. Expanded lines [...]

Tags: home network, internet

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Week of 8.18.08 / Top 5

GoogleMedia/Conversation/Wireless/WomanToWoman/YouthPurchase
Is Google a Media Company?
The title is right, but the analysis is partially a miss.  Google is a media company even without creating its own content sites.

Picture: digitaldaily.com
Marketers Love Conversation, Unless the Consumer Starts It
Ain’t it the truth?  Everyone claims to want dialogue, but it is rare that resources are actually put against it.

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College [...]

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Other good articles this past week / 8.18.08

Issues of Interest
The latest from the SlateOlympics Twitter feed.
slate.com
Digital Marketing News
Monetizing MySpace Traffic
emarketer.com
It’s Not the Ad; It’s Getting the Bill
nytimes.com
Ad Nets Accounted For 30 Percent Of Publishers’ ‘07 Sales; Premium Price Erosion?
paidcontent.org
Google’s Yahoo! Deal Rankles
adweek.com
Bernstein: Online Ad Revenue To GrowÂ
mediapost.com
Online Video Ad Spending Growth
emarketer.com
Digital News and Trends
The Big Picture on Small-Screen Advertising
emarketer.com
Free Wi-Fi: Should Retailers [...]

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Marketers Love Conversation, Unless the Consumer Starts It

Ain’t it the truth?  Everyone claims to want dialogue, but it is rare that resources are actually put against it.

Picture: Bootlegrobot.com
Article excerpt:   Listening Gets You More Than Complaints — You Get Positive Brand Association and Word of Mouth. If the consumer voice is so important these days, why are brand feedback, or “contact us,” forms [...]

Tags: consumer dialogue, consumer voice, consumers, word of mouth

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College Students Work Without a Wire

The future is here, and it favors mobility over all else.

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Article excerpt:   Epitomizing the mobile lifestyle. Today’s collegians are becoming road warriors, ditching their desktop PCs for laptops and mobile phones.  Seven out of 10 US college students surveyed in August 2008 owned a laptop, while student desktop PC ownership dropped from more than [...]

Tags: college students, instant gratification, laptops, mobile lifestyle, TV online, YouTube

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Woman to Woman, Online

Authenticity appeals to readers, but are advertisers ready to play?
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Picture: dooce.com
Article excerpt:  Heather Armstrong’s wickedly funny blog about motherhood, Dooce, is more than just an outlet for the creativity and frustrations of a modern mother. The site, chock full of advertising, is a moneymaking machine — so much so that Ms. Armstrong and her husband [...]

Tags: authenticity, blogs, female bloggers, Women

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Young Consumers Research Purchases Online

They’re young, and they shop, but are they fair game to target?
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Article excerpt:   Kids go shopping on the Web. Young US consumers surveyed spent more time on the Internet than with any other type of media in May 2008, according to a study conducted by DoubleClick Performics and ROI Research.  The companies surveyed 10-to-14-year-olds [...]

Tags: fair, young consumers, youth

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