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  • Visits to the popular children's social media website Moshi Monsters for the week ended March 20, 2010 were 23 times greater than for the equivalent week a year earlier, and the site now accounts for 0.41% of US Internet traffic in the Entertainment-Games category, according to Experian's Hitwise Intelligence.

  • At a lot of marketing conferences, over-excited pitch people talk a lot about The New Thing that will Change Every Paradigm Forever. So much over-enthusiasm can jade just about anyone, so it was a relief to attend the Advertising Research Federation's (ARF) re:Think 2010 conference taking place in New York City. But even there, among the stodgiest of marketing researchers, there's talk of… a paradigm shift.

  • Behaviorally targeted (BT) advertising generated on average 2.68 times the revenue per ad as non-targeted run-of-network (RON) advertising in 2009, while average CPMs for behaviorally targeted advertising were over twice (2.08 times) the average of RON CPMs, according to the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI).

  • MarketingProfs blogger Tim McAtee shares his thoughts about the ARF's 56th annual conference about rethinking normal.

  • Age-old marketing How do you take a heritage brand and make it fresh, new and relevant for new generations of Campbell’s Soup Co. was founded in 1869. Few consumer brands have a longer heritage than Campbell’s condensed soups. Given its long history, Campbell’s has obviously done many things from developing products and flavor profiles consumers want

  • The recent recalls of Toyota automobiles have undermined the carmakers' reputation: Consumers who have a positive perception of Toyota's commitment to building quality cars fell to 21.8% in March 2010, down 58.2 percentage points from the 80.0% recorded in 2008, according to America's Research Group.

  • MarketingProfs blogger Abe Mezrich shares a Marketing Obsessions segment featuring Kodak CMO Jeff Hayzlett.

  • MarketingProfs blogger Helena Bouchez shares tips from business coach and comedian Tim Davis.

  • Email users look for a variety of signs to identify spam in their inboxes: 75% look at senders' names or addresses and 67% look at subject lines, while approximately one-half cite unusual language, email content itself, spelling mistakes, or poor grammar as signs that email may be spam, according to Ipsos Public Affairs.

  • Nearly two-thirds (65%) of consumers surveyed say they referenced print or Internet Yellow Pages when looking for local business information in the previous month, according to a study by the Yellow Pages Association.

  • Despite the buzz around application stores tied to specific mobile devices such as the iPhone and the BlackBerry, carrier app stores are alive and well in the US: one-half (50%) of all mobile apps consumers accessed carrier app stores at the end of 2009, according to Nielsen's new App Playbook.

  • MarketingProfs bloggers John Wall and Christopher Penn share their Marketing Over Coffee podcast interview with Simon Sinek, author of "Start with Why."

  • Two-thirds (67%) of consumers who follow brands on Twitter are more likely to buy those brands after becoming a follower, and 51% of Facebook fans are more likely to buy after becoming a fan, according to a study from Chadwick Martin Bailey.

  • In a story in MarketingProfs this week, Claire Coyne asks How Can You Map Social Media to B2B As it happens, that question also maps nicely to this Thursday’s free on integrating social media into your B2B marketing mix. Featuring our own Roy Young with a panel of four B2B marketers (including Dave Thomas from SAS,

  • Less than a week before iPad's April 3 ship date, nearly two-thirds (65%) of consumers are aware of Apple's tablet device and 15% are already thinking about buying it in the next three months, according to comScore.

  • MarketingProfs blogger Ted Mininni discusses the growing success of Freshii and owner Matthew Corrin's desire to be the new Starbucks.

  • Small business advertisers spent on average $2,149 on search advertising in the fourth quarter of 2009, up 111% from $1,018 spent in the same period a year earlier, and up 30% from the $1,658 spent in the third quarter of 2009, according to a study by WebVisible based on its small-biz clients

  • You can have a great product or service, but unless you’re telling a good story on the web with interesting content, there’s a risk of being ignored. So says Captains of Industry in announcing the finalists for its Incredibly Boring Web Content Challenge. We'd love to get your vote! The Boring Web Content Challenge, as I

  • MarketingProfs blogger Christina "CK" Kerley discusses how B2Bs need to formulate an action plan for the mobile market.

  • Think of your brand as a mosaic where you can select and place most, but not all, of the tiles: You can control the communications you make, your offerings, and how your organization behaves. But some of the tiles in your brand mosaic are placed by others––the media, bloggers, tweets, the conversations that happen outside your walls. It's important, therefore, to develop a strong foundation for your brand.