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YouTube Channels are Launching Business and Boosting Online Profiles

Posted by in Code, Digital Advertising, Findings, Inspiration, Marketing, Search Engine Marketing, Tutorials, browsers on April 30th, 2012

Last week I wrote briefly about Chris Hardwick and his Nerdist Company. In the week since I got the chance to speak briefly with the man about his YouTube Channel and how he’s preparing for the time when YouTube and Hulu become rivals to Comcast Cable and Dish Network, “Three to Four years is a good estimate,” Hardwick said when asked about a time table for that. If his YouTube Channel is any indication he’s pretty ready. Along with a few others he’s building a huge following that could pay off big in the next few years. Hardwick, along with…

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Social Media For Tourist Spots

Posted by in Featured, Findings, Marketing on March 28th, 2012

Working in Digital Marketing every once in a while you see someone who just gives up on strategy and decides they’re just going to throw money at Facebook and Google to make sure they get what they want. You see this a lot in politics recently with Mit Romney spending loads of money on Facebook just to get in front of a pair of eyes. (Santorum has actually spent the least per click out of the current crop of candidates, over the last few months.) You see it in politics and you also see it in tourism because regional targeting starts to go out the window when your audience in all over the country. There are a few tricks you can use to get people to your social media page that don’t involve overspending. Here are some of the best places to learn from.

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Vertical Integration In Digital Content and How It Affects Digital Marketing

Posted by in Digital Advertising, Findings, Marketing on March 19th, 2012

In the golden age of Hollywood the studios made tons of money and created massive amounts of content because they owned both the means of production (the studio) and distribution (the movie theaters). At the height of this system some studios were creating more than 52 full length features a year, compared to around 15 currently. This all changed when courts ruled that owning both the means of film distribution and the means of production constituted a monopoly. According to Jeff Katz, former New Line Cinema exec and founder of www.Geekweek.com, “It won’t be long until the studios own the theaters again.” Some think this is a good thing for a floundering film industry and if digital media streaming is any indication, Katz and other like-minded individuals might just be right.

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Our Take on Two Emerging Marketing Trends

Posted by ted in Business, Digital Advertising, Findings, Marketing on March 5th, 2012

I was sitting under a fig tree the other day and it occurred to me that while convergence and relevance are often discussed, there is still plenty of work to be done to clarify what each term means and how we as marketing professionals can harness the opportunities each presents. So here’s our take on convergence and relevance.

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How The Tablet Wars Benefit Small Business

Posted by in Business, Digital Advertising, Findings, Marketing on February 29th, 2012

When Myspace hit it big toward the beginning of the new millennium they immediately opened themselves up to business with the biggest consumer corporations in the world. Pepsi and Warner Brothers in particular flooded things with ads and used it as a way to push their new music and movie labels. While Myspace made a lot of money in that time they didn’t have any kind of structure to support advertising and that let a lot of spam bots and not-so-legitimate advertising squeak through and take over. Facebook and Twitter learned a huge lesson from this and made sure to have an infrastructure that serviced advertising but didn’t turn off small businesses. Apple and the other tablet makers took that model and ran with it but with a difference. Facebook had no competition when it really tried to rack up the advertising (Myspace was on its way down and Twitter hadn’t really started yet) The competition amongst the tablets to be the last one standing will ultimately benefit the small business wanting to advertise.

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Kickstarter Kicks Into The Next Level With Some Huge Money Projects

Posted by in Business, Findings, Marketing, Search Engine Marketing on February 17th, 2012

Some time ago I wrote about Kickstarter at length and how it’s definitely something you should keep your eye on. Maybe you listened to me (there’s got to be at least one who has) but if you didn’t you wouldn’t know that just recently a Kickstarter page hit $1 million in less than 24 hours. This just highlights the reality of Kickstarter and actually puts it miles ahead of Twitter and Facebook as a small business tool. Kickstarter has already demonstrated the amount of money going through it. Even now people are still questioning just how to monetize their Facebook and Twitter pages, but Kickstarter has genuine proof that there is big money coming through. It’s clearly waiting for the taking.

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Twitter Offering Regional Targeted Ads and Becoming The Place For Social Media Marketing in 2012

Posted by in Business, Digital Advertising, Findings, Marketing on January 20th, 2012

Twitter has always been a hard thing for me to get a handle on. For one, it always seems to skew a little young and it didn’t have a great infrastructure for targeted ads until very recently. In the last year Twitter has made huge strides in being friendly to advertisers and they’ve also done a great job of doing it without alienating their fanbase. Clearly they learned a huge lesson from the failures of Myspace. They didn’t dilute their core product and alienate their fanbase. They managed to integrate more advertising pretty seamlessly. By doing things like putting a promoted topic in with the trending ones and not changing the user experience, twitter has become a great place for advertisers without sacrificing the simplicity that made them unique and interesting in the first place.

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Social Media Aspects That Failed in 2011 But Could Explode In 2012

Posted by in Business, Digital Advertising, Findings, Marketing on January 3rd, 2012

2011 was a big year as far as social media marketing, big sites came and went and Facebook continued to change despite certain fan objections. Sites like Netflix blew up huge and pushed digital streaming sites to the forefront of controversial subjects like digital piracy. There were some big false starts and some crashing and burning. The truth is that some of those things just weren’t ready and some of them are going to make huge comebacks and get off the ground in a big way in the coming year.

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The State of Streaming Video in 2012

Posted by in Digital Advertising, Findings, Marketing on December 21st, 2011

The internet is an ever evolving constantly growing creature that is just beginning to take over every aspect of communications and entertainment. Streaming video will soon replace traditional cable as the number one source for home entertainment. It’s already starting with things like X-Box and PlayStation carrying NFL and ESPN networks on streaming devices. In the next few years major networks and stations like HBO will follow (they’ve already gotten the ball rolling with partnerships on Hulu and services like HBO Go which allows subscribers to use HBO similar to a paid I-pad app.) This represents a fundamental shift in the way you spend your advertising dollars and can open the door for many small business to advertise in ways they never thought possible. At least it should if some of the old guards allow for change that could cost them in the short term but pay off huge just a few years down the road.

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Gearing Social Media To Sports Fans

Posted by in Findings, Marketing on December 9th, 2011

As I’ve said on here many times before, building a social media presence has a lot to do with giving people a place to interact with like minded people. I worked with a car dealer and a charity, getting them on social media was easy, we got a pretty good response right out of the gate. Getting people talking was like pulling teeth. The only way you grow your social media presence and turn that into in store customers is if they fill your page. For some businesses, particularly ones that cater to sports fans, getting them talking and keeping them excited should be easy, the hard part is getting their eyes to your page. It’s a widely catered to and coveted demo on social media so you have a lot of competition for fans.

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