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Digital Marketing

How to Make Advertisers Love Your Site
10 Steps to Take Now

Marketers are going to spend $43 billion on internet advertising in 2007 and 2008 – but unless you have a strategy for making advertisers love your website, you won’t see a penny of it.

Media planners are looking for sites that stand apart and resonate with their audience. Do you want advertisers to choose your site? Then here are 10 steps you should take now...

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Online Video Roadmap Part III:
A Bilateral Strategy for Brands

In the final installment of our three-part roadmap, we are testing out the marketing opportunities within online video and suggesting innovative ways to achieve brand growth.

The future of interruption advertising is not promising. Viewers are shielding themselves with their wallets. Consumers now spend more money on media and entertainment than advertisers spend to reach them - a finding from Veronis Suhler Stevenson in 2003. This doesn’t mean the end of advertising – studies show consumers will still accept advertising in exchange for free content - but it does indicate higher standards for consumer engagement.

While marketers, particularly those requiring large reach or frequency, may feel compelled to continue developing pre-roll executions, smart marketers will experiment with more relevant and creative online video tactics. The tactical opportunities lie within two areas: integrated advertising and branded entertainment...

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Digital Marketing

Reporting - the Roadmap to Success

The myriad dimensions available for scrutiny in email results can be daunting, and many people just stick to the basics. We should not drown ourselves in data. But let me suggest that we all need to look deeper if we want our reporting to fulfill its purpose of becoming a roadmap for longer-term success. We should focus on the metrics and dimensions that are unique to our individual goals, objectives and business needs and that allow us to create actionable steps to improve our programs moving forward.
 
So what does this roadmap look like? What are the ingredients of a good email report?

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Cool Sites

Lucky
Even more...about shopping & style

Fox's House M.D.
An innovative take on the medical drama

Ford
For what you want in a car and a company

Oxfam
Help to end poverty

In the News

Web 2.0 Goes Mainstream

Web site for Spa Deals gets a Massage

Study: Consumers Don't Go Mobile with 2.0

Events

AdTech NY
November 5-8
New York, NY

Economic Summit 2007
November 8
Mountain View, CA

OMMA Video
November 14
Hollywood, CA

2007 Gilbane Conference
November 27-29
Boston, MA

Advanced Marketing Solutions

Roadmap to Digital TV Success, Part 2

Part 1 of this series outlined two key strategies for leveraging the emerging power of digital TV: going interactive and cranking up the relevance. Here in part 2, we continue that conversation with two additional strategies:

Strategy 3: Give 'em more of what they want
Stop grabbing attention by buying up time and space; instead, earn that attention by producing great content and providing relevant value to the audience.

Strategy 4: Bring accountability to the living room
One of the greatest benefits of digital media is its ability to track key performance indicators at a granular level. Metrics like clicks and post-click conversions give us powerful details on the performance of direct response campaigns.

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