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Ad Agencies Slowly Embrace Search Engine Marketing

on May 29, 2003 by adverblog Comments

An article by Elizabeth Osmeloski published yesterday on Searchenginewatch.com, clearly helps understanding the current agencies’ attitude towards search engine advertising. “The most difficult issue facing SEOs and Ad Agencies is determining a method for reporting meaningful data without discrepancies. With pay-per-click, numbers are fairly straightforward and absolute when ROI tracking is directly applied. Yet the industry is still in infant stages when it comes to measuring the branding effectiveness of contextual and keyword advertising.”

File under: opinions, pay-per-click, search engine advertising

What’s the frequency Kenneth?

on May 28, 2003 by adverblog Comments

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A new research, released today by Advertising.com provides interesting highlights on online consumer behavior and interactive marketing. The study shows online ad performance by frequency of impression, creative size and format, daypart and industry category, as measured across Advertising.com�s network of over 1,900 websites. To learn more about the research, I suggest reading Marsha Geller today’s article on Mediapost.

File under: effectiveness, online frequency, study results

Online advertising works

on May 28, 2003 by adverblog Comments

Keep tuned, interesting news are coming on. Tuesday, June 10th in Toronto, and Wednesday, June 11th in Montreal, the Internet Advertising Bureau of Canada (IAB Canada) will share the results of its U.S. counterpart’s landmark Cross Media Optimization Study (XMOS) that proves online advertising to be successful. If you are eager to learn more about the study, have a look on IAB’s web site.

File under: IAB, online advertising

Disney Online receives two Internet Advertising Awards

on May 27, 2003 by adverblog Comments

As reported today by Business Wire, the Web Marketing Association has awarded Disney Online Best Travel Integrated Advertising Campaign for the “Ohana Island mini-site and sweepstakes.” While the FamilyFun.com Weekender newsletter was awarded Best General Interest Newsletter HTML email Campaign.

File under: advertising awards, disney

Millward Brown Strategic Partnership

on May 27, 2003 by adverblog Comments

Global research agency Millward Brown and Dynamic Logic, have announced a strategic partnership to enable advertisers to utilise best practices from both companies. Millward Brown will use Dynamic Logic�s AdIndex system to enhance their online advertising and brand evaluation research programmes. The partnership will also provide Dynamic Logic with access to Millward Brown�s team of advertising and branding experts.

File under: partnerships

McDonald�s delivers food facts on new website

on May 26, 2003 by adverblog Comments

Created by Tribal DDB Sydney McDonald’s has launched a new website that coincides with the launch of the second phase of advertising in the company�s strategy to counter what it describes as myths about its food. I’ve tried to look at the Web site, but it’s funny to see that it not directly linked from McDonalds’.com, which instead, presents an ugly framed html page. The news is reported today by B&T Marketing & Media.

File under: brand image, new web site, restyling

Pen: best interactive viral campaign

on May 24, 2003 by adverblog Comments

General Electrics has won the first prize for the best interactive viral campaign at the One Show Interactive Awards. “Pen” is an interactive viral application, and was an integral part of GE’s online “Imagination at Work” campaign.

File under: interactive awards, viral campaigns, viral marketing

Rich media e-mail: not a good deal

on May 24, 2003 by adverblog Comments

According to a new report by Jupiter Research rich media e-mail is still too costly and too few recipients can view it, making it impractical for most e-mail marketers to use. A big problem for marketers who want to use rich media is that only 30% of users are able to read rich media, since Hotmail, AOL and Yahoo!, the largest e-mail providers currently don’t support rich media content. Furthermore, rich media e-mail carries a steep price tag. Jupiter Research estimated that a Flash e-mail campaign for a list of 250,000 would cost $43,750, while an HTML campaign would run $27,500. Despite the 60% price premium, the Flash campaign would return a 5% percent conversion rate to HTML’s 25%. Definitely not (yet) a good deal.

File under: email marketing, rich media

Running for AOL

on May 24, 2003 by adverblog Comments

Three agencies are competing at the moment to gain a new contract with America Online to promote its broadband service. The game is on fire, since AOL seems to be somehow disappointed by the latest results of its campaigns created by BBDO. More details on Ad Week.

Online advertising: a nightmare?

on May 23, 2003 by adverblog Comments

I’ve found a somehow funny but interesting article by Jack Russell on The Inquirer. As journalist of a commercial Web site, he explains his opinion about online advertising and after he presents his position, as user, towards new ads formats like Unicast’s ones. I appreciated the way he presented his opinions: he’s been very smart and sincere.

File under: formats, opinions, rich media

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