Norwegian Airline Creates Emoji URL
Marketing

Norwegian Airline Creates Emoji URL

9y Mike O'Brien

Norwegian Airline Creates Emoji URL

Norwegian Airlines demonstrates the rise in visual communication, promoting a new flight to Las Vegas with a web address that consists of emojis for a...

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Brands Fight Ad Blindness With Interactive Experiences
Media

Brands Fight Ad Blindness With Interactive Experiences

9y Mike O'Brien

Brands Fight Ad Blindness With Interactive Experie...

Brands like Target, Shazam, and The Home Depot are increasingly making interactive mobile ads, while also taking decreasing user attention spans into ...

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Digital Marketing People on the Move: May 2015 Roundup
Marketing

Digital Marketing People on the Move: May 2015 Roundup

9y Yuyu Chen

Digital Marketing People on the Move: May 2015 Rou...

This is a roundup of new hires and promotions in the digital marketing industry during May of 2015. Read More...

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What Challenges Do Agencies Face in 2015?
Agency Spotlight

What Challenges Do Agencies Face in 2015?

9y Mike O'Brien

What Challenges Do Agencies Face in 2015?

According to some agency higher-ups, the quickly-growing digital space calls for constant innovation. Read More...

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Apple Is The World's Most Valuable Brand [Study]
Analytics

Apple Is The World's Most Valuable Brand [Study]

9y Mike O'Brien

Apple Is The World's Most Valuable Brand [Study]

Having grown 67 percent from last year, Apple overtook Google for the top spot in WPP's annual ranking of the top 100 global brands, demonstrating tec...

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German KFC Debuts Smart Fast Food Trays
Marketing

German KFC Debuts Smart Fast Food Trays

9y Mike O'Brien

German KFC Debuts Smart Fast Food Trays

Consumers can now text without getting their smartphones dirty, thanks to the Bluetooth-enabled trays KFC Germany premiered during the chain's new loc...

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Data and Analytics Make Way For "Customer-to-Business" Marketing
Analytics

Data and Analytics Make Way For "Customer-to-Business" Marketing

9y Mike O'Brien

Data and Analytics Make Way For "Customer-to-Busin...

Brands are leveraging data and more sophisticated analytics to do C2B marketing, a term referring to marketing plans driven by customers' established ...

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Brands Use GIFs to Make Their Emails Pop
Email

Brands Use GIFs to Make Their Emails Pop

9y Mike O'Brien

Brands Use GIFs to Make Their Emails Pop

As people's inboxes become fuller and fuller, brands like Dell, ASOS, and eBay Enterprise are standing out by including animated elements, like GIFs a...

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Less Is More: Simple Data Serves Killer Email Marketing
Email

Less Is More: Simple Data Serves Killer Email Marketing

9y Mike O'Brien

Less Is More: Simple Data Serves Killer Email Mark...

Though marketers have access to a wealth of consumer data, many of them leverage the most basic data sets, such as birthdays and purchase histories, f...

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YouTube Stars Are Not Themselves When They're Hungry
Marketing

YouTube Stars Are Not Themselves When They're Hungry

9y Mike O'Brien

YouTube Stars Are Not Themselves When They're Hung...

For a clever twist on an old campaign, Snickers enlists 13 YouTube personalities from around the world to post bad how-to videos, demonstrating that t...

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YouTube Celebrates 5 Years of TrueView Ads
Media

YouTube Celebrates 5 Years of TrueView Ads

9y Mike O'Brien

YouTube Celebrates 5 Years of TrueView Ads

YouTube looks back at the most popular videos of 2010 on the anniversary of the skippable TrueView ads, while also introducing "Cards." Read More...

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Real-Time KFC Campaign Offers Chicken During Website Crashes
Marketing

Real-Time KFC Campaign Offers Chicken During Website Crashes

9y Mike O'Brien

Real-Time KFC Campaign Offers Chicken During Websi...

While Apple's iTunes Store and App Store were down, Romanian consumers were able to get free KFC meals as part of the chicken chain's new "Don't panic...

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Could Liquor Bottles Be the Next Big Thing in Advertising?
Media

Could Liquor Bottles Be the Next Big Thing in Advertising?

9y Mike O'Brien

Could Liquor Bottles Be the Next Big Thing in Adve...

At the Mobile World Congress, Diageo unveiled the first smart bottle: a Johnnie Walker Blue Label that can use NFC to send targeted ads to smartphones...

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Expedia Turns to Twitter to Promote Netherlands Tourism
Social

Expedia Turns to Twitter to Promote Netherlands Tourism

9y Mike O'Brien

Expedia Turns to Twitter to Promote Netherlands To...

To show there's more to the country than Amsterdam, the Netherlands Board of Tourism and Expedia are utilizing the social platform to reveal Van Gogh ...

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British Attractions Given Mandarin Makeovers to Lure Chinese Visitors
Asia

British Attractions Given Mandarin Makeovers to Lure Chinese Visitors

9y Sophie Loras

British Attractions Given Mandarin Makeovers to Lu...

The U.K.'s most iconic spots have been given Chinese names in a digital campaign aimed at luring China's 100 million outbound tourists. Read More...

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Romanian KFC Campaign Taps UGC to Parody Rich Kids of Instagram
Social

Romanian KFC Campaign Taps UGC to Parody Rich Kids of Instagram

9y Mike O'Brien

Romanian KFC Campaign Taps UGC to Parody Rich Kids...

To promote KFC Romania's value meals, MRM Worldwide launched a user-generated content (UGC) campaign based on Millennials mocking a famous Instagram f...

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New Havas Brand to Drive More Than $70M in Data-Related Revenue
Data insights

New Havas Brand to Drive More Than $70M in Data-Related Revenue

9y Yuyu Chen

New Havas Brand to Drive More Than $70M in Data-Re...

The ad network has consolidated its full-service global agency Havas EHS and data intelligence agency Havas Discovery into one new brand called Helia....

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ClickZ Is Not as Fun as Katy Perry
Data insights

ClickZ Is Not as Fun as Katy Perry

9y Mike O'Brien

ClickZ Is Not as Fun as Katy Perry

A company that turns language into data files, Relative Insight, analyzed ClickZ's Twitter feed and then compared it to that of the platform's most-fo...

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Saatchi & Saatchi Worldwide Restructures by Clustering Markets
Marketing

Saatchi & Saatchi Worldwide Restructures by Clustering Markets

9y Yuyu Chen

Saatchi & Saatchi Worldwide Restructures by Cluste...

The change is the first reorganization of the network after the appointment of Robert Senior as its chief executive. Read More...

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63 Percent of Global Digital Ad Spend Will Go to Mobile by 2018
Data insights

63 Percent of Global Digital Ad Spend Will Go to Mobile by 2018

9y Yuyu Chen

63 Percent of Global Digital Ad Spend Will Go to M...

eMarketer predicts that next year, advertisers will spend $64.3 billion on mobile advertising, up 60 percent from 2014. And by 2018, mobile ad spend w...

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Starbucks UK Debuts Location-Based Mobile Ads; Beacons Meet Shoppers on Regent St.
Media

Starbucks UK Debuts Location-Based Mobile Ads; Beacons Meet Shoppers on Reg...

9y Mike O'Brien

Starbucks UK Debuts Location-Based Mobile Ads; Bea...

Starbucks has seen an increase in foot traffic since the company started geo-marketing, a growing trend in the U.K. highlighted by the beaconed app of...

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HarperCollins Campaign Streams New Book One Word at a Time
Marketing

HarperCollins Campaign Streams New Book One Word at a Time

9y Mike O'Brien

HarperCollins Campaign Streams New Book One Word a...

To increase engagement around a new thriller, HarperCollins "spritzed" it one word at a time on a digital billboard at one of London's busiest train s...

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Burberry and Printemps Team Up for Digital Holiday Display
Ecommerce

Burberry and Printemps Team Up for Digital Holiday Display

9y Mike O'Brien

Burberry and Printemps Team Up for Digital Holiday...

Burberry is going digital this holiday season with an interactive window display at the iconic Paris department store. Read More...

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Is the Comments Section the Newest Hot Spot in Advertising?
Analytics

Is the Comments Section the Newest Hot Spot in Advertising?

9y Mike O'Brien

Is the Comments Section the Newest Hot Spot in Adv...

A new product by Disqus, the blog comment-hosting service used by 3 million websites, focuses on "interest-based marketing," placing targeted native a...

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U.K. Tourism Agency Partners With Yahoo for Content Marketing Campaign
Marketing

U.K. Tourism Agency Partners With Yahoo for Content Marketing Campaign

9y Mike O'Brien

U.K. Tourism Agency Partners With Yahoo for Conten...

The Discover Great Britain campaign shows off the U.K.'s sights, culture, food, and fashion with sponsored content on Yahoo and a user-curated Tumblr....

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Fake Twitter Profile Reveals Consumer Engagement Levels [Study]
Social

Fake Twitter Profile Reveals Consumer Engagement Levels [Study]

10y Mike O'Brien

Fake Twitter Profile Reveals Consumer Engagement L...

Using a fictional fashion brand's Twitter profile as a case study, Isobar found consumers' perceptions of the brand were altered by number of follower...

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Turning Dialect Into Data
Data insights

Turning Dialect Into Data

10y Mike O'Brien

Turning Dialect Into Data

U.K-based company Relative Insight analyzes language and turns it into a data file. Originally developed to help law enforcement to catch cyber crimin...

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