GroupM (the holding company for all of the WPP media agencies), issued a new report saying that share of spend on digital and interactive media has increased from 8% in 2005 to 14% this year. They project the total to increase to 16% next year as new digital marketing tactics like mobile and behavioral targeting [...]
Is 2006 the Tipping Point for Internet Ads in Arizona?
Malcolm Gladwell is an author, pundit, and Carrot Top doppelganger who doles out bite-sized business wisdom like popcorn chicken. He posits in The Tipping Point that when enough of the right people start to perpetuate a trend, it can catch fire and grow geometrically almost overnight. 2006 will be the year that local online advertising [...]
Swissarmyknife.com: Using Web strategy to improve integrated marketing
What does the Internet have to do with your print, TV, radio, direct mail and other traditional tactics? Plenty. Along with the oft-cited belief that half of all marketing dollars are wasted lies a corollary, which is that the traditional components of most marketing plans are evaluated using less than scientific means. In many cases, [...]
It Knows If You’ve Been Bad or Good: A Guide To Behavioral Targeting Internet Ads
Internet advertising is an orgy of choice. There are literally tens of thousands of potential sites on which an ad could be placed, and dozens of different ad sizes and formats. Add a variety of pricing schemes and an often inexperienced sales force, and you get a casserole of confusion that makes buying radio or [...]
Lazurus.com: Thought to be dead, Internet advertising is back
Ridiculed by most ad agencies, the media and nearly every major company that doesn’t sell technology, Internet advertising has endured a tough couple of years. After actually decreasing by 24.8% from 2000 to 2002, total U.S. Internet advertising expenditures are anticipated to be $8.1 billion this year. It’s an increase of 6.3% over last year, [...]
