5 Reasons Why Digital Marketing Will Thrive in the Recession
- September 30th, 2008 | Written By: Jay Baer
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From Dot Bomb to Dot Boom
Let’s face it. The economy is taking on the distinctive, sickly pallor of a post Mardi Gras Keith Richards.
Generally, recessions hit the advertising business with the ferocity of a rabid wolverine, and the last one trimmed overall ad spending by 9% according to market researchers Veronis Suhler Stevenson. The wolverine [...]
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The 10 Strengths of the Agency of the Future
- September 16th, 2008 | Written By: Jay Baer
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Web services giant Sapient recently fielded a national online digital marketing survey of more than 200 chief marketing officers (CMOs) and senior marketers responsible for managing digital budgets (among other things).
Survey respondents were asked about the top qualities they sought in their advertising and marketing agencies in the coming year.
Sapient’s Top 10 Wish List for [...]
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Internet Advertising to Grow 20% in 2008
- August 13th, 2008 | Written By: Jay Baer
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A new report from Bernstein Research says online advertising in the U.S. will grow by 20% in 2008, despite weakness in travel, auto, and financials.
Top categories for online advertising spend include:
Finance, insurance, real estate – 29.6% of overall spend
Media and entertainment – 25.2%
Retail – 13.8%
Other – 12.9%
Auto – 8.6%
Despite big cuts in auto marketing in [...]
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Media Buyers Say Internet Advertising Will Grow in Next 6 Months
- July 7th, 2008 | Written By: Jay Baer
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Market Research firm Advertising Perceptions released a new survey of 1,811 media buyers showing that a whopping 72% of them believe Internet advertising spend will increase in the second half of 2008.
This is a shocking finding, considering that no other medium (other than mobile) was expected to grow by more than 28% of the respondents.
The [...]
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Google’s Popularity is Costing You Money
- June 30th, 2008 | Written By: Jay Baer
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Paid search management vendor Covario said today that PPC spending was up 52% in Q1 2008 versus 2007.
52% is a big leap for an already red-hot digital marketing tactic.
But perhaps more interesting was the finding that Google took in 85% of the paid search spend in the first quarter. (No wonder Yahoo! rushed [...]
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