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Digital Thoughts – Cost And Immediacy
Close your eyes for a minute. Picture yourself as an average net user, one that checks email, goes to Yahoo and Google – a person that might spend a maximum of one hour per day online. Such a person reads magazines, drives on the road,
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Trends Report – The Convergence
Almost six months have passed since the Super Bowl, but one marketing trend that surfaced heavily during the game continues today, and that is the use of non-internet mediums to drive interest to a web site. While not the first company to do so…
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Digital Thoughts – A Tale of Two Pixels
The incentive promotion space drives an inordinate amount of users into registration paths. The absolute breadth of the promotions and the speed to market with new incentive promotions has no peers in mainstream advertising. Everybody creating and…
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Maturation of the Incentive Space
The affiliate incentives space is changing fast. The industry has already gone through its introduction stage, on to the tail end of its growth, and beginnings of maturity stage– all in a matter of a few years. The concept started as…
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Trends Report – Are You Multilingual?
When it comes to email, co-registration/hosted lead generation, incentive promotion sites, and search arbitrage, arguable no other group collectively knows more than those operating in our space. One of those specialties, co-registration/hosted…
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Agencies
Huggies Puts $10 Million Into Building E-Relationships With Moms
Huggies has launched Baby Network, an online community for moms and moms-to-be, with a marketing and development spend that tops $10 million Baby Network is made up of two sites: “Happy Healthy Pregnancy” and “Happy Baby.” At the site, …
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Agencies
Carlson Taps Ford, DaimlerChrysler Vet Schroer
Carlson Marketing Group has hired auto-marketing veteran (and former client) Jim Schroer to run the Minneapolis agency. Schroer begins as president-CEO of Carlson on June 6, overseeing day-to-day operations and helping to set Carlson’s global strategic …
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Beer Bongs and Keg Stands
Hoards of Elvis impersonators, Pedro’s from Napoleon Dynamite, and all the people you don’t want to see naked marched through the streets of San Francisco this past Sunday. An annual Bay Area tradition, the Bay to Breakers is one of the largest footraces…
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Digital Thoughts – Google Casts A Semantic Web
Many of have wondered what the future has in store for Google. Will they become the next Microsoft – an enormous profit machine embedded into our lives and directly controlling how many of us compute? Might Google, today’s high flier….
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Trends – The Year Of The Fees
Almost a week ago, Experian made an announcement that should have sent the online ad interest more abuzz than it appears to. Last week, they announced their intent to purchase LowerMyBills for $330 million dollars with an additional $50 million….
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