2011 IMA Award winner, Best Social Marketing Campaign: Networks | consumer-generated videos were created by FIFA soccer fans to trumpet their favorite national teams in a promotion from Visa designed to drive awareness of its exclusive card sponsorship of the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa
Best Ecommerce Site Launch or Revamp | Heading into the lucrative holiday shopping season, Godiva debuted a new website. Search engine optimization (SEO) was the key to a successful launch, minimal downtime and a user-friendly experience
Best Integration of a Campaign into a Brand’s Main Website | Looking to change jobs or score your first one? How would you like to be the social media voice for a recording superstar’s nonprofit organization? That was the incentive offered in a campaign developed by agency The Marketing Arm and online job lister Monster.com
Enhanced shopping cart and customer path analytics are helping Green Top Sporting Goods boost its pay-per-click search results and increase sales in several product categories. As recently as 2008, Green Top's website offered product listings but no way of making purchases. Visitors clicking on specific items were often brought to the manufacturers' sites.
Almost every CMO went into Black Friday and CyberMonday with one thought in mind: shoppers are more price-sensitive than ever before. But what actually happened on Black Friday and CyberMonday radically shifted the conversation. Consumers spent like mad—online and on mobile devices.
It's probably engaging enough that Midwest retailer Meijer is running an online holiday contest offering website visitors a chance to win $10,000 in gift cards, as well as a $10,000 to their local food pantry.
Years ago, I managed search campaigns for a tax software client. The volume of queries for informational keywords such as "tax advice" and "tax info" were off the charts, but we could never justify buying ads on this traffic because it was considered ...
Break The Retail Planning Cycle By Connecting with Shopper Rhythms
Mobile devices potentially offer marketers more personal data about their audiences than ever before, and this data should inform the direction of marketers' mobile strategies. Maxymiser's Mark Simpson offers three steps for using consumer data collected from mobile programs to improve sales and marketing efforts across all channels.
While it'll be hard to characterize advertising spending as full speed ahead in 2012, at the very least it won't be moving in reverse. U.S. advertising revenue for media owners is forecast as increasing from a projected $173.54 billion in 2011 to $178.50 billion in 2012, according to new research by MagnaGlobal.
