Archive for the ‘Case Studies’ Category

Flying the Digital Skies with Southwest

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

By John Cantwell Things may not be going so well for the airlines right now, but at least there's one bright spot – Southwest Airlines has a great, multi-pronged digital marketing campaign going. The discount airline, famous for its cheap flights and “Wanna get away?” television spots, has entered the digital marketing ...

Raising Digital Awareness for Darfur

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

By Matt Clark Though the genocide in Darfur is one of the great tragedies of this young century, there is still shockingly little attention paid to this issue. Presented with this problem, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum enacted a comprehensive digital marketing plan to raise awareness and get people to ...

Clever Digital Marketing Propels Cloverfield to Huge Opening Weekend

Monday, January 28th, 2008

By Kerry Trimmer Cloverfield, the horror flick about a monster attacking Manhattan, from director Matt Reeves and producer J.J. Abrams, grossed $46.1 million in box offices nationwide over the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend. And it owes a big chunk of that success to some brilliant digital marketing. How does a ...

Strategy: How to Market Music on imeem

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

By John Cantwell Today we're looking at the social media network imeem to show how it can be used to promote new music releases. Some background info In September 2007, comScore declared imeem the fastest-growing social network of the past year, after the site posted a monster 1600% swell in unique visitors from ...

Jackass Takes Online Video to a New Level

Friday, December 14th, 2007

By Matt Clark It seems that MTV Networks is willing to be a Digital Marketing science experiment with Jackass 2.5. As reported by the New York Times, Jackass 2.5, the hour-plus movie, will be available for free online. This is an out-of-the-box idea, but it's not a new one. ...

Love the Blogosphere

Friday, December 7th, 2007

By: John Cantwell A basic, wonderful and sometimes frightening fact about the Web 2.0 world is that information, opinions, facts, half-facts, lies, rants and raves all travel lightning-fast. A single person who, in previous generations, did not have a platform or the necessary resources to gain exposure, can now legitimately impact ...

Looking at NBC’s ‘Create a Hero’ Tool

Friday, November 16th, 2007

Maybe NBC is expecting the writer's strike to last a while longer. This week the network launched its new "Create a Hero" tool on nbc.com. The tool allows fans of the show "Heroes" to select and vote on a new hero that will ultimately be written into the show. Each week fans ...

How to Manage Your Brand When Customers Control the Message

Monday, November 12th, 2007

By Matt Clark From the Marketing & Online Community Conference – In another break-out session, Thor Muller of Satisfaction focused on practical strategies for cultivating brand equity in a world where candid customer feedback and conversations increasingly dominate news and search results around products. Thor highlighted how companies have implemented customer service ...

Anatomy of an Intergrated Campaign

Friday, November 9th, 2007

From the Marketing & Online Communities Conference - Bree Nguyen and Jeremy Welt of Warner Bros. Records walked us through their campaign launching Ashley Tisdale as a solo artist. The issue was that Ashley already had a brand as a Disney girl with a community following. Here's what they did: Identify existing ...