Archive for the ‘Digital Marketing’ Category

10 Things I Think, I Think About Social Media

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

By: Matt Clark I had to work on NFL Draft Saturday.  I was in the office during my favorite time of the year.  It was horrible.  My boss was nice enough to buy me a pizza, but that didn’t help take away the pain of not celebrating the Jets draft of ...

Live from Your Computer… It’s Saturday Night! (Or, How Facebook Can’t Sit Still)

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

by Mallory Dash So I was sitting in a little pizza shop on Broadway yesterday before a meeting. Whilst chomping away on my veggie/olive slice, I was scanning my Twitterberry feed, and saw tweet after tweet on OMGNEWFACEBOOKLIVEFEEDNEWPAGESOMGWTF. Intrigued... I read this post on Mashable on my Blackberry's tiny screen, trackballing ...

What Marketers Want - Size vs Stamina

Friday, February 13th, 2009

By: Matt Clark As reported by TechCrunch and every other technology/social media/marketing/consumer Web site in the world--- comScore recently released their stats for 2008. Facebook has beat up, made fun of, and taken the lunch money of every social networking Web site in the world.  With 221 million members, they are only ...

Baby Booming Web 2.0

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

By: Mat Clark My Boss Lady passed these stats along to me that Regina Lewis, AOL's consumer adviser, gave out on CBS's The Saturday Early Show. About 78 million baby boomers are living in the United States today, and 65.1 million of them are online. In fact, they account for one ...

Obama v. McCain Digital Scorecard and Poker

Sunday, November 9th, 2008

By: Matt Clark I'm back Vegas for the WSOP final table.  So far my guys are dominating with five of the six players left when I post this.  No much social media happening out here except for @taopauly doing a great job with the Twitter updates.  We also have about 12 great ...

How Not to Make a Web Video go Viral

Saturday, November 1st, 2008

By Matt Clark So my Web video experiment did not start well. I’m not upset though, it can still turn around. The best thing about this video starting poorly is learning what not to do in the future. That’s great for you, my loyal readers (all five of you… hi mom). ...

Riding the Search Wave with VideoSurf

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

By: Mallory Dash With the TC50 finally over lastweek, we've seen a lot of cool companies launch recently, including Ashton Kutcher's Blahgirls and tons of other great startups. Here at DBlab we'd like to take a more indepth look at VideoSurf, one of the 50 (well, actually... 52) companies that unveiled ...

Is Facebook Making a Video Push?

Thursday, September 11th, 2008

By: Matt Clark Get on the Facebook video bandwagon now. I’m just saying… As reported by Silicon Alley Insider, this week CBS announced that it’s feeding TV content to Facebook, MySpace and Google homepages. Althought other stations already have deals with social networking pages, CBS will not require users to leave their ...

Best Social Media Practices for Roomorama

Monday, September 8th, 2008

By: Matt Clark & John Cantwell Yup that's right, Johnny boy is back, for a limited time only. He signed a short term deal with DBlab to help with this post. Unfortunately John is too busy with "higher education" and trying to "better his life" to contribute more. Anyway, today we're looking ...

NBC Belly Flops Olympic Games Online Video Initiative

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

By: Matt Clark According to the Wall Street Journal, NBC failed to hit its revenue goals with their Olympic web-videos. eMarketer estimates that NBCOlympics.com will only generate $5.75 million in video-ad revenue from the Olympics. NBC went wrong in a few places. For one, they only aired a few events over the ...