Archive for the ‘Digital Marketing’ Category

Review: GetSatisfaction a Win-Win for Customers and Brands

Friday, May 30th, 2008

By John Cantwell GetSatisfaction.com is an excellent new website that can help companies and brands monitor and manage their online reputation from a centralized location. By combining aspects of social networks and the traditional customer service experience (i.e., interacting with a living human), the site offers a deeply personal experience that ...

Google Launches Full War on Facebook - Friend Connect May Force Marketers to Change Social Network Strategies

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

By: Mallory Dash I am 100% convinced Google is trying to take over the world. Google recently announced the launch of Friend Connect, a service designed to turn any website into a potential social network. While previously believed to be a direct Ning competitor, Friend Connect is instead a way to ...

Marketing Through Twitter (Twarketing)

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

By: Mallory Dash You can call it "getting to the point" to an extreme level. If you can say what you want to say to your audience in 140 characters or less, then you're ready for Twitter. While the micro-blogging service is already popular among Web 2.0 enthusiasts, Twitter is also breaking ...

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 ...

Adidas Cheats on MySpace with YouTube

Monday, April 14th, 2008

By Matt Clark Adidas launched a YouTube marketing campaign to promote their new microbounce and megabounce shoe line. The YouTube channel, CanYouBounce, is fully branded and attempts to engage users in a fake competition where users vote for the King of the Bounce Champion. Adidas has loaded five videos of ...

South Park’s Rant on Online Video

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

By: Matt Clark After covering South Park's new South Park Studios, I have become addicted to the site. I am starting to engage the brand again as I did during college. A recent episode poked fun at online video (and Canada) but made some interesting points regarding online video ...

South Park Gets on Board with Free Content

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

By Matt Clark South Park has followed in the footsteps of jackass by providing free online content to fans. South Park Studio allows fans to watch any episode of the show free online, thanks to a deal between show creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone and Comedy Central's ...

Mark Cuban on Marketing Newspaper Blogs - Don’t Call them Blogs

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

By John Cantwell Mark Cuban wrote extensively last week about how newspapers have made a severe marketing error by embracing blogs. His basic points: Blogs still have, in the minds of many, a reputation for inaccuracy and unprofessionalism It is difficult to qualitatively credential newspaper blogs over independent blogs By simply referring to their ...

Hulu Offers Great Content, Raises New Questions About Online Ads

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

By Mallory Dash Hulu, which officially launched last week, has sparked a lot of conversation about the future of online video distribution and the quality of content that is now available to viewers. While the site and its content alone show a lot of promise, there is a new discussion taking ...

TAT’s Facebook App Shows one way Non-Profits can use Digital Marketing

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

By Matt Clark The New York Times and Yahoo! reported last week that Takes All Types (TAT), a new grassroots organization allowing users to register as volunteer Blood Donors and receive alerts when they are needed to donate, has launched a Facebook Application to grow its user-base. Users opt ...