Archive for the ‘Reviews’ Category

Third Time’s a Charm: jackassworld Launches Again

Monday, February 25th, 2008

By Matt Clark So here we go again. jackassworld is finally out of soft launch and ready to roll and it looks like they finally got it right (although I’ve said that before... twice). On February 23rd, jackassworld.com officially launched, with up-to-date content, jackass and Wildboyz videos, and exclusive new video from ...

AdCamo is good for Monetization, but is it good for Marketers?

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

By Mallory Dash AdCamo, a new online advertising tool launched in beta last week, allows publishers to generate ad revenue by monetizing their sites' backgrounds with sponsored backgrounds and matching banner ads. Mega sites like MySpace and Perez Hilton have long made money off of sponsored background ads. AdCamo allows smaller ...

SocialMarker: A One-Stop Shop for Social Bookmarking

Monday, February 18th, 2008

By Matt Clark Social bookmarking is increasingly important for digital marketers and PR professionals. However, because there are so many social bookmarking sites out there, distributing content to all of them can be time-consuming and difficult. SocialMarker is a free service designed to reduce the time and effort needed to socially ...

Tubemogul Offers Distribution, Metrics for Digital Marketers

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

By Mallory Dash Every new technological solution brings with it new challenges. This is certainly the case where online video is concerned. Sites like YouTube make it easy to post and share video content, but measuring the impact and reach of those videos can be difficult for marketers. Tubemogul, a new service ...

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 ...

HTC Shows How Not to Handle Social Media PR

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

By Matt Clark Taiwanese smartphone maker High Tech Computer (HTC) is learning social media relations the hard way. In recent months, HTC released a number of popular, high-end handsets that, according to Engadget, were purposely shipped without drivers that would take advantage of video acceleration hardware in the phones, resulting in inferior ...

BeatBlogging: A new way for PR pros and Journalists to Connect

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

By: Matt Clark John passed along an interesting article from PBS's MediaShift blog about how journalists are using Web 2.0 to inform their story flow – and of course, we found a few new ways PR pros can take advantage of them. The author of the article, Mark Glaser also suggests that ...

Half-Assed: JackassWorld Flops, Re-release Coming

Monday, January 14th, 2008

By Matt Clark     I wanted to give a quick update on JackassWorld.com. We reported a few weeks back that Jackass 2.5 was going to released on December 19. At the time I wrote, "I think this is a great step for Digital Marketing and I am sure Jackass 2.5 will be ...

Scout Labs Could Change How PR Pros Track Brand Reactions

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

By: John Cantwell Michael Arrington had an interesting story yesterday about Scout Labs, a new startup that aims to help marketers, PR professionals and companies track blog reactions to their brands. Scout Labs' clients (there are about 40 right now, most of whom are confidential) can create a "scout" for anything ...

Facebook Search Marketing

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

When Facebook released their Mini-Feed, the community pushed back. They felt it to be intrusive and annoying. Marketers, however, are in love with it. If any Facebook member uses branded content on Facebook, such as TripAdvisor's Cities I've Visited, the information is sent virally to all of the members friends. ...