von Roland Hachmann | Jan. 12, 2007 | Ad News, Blog, Digital Marketing, Online Advertising
Suzuki has started a video clip website in the style of Nissan and BMW: The Suzuku Films Website. The movie is split into separate episodes, spread out over time.
There are a number of characters – each one gets introduced separately and is somehow directly linked to a Suzuki car or motorcycle that gets “introduced†on the same screen. Nice idea, but I can’t wait for each episode to “airâ€, I will just set myself a reminder for in a few weeks time and then watch the whole story in one go…
You can watch also watch individual webisodes.
von Roland Hachmann | Dez. 21, 2006 | Ad News, Blog, Digital Culture, Digital Marketing, Digital News, Marketing, Marketing Trends, Online Advertising
Some Links & News I haven’t had time to blog about in the last couple of days:
- Tim O’Reilly was interviewed by German Spiegel Online (one of my main news sources). One of the questions: would Mr. O’Reilly show the current wewb 2.0 content (and here: mainly youtube videos) to aliens, in order to show how far we’ve gotten with our civilisation… He would show Google though he said.
- Adverblog writes about Coke „invading“ YouTube with a brandchannel, where you can upload you own season greetings and send them to friends. Good idea in general… But why would you want to do that through a coke brand channel and not a standard YouTube account? They aren’t the only ones, either. Levi’s allegedly also opened a brand channel.
- Some more CGM: In Spain Pepsi asks users to design a can – the best design will actually be produced as a can and distributed across Spain.
- The new Second Life Newspaper „Avastar“ of German tabloid „Bild“ is selling for 150 Linden Dollars. This shows in some respect, that market prices in Second Life haven’t quite equilibrated yet. Just recently I bought a T-Shirt for a third of that price. The language will be english, apparently, which makes sense considering that the majority within Second Life won’t know German.
- The new book title of Joseph Jaffe will be „Join the Conversation“. This makes absolut sense considering the contents of this podcasts and blogposts, this is the (his) current topic.
- PayPerPost makes disclosure mandatory. Good. Now bloggers have to disclose if they are publishing a blogpost with brand or productreviews. This improves transparency and even though they might loose some advertisers and bloggers it should help them in the long run.
von Roland Hachmann | Dez. 17, 2006 | Ad News, Blog, Digital Marketing, Online Advertising
I just found a funny microsite by accidentally (!) clicking on a banner. It did, however, entertain me for a few minutes, trying to explore what’s possible on that site.
The site shows a typical street crossing with people walking around in all directions.
Then, clicking on the treo options (the orange arrows), the scenery changes slightly. When selecting the Yahoo! chat option, for example, the people walking around suddenly have a yellow smiley icon instead of their head.
In this example, I selected fandango, a site for movie and theatre tickets:
Or, choosing Google Maps:
And here I chose Orbitz, a travel site:
Nice idea to demonstrate the everyday capabilities of the Treo.
von Roland Hachmann | Dez. 12, 2006 | Blog, Digital Marketing, Marketing Trends, Online Advertising
Engagement By Engagement points me to Ten Mega Trends Transforming Marketing Measurements
They sound reasonable:
- Digital Network Adoption
- Attention Erosion
- Speed of Measurement
- Democratization of data and analytics
- Observational Measurements
- Unstructured Data
- Beyond Demographics
- Customer centric measurements and planning
- Data integration comes of age
- Reevaluating relationships with whom and what we measure
More detail on the linked website, well worth a read.
(Well, apparently, it was originally posted here by the author)
von Roland Hachmann | Dez. 6, 2006 | Ad News, Blog, Digital Marketing, Digital News, Online Advertising
Marketers Websites attract more eyeballs than other media, according to AdAge:
Believe it or not, those boring corporate websites are pulling in more eyeballs — and more influencers — than the flashy prime time TV shows, print magazines and general interest sites on which marketers advertise.
In figures, to be precise:
Yet the websites of P&G and Unilever now reach nearly 6 million and 3 million unique visitors, respectively, in the U.S. each month, according to ComScore Media Metrix.
But it’s not only about more eyeballs, these eyeballs are also quite interesting for marketers, as they are usually influencers, or at least people who actively engage with the brand in considerable numbers.
Their engagement with corporate and brand sites is well above the norm for the general population. „Visitors to [corporate and brand] websites have a much higher propensity to recommend products,“ said Pete Blackshaw, chief marketing officer of Nielsen Buzzmetrics, whose research shows more than 40% of people who give a brand e-mail feedback are likely to recommend it to others.
Much of it is derived from „regular“ online Advertising:
Much of the traffic to the big package-goods marketers‘ sites appears to be coming the way originally envisioned in the online advertising model: as a response to online display advertising. Search-heavy Google accounts for a relatively small amount of traffic to the P&G and Unilever sites compared with display-ad-heavy Yahoo
That doesn’t surprise me at all, since most of P&Gs and Unilevers products are FMCG, for which I assume users usually don’t search much. Or if people do search for these kind of things, then the FMCG companies haven’t found the right way to effectively keyword advertise.
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