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Mobile Marketing Popularity Rapidly Grows One-Third of Marketers are Mobile When asked if their company currently uses or plans to use mobile marketing tactics, such as mobile messaging, applications and/or websites, 33% said their company currently uses these tactics. Another 24% said their company plans to use mobile tactics within the next 12 months, and 13% said they will use mobile tactics in more than the next 12 months. Only 20% said their company has no plans to use mobile marketing tactics, and another 10% don’t know. This means the combined percentage of respondents whose companies definitely or possibly will not use mobile marketing tactics (30%) is smaller than the percentages of respondents who currently use them (33%) or will use them within the next 12 months or longer (a combined 37%). Broken down by region, more European respondents said their company currently uses mobile marketing tactics (37%) than North American respondents (29%), reflecting Europe’s more advanced and entrenched mobile infrastructure.
MarketingSherpa comscore-online-video-properties-unique-viewers-july-2008.jpg Half of Americans Don’t Trust the Ads They’re Exposed To Only 3% of Americans completely trust the advertisements they see, read or hear, while 11% don’t trust them at all, according to the results of a survey conducted by YouGov. The survey found that among American adults who see any advertising at least once a month, 44% find them to be fairly (37%) or very […] Read more » Consumers Report More Privacy Breaches, Little Faith in Marketers A pair of new studies highlight a growing problem for marketers: at a time when an explosion of data is offering marketers an array of new possibilities, consumers are reporting more privacy breaches and a low level of trust in marketers to protect their data. Read more » Brands’ Most Engaging Facebook Posts are Almost Always Photos Source: Socialbakers Notes: Three-quarters of the more than 1 million brand posts monitored by Socialbakers between February 24 and March 24 were photos, with links (10%), status posts (6%) and videos (4%) less common.
The Echo Boom Bomb How-To: Mine Delicious Bookmarks for Consumer Insights Are you using content marketing as part of your digital strategy to grow your business? If so, you're not alone. According to the Content Marketing Institute, the lion's share of marketers (some 92%) report using content marketing. In the fast moving world of digital strategy, things are always changing. What should you expect in 2014 to change in the world of content marketing? Hana Abaza of Uberflip has put together an infographic detailing five key content marekting trends for the coming year. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Digital Buzz Blog | Digital Campaigns, Online Marketing, Social & More. 5 Reasons to Stop Exhibiting at Trade Shows | Rocket Watcher by April Dunford I hate trade shows as a marketing tactic. Add up the cost of booth space, shipping, and travel, and the number of good leads you need to get to show any kind of ROI is too large to justify doing most shows. And don’t even get me started on how hard it is to be heard above the noise of dozens of other companies battling for the scarce hung-over attention of attendees that are only walking the show floor because they heard there might be free food or booze around somewhere. Here are 5 reasons to stop exhibiting at trade shows: 1/ There’s no ROI – Did you ever stop to wonder about those free food and booze parties/receptions they hold on the show floor to get attendees to go into the exhibit hall? 2/ It’s hard to stand out – You can’t afford an Oracle-sized booth (and you’ll also miss out on the keynote talk and premium advertising that goes along with that). 4/ You could be doing other things. That doesn’t mean there isn’t an opportunity to do something interesting at a show.
In Your Face: 10 Intense Public Guerrilla Marketing Posters Shock & Awe: 10 Intense Public Guerrilla Marketing Posters Article by Steph, filed under Guerilla Ads & Marketing in the Design category. Guerrilla marketing has perfected the technique of catching people’s eyes and grabbing their attention, targeting consumers in unexpected ways and unconventional places. That, of course, is the point of this once-fringe form of advertising, which has now been taken up even by large corporations like Adidas and Microsoft. ‘Real Hip Hop’ Bus Stop Ad (image via: Geurilla de Talentos) A floating afro sits at head-level behind a bus stop seat, just at the right height to make it look like anyone who sits there has quite an impressive head of hair. Snuff Clothing Bloody Cleaver Poster (images via: Ads of the World) What do bloody cleavers have to do with skiing? Erotika Sex Shop Car Window Stickers (image via: Ad Goodness) It doesn’t get much more in-your-face than this. Anti-Graffiti Bus Seat Poster (image via: EatLiver) Witness Against Torture Elevator Ad
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