Predictive analytics can provide marketers with the tools necessary to anticipate what consumers desire and adapt their marketing messages and offerings on an individual basis. This tool is making decisions and taking action for customers instead of empowering them.
Category: Chapter 11 – Manage Marketing Channels and Points of Customer Interface
Mobile Ad Market Set to Exceed $100 Billion in 2016
The Wall Street Journal recently announced that the mobile add market is anticipated to reach $100 billion next year. For the first time, over half of the digital ad market (and about 16.5% of total advertising spending) will be attributed to mobile ads in 2016. This represents a quantum leap in the global mobile ad market of 430% from just 2013.
Top-Level Domains (TLD) Key to Online Marketing Strategy
With only 11% of the web visible, it is extremely important to optimize your website for maximum visibility within Goggle’s search engine. The main way to do this to have a highly coveted .com domain name.
A Series of Lawsuits Prompts SeaWorld to Launch Marketing Campaign Emphasizing Killer Whale Care
SeaWorld has faced intense criticism following the 2013 release of Blackfish, a documentary on the controversial captivity on killer whales. More recently, the company is faced with three class action lawsuits in as many weeks, causing SeaWorld to launch a marketing campaign focusing on the care of its killer whales.
“Scent Branding” Makes it Way to Federal Trademark Officials
The Wall Street Journal recently published an interesting article on companies that have tried to trademark aromas, some successfully and others not. In an increasingly cluttered and competitive environment, companies are doing whatever they can […]
“Transformers: Age of Extinction” Receives 2015 Award for Most and Worst Product Placement, While “Lego Movie” Succeeds with Strongest Product Placement Impact
Featuring 55 brands, Transformers: Age of Extinction recently won both the 2014 Award for Achievement in Product Placement in a Single Film (that is, the most product placement) and Worst Product Placement by Brandcameo. It also tied for first in Unwanted Product Placement. The Lego Movie saw greater success, winning the 2014 Award for Product Placement Impact.
The Value of a Super Bowl Ad: Smartphone Game Marketers Enter the Fray in Search of New Frontiers; While Some Familiar Brands Look towards Other Tactics
With the largest audience ever for a television event at about 114.4 million viewers (according to preliminary figures from Nielsen), this year’s Super Bowl provided marketers with a prime opportunity to promote their brands. One […]
Microsoft Shows How Content Marketing in the Form of a Documentary Can Drive B2B Marketing Performance
Microsoft worked with two of its clients (Belgium Brewing Company and Lotus F1 Team) to develop a short-documentary highlighting how the two organizations use technology (namely Microsoft Dynamics a CRM and ERP solution) to drive performance. The documentary has won multiple awards at film festivals and has also garnered some of the more traditional marketing performance benefits for Microsoft and the other organizations involved.
Christmas Themed Marketing: A Glimpse at B2C and B2B Efforts in 2014
It’s not uncommon for companies to develop Christmas themed marketing content to share with their current and potential customers during the holiday season. Christmas provides a great opportunity for some brands to help further boost […]
Bringing Old Products Back from the Dead
Nostalgia can be a very powerful force capable of driving different types of behavior. For marketers, being able to identify what products or elements consumers are nostalgic for (or in some cases consumers never really […]
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