An interesting article in Adweek discusses a marketing campaign developed by Evian that enabled the brand to promote its product through a real-time service supported by social media as its communication vehicle. The real-time service […]
Category: Chapter 12 – Promotional Strategy and New Media
Unilever’s Partnership with MTV to Bring Back “House of Style” as a Multiplatform Native Advertising Vehicle; Provides a look both at the Benefits and Challenges of Native Advertising
An interesting article in AdWeek discusses MTV’s decision to bring back one of its iconic shows from the early nineties. “House of Style” which aired from 1989 to 2000 was originally brought back in 2012, […]
Aligning Content Marketing with Brand Values in a World of Social Media: GoPro’s Approach to its Online Video Marketing Has Created a Win-Win for the Brand and its Most Avid Customers
(GoPro Website, 2014) At the end of March 2014 Google published a Brand Channel Leaderboard that listed the top brand channels on YouTube for the months of January through March. At the top of this […]
The New Yorker’s Shifting Online Strategy: Engaging Readers and Finding Its Pricing “Sweet Spot”
(New Yorker Online Homepage, 7/14/14) A recent article in the New York Times discusses the New Yorker’s plans to alter its online strategy. The publication plans to redesign its website, both on the backend to […]
Marketing in College Sports
(Gazelle Group, 2014) Talk about a timely topic. As the NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournaments come to a close, the issues at the heart of multiple lawsuits and grievances between current and former college […]
Utilizing the Second Screen
(GeekWire, 2013) There exists today no shortage of marketing initiatives crafted to exploit new technology. Where can consumers be reached and how can we deepen levels of engagement once we find them? The consensus is that rapidly […]
The “Showrooming” Effect
(Forbes, 2012) A recent article in AdAge revisits the concept of “showrooming” and its effect on brick and mortar retailers. For readers unfamiliar with this technologically-driven activity, picture the following scenario. You walk into your […]
Boosting Your Brand by Acknowledging its Limitations
(geekyrant.com, 2013) Let us explain. Or rather, let us share our thoughts on an idea floated in a really interesting piece from this past Sunday’s New York Times Magazine. What Ms. Havrilesky is referring to […]
The Marketing Value of WhatsApp for Facebook
$19 Billion. It is not a bad day to be a stakeholder in the mobile messaging company started by Jan Koum and Brian Acton in 2009. Facebook’s purchase of the CA-based start-up is a clear […]
Super Sunday Thoughts
(source – Forbes, 2014) For those of us whose business is marketing and more specifically, advertising, it is always interesting to see a part of it jump into the national spotlight this time of year. […]
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