Archive for the ‘Advertising’ Category

New Zealand’s Most Wanted?

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

A lesson to be learned is to never steal from an ad agency. In Auckland, New Zealand, a thief stole 15 transformers from advertising agency OTW, worth about $5,000. A passerby saw the thief, thought he was acting suspiciously, and snapped his photo. The ad agency, backed by the police, took ...

“Over fifty percent of marketers’ budgets now spent online”

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

A new study released by Clash-Media suggests over fifty percent of marketers' budgets now spent online. The research conducted by E-consultancy for Clash-Media found: over 90 percent of marketers see Online Lead Generation as a growth area – up from 82 percent last year, and over 70 percent of those using ...

2007 Household Diary Study Available

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

The USPS has released their 2007 Household Diary Study. The Household Diary Study is a multi-year study started in 1987 that aims to provide a "comprehensive and continuous description of the mail originating and destinating in American household." The report is available here (or as a PDF here). Print in the ...

US Leading Adoption of Mobile Web

Friday, July 11th, 2008

Related to my post the other day on print's perfect storm is a report from Nielsen that the US is among those leading in the adoption of mobile Internet penetration. Key takeaways from from the report include: The US, UK and Italy are leaders in mobile Internet penetration. 15.6 percent of mobile ...

Numbers from Last Week’s Flyderrie-air.com Fake Ad Campaign Released

Monday, June 16th, 2008

Last week the Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News ran a fake ad campaign within their Friday editions to “demonstrate the power of our brands in generating awareness and generating traffic for our advertisers, and put a smile on people’s faces.” We blogged it here. This week the newspapers released number ...

Company Developing Targeted Advertising in Web Printouts

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

Format Dynamics, a Denver-based advertising technology start-up has created an advertising platform that enables online publishers to insert targeted advertising into pages printed from the Web. MediaPost has an article on the new platform: Enter the "PrinterStitial." Denver-based startup Format Dynamics has perhaps invented a whole new ad category by developing ...

Apple Ad on Time’s site

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

Check out the really unique (and funny) Apple ad on Time's site: Several things I like about this. It's a good play from their TV campaign that is ubiquitous. This makes you want to play with sound. It is very engaging from a web standpoint because it essentially interacts ...

Print Advertising Booming in the Persian Gulf

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

An article in the Wall Street Journal takes a look at the growth of print advertising in in the Persian Gulf: Spending on ads in newspapers and magazines in the six Arab countries that make up the Gulf Cooperation Council reached $2.96 billion last year, according to Ipsos Stat, an international ...

Outlasting the Do-Not-Mail Movement

Friday, April 4th, 2008

The Multichannel Merchant has an article on How to Outlast the Do-Not-Mail Movement. The article presents steps direct markers can do to "not only help your bottom line, but will also help the overall reputation of the industry": Be mindful with your client’s campaigns —don’t over-reach/over saturate markets if ...

Canadian Tire ditches print catalogue, moves online

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Globe and Mail's ReportonBusiness.com reports that Toronto-based Canadian Tire is ceasing use of printed catalogs and moving online: Canadian Tire Corp. is quietly phasing out the printed edition of the catalogue it has been publishing twice a year for almost nine decades, with a whopping current print run of 6 million ...