Posted on February 9, 2010 by michael nurse
A number of different organizations have put their spin on evaluating the success or failure of Super Bowl ads. At LBi Atlanta, we’ve added our own spin on this analysis. Instead of focusing on which ads viewers considered their favourites or the raw number of social media mentions, we have looked at an index that [...]
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Posted on January 4, 2010 by michael nurse
As social media becomes the new “it thing” for marketers to think about, we’ve stopped talking about the previous “it thing” – email marketing and its other direct marketing cousins: direct mail and telemarketing. But, traditional direct marketing is still highly effective and remains the preferred choice of many consumers when it comes to hearing [...]
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Posted on December 16, 2009 by michael nurse
Pocket Gamer biz reports that Zynga – maker of Mafia Wars and Farmville social games for Facebook and myspace – has just raised $180 MM in venture capital from the same Russian investment consortium that invested in Facebook. The deal puts Zynga’s valua tion at somewhere between $1.5 and $3 BILLION. My first reaction was [...]
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Posted on December 7, 2009 by michael nurse
I, like most strategists in the digital space have been doing a lot of thinking about social media lately – specifically understanding how to measure the success of a social media campaign or portfolio of campaigns. We ask questions like: how can we make something go viral? or what can i do that will get [...]
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Posted on December 3, 2009 by michael nurse
By now, the new coke fountains that produce over 100 flavours of beverage have started rolling out to a number of quick serve restaurants so there’s a decent chance that you’ve seen and/or used one of them. They’re cool. No doubt, being able to order Sprite with a blast of cherry flavour made my sandwich [...]
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