A slightly different perspective on Super Bowl ad success

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 [...]

Three things that social media marketers can learn from email marketers (direct mail marketers and telemarketers too)

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 [...]

Aol not confident in the value of Bebo’s user generated content. Any implications to Facebook’s model?

So Venture Beat reports that AOL (sorry… Aol) is considering selling Bebo as part of their reorganization. Now, Aol is repositioning itself by moving away from its current subscription-based service model to an ad-supported digital media business – so aggregate or develop content and sell advertising. Now, Bebo is a social networking platform. A platform [...]

Social media success should be measured like a venture capital portfolio

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 [...]