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8 Steps To Digitally Align Your Organization

cmo.com

Today’s connected consumer is seeing to it that a CMO’s job is never done.

Keeping up with the ever-evolving digital landscape, shifting consumer trends, new technologies, an influx of data, and executive pressure to perform, is tireless. While traditional channels still receive the lion’s share of marketing investment allocation, the fast pace of digital evolution has become a catalyst for change, most recently and notably driven by the unique dynamics of social media and the ubiquity of mobile devices.

Organizations fall into three possible categories when it comes to digital operational preparedness:

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The Ongoing Agency Evolution

cmo.com 

The ongoing agency evolution is inextricably linked to an evolving and complex digital landscape—one that includes constant technological innovations, emerging consumer behaviors, and the volatile economic climate in which they operate. With all these moving parts, it’s no wonder that many agencies are experimenting with new growth strategies and looking for opportunities to carve out an offering that’s both unique as well as timely for the brands in their portfolio.

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Mobile and Video Grab a Greater Share of Digital Ad Budgets – Vast majority of US advertisers, agencies plan on using mobile and video in 2012

eMarketer 

Marketers must diversify their ad investments across a wider variety of digital channels to keep up with today’s media consumption habits. Not surprisingly, digital ad agency ValueClick media found US marketers’ digital advertising budget allocation for 2012 was expected to mirror popular consumer usage trends, resulting in more spending on mobile and video efforts.

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Why Apple’s New iPad Will Transform Online Advertising

Forbes

Ever since the debut of the first iPad two years ago, marketers have been jazzed about the potential of tablets as a new advertising platform. And not just to run banner ads or even mobile ads, but to run the kind of rich magazine or even TV-style ads that still command most of the advertising dollars spent. “The tablet is the TV of this generation,” says Jason Baptiste, CEO of the tablet publishing and advertising platform startup Onswipe. “It’s the beauty of print married to the scale of the Web.”

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The Best of 2012′s IAB Annual Leadership Meeting

ClickZ 

To those who attended the IAB’s annual leadership meeting last week, the future of digital advertising looked quite bright indeed…but also more complicated than ever. The spectrum of formal topics ranged from predictions to new creative formats to advertising technologies to legislation. Off the floor, the two recurring conversations I heard revolved around ad management and online video.

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OMD’s Next Big Thing Is Just A Bunch Of Hacks (And Why That’s A Good Thing)

MediaPost 

In what likely is the first initiative of its kind by a major ad agency and its clients, Omnicom’s OMD unit brought some of its biggest brands together with some of the app communities’ most innovative developers to create new digital media experiences that could change the way consumers interact with brands. The initiative, which culminated in a 48-hour “hackathon” at an empty ping pong hall in downtown Manhattan, generated nearly 50 new applications for experiencing music on ad-supported online music service Spotify, some of which are already being optioned by the OMD client brands that participated.

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Mobile World Congress roundup: the key marketing takeaways

MarketingWeek 

Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona this year hosted record visitor numbers, with 67,000 delegates embarking on the Fira Montjuïc to get the first look at the latest devices, services and trends from the mobile sector.

There were sides to the marketing coin that were the main topics of discussion: how mobile manufacturers can differentiate themselves in such a fragmented and nascent market, and how other brands can utilise mobile to raise the volume on their marketing strategies and get closer to consumers.

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IDG Enterprise Launches CITE Conference & Expo to Address Opportunities and Challenges of ‘Consumerization of IT in the Enterprise’

Marketwire

FRAMINGHAM, MA, IDG Enterprise — the media company comprising CFOworld, CIO, CIO Executive Council, Computerworld, CSO, DEMO, InfoWorld, ITworld and Network World — announces the launch of the first enterprise conference devoted exclusively to the consumerization of IT in the enterprise (CITE). The CITE Conference & Expo will gather leading IT and business decision-makers for a comprehensive look at the emerging issues, demands and opportunities surrounding the infusion of consumer technologies into today’s workplace.

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Publishers Build Out Digital Marketing Services

Anna Maria Virzi | ClickZ 

If everyone’s a publisher – from solo bloggers to Fortune 500 companies that maintain YouTube channels, mobile apps, and Facebook Pages – where does that leave traditional publishers?

Publishers have been forced to supplement traditional media sales with more advanced services, including interactive marketing strategies and technologies – or risk becoming obsolete.

Over the past year, publishers have invested millions of dollars to acquire interactive agencies and expand in-house marketing and technology teams. The services they offer run the gamut: developing custom ads, building apps for mobile devices, optimizing sites for search engines, and even managing social media communications.

Consider these developments…read more