Carmakers Woo Youth With Web Videos

The Detroit News has a good story on marketer-driven content, or, more accurately, online video directed at consumers who are increasingly immune to old-fashioned TV advertising. Aaron Lenzini, a vice president with the William Morris Agency in Beverly Hills who manages General Motors Corp.’sRead the rest

Why Google (Search) Trends Is Important

 

Google just released Google Trends, a new public search-term query trending tool. The release of this will draw increasing notice of the value of search as a source of consumer insights and trends. While Google Trends is very, very, very far from being a serious market research tool, it is free and accessible and will give many people a better idea why search data are so important to mine.Read the rest

Nielsen BuzzMetrics Is Hiring!

How would you like to work alongside me and a bunch of other people smarter than me, to help define a burgeoning industry we call consumer-generated media measurement? My employer, Nielsen BuzzMetrics, is hiring. We’re looking for an ambitious, hard-working New York-based junior marketing manager with two years of relevant experience.Read the rest