Engagement Models for Experiential Marketing

If your organization is a member of the Advertising Research Foundation, please join in person (at the IAB offices) or via Webinar for the first Experiental Marketing Council. The first meeting will focus on engagement. I’m participating with folks from Millsport, Jack Morton and Free Car Media.… Read the rest

A Cry Out To Yahoo!

The WSJ/DowJones issued a story on Yahoo’s new ad-ranking technology, so the headline said, but it failed to actually describe what it was. Regardless, a few graphs caught my attention:

Mr. Semel said Yahoo is harnessing "social media," or tools for engaging consumers, so that they contribute content to Yahoo sites and spend more time there, which Yahoo hopes will in turn woo advertising dollars.

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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