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Trend: Video Search Ads on Google

10 Tips For Your First Email Campaign

Yellow Pages & ROI

Online Gender Gap





 

For the Fun of It

The same old story – the fight for love and glory – and the consumer’s money.
See how the veterans of the advertising wars face off in their viral video efforts.
Looks like Coke has a bigger Latin-American advertising budget.


 
 
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Video Search Ads on Google
By Amplify Interactive

Have you seen? Google is now placing video ads in sponsored listings. Back in February, Google talked with the New York Times about testing video ads, but they didn’t start showing up on search results pages until around the end of March.
The charge to the advertiser occurs only once, so whether a searcher clicks the headline of the ad to
visit the site, or they click to watch the ad and then click through to the site doesn’t matter. So, video advertisers get charged for the ad being played OR the click through to the site. Whichever happens first.
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Google is partnering with YouTube to reach the video-engaged audience.

See how it works firsthand -
take a tour with Google
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10 Tips For Your First Email Campaign
How to plan, create, and execute a successful first email campaign
From Digital Web

You’ve just finished a cool new website and now it’s on to Phase Two of the business  plan: email marketing. You just built an entire website—one little HTML email newsletter couldn’t be that hard, right?

If this is your first foray into email marketing, set the bar really, really low. Nobody can jump right in and send weekly emails. Writers block, procrastination, and fear usually prevent most people from sending very frequent emails.
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Yellow Pages [Still] Deliver Robust ROI for Advertisers

Yellow Pages, a $31 billion industry worldwide, continue to give advertisers large volumes of valuable customer leads — and high ROI — according to call-tracking data issued by the Yellow Pages Association (YPA), based on a study by CRM Associates, writes MarketingCharts.
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Still provide ROI (and still expensive...)






60% of women rely on the Internet for health information.
85% of women who use the Internet have researched women’s health issues online.

  Online Gender Gap

When it comes to looking for advice regarding health information, women are more likely to look to the Internet than to friends and family, according to a recent study.*
Increasingly, women are turning to the Internet to organize their findings, becoming more proactive in their decision-making when it comes to their own health. As the number of women using the Internet for information and resources grows, user-generated content (USG) plays an increasingly important role since women are likely to engage in health conversations online.

Source: Marketing Management Magazine – March/April 2008
* Study conducted by comScore, Inc. in January 2008.



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