Yesterday's announcement of Comcast/NBCU buying Time Warner Cable was a monumental announcement as it consolidates more of the cable portion of the Multiple Video Programming Delivery services (MVPDs) that includes mostly cable and satellite delivery services. Instead of Charter…
The French search and directory company Solocal Groupe generated 1.7 percent organic digital growth in 2013, a tepid performance driving largely by a brutal online display advertising market. Today's 2013 earnings announcement revealed Solocal's total group revenues fell by…
According to DAC Group and Kantar's latest consumer search behavior study, mobile and social search are showing a progressive increase in adoption. Mobile devices are becoming vital to Canadian consumers when they are searching for local businesses. Brick and mortar…
Native advertising -- the insertion of contextually relevant advertising amidst other content -- is viewed with suspicion by much of the ad community, which sees it as unscaleable, and perhaps the opposite of its drive towards programmatic (automated) sales. During…
Last month we released a white paper in tandem with Verve Mobile on the emerging art of mobile and cross platform ad attribution. It's the holy grail of advertising in being able to track campaign effectiveness post ad engagement (cue…
The Nordics search and directory company Eniro needs to grow its digital revenue by roughly 5 percent to 6 percent in order to bring its entire business back to growth. Not a bad position for a company…
. Digital change comes as much from inside the marketing organization as from end users, noted two leading CMOs, who were interviewed at the IAB's Annual Leadership Meeting today in Palm Desert. The CMOs were Wells Fargo's Jamie Moldafsky and…
. Digital change comes as much from inside the marketing organization as from end users, noted two leading CMOs, who were interviewed at the IAB's Annual Leadership Meeting today in Palm Desert. The CMOs were Wells Fargo's Jamie Moldafsky and…
Clear Channel Entertainment CEO Bob Pittman, speaking today at IAB's Annual Leadership Meeting in Palm Desert, said that radio has been able to leverage its undiminished strength with digital providing a new channel and new listeners for the medium. Pittman,…
WalMart Global eCommerce CEO Neil Ashe told 1000+ digital marketing pros at the IAB's Annual Leadership Meeting in Palm Desert that their responsibility is to fully integrate their efforts throughout the organization. Ashe, who formerly ran CBS Interactive, said top…
"A core value for Twitter as a company is to reach every person on the planet. In 2014 we want to build a Twitter that is accessible to everyone," says Dick Costolo, CEO of Twitter in yesterday's Q4 earnings call.…
"A core value for Twitter as a company is to reach every person on the planet. In 2014 we want to build a Twitter that is accessible to everyone," says Dick Costolo, CEO of Twitter in yesterday's Q4 earnings call.…
We've been tracking the transition of automotive marketing to digital for ten years or more, but have just recently seen major pickup at local dealers. There has been a definite lag at the dealer level compared to the car manufacturers.…
When a new leader is announced for the giant oceanliners in technology, we tend to sift through the tea leaves to see what kind of insights, perspective and focus they will bring via SMBs and local. Yahoo's Marissa Mayer, for…
When a new leader is announced for the giant oceanliners in technology, we tend to sift through the tea leaves to see what kind of insights, perspective and focus they will bring via SMBs and local. Yahoo's Marissa Mayer, for…
SMBs that use video advertising have bigger ad budgets, tend to be early adopters in their use of digital compared to their counterparts and are savvier in how they leverage data and analytics to engage and interact with their customers.…
We have all gotten used to looking at our phones and seeing several notifications on our home screens. From text messages, to emails, to sports updates, we are able to receive notifications for almost anything. More than ever, local businesses…
A few things that characterize mobile payments are early stage experimentation and standards battles. That's to be expected in any embryonic sector. There's NFC, mobile card readers, POS hardware that scans the barcode on your screen (a la Starbucks), to…
This week, mobile location ad platform xAd put out yet another proof point of the legitimacy and growth of the mobile local opportunity -- and of course, their part in it. The company announced it more than doubled revenue in…
Is Apple getting into the mobile payments space? I don't mean for digital goods, such as songs and other virtual goods, which it already sells on mobile devices through iTunes, but rather for physical goods in the offline world. CEO…