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+ Google will Mobiltelefonieren durch Werbung subventionieren

Wednesday, 8. October 2008

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Google zündet eine neue Stufe in Sachen mobiler Werbung: Handy-Besitzer, die sich mit Werbebotschaften berieseln lassen, sollen künftig günstiger telefonieren dürfen.

http://www.internetworld.de/Nachrichten/Trends/Google-will-Mobiltelefonieren-durch-Werbung-subventionieren

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+ Social Marketing: Die besten Kampagnen im Web

Saturday, 4. October 2008

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Social-Media-Marketing steht vor der Tür: Lassen sie sich von internationalen Beispielen inspirieren.

http://www.internetworld.de/Nachrichten/Praxistipps/Social-Marketing-Die-besten-Kampagnen-im-Web

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+Platform A bringt “Superblock” auf den Markt

Thursday, 2. October 2008

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50 Millionen Ad-Impressions in 24 Stunden will Platform A seinen Werbekunden mit einem neuen Werbemittel innerhalb von 24 Stunden liefern.

http://www.internetworld.de/Nachrichten/Werbung/Platform-A-bringt-Superblock-auf-den-Markt

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+ IAB Announces 55 MIXX Awards Winners Across 18 Categories

Sunday, 28. September 2008

The IAB closed this year’s highly successful MIXX Conference and Expo with the presentation of the fourth annual MIXX Awards. The MIXX Awards are the only honor devoted exclusively to interactive advertising, and the only juried competition that recognizes excellence in both creativity and effectiveness. For the first time, the digital advertising campaigns were evaluated by senior executives from agencies, publishers and marketing organizations deliberating together, sharing their distinct perspectives on what makes advertising creative successful. The multimedia gala was emceed by Rob Norman, GroupM Interaction Worldwide CEO.

“The sheer volume of submissions coupled with the extraordinary level of creativity that cut across such a wide swath of platforms and technologies speaks to the vitality of the interactive advertising industry,” said Randall Rothenberg, President and CEO of the IAB. “Interactive advertising is breaking new ground in engaging consumers in ways that we had not even dreamed of, and the pace of change will only continue to accelerate.”

This year, submissions jumped by nearly 40 percent, and were sent in from hundreds of leading agencies, representing traditional advertising agencies and native digital shops which entered work across virtually every major vertical industry.

The gala’s ultimate honor, Best in Show, went to TEQUILA\ and Nissan for its “Rogue Launch.” TEQUILA\ and Nissan took home additional honors for digital video, digital integration and VOD and interactive television, winning golds in all three categories. “The Rogue Launch” was based on consumer insights geared to Generation X males who wanted to still feel “in the game” and tap into a sense of playfulness. The campaign was credited as the most successful new car launch in Nissan’s history.

Goodby Silverstein & Partners, last year’s Best in Show agency winner, won two golds this year in Product Launch and Business-to-Business for its campaign “Adobe Layer Tennis” for the launch of Adobe’s Creative Suite 3. And in a testament to the breadth and variety of brands’ interactive campaigns, some marketers were honored in multiple categories for work with different agencies. BMW, for example, was honored for its work with three different agencies-Dotglu, JOGO Media and GSD&M Idea City across the categories of Direct Response and Lead Generation, In-Game Advertising and Social Marketing, respectively.

The MIXX Awards are the only juried advertising competition that evaluates all critical components of the interactive marketing mix, including strategy, creative, execution and results. To view the complete gallery of the MIXX Winners please visit: www.mixx-awards.com/gallery

The Complete List of 2008 MIXX Award Winners

Best in Show
Nissan and TEQUILA\ for “Rogue Launch”

Brand Awareness and Positioning
GOLD: American Express OPEN and Digitas for “OPEN Forum”

SILVER: I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter! and BlockDot for “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter! Now You Know Better!”

BRONZE: U.S. Army and Universal McCann for “U.S. Army Halo 3 Experience”

Product Launch
GOLD: Adobe Creative Suite 3 and Goodby, Silverstein & Partners for “Adobe Layer Tennis”

SILVER: Verizon and Campfire for “My Home 2.0″

BRONZE: P&G/Downy and Digitas for “Discovering Radiance”

Direct Response and Lead Generation
GOLD: ING of the Americas and BBDO Atlanta for “ING Numbers”

SILVER: BMW North America and Dotglu for “1 Series Interactive Launch”

BRONZE: McDonald’s and OMD for “Dollar Menunaires”

Business-to-Business
GOLD: Adobe Creative Suite 3 and Goodby, Silverstein & Partners for “Adobe Layer Tennis”

SILVER: Dell and T3 for “Times Square We believe: in small business”

BRONZE: Motorola and BBDO New York for “Cityscape”

Public Service/Not-for-Profit
GOLD: The Ad Council / U.S. Department of Justice / National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and Merkley + Partners for “Think Before You Post”

SILVER: The Bridgespan Group and Sapient Interactive for “One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference”

BRONZE: Roundabout Theatre Company and Situation Marketing for “Sunday in the Park with George – Connect: The Dot Project”

Search Marketing
GOLD: Honda Certified Used Cars and RPA for “Custom Search Program”

SILVER: Covad Communications and Geary Interactive for “Localized Search Campaign”

BRONZE: Adobe Systems Incorporated and Adobe Search Marketing for “AIR/RIA”

Super-Rich Media
GOLD: Apple Inc. and TBWA\Media Arts Lab for ” Don’t Give Up”

SILVER: Apple Inc. and TBWA\Media Arts Lab for “Banging, Knocking & Hiding”

BRONZE: HBO and Deep Focus for “Flight of the Conchords”

Multicultural
GOLD: U.S. Army and Sensis for “Leaders Among Us”

SILVER: The Home Depot and The Vidal Partnership for “Colores Origenes “Mixer” Campaign”

Widget Marketing
GOLD: Honda Civic and RPA for “Honda Civic Tour: Panic at the Disco”

SILVER: Kimberly-Clark and MindShare for “Huggies Baby Countdown”

BRONZE: Samsung and Cheil Worldwide for “Juke by Samsung”

In-Game Advertising
GOLD: BMW and JOGO Media for “BMW M3 Challenge”

SILVER: Nissan and OMD for “Forza 2″

BRONZE: The Coca-Cola Company and MediaVest for “Sprite NBA Gaming”

Digital Video
GOLD: Nissan and TEQUILA\ for “Rogue Launch”

SILVER: Neutrogena and Tribal DDB Worldwide for “The Wave Power Cleanser”

BRONZE: Microsoft Small Business Products and Cole & Weber United for “Microsoft Small Business Summit”

Social Marketing
GOLD: Alberto-Culver Company and Carat for “Extreme Style by VO5″

SILVER: BMW and GSD&M Idea City for “1 Series – Facebook Graffiti Contest”

BRONZE: Verizon and Campfire for “My Home 2.0″

International Award
GOLD: Vodafone and OgilvyOne Worldwide, Athens for “Livefeeds”

SILVER: Air New Zealand and Host for “Home Sweet As”

BRONZE: Coke Europe and Sapient Interactive for “Coke Burn Alter Ego”

Mobile Platforms
GOLD: Virgin Atlantic Airways and McKinney for ” Love from Above”

SILVER: MasterCard Worldwide and MRM Worldwide for “Peyton Pep Talks with Peyton Manning”

VOD and Interactive Television
GOLD: Nissan and TEQUILA\ for “Rogue Launch”

SILVER: AXE and BrightLine iTV for “Art of Skin Contact”

BRONZE: I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter! and BrightLine iTV for “Sprays in the City”

Brand Destination Site
GOLD: MasterCard Worldwide and MRM Worldwide for “Priceless.com”

SILVER: American Airlines and TM Advertising for “AAdvantage Milestones”

BRONZE: Pabst Brewing Company and Cole & Weber United for “The Tales of Colt 45″

Digital Integration
GOLD: Nissan and TEQUILA\ for “Rogue Launch”

SILVER: Liberty Mutual and Hill Holliday for “The Responsibility Project”

BRONZE: ING of the Americas and BBDO Atlanta for “ING Numbers”

Cross-Platform Integration
GOLD: Liberty Mutual and Hill Holliday for “The Responsibility Project”

SILVER: ING of the Americas and BBDO Atlanta for “ING Numbers”

BRONZE: Verizon and Campfire for “My Home 2.0″

MIXX 2008 Judges:

Marketers:
Cheryl Guerin – VP, Global Digital Marketing, MasterCard Worldwide
Jenny Howell – Manager of Interactive Marketing, American Honda Motor Co., Inc.
Carole Irgang – SVP, Integrated Marketing Communications, Kraft Foods
Carol Kruse – VP, Global Interactive Marketing, The Coca-Cola Company
Tim Murphy – Senior Director Digital Marketing, Anheuser-Busch
David Roman – VP, WW Marketing Communications, Personal Systems Group, Hewlett-Packard Company
Debbie Jo Severin – VP, Marketing, Covad Communications Group, Inc.
Agencies:
Marty Cooke – Chief Creative Officer, SS+K
Jean-Philippe Maheu – Chief Digital Officer, Ogilvy North America
Hans Neubert – Executive Creative Director, Avenue A | Razorfish
Michael Prieve – Chief Creative Officer, Doremus New York
Alan Schulman – SVP, Executive Creative Director, Executive Director of User Experience, imc2
Baba Shetty – EVP Chief Media Officer, Hill Holliday
Joanne Zaiac – President, Digitas, New York

Publishers:
Heidi Browning – SVP, Client Solutions, FOX Interactive Media
Mark D’Arcy – Chief Creative Officer, Time Warner Global Media Group
Jane Grenier – VP, CondéNet
Wonya Lucas – EVP & Chief Marketing Officer, Discovery Communications
Suzie Reider – Director of Advertising, YouTube
David Sturman – Chief Technology Officer for Massive (a Microsoft company)
Lauren Wiener – SVP, Meredith Interactive Media

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+AGOF veröffentlicht internet facts 2008-II

Saturday, 27. September 2008

Anzahl der ausgewiesenen Angebote knackt die 500er-Marke
Neuer Rekord bei den ausgewiesenen Online-Werbeträgern / Junge Nutzer flirten gerne im Netz / Ältere nutzen das Internet vor allem als Informationsmedium
Frankfurt, 25. September 2008. Die Arbeitsgemeinschaft Online Forschung (AGOF) veröffentlicht heute die Zahlen der neuen Welle ihrer Markt-Media-Studie internet facts. Die internet facts 2008-II weist Reichweiten- und Strukturdaten für 501 Online-Werbeträger auf Angebotsbasis (+ 14 Prozent Zuwachs an ausgewiesenen Angeboten im Vergleich zur letzten Welle) und 2.396 Belegungseinheiten aus. Darüber hinaus liefert sie allgemeine Daten aus dem AGOF Universum und Kerndaten zur Internetnutzung und zum E-Commerce. Berichtszeitraum sind die Monate April bis Juni 2008. Die Daten der internet facts 2008-II sind ab sofort im AGOF Planungstool TOP 1.0 zur Mediaplanung hinterlegt.

Reichweitenrankings nach Angeboten und Vermarktern
Mit einer Reichweite von 14,34 Mio. Unique Usern pro Monat (35,0 Prozent) liegt T-Online bei den Angeboten an erster Stelle, gefolgt von WEB.DE (12,43 Mio. bzw. 30,4 Prozent) und MSN.de (10,79 Mio. bzw. 26,4 Prozent). Yahoo! (10,22 Mio. bzw. 25,0 Prozent) und GMX (8,03 Mio. bzw. 19,6 Prozent) belegen die weiteren Plätze.
Bei den Vermarktern führt United Internet Media mit 18,89 Mio. Unique Usern pro Monat (46,2 Prozent) vor SevenOne Interactive mit 18,32 Mio. (44,8 Prozent) und InteractiveMedia mit 17,01 Mio. (41,6 Prozent). Im Weiteren folgen TOMORROW FOCUS (16,84 Mio. bzw. 41,1 Prozent) und G+J Electronic Media Sales (12,59 Mio. bzw. 30,8 Prozent).

Allgemeine Basisdaten zur Internetnutzung
Gemäß der internet facts 2008-II hatte das Internet in Deutschland im Ausweisungszeitraum eine Reichweite von 65 Prozent, d.h. 41,99 Mio. Menschen sind im Netz (64,7 Prozent der deutschen Wohnbevölkerung ab 14 Jahren (64,87 Mio.)). Zum Weitesten Nutzerkreis (WNK; Nutzung innerhalb der letzten drei Monate) zählen 63,1 Prozent der Deutschen, d.h. 40,91 Mio. Menschen.

69,4 Prozent der Internetnutzer sind seit mehr als drei Jahren im Netz, das entspricht 28,39 Mio. Menschen. Neun von zehn Surfern (92,4 Prozent) gehen von zu Hause ins Internet, ein Drittel (33,1 Prozent) am Arbeits- bzw. Ausbildungsplatz und weit über ein Viertel (29,7 Prozent) bei Freunden oder Verwandten bzw. anderweitig. Die beliebteste Art, von zu Hause aus online zu gehen, ist mit Abstand DSL, das in den eigenen vier Wänden von 69,2 Prozent der Onliner genutzt wird (ISDN: 19,5 Prozent).

Top-Aktivitäten im Internet sind unverändert die E-Mail-Kommunikation (89,2 Prozent) und die Informationsrecherche (87,6 Prozent), gefolgt vom Lesen von Nachrichten zum Weltgeschehen (65,2 Prozent).

Eine Betrachtung der Altersstrukturen in verschiedenen Themenumfeldern zeigt, dass sich die Interessenschwerpunkte und damit das Nutzungsverhalten der User in Abhängigkeit vom Lebensalter und den damit verbundenen Aktivitäten ändern: So sind die unter 29-jährigen Internetnutzer bspw. überdurchschnittlich stark in kommunikativen Umfeldern wie Flirten und Kontakte, Chats und Foren sowie Messenger anzutreffen. Die 30- bis 49-jährige Nutzerschaft bevorzugt Angebote zu Familie und Kindern, Online-Banking und E-Commerce, während die über 50-jährigen Nutzer besonders in Themenumfeldern zu Essen, Trinken und Genießen bzw. bei regionalen oder lokalen Nachrichten sowie bei Sportergebnissen und -berichten vertreten sind.

Die breite Nutzung des Internets wirkt sich auch auf das Einkaufsverhalten vieler Konsumenten aus. Mit 97,4 Prozent (39,86 Mio.) informieren sich quasi alle Onliner im Internet über Produkte. Führend bei der Online-Recherche sind Urlaubs- und Last-Minute-Reisen, Bücher, Eintrittskarten, Hotels und Musik-CDs. Der Anteil der Online-Shopper unter den Internetnutzern liegt bei 85,5 Prozent, d.h. 34,97 Millionen Menschen haben in den vergangenen zwölf Monaten Waren im Internet gekauft. Ganz oben auf der Online-Einkaufsliste stehen Bücher, Eintrittskarten, Musik-CDs, Hotel­buchungen sowie Damenbekleidung.

Thomas Duhr, Vorstandsvorsitzender der AGOF: “Kein anderes Medium ist angebotsseitig so vielfältig wie das Internet, und ständig kommen weitere neue Webseiten auf den Markt. In der aktuellen Welle hat die AGOF die 500er-Marke bei den ausgewiesenen Online-Angeboten geknackt. Von daher können wir ganz selbst­bewusst sagen, dass kein anderes Medium eine solche umfassende Planungsgrundlage bietet wie das Internet mit der internet facts – und wir sind sicherlich noch nicht an unsere Grenzen gestoßen.”

Der ausführliche Berichtsband zur internet facts 2008-II mit einer Kurzzusammenfassung und dem Studiensteckbrief findet sich unter www.agof.de/internetfacts.

Die AGOF
Die Arbeitsgemeinschaft Online Forschung wurde im Dezember 2002 gegründet. Aufgabe und Zweck der AGOF ist es, unabhängig von Individualinteressen, für Transparenz und praxisnahe Standards in der Internet- und Online-Werbeträgerforschung zu sorgen. Mit der internet facts und dem darin ausgewiesenen Leistungswert Unique User hat die AGOF die einheit­liche Online-Reichweitenwährung als Basis für die Online-Mediaplanung im Markt etabliert.

Mitglieder sind: AdLINK Media Germany, Axel Springer AG, BAUER MEDIA KG, eBay Advertising Group GmbH, freeXmedia GmbH, G+J Electronic Media Sales GmbH, GWP media marketing GmbH, InteractiveMedia CCSP GmbH, IP Deutschland GmbH, LYCOS Network Europe, Microsoft Advertising, Platform-A Media, QUALITY CHANNEL GMBH, SevenOne Interactive GmbH, TOMORROW FOCUS AG, United Internet Media AG und Yahoo! Deutschland GmbH.

Lizenznehmer sind: Ad2Net GmbH, AdImpulse Media GmbH, ad pepper media & mediasquares, ADselect GmbH, allesklar media, antonow advertising GmbH, AreaDigital AG, Business Advertising GmbH, Codex Media GmbH, CommonMedia, construktiv GmbH, DZH Online Media Sales Group GmbH, Euro Klassik GmbH, Europa-Fachpresse-Verlag GmbH, Fantastic Zero, Greater Union Filmpalast GmbH, Hi-Media Deutschland AG, HSID Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, IDG Communications Media AG, IMG Media GmbH, Magnus.de, MAIRDUMONT MEDIA, mediaflite GmbH, MEDIENHAUS.de GmbH, Medienwirtschaft Verlags GmbH, Mirando GmbH & Co. KG, MySpace/Fox Interactive Media GmbH, netbrands Media, NetMediaEurope Deutschland GmbH, netpoint media GmbH, OnVista Media GmbH, Optikur GmbH, orangemedia.de GmbH, PeterPays Media, QUARTER MEDIA GmbH, teltarif.de Onlineverlag GmbH, TripAdvisor Ltd., TripleDoubleU GmbH, Unister Media, Urban Media GmbH, urbi AD orbi GmbH, wallstreet:online AG, Webguidez Entertainment GmbH, WerbeWeischer GmbH & Co. KG und WORT & BILD VERLAG.

Quelle: http://agof.de/index.570.html

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+ Online-Video-Werbung funktioniert wie im TV

Tuesday, 23. September 2008

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http://www.ecin.de/news/2008/09/23/12382

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+ Yahoo: „One-Stop-Shop“ für Werbetreibende

Tuesday, 23. September 2008

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http://www.ecin.de/news/2008/09/23/12381

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IAB Issues Email Data Management Best Practices

Friday, 19. September 2008

The IAB announced the release of “Email Data Management Best Practices,” a document with a series of far-reaching privacy and data security recommendations intended for publishers, marketers and service providers. Focusing on protecting consumer privacy while improving effectiveness in email marketing executions, the document was released at TARGUSinfo’s Online Lead Quality Summit.


Some of the document’s key recommendations are:




  • Senders should send commercial email only to individuals who have provided informed consent.


  • A global unsubscribe mechanism should be implemented for all companies sending emails.


  • Advertisers and marketers should authenticate their emails by publicly registering the domains from which they send the email.


  • A company cannot transfer a consumer’s permission to receive commercial email to another company without the transfer being referenced in the new company’s emails.

“We are confident that, if adopted, these best practices will protect consumers by ensuring that consent is informed and retractable, and will help responsible email marketers and their service providers improve the overall quality and performance of email marketing campaigns,” said Randall Rothenberg, president and CEO of the IAB. “We created this document with a very important goal in mind—to codify the elements of security, deliverability, permission and privacy for all companies involved in email marketing,” said Jeremy Fain, Vice President of Industry Services for the IAB and the lead of the IAB’s Email Committee.


“This is an important document that is illustrative of the lengths we go to as an industry to self-regulate even beyond what federal regulations like the CAN-SPAM Act* can provide,” said Arend Henderson, Chief Analytics Officer of Q Interactive and a member of the IAB’s Email Committee. “If our industry adheres to these vital recommendations, we will have succeeded in removing some of the major friction points of email marketing, which in turn will greatly contribute to the medium’s continued growth as an effective means of one-on-one engagement with consumers.”


To view the complete “Email Data Management Best Practices” Document, please go to: www.iab.net/emaildata

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IAB Commends Congress for Strengthening Law Enforcement’s Ability to Protect Consumers

Tuesday, 16. September 2008

The IAB commended Congress for passing provisions of the Identity Theft Enforcement and Restitution Act as part of H.R. 5938. The bill provides additional tools and resources to law enforcement agencies for tracking down and prosecuting cyber criminals, removes legal barriers to the prosecution of purveyors of malicious spyware, and allows for restitution to victims of identity theft.

“We appreciate the attention that Congress is giving to the important issues of combating identity theft and the proliferation of malicious spyware, and we support the approach taken in this legislation,” said Mike Zaneis, Vice President of Public Policy at the IAB “The passing of this bill supports the interactive advertising industry’s goal of increasing enforcement actions against bad actors whose criminal activity can tarnish the reputation of the online advertising industry.”

Identity theft is estimated by the Federal Trade Commission to affect 9 million Americans each year. Criminals can use spyware, which is malicious downloadable software, to facilitate identity theft.

“The threat of having consumers’ identities stolen and the proliferation of spyware can erode consumer confidence in the Internet and undermines legitimate advertising and e-mail practices,” Zaneis said. “IAB endorses the approach taken by Congress, which appropriately targets illegitimate conduct and provides law enforcement agencies with additional tools and resources to bring these criminals to justice. The language passed by Congress strikes the appropriate balance between the need for effective law enforcement and protection of legitimate industry practices.”

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Use of "Ad Networks" Surges Six-Fold as Media Companies Step Up Monetization of Unsold Online Advertising Inventory

Friday, 12. September 2008

The IAB and Bain & Company announced the release of a benchmark study which suggests that online publishers are increasingly turning to sales intermediaries known as ad networks to sell off excess inventories. The use of “ad networks” surged from 5% of total ad impressions sold in 2006 to 30% in 2007, according to the newly released “Digital Pricing Benchmarking Study” from Bain, the global business consulting firm, conducted in coordination with the Interactive Advertising Bureau.

As online publishers continue to experience growth rates of 20-30% in ad revenue, the race to create new advertising opportunities has left publishers with an excess of inventory which they are selling through ad networks at up to 90% discounts versus direct sales rates. The study finds the trend particularly foreboding for branded online publishers who traditionally earn between -20 CPM (the industry term for the cost per 1,000 ad impressions advertisers pay) and therefore risk severe price erosion.

“Online publishers are producing more inventory than the market demands, and risk devaluing the premium nature of their brands, particularly in light of ad networks growth and their dramatically lower pricing,” said John Frelinghuysen, a partner in Bain’s Global Media Practice and study author. “Building more effective relationships between publishers and ad networks is critical. In the longer-term, both parties will benefit from gains in ad network CPMs.”

The reason for the rapid growth in the use of ad networks is two-fold:

• Interviews with online publishers, conducted as part of the study, indicate that the lack of adequate pricing tools and inventory management discipline contributed to the growth in available ad space. This is causing publishers to seek out ways to sell large inventories of unsold ads. Publishers often lack basic information on realized prices and inventory sold by client and channel, limiting management’s ability to make effective decisions.

• Large marketers continue to shift significant portions of their advertising budgets online and view ad networks as an effective way to achieve greater buying scale and drive down CPMs.

“What this benchmark study tells the industry is that there is a need for more sophisticated yield management on the part of premium publishers, for stronger partnerships between publishers and ad networks, for development of best practices, and more focus on the value of interactive advertising.” said Sherrill Mane, senior vice president, Industry Services of the IAB. “Our industry is at an important juncture and now is the time for publishers to adopt strategic approaches to the use of ad networks who themselves have become critical players in the digital ecosystem.”

Another important finding of the study is that publishers who actively manage and use multiple ad networks can achieve higher revenues on display ads sold via networks. The benchmarking study finds publishers vary in their adoption of ad networks, the approaches used and the results attained but overall finds that the keys for success for online publishers are having dedicated staff, better tools and metrics that allow constant vigilance in managing ad pricing, reported sell rates and channel conflicts.

The authors of the benchmarking study offer recommendations to both publishers and ad networks to pursue steps toward higher realized pricing and enhancing mutual benefits of collaboration. These include:

• Publishers must become more disciplined in managing ad inventory and deploy improved methods and tools to enhance yield management

• Ad networks should partner more closely with publishers to enhance the value of the relationship for both parties.

Other key findings from the benchmarking study include:

• Overall, online publisher revenues grew by a healthy 32% in 2007 versus 2006, yet ad network revenues grew more rapidly (in excess of 50%), as marketers boosted online spending.

• High demand for premium video inventory resulted in CPMs 2-3 times greater than display ads on average.

• Most publishers in the study lack information to closely measure the impact of cross-platform sales, though most indicate focus on using cross-platform to drive volume, not price.

The Digital Pricing Study was developed as a benchmark to explore the impact of online ad intermediaries on ad rates, profitability and ad inventory management for media companies (publishers). The study methodology included executive interviews and in-depth analysis of proprietary company data, including direct, ad network and cross-platform sales, pricing (CPMs) and impressions volume for seven leading online media publishers. The selection criteria included having leading brands, publishing premium content, and selling advertising on a national basis. To view the complete study, please go to www.iab.net/digital_pricing_research

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MIXX 2008 Attracts Influential Lineup of Speakers, To Explore Transformation of the Media Industry

Friday, 12. September 2008

The IAB announced the full lineup of participants in this year’s MIXX (Marketing and Interactive Excellence) Conference and Expo, the Official Interactive Event of Advertising Week 2008 and the preeminent annual gathering of the interactive industry. Energizing this year’s event is a new theme, “Invention and Reinvention.” This fresh direction for MIXX 2008 spotlights the constant state of creation and evolution required of business leaders in today’s rapidly changing digital landscape.

Speakers are a “who’s who” of top marketers, advertising agency executives, publishers and industry gurus including:

• Deborah Meyer, Vice President and CMO, Chrysler LLC
• Tim Armstrong, President, Advertising and Commerce, North America and Vice President, Google Inc.
• David Kenny Chairman & CEO, Digitas (A Publicis Company)
• Michael Linton, SVP & CMO eBay, Inc.
• Young-Bean Song, Director of Analytics & Atlas Institute, Microsoft Advertising
• Henry Blodget, Editor, Silicon Alley Insider
• Jacqueline Corbelli, Chairman & CEO, Brightline iTV Marketing Specialists
• Clay Shirky, Writer, Consultant, and Teacher on New Media and the Internet
• Charlie Rose, Emmy Award-winning journalist and host of the Charlie Rose Show
• Leslie Moonves, President and CEO, CBS Corporation
• Andrew Robertson, President and CEO, BBDO Worldwide

“This year’s MIXX captures the feverish pace of transformation happening in the media world today,” said IAB president and CEO Randall Rothenberg. “The interactive industry’s continual innovation forces each of us to evolve and change how we do business—media companies now behave like advertising agencies and marketers act like media companies. And MIXX this year will share the very best thinking from all parties in the ecosystem on how to reach and engage consumers today, which is truly our single biggest combined challenge.”

In addition to the lineup of keynotes, panels, breakout sessions, industry forecasts and an exhibit hall filled with an all-star line-up of vendors, MIXX 2008 offers its attendees an unrivaled opportunity to learn from senior marketers who will share case studies from across a variety of emerging platforms.
• How does a top advertising agency decipher the ad network landscape for its biggest clients?
• Internet Television: It’s not the future, it’s the present and the industry’s leaders will share how to do it right.
• Gaming: Reaching and engaging the toughest audiences
• The NHL and Dodge,: Learn how two giant brands converged interactively for a fully integrated digital video campaign.
• The Next Big Thing: See a series of rapid-fire demonstrations from companies on the bleeding edge of the interactive revolution.

For a full list of confirmed speakers and information on how to register, please visit www.mixx-expo.com.

The event takes place on September 22-23 at the Crowne Plaza Times Square and will culminate with the 2008 MIXX Awards Gala on the evening of September 23.

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Randall Rothenberg Testimony Before the House Small Business Committee

Friday, 12. September 2008

TESTIMONY BEFORE THE
SUBCOMMITTEE ON REGULATIONS, HEALTHCARE AND TRADE
HEARING ON “THE IMPACT OF ONLINE ADVERTISING ON SMALL FIRMS”
SMALL BUSINESS COMMITTEE
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 2008
BY
RANDALL ROTHENBERG
PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF THE
INTERACTIVE ADVERTISING BUREAU


Chairman Gonzalez, Ranking Member Westmoreland, and members of the Subcommittee – thank you very much for inviting me to testify on the impact of online advertising on small firms. I am the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), the trade association for ad-supported interactive media in the United States. IAB’s more than 375 members account for about 86 percent of the interactive advertising sold in the U.S. Our members include the great names of the online and offline media world – Google, Yahoo, AOL, MSN, The New York Times, Time Inc., CBS, and Walt Disney among them. However, 61 percent of our members are businesses with revenues of less than million.

I. SCOPE OF INTERACTIVE ADVERTISING

Last year, together, these publishers sold more than billion in interactive ads, according to research conducted for IAB by the consulting firm Price Waterhouse Coopers. To put that in perspective, that means that interactive, as an advertising medium, now is larger than outdoor, magazines, and radio.

Evidence suggests that much of this ad spending is coming from small businesses. Research by the consulting firm Booz & Co. for the IAB, the Association of National Advertisers, and the American Association of Advertising Agencies shows that 40 percent of IAB members’ revenues comes from local businesses. Analyses by the trade publication Advertising Age shows that in 2007, the top 100 advertisers in the United States allocated 67 percent of their ad spending to television – nearly twice what they allocated to interactive advertising.

This will undoubtedly change, with marketers large and small continuing to devote more of their advertising budgets to interactive media. Several respected industry analysts, such as the Veronis Suhler Stevenson private equity firm, project that by the year 2011, interactive ad spending will reach billion annually, surpassing newspapers to become the largest advertising medium in this country.

Why is growth so robust? From an advertiser’s perspective, there are probably two primary reasons. First, interactive is a medium that can do it all. Marketers have described the process of attracting and retaining consumers with an image they call “the purchase funnel.” At the top of this funnel is the need to generate awareness, for which purpose marketers traditionally turned to mass media like broadcast television and national magazines. After awareness, they want consumers to consider their product, and then to try the product. These typically would involve more specialized media – an automotive magazine, say, or a coupon offering 25 percent off this week only. Then, to generate loyalty among people who have purchased their products, marketers will turn to direct mail, loyalty programs, and customer-relationship management system.

In interactive, one medium, one distribution channel, can fulfill these multiple needs. If an ad makes a consumer aware of something in which he or she is interested, with one click the consumer can literally reach into that ad to learn more about the product or service. Another click will allow him or her to download a brochure. Another click might elicit a trial coupon.

Equally important is the range of creative opportunities available to advertisers in interactive media. To me, the most miraculous aspect of the interactive medium is that it can combine all media, at costs a fraction of those incurred when using offline media. Virtually any Web site can offer its advertisers digital video, audio podcasts, vivid display advertising, or direct-marketing loyalty programs – and it can distribute them around the block, or across the country. Thus, video advertising is now accessible to advertisers who cannot afford broadcast television; and photographically gorgeous displays ads are now obtainable by marketers who could never afford to advertise in national magazines.

This ability to engage with consumers at every step of the purchase funnel is a major factor in advertisers’ attraction to the digital media. Neil Ashe, the CEO of IAB member company CNET, calls interactive “the ‘yes’ medium.” Can it generate awareness? Yes. Can it promote preference? Yes. Can it induce trial? Yes.

The second reason for advertisers’ attraction to interactive is their ability to measure their return on investment. Perhaps the most famous criticism of conventional advertising was levied a century ago by Philadelphia department store magnate John Wanamaker, who said: “I know I waste half the money I spend on advertising; the problem is, I don’t know which half.” Yet because interactive media promote ongoing, two-way engagement among consumers, their media, and the advertising, it generates data on consumer interests, needs, and consumption patterns that makes advertising effectiveness far easier to measure. Because of interactive media, marketing can now be a full participant in the productivity revolution that has swept other areas of American business, and has allowed us to maintain our competitive position in the world economy.

The most important reason for the growth of interactive media and advertising is consumers. They like it – and they like it because, when done right, it is relevant to them. Consider paid search advertising, one of the most revolutionary tools in the history of marketing. Paid search advertising is like a Yellow Pages ad with a door in it. It’s delivered next to the results of searches you have made, so it’s directly relevant to your expressed interests. If you happen to be “in market” for a car, and you’ve just searched for “Ford hybrids,” what could be more pertinent than ads to the right of your search results from dealers near you that carry these vehicles?

Another marketing tool – equally revolutionary – is search engine optimization (SEO). This is the process of designing Web sites’ visuals and language to improve their position in search results, and thus the traffic that comes from those search results. For established marketers, SEO spending generally has come from public relations budgets, as has company Web site development itself. Many free tools and guides exist to help marketers with SEO: A search on MSN elicited more than 37 million results. Together, paid search and SEO is revolutionizing marketing for businesses large and small.

Another ground-breaking marketing tool is contextual advertising. It’s always existed, of course; an ad for a local dry-cleaner in a local newspaper is contextual. But because there are few barriers to entry in interactive media, context and location can be refined to degrees of specificity undreamed of – and economically impossible – in offline media. Thus, there has been a proliferation of sites tailored to all manner of peoples’ passions, with ads similarly aimed at their interests.

Interactive tools also allow advertisers to deliver advertising directed to a consumer’s expressed interests. That’s called behavioral advertising. If you’ve been researching Florida vacation spots, for example, you will receive relevant ads for resorts, airfare discounts, or restaurants, even after you’ve moved to sites not directly related to travel. Behavioral advertising, contextual advertising, and search advertising all are central to enhanced relevancy of interactive advertising.


II. CONSUMER BENEFITS OF INTERNET ADVERTISING

Interactive advertising provides consumers with significant benefits in the form of cost-free access to content and services. Interactive advertising underwrites:


• Quality online content (news, business, entertainment, maps). The majority of news-publishing firms have abandoned paid subscriptions and moved to business models whereby online advertising allows them to provide free content to millions of readers, unbounded by geographical constraints. However, online culture of “free” often outshines the reality that sustainable free content for the user has never been—and cannot be—really free. Content and service products are costly and time consuming to create and maintain, and if not subsidized by subscriptions, require alternative forms of monetization, the chief of which at present is advertising revenue. The centrality of this value exchange is fundamental to the success of today’s internet.

• Education and information-gathering tools, including search engines, have unquestionably democratized the availability and accessibility of educational content. Hundreds of millions of consumers perform billions of searches through search engines annually. The largest search engines on the Internet are free to users and supported almost exclusively by advertising.

• Communications and other online services (for example, e-mail, chat and telephone services; resume services and job banks; enhanced classified services; video and photo storage and sharing) depend on advertising for their revenue. The example of video sharing illustrates this point: In November 2007, 138 million Americans (over 75 percent of U.S. Internet users) watched almost 9.5 billion videos online, all for free, because of advertising. Email is another example that highlights this exchange: There are an estimated one billion users of free, ad-supported email services in the world today. Then there’s self-expression: There are more than 112 million blogs worldwide, providing every Internet user a free outlet to voice their opinion and create useful content for others; in the U.S., as of July 2006, some 12 million American adults – about eight percent of the American population – were publishing their own blogs, which were being read by 57 million others, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project..

• Social networking and professional networking environments. Free social networking and online-networking sites alone had more than 86.6 million users as of December 2007, according to Nielsen Online. Most of these sites are ad-supported.

• Online safety tools, such as anti-spam and antivirus protection.

• Competitive pricing and product comparison tools.


III. SMALL BUSINESS BENEFITS OF ONLINE ADVERTISING

As I suggested before, the 20 to 30 percent year-on-year growth that the interactive advertising has been experiencing for the past several years has been fueled by the recognition that consumers are spending more and more of their time with digital media. The consumer benefits have also created benefits for business, with a disproportionately positive impact on small businesses.

Thousands of businesses of all sizes have achieved more efficient marketing of goods and services through targeted online advertising. According to Pew, 32 million American adults have used online classified ads for selling or buying. Online advertising has created regional markets out of local markets, and national markets out of regional markets. Items once sold in local garage sales and pawn shops are now available nationally and internationally via advertised interactive auctions, in which some 40 million Americans participate annually. eBay, the best known auction site, says more than 768,000 small businesses across the U.S. use this online marketplace as their primary or secondary marketing channel. More than 1.3 million people supplement their income by selling materials on eBay.

Around this enormous market of small, consumer-facing companies and business-to-business providers has grown a vast ecosystem of small service providers. A Web search on “search engine optimization agencies” garners 586,000 responses. “Web hosting services” elicits 21 million possibilities – 312,000 of them in Long Island, where I live.

There are also the small interactive publishers – the men and women across the U.S. who have turned their passions into ad-supported content sites for niche audiences. In its testimony at the Federal Trade Commission’s November 2007 “town hall,” IAB highlighted the experience of one such site, askthebuilder.com in Cincinnati, Ohio. It was founded and remains solely owned and operated by Tim Carter, a former contractor, who more than quadrupled his earnings in his first year publishing an advertising-supported web site. We are proud to join Mr. Carter on the panel today.

These small sites exist in large part because of online advertising networks consisting of hundreds, thousands, even tens of thousands of independently-owned sites. These networks are the internet version of the broadcast radio and television networks with which we grew up; they have technological infrastructures that can get contextual and behavioral advertising and ad revenue to these small sites, wherever they are located, just as the offline networks guided ad revenue to local affiliates. There is, however, one crucial difference: Instead of delivering the same programming – and for the most part the same ads from the same giant marketers — at the same time across groups of local affiliates, online networks allow myriad voices to flourish, serving myriad interests and needs, in the tiniest nooks and crannies of our culture.

These small publishers represented by online networks are often called “the long tail” of the Internet. Along with the advertising innovations I noted earlier, this “long tail” represents a remarkable change in the business environment: These thousands of small sites and the marketing services that infuse them enable small businesses of all sorts to flourish anywhere and everywhere.

Statisticians have long known that some markets were characterized by “long tail” economics. As explained in Wikipedia, the distribution and inventory costs of some businesses allow them to realize significant profits out of selling small volumes of hard-to-find items to many customers, instead of only selling large volumes of a reduced number of popular items. The group of persons that buy the hard-to-find or “non-hit” items is the customer demographic called the Long Tail.

As you might imagine, running such a business is hard. First, you have to find your long tail market. Second, you have to communicate to it. Third, you have to deliver goods to it. This could be expensive and lonely in a country as large as ours, where national television is prohibitively expensive, direct mail a costly and risky venture, and specialty magazines usually quite limited in their reach.

Enter the Internet – where anyone with an enthusiasm can create a Web site, offer niche content, and carry segmented ads, with the applications already available on their laptop computers or online.

The tools and services I mentioned earlier – search engines, contextual advertising, behavioral advertising, multiple creative formats, and online networks — are the enablers that have made this long tail of small publishing businesses a boon to an equally long tail of consumer-facing marketing businesses. As Wired magazine editor Chris Anderson describes it, “New efficiencies in distribution, manufacturing, and marketing [are] changing the definition of what [is] commercially viable across the board… The story of the Long Tail is really about the economics of abundance – what happens when the bottlenecks that stand between supply and demand in our culture start to disappear, and everything becomes available to everyone.”

This is not fanciful Silicon Valley theory; it is established, invigorating fact. Take the landscape of small publishers and their audiences. No one knows how many there are in the U.S., but here’s a sample gathered by the ThinkPanmure equity research firm. The 24/7 Real Media network sells and places ads for 1,000 Web sites. The Blue Lithium Network, owned by Yahoo, reaches 119 million unique U.S. users through 1,000 publisher sites. Burst Media has 4,200 ad-supported sites in its network. Tacoda, a network acquired last year by AOL, delivers behavioral ads to half the U.S. population, across 4,500 sites. The Adbrite auction-based ad marketplace represents 19,000 Web publishers.

In contrast, the National Association of Broadcasters last year numbered 1170 television stations – the majority affiliated with one-size-fits-all broadcast networks. The long tail Web publishers, with the businesses they help support through the advertising they carry, represent the real diversity of America.

Importantly, the online networks not only enable small businesses to communicate to niche communities through small sites; they allow large brand marketers to reach narrow communities as well, contributing to an unprecedented democratization of the media landscape.

How diverse are these publishers? We don’t have a census of the whole, so anecdote evidence will have to suffice. I asked my IAB team and some of the networks among our membership for examples of their favorite small, ad-supported publishers. Interestingly, many of them are mothers who are using interactive tools and services to develop home-based businesses around their passions. Here are a few examples:

• Baristanet.com is a community site started by three local women for the area of northern New Jersey where I grew up. Its advertisers include a local hospital, Montclair Family Dentistry, and Dial Pest Control of Roseland.
• Dooce.com is a blog started by a stay-at-home mother in Salt Lake City, who was the valedictorian of the Class of 1993 at Bartlett High School in Memphis, Tennessee. She carries ads from the Disney Vacation Club and Verizon.
• Bakeorbreak.com is run by a woman in northeast Mississippi, who subtitles her Web publication “Adventures of an Amateur Baker.” It’s filled with recipes, sells cookbooks, and carries ads for M&M’s, Perdue chicken, and Bertolli olive oil. Some of those ads are sold by Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, an example of the growing symbiosis between small and large publishers on the Web.
• Here are three political sites that cover the spectrum of opinion. Many of you know Dailykos.com, the famous liberal political blog; look closely, and you’ll see that it’s supported by ads, many of them placed by the Google Adsense network, from PBS, the online t-shirt maker Café Press, and others. Latino Issues, by contrast, is a conservative Latino blog, with some ads also sold by Google. Its advertisers include the dating service LatinoAmericanCupid.com. And Confederate Yankee is an ad-supported site, via the Pajama Network, that’s a hybrid of conservative and liberal, Northeast and Southeast sentiments and values: Advertisers include Omaha Steaks and FTD, the floral company.
• Womenslacrosse.com is the central meeting place for women who participate in the oldest American sport. It’s a family business run by founder and CEO Cathy Samaras of Annapolis, Maryland, and its advertisers include the Kaplan test preparation company, and the Bowie Baysox Class AA minor league baseball team.
• Scienceblogs.com is a collection of 90 ad-supported science sites covering fields from neurophilosophy to quantum mechanics to tetrapod zoology. Its offices are in LA, Washington, New York, London, Munich, and Shanghai, but its bloggers come from all over: Iowa, Colorado, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Virginia, among other places. Its advertisers include PerkinElmer and Dow Chemical.
• AfricanSisters.com was formed in 1999 in Garland, Texas by a group of black women to help women of color build businesses, increase employment and build revenue. Its advertisers include the iGourmet.com “tea-of-the-month club,” Crockpot cookery, and Kmart.

This is just a tiny sample of the breadth of the diversity of publishers. I suggest trying this exercise yourself: Go on to your favorite search engine, and plug in any phrase that might describe a passion, a hobby, an interest group, or a constituency. As you surf through the results, you will find many examples of ad-supported interactive publishers and small retailers serving these microscopic communities. They are in every state; they are probably in all 435 Congressional districts, and they exist because advertising supports free Web design, distribution, and marketing services.


IV. THE IMPORTANCE OF NOT OVER REGULATING THE INTERNET

This rich, diverse, and competitive marketplace is the backdrop against which Congress should weigh any policy questions with respect to this marketplace.

I believe it’s vital that our Government’s leaders understand the importance of this interactive marketing and media ecosystem to small business development across the United States. A small but vocal coterie of forces opposed generally to marketing, advertising, and open media markets is attempting to advocate to limit the technology responsible for this internet advertising revolution.

Although these advocacy groups have provided no evidence of public harm, their efforts have begun resulting in regulatory proposals which, if enacted, would severely hinder the ability of small publishers to support themselves with advertising sales, and impair the ability of small businesses to use interactive advertising to market themselves.

The most unfortunate aspect of these proposals is that they are utterly unnecessary. The IAB and its members vigorously support the principle of consumer control over their media consumption. Indeed, consumer control is one of the fundamental reasons interactive media have grown so quickly in popularity. And consumers have all the tools they need to control all forms of data collection in online media and advertising.

Every Internet user already has a robust opt out tool at their disposal: Through their Web browsers, they are able to block cookies before they are downloaded. Moreover, web browser filters allow the user to choose their desired level of blocking, whereby they can block all cookies, block only third-party cookies, or be notified each and every time before a cookie is placed (thereby making a case-by-case decision). Existing consumer controls located in the browser are particularly effective in this arena. One recent study showed that as many as 42 percent of Internet users cleaned out their cookies weekly. This type of tool along with tools that will be developed in the future provide the best means of consumer control over the totality of their Internet experience.

Thank you for considering the views of IAB on these issues. The success of the Internet has helped fuel this country’s economy and it is important to ensure that this medium can continue to grow and thrive. No segment of our economy will reap greater benefits from a robust internet advertising industry than small businesses.

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IAB President Randall Rothenberg Testifies at House Small Business Committee Hearing

Friday, 12. September 2008


Randall Rothenberg, President and CEO of the Interactive Advertising Bureau testified as an expert witness about the critical role that Internet advertising plays for small businesses in the U.S. economy during the U.S. House of Representatives Small Business Committee Subcommittee on Regulations, Healthcare and Trade hearing.

The IAB is the trade association for the interactive media industry in the United States. It represents hundreds of small interactive publishers and provides a voice for them in Washington, D.C. on important legislative and regulatory issues.

“Small business Web sites are the Mom & Pop grocery stores of the World Wide Web. Just as the local retailer anchors a geographic community, these sites anchor communities of interest that span towns, cities, states, even nations,” stated Rothenberg. “They do this with their content and they finance their content through advertising.”

Interactive advertising revenues totaled more than billion in 2007 and were estimated at .8 billion in the first quarter of 2008, up 18.2 % over the same period in 2007. Small companies’ share of online ad spending in search engines is more than double the share of medium or large companies, according to the research firm Outsell, Inc. Research done by the consulting firm Booz & Co. for the IAB, the Association of National Advertisers, and the American Association of Advertising Agencies shows that 40% of IAB members’ revenues comes from local businesses.

According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project, more than 32 million American adults have used online classified ads for selling or buying. eBay, the best known auction site, says 768,000 small businesses across the U.S. use this online marketplace as their primary or secondary marketing channel. There are more than 112 million blogs worldwide; in the U.S., as of July 2006, some 12 million American adults, about 8% of the American population, were publishing their own blogs, which were being read by 57 million others, according to Pew.

“Millions of people are making their livings creating and operating Web venues that house well-targeted advertisements, but these entrepreneurs are being threatened by the specter of unnecessary government regulation that would destroy or severely limit their ability to advertise their wares and services online,” said Rothenberg.

Proposals are currently before the United States Congress and several state legislatures that would constrain online advertising. “The IAB believes that the proposed regulations would have a disproportionately negative impact on small publishers whose advertising sales are largely or entirely managed by ad networks, and that government must be prudent in ensuring that no regulation is drawn that would curtail interactive advertising’s potential to continue to support small business owners,” Rothenberg said.

Recently, the IAB opened a new class of membership for small interactive publishers that offers small publishers special pricing for IAB events, training programs, access to networking events around the country, business insurance and protection programs, and membership to IAB’s new Small Publisher Committee.


Read Randall Rothenberg’s testimony before the House Small Business Committee.

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The IAB Launches Revised Ad Unit and Rich Media Creative Guidelines

Friday, 12. September 2008

The IAB announced the release of Revised Ad Unit  and Rich Media Creative  Guidelines. By providing the industry with a common minimum set of creative specifications, these revised guidelines help simplify the online ad buying process.


The guidelines:



  • Address minimum guidelines for common ad formats and sizes such as banners and buttons as well as transitional and various over-the-page units such as floating ads, page take-overs and tear-backs;

  • Define rich media as separate from basic animated ads by requiring interaction aside from the ability to click-through;

  • Cover ads delivered into standard web environments including email and static and dynamic web pages; and

  • Update the minimum file sizes of the 2002 Universal Ad Package (found at www.iab.net/UAP)

“These guidelines expand upon the seminal work begun with the Universal Ad Package and give interactive publishers even more opportunity to provide marketers with innovative solutions that engage consumers,” said Randall Rothenberg, President and CEO of the IAB. “Publisher compliance with the IAB guidelines sends a clear signal to marketers that the industry is continuing to simplify the ad-buying process.”


“The IAB Rich Media and Ad Unit Guidelines are vital to developing consistency within our industry, as well as fostering relationships between publishers and clients regarding creative submission and creative acceptance,” said Shell Saras, Creative Services Manager, weather.com. “As an industry, if we focus on adhering to initiatives like these guidelines, marketers and clients will have a creative specification resource that is consistently accepted throughout the marketplace.”


Simultaneous with the release of the guidelines, the IAB launched today a compliance program for interactive publishers who adhere to the Rich Media Creative requirements. Publishers will display an IAB Rich Media Creative Compliance Seal on their websites and will also be listed on the IAB website. To date, 32 companies are already compliant with the guidelines. For a complete list of those companies, go to: www.iab.net/Rich_Media_Compliant.

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IAB Launches Revenue Cycle Best Practices

Friday, 12. September 2008

The IAB announced the release of “Revenue Cycle Best Practices,” a document that recommends a series of internal controls and processes for publishers aimed at increasing efficiency and effectiveness in the online advertising revenue cycle. This is the fourth in a series of documents that are part of an IAB-led industry initiative to increase operational efficiencies within the interactive advertising ecosystem. “Revenue Cycle Best Practices” was created by the IAB’s CFO Council, and is comprised of financial professionals representing 46 leading interactive companies.

Key recommendations from the document include:

• Specific processes for obtaining internal pricing approval

• Advice to publishers that they closely monitor open receivables that are more than 60 days overdue and that they recommend actions to their sales teams for collections

• Implementation of appropriate controls along the insertion-order process to ensure proper execution

• Regular meetings between collections teams and Ad Sales Management.

“The work that we’ve done collectively as an industry in streamlining many areas of the advertising supply chain is important for the growth of interactive advertising,” said Randall Rothenberg, president and CEO of the IAB. “By working with our members to enhance operational efficiencies, we deliver on the promise of an extraordinary medium that is transforming consumers’ lives.”


“This document provides guidance on how to improve our internal and external communications. This will not only increase productivity, prevent costly errors and decrease the amount of time it takes to collect payment but it also improves customer satisfaction. It ultimately means more revenue for the company,” said Christie Lay, Senior Credit Manager, Microsoft Corporation and one of the working group members who participated in the document’s creation.


The “Revenue Cycle Best Practices” document along with the other three documents in the series—“Billing Methods Best Practices,” “On-time Delivery Toolkit” and “Campaign Setup Best Practices”—can be found at www.iab.net/revenue_cycle.

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"A Mobile Advertising Overview" Released by IAB

Friday, 12. September 2008

The IAB announced the release of “A Mobile Advertising Overview,” a document that demystifies the mobile platform and showcases it as a vital and growing medium for interactive advertising. It is the first report issued by the IAB on the mobile advertising platform and outlines a broad spectrum of opportunities for marketers and agencies as more and more of them utilize this emerging platform.


 The document:
• Educates media companies, agencies, marketers and users about how advertising is currently implemented within the mobile platform
• Explores the mobile platform as a viable part of the interactive advertising ecosystem
• Includes case studies of mobile advertising campaigns designed to assist marketers and agencies in campaign execution.


 “The recent growth of mobile advertising clearly illustrates how quickly we are moving to a three-screen universe,” said Randall Rothenberg, President and CEO of the Interactive Advertising Bureau. “This report outlines the opportunity for marketers and agencies to reach increasingly mobile consumers giving them information when they want and where they want—this is no longer the future but the here and now.”


 “This was the IAB Mobile Committee’s first major initiative and we are proud to have created a comprehensive guide for marketers, agencies and publishers on the mobile platform,” said Gary Schwartz, CEO, Impact Mobile and Co-Chair of the IAB Mobile Committee. “Mobile is changing the way consumers interact with advertising and once they get accustomed to it there is no going back.”


On July 21, the IAB will host a Leadership Forum on Mobile Advertising in New York City, where industry leaders, including marketers and agencies, will explore the opportunities and innovations of this dynamic medium.


To download the full report, please go to www.iab.net/mobileplatform.

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MIXX Awards 2008 Reach Record Number of Entries, Secure Their Place as Premier Interactive Advertising Recognition

Friday, 12. September 2008

The IAB announced that submissions to the fourth annual MIXX Awards hit record levels, surpassing 2007’s entries by nearly 40 percent. Since their founding in 2005, the MIXX Awards, the only advertising awards to recognize creativity and effectiveness, have evolved into the most prestigious interactive advertising award and have attracted a distinguished cross-section of the world’s top brands and agencies.


• This year’s entries include submissions from hundreds of agencies—“native digital” shops and large traditional ones as well.


• These agencies have submitted the work they have done on behalf of their clients who encompass every major vertical industry—including blue-chip brands, luxury products and services, pharmaceuticals, automotive, financial, consumer packaged goods , entertainment and technology.


• The campaigns will be evaluated in 18 categories by a cross-industry panel of judges that includes senior executives from agencies, publishers, and marketing organizations deliberating together—an industry first.


“The sheer quantity of submissions and the caliber of the marketers and agencies represented is a testament to the increasingly critical role that interactive advertising plays in marketers’ media plans,” said Randall Rothenberg, president and CEO of the IAB, the trade association for interactive media in the United States. “To think that this awards show is only in its fourth year and has already attained levels of submissions that are on a par with long established shows is nothing short of a revolution—showing how far interactive advertising has come. Now the real excitement begins as our judges see which work among this extraordinary lineup will make it to the final round.”


Winners of the IAB’s 2008 MIXX Awards will be announced at a ceremony in New York City on September 23, near the start of Advertising Week, a gathering of the media and marketing industries that typically draws 10,000 professionals to conferences, seminars, recruiting events, and parties celebrating advertising and its evolution. The host for this year’s MIXX Awards is one of the industry’s keenest observers and practitioners, Rob Norman, Group M CEO, whose regular riffs on all things interactive have made him the natural emcee for the evening’s ceremonies.


Last year’s MIXX Award winners included many of the most prominent brand marketers in the United States, including Anheuser Busch, American Airlines, The Coca-Cola Company, BMW, Royal Caribbean, Showtime and Unilever, as well as leading agencies such as Universal McCann, Ogilvy, McKinney, Digitas, BBDO and Mindshare. In 2007, the gala’s ultimate honor, Best in Show, went to Goodby, Silverstein, and Partners, San Francisco, for its super-rich media campaign for Hewlett-Packard, “The Computer is Personal Again.”


For more information and to view the complete gallery of the 2007 MIXX Finalists, please visit: www.mixx-awards.com/gallery.

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The IAB Issues Ad Campaign Measurement Process Guidelines for Public Comment

Friday, 12. September 2008

The IAB announced the public comment release of “Ad Campaign Measurement Process Guidelines,” a document that addresses the process of a publisher’s or advertising agency’s use of a third-party ad server and its application service provider. The guidelines supplement current measurement guidelines and provide definitions and guidance on the auditing of processes used in the placement, trafficking and reporting of interactive advertising. The document is the result of a consensus of participating auditing organizations and the IAB.

This document will:

• Help the IAB, publishers and ad agencies further establish transparency and consistency in the area of ad measurement through certification by having all phases of ad serving put through a technology, process and data audit

• Provide a Self-Assessment Questionnaire that allows publishers, third-party ad servers and agencies to perform a self-assessment of their compliance using controls outlined in the document and meant to help the industry reduce discrepancies.

“As an industry, we are providing marketers with the most powerful, accountable and cost effective way to reach consumers,” said Randall Rothenberg, president and CEO of the IAB. “To continue to deliver on this promise, we must establish methods that reduce discrepancies in the buying process of interactive advertising—we’ve made great strides by bringing these guidelines to fruition.”

“The IAB’s work both with its members and the auditing organizations in completing this document is a critical step in solving the ongoing challenges of media measurement discrepancies,” said George Ivie, President of the Media Rating Council. “Our research has found that human error plays a material role in large impression discrepancies and these guidelines, when followed, will assist in reducing those errors and improve overall efficiencies in the measurement process.”

After the 30-day comment period, ending on September 10, the feedback will be reviewed and the guidelines will be finalized and publicly released.

To review the complete document, please go to, www.iab.net/campaign_measurement_process  

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IAB Announces the Release of "Vast," a Digital Video Ad Serving Template, for Public Comment

Friday, 12. September 2008

To meet the need for standardization in the expanding digital video landscape, the Interactive Advertising Bureau released a “Digital Video Ad Serving Template” (VAST), designed to standardize communication protocol between video players and servers.

VAST will allow companies to build digital video players and video ad servers that have the same interfaces and speak the same standard language. Publishers who use the standard will be able to plug into multiple third-party digital video ad servers and networks without additional development and therefore enable a powerful tool for improving yield.

This document:

• Defines a standard ad response for in-stream video
• Provides specifications that are compatible with any video player framework
• Includes guidance for most on-demand video players (i.e., Adobe’s Flash, Microsoft’s Windows Media Player and Real Player)
• Includes accommodations for linear video and interactive ads (e.g.“pre-roll”) as well as non-linear ads such as clickable overlays as described in the IAB Digital Ad Format Guidelines

“Digital video is one of the most exciting platforms to emerge within the interactive advertising ecosystem,” said Randall Rothenberg, president and CEO of the IAB. “VAST is a critical industry accomplishment because it lays out a much-needed mechanism for standardization in one of the hottest areas of interactive advertising.”

“VAST allows for standardized communication between ad servers and players which is essential as more and more marketers embrace digital video as a key element of their interactive media plans and publishers wish to maximize yield on their video inventory,” said Ari Paparo, Group Product Manager, Advertiser Products of Google.


The public comment period will last until September 10, 2008. The feedback will then be reviewed and the document will be finalized and publicly released.

To review the complete document, please go to: www.iab.net/vast.

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Anfang Juli startet die GfK Panel Services mit dem Web Efficiency Panel (WEP) eine weltweit einzigartige Erhebungsmethode. In Zusammenarbeit mit der Suchmaschine Google und dem technischen Lösungsanbieter Nurago ermöglicht es die GfK Werbetreibenden, Vermarktern und Agenturen erstmals die Einkäufe von schnelllebigen Konsumgütern mit Online-Werbekampagnen in Verbindung zu bringen. Die Wirkung von Online-Werbung kann so detailliert nachgewiesen werden.

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+ Werbung in Socialnetworks: 87% fühlen sich nicht angesprochen

Sunday, 18. May 2008

Laut einer Studie von “Prospectiv” sind User offen auch für Werbung in socialnetworks, wenn sie zielgerichetet Ihre Interessen und Bedürfnisse trifft.

Die Untersuchung zeigte folgende Meinungen der Internetnutzer:

* Meist trifft Onlinewerbung die Interessen und Bedürfnisse der User (13 p%)
* Nur selten trifft Onlinewerbung die Interessen und Bedürfnisse der User (58%)
* Überhaupt keine Werbung trifft diese (29 %)

Am meisten würden die User folgende Werbearten bevorzugen, die Ihnen einen klaren Vorteil bringen:

* Coupons und Angebote (62%)
* E-newsletters mit Coupons, Angeboten und Tipps zu favorisierten Marken (24 %)
* Einladungen zu anderen interaktiven Gruppen, Foren und Socialnetworks (14 %

Quelle und weiter: http://www.prospectiv.com/

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+ IVW Onlineranking April 08

Friday, 9. May 2008

Die Top10 nach Anzahl der Seitenabrufe:

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Die zehn Top-Performer aus den Top100 Seiten:

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Quelle und weiter: http://www.ivw.eu/

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+ Ausgaben für Onlinewerbung?

Thursday, 17. April 2008

Zwei Verbände – zwei Meinungen. Die Branchenverbände Bitkom und BVDW sind sich uneins über die Höhe der Internet-Werbespendings für das Jahr 2007. Die Abweichungen sind erheblich. Laut Bitkom lagen die Ausgaben bei ca. 980 Mio. EUR, beim vermarkternahen Verband BVDW bei 2,8 Mrd. Ein Grund liegt in unterschiedlichen Messmethoden. Der BVDW legt Listenpreise zu Grunde, Bitkom schätzt Nettoerlöse, d.h. Umsätze nach Rabatten und Agenturprovisionen.

Links:
www.bvdw.org
www.bitkom.de

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+ Socialnetworks und user-generated-content Seiten verlieren

Tuesday, 11. March 2008

Während erwartungsgemäß aufgrund der Start der Fußballbundesliga-Rückrunde die beiden bekanntesten Sportseiten stark zulegten, verloren Socialnetworks an Attraktivität. SudiVz und SchülerVZ verzeichneten einen Rückgang der Seitenaufrufe von 7 bzw. 12 Prozent. Unter den Top-100 trafficstärksten Seiten verloren nahezu alle Seiten mit mehrheitlich user-generated-content. Die meisten sogar zweistellig. Ausnahme waren hier clipfish.de, schuelerprofile.de, jux.de und eraffe.de. Aber auch hier waren die Zuwächse im einstelligen Bereich eher bescheiden.

Quelle: http://ivwonline.de/

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+ Zuwächse der Top-10 im Januar ‘08

Friday, 29. February 2008

Die 10 Websites mit den höchsten Steigerungsraten im Vergleich zum Vormonat ausgewählt aus den 100 trafficstärksten Websites in Deutschland sind laut IVW:

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Vorallem Reise-Websites konnten Ihre Nutzerzahlen stark erhöhen.

Quelle: http://www.ivw.eu/

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+ Werbung auf social-networks läuft nicht

Friday, 8. February 2008

Einem Bericht der businessweek zufolge lohnt sich Werbung auf social-networks nicht. Dies sagt jedenfalls Mark Seremet in Bezug auf Spreadshirt-Werbung auf MySpace. Die Nutzer seien immun gegen Bannerwerbung geworden.

http://www.businessweek.com/technology//content/feb2008/tc2008024_252834.htm?chan=technology_technology+index+page_top+stories

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Wie wird im Affiliate-Marketing bezahlt?

Thursday, 7. February 2008

Wie vergüten Werbetreibende im Affiliate-Marketing?
60% bezahlen bei Abverkauf (pay-per-sale)
24% für Genierung von Kaufinteressenten (pay-per-lead)
5% pay-per-click
11% hybride, mehrgleisige Modelle.

Quelle und weiter: Untersuchung von 100partnerprogramme.de gelesen auf iBusiness

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+ eCircle launcht neue Leadgenerierungs-Plattform brands2win

Tuesday, 5. February 2008

Anbieter von Software und Services für digitales Direktmarketing schafft für Markenunternehmen eine neue Qualität bei Adressdaten aus Online-Gewinnspielen

München, den 04. Februar 2008. Die eCircle AG, führender Anbieter von Software und Services für digitales Direktmarketing in Europa, launcht zum Jahresauftakt das neue Portal brands2win. Die Leadgenerierungs-Plattform kombiniert zum ersten Mal in Deutschland die Elemente eines Gewinnspiel-Portals mit denen der Online-Marktforschung. Markenunternehmen können daher über die Webseite weitaus genauere und detailliertere Konsumentendaten erheben, als mit klassischen Internet-Gewinnspielen. eCircle ist in Deutschland das erste Unternehmen, das mit dieser innovativen Methode, die bereits in den USA und Großbritannien erfolgreich angewendet wird, am Markt vertreten ist.

Das Konzept von brands2win ist ebenso einfach wie effektiv: Durch Beantwortung weniger gezielter und themenbezogener Fragen erhalten die angemeldeten Nutzer über www.brands2win.de Zugang zu einigen der attraktivsten Gewinnspiele im Netz. Jede Befragung wird dabei von einem Unternehmen gesponsert, das seinerseits Thema, Art und Umfang und damit die Profiltiefe der Fragen bestimmen kann. Diese Mini-Umfragen sind für die werbungtreibenden Unternehmen als standardisiertes Werbeformat flexibel buchbar; abgerechnet wird erfolgsabhängig, d.h. der Kunde zahlt nur die überstellten Datensätze und nicht die Einblendung des Gewinnspiels. Durch die Profilfragen erhalten Unternehmen wichtige Informationen über eine exakt definierte Zielgruppe und beispielsweise deren Kaufabsichten. Die gewonnenen Leads, die alle ihr explizites Einverständnis für die spätere Kontaktaufnahme durch das sponsernde Unternehmen gegeben haben, können in einem weiteren Schritt effizient per Email, postalisch oder telefonisch nachbereitet werden. eCircle Kunden wie z.B. Toshiba Europe und Buecher.de haben die neue Gewinnspiel Plattform bereits getestet.

“brands2win bietet Unternehmen aus allen Branchen eine effektive Möglichkeit aus qualifizierten Leads Neukunden zu gewinnen”, so Volker Wiewer, Vorstandsvorsitzender der eCircle AG. “Vorteil dieser Methode ist, dass unsere Auftraggeber durch gezielte Fragestellungen genau die Informationen über die Nutzer erhalten, die für den zielgerichteten Verkauf gerade von komplexen Produkten und Dienstleistungen, wie z.B. Versicherungen, Mobilfunkverträgen oder Computern entscheidend sind.”

Über die eCircle AG
Die eCircle AG ist einer der führenden Anbieter von Software und Services für digitales Dialogmarketing in Europa. eCircle bietet seinen Kunden – zu denen Marktführer wie z.B. die Deutsche Post, Thomas Cook, Aral, die Deutsche Telekom, Hamburg Mannheimer, SUN Microsystems oder UNICEF zählen – Lösungen aus einer Hand: leistungsfähige Software für den Versand von Newslettern oder E-Mail- / SMS-Kampagnen, buchbare E-Mail-Adressbestände für die Durchführung von Kampagnen und Adressgenerierung sowie umfangreiche Marktforschungs- und Beratungsdienstleistungen. eCircle wurde 1999 gegründet. Das Unternehmen beschäftigt heute mehr als 140 Mitarbeiter und ist mit eigenen Niederlassungen in den europäischen Kernmärkten Deutschland, Großbritannien, Frankreich und Italien vertreten.

Quelle: Pressemitteilung von eCircle

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+ Werbe-Fachmann warnt vor Web-2.0-Blase

Friday, 1. February 2008

Einige der Blütenträume des Web-2.0-Booms könnten bald platzen, fürchtet der Chef des großen Medienkonzerns WPP. Er hält die Werbe-Geschäftsmodelle bei …
Quelle und weiter: http://www.netzeitung.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/891439.html

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+ Vermarktbarkeit von Web2.0

Thursday, 31. January 2008

Ein aktuelles Interview mit Markus Frank, Microsofts Verkaufschef für Online-Werbung in Deutschland, über den Start von Facebook in Deutschland, den Datenschutz, die Nutzerprofile und warum ein Facebook-Nutzer doppelt so viel bringt wie ein StudiVZ-Nutzer ist auf faz.net zu lesen mit dem Titel: “Web 2.0 – das grenzt an Restplatzvermarktung”
http://faz-community.faz.net/blogs/netzkonom/archive/2008/01/31/quot-web-2-0-das-grenzt-an-restplatzvermarktung.aspx

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+ Bedeutsamkeit von PR- und Marketing-Maßnahmen im Gamingsektor

Thursday, 31. January 2008

Computerspiele stehen heutzutage mehr denn je im Fokus von Öffentlichkeit und Wissenschaft. Trotz der Forderung von Seiten kultureller Institutionen, bestimmte Spiele staatlich zu fördern, gibt es gegen das Medium Computer- und Videogames Vorbehalte. Ob gesellschaftlich mangelnde Akzeptanz, Killerspieldiskussionen oder Verschärfung von Jugendschutzbestimmungen, um den verschiedenen Vorbehalten entgegenzuwirken, sind die Anforderungen an die Öffentlichkeitsarbeit und ein darauf abgestimmtes Marketing besonders hoch. Sind sich die Marktteilnehmer im Gamingsektor der Bedeutsamkeit von PR-Maßnahmen bewusst und nutzen die Unternehmen diese? Woraus ergeben sich dabei die Chancen und Risiken für die Gamingbranche?

Zur Diskussion dieses Themas lädt eco im Rahmen des Arbeitskreises Games alle interessierten Branchenvertreter am 14. Februar nach Köln ein.
Quelle, Infos und Anmeldung: http://www.eco.de/arbeitskreise/2610_4083.htm

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+ Email-Marketing gewinnt 2008 weiter an Bedeutung.

Tuesday, 29. January 2008

Laut einer Befragung des New Yorker Dienstleisters Datranmedia unter 2.000 Marketingentscheidern werden die Investitionen in Emailmarketing in diesen Jahr ansteigen. http://success.datranmedia.com/research/2008survey.php

82 Prozent planen Ihre Ausgaben zu erhöhen, 15% werden sie in gleicher Höhe beibehalten.
Email-Marketing wird von 80% der Befragten eine hohe Performance zugesprochen, SEM 71% und Bannerwerbung 38%.

Quelle und weitere Infos: http://success.datranmedia.com/research/2008survey.php

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+ Online-Marketing: Mit Social Networking Sites zu neuen Kunden

Monday, 28. January 2008

Social Networking Plattformen bieten Unternehmen und Werbetreibenden die Möglichkeit, in einem genau auf ihre Kundenzielgruppe ausgerichteten Umfeld ihre Marke bekannt zu machen…
Ein Beitrag der Perspektive Mittelstand: Quelle und weiter:http://www.perspektive-mittelstand.de

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+ Vibrant Media bietet neues Werbeformat an

Monday, 28. January 2008

wie WuV berichetet erweitert Vibrant Media, Anbieter von Video- und In-Text-Onlinewerbung sein Angebot. Sobald ein Internetnutzer beim Surfen mit der Maus über einen entsprechend markierten Begriff fährt, erscheint eine Vibrant-Video-Anzeige.
Quelle: http://www.wuv.de/news/digbusiness/meldungen/2008/01/85189/index.php

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+ Emailmarketing

Friday, 25. January 2008

Bounce-Raten (“Rückläufer-Raten”) steigen, Öffnungsraten sinken.

Wie HighText iBusiness berichtete weist Email-Marketing oft Schwachstellen auf. Laut einer aktuellen Untersuchung des österreichischen EMail-Marketinganbieter eMarsys ist die Zahl der Bounces (Rückläufer) im EMail-Marketing im Jahr 2007 im Vergleich zu den Vorjahren signifikant gestiegen. Im B2B-Bereich von 3,14 im Jahr 2006 auf 4,65 in 2007, bei B2C-Mailings von 2,53 auf 2,8 Prozent.

Quellen und weiter: http://www.ibusiness.de/members/aktuell/db/257379SUR.html
und http://www.emarsys.de/de/start/index.php

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+ Google kooperiert mit Werbeagentur

Thursday, 24. January 2008

Wie Heise.de berichtet, will Google mit der weltweit operierenden Agenturgruppe Publicis bei der Weiterentwicklung digitaler Werbeformen zusammenarbeiten.
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/102299

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Studie: In-Stream Video-Ads verärgert User

Wednesday, 23. January 2008

Laut einer Studie von Burst Media, fühlen sich in den USA dreiviertel der Internet-User von Werbung in Web-Videos gestört, 50% brechen sogar ab.
The New York Times/paidContent.org

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Ein Video sagt mehr als 1000 Worte: Blog-Vermarkter Trigami ergänzt Produktpalette um Video-Reviews

Sunday, 20. January 2008

Basel (10.01.2008) – Blogger testen Produkte und berichten darüber – so funktioniert das Geschäftsprinzip von Trigami (http://www.trigami.com), das die Rezensionen vermittelt. Neben Blog-Einträgen in Textform bietet Trigami neu auch Videorezensionen, die von der Online-Community erstellt werden. So können Unternehmen für sich die Emotionalität von Video mit der Authentizität anwendergenerierter Inhalte kombinieren. Neu sind auch private Rückmeldungen durch Blogger und ausgebaute Beratungsdienstleistungen.

Video ist in; die Popularität von Plattformen wie YouTube oder Sevenload spricht Bände. Für Unternehmen stellt sich die Frage: Wie kann man diese Zielgruppen erreichen, ohne sich anzubiedern? Die Lösung liegt nahe: Indem man die Nutzer die Videos erstellen lässt.

Trigami hat ein Netzwerk von über 3.000 Bloggern im deutschsprachigen Raum aufgebaut und damit einen Zugang zu jenen, die das Web 2.0 aktiv mitgestalten. Sein bisheriges Produkt “Text-Reviews” ergänzt Trigami nun um “Video-Reviews”. Blogger testen die Produkte oder Dienstleistungen der Kunden von Trigami und berichten per Video über ihre Erfahrungen. Diese werden auf reichweitenstarken Plattformen wie YouTube veröffentlicht. Oder sie können in die Websites der Auftraggeber eingebaut werden.

Erfahrung aus 150 Blog-Marketing-Kampagnen

Im ersten Jahr seines Bestehens konnte Trigami in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz mehr als 150 Blog-Marketing-Kampagnen durchführen. Und so beweisen, dass eine fruchtbare Kooperation von Bloggern und Unternehmen möglich ist.

Die Grundüberlegung hinter Text-Reviews und Video-Reviews ist dieselbe: Mundpropaganda wird für das Marketing im 21. Jahrhundert immer wichtiger. Doch dazu müssen die neuen Meinungsmacher des Web 2.0, die Blogger, in die Unternehmens- und Marketingkommunikation mit einbezogen werden. So kann ein direkter, unverfälschter Dialog mit den relevanten Ansprechgruppen entstehen. Die Selektion und Filterung durch Journalisten, der klassische Flaschenhals bei den traditionellen Medien, fällt weg.

Blogger, die im Auftrag von Trigami ein Review schreiben, geniessen völlige Meinungsfreiheit. Ihre Blog-Beiträge werden entsprechend gekennzeichnet. So sind die Reviews glaubwürdig. Blogger sind mündige und kritische Konsumenten, die Produkte hinterfragen und sich konstruktiv einbringen. Dank der offenen Kommunikationskultur in Blogs erhalten Unternehmen wertvolle Rückmeldungen zu ihren Produkten und Dienstleistungen.

Privates Feedback von Meinungsmachern

Da die Gespräche in Blogs öffentlich stattfinden, erhöhen sie die Visibilität des Auftraggebers im Internet. Suchmaschinen indizieren Blogs schnell und gewichten die Beiträge hoch. So lenken Blog-Beiträge Aufmerksamkeit auf die besprochenen Produkte. Auftraggeber, die jedoch dem öffentlichen ein privates Feedback vorziehen, können mit dem Trigami-Produkt “Personal Feedback” mit über 3.000 Bloggern privat ins Gespräch kommen. So lässt sich unter Ausschluss der Öffentlichkeit ganz direkt der Puls von Meinungsmachern fühlen. Das ist Marktforschung 2.0.

Beratungsdienstleistungen ausgebaut

Der ständige Wandel des Web 2.0 hat neben vielen Chancen einen Haken: Es ist äusserst schwierig, den Überblick über aktuelle Trends im Internet zu behalten. Für erfolgreiche Web 2.0-Kampagnen braucht es viel Know-how und Fingerspitzengefühl, denn es herrschen eigene Gesetze und es lauern Fettnäpfchen.

Trigami stellt seine Erfahrung aus dem Blog-Marketing in Form von “Consulting”-Dienstleistungen nun direkt in den Dienst seiner Kunden. So hilft Trigami Online-Monitoring-Systeme aufzuziehen, Marktforschung im Web 2.0 zu betreiben, Reputationskrisen vorzubeugen, Corporate Blogs zu implementieren oder eine moderne Online-Strategie zu definieren. Mit diesen Beratungsdienstleistungen rundet Trigami sein Angebot ab und kann auch anspruchsvolle Projekte individuell betreuen.

Über Trigami
Trigami wurde im Januar 2007 von Alain Aubert und Remo Uherek gegründet, seit Juni 2007 ist das Unternehmen als Trigami AG im Handelsregister registriert. Trigami, verbindet die Welten der Blogger und der Marktwirtschaft, indem es Auftragsarbeiten vermittelt. Das Motto lautet: “Märkte sind Gespräche”. Als Vertreter der externen Investoren hat Peter Schüpbach Einsitz im Verwaltungsrat genommen. Seit dem Start haben sich über 500 Kunden und 3.000 Blogger auf der Plattform Trigami.com registriert. In 150 Blog-Marketing-Kampagnen für Kunden wie T-Mobile, Casio oder InterRail wurden 2.000 Produktbesprechungen publiziert.

Quelle: Pressemitteilung Trigami http://www.trigami.com/blog/2008/01/10/ein-video-sagt-mehr-als-1000-worte/

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Weight Watchers heuert Video-Blogger für virale Kampagne an

Friday, 18. January 2008

Esther Brady alias Starlite, eine 24-jährige Frau aus Milwaukee, betreibt seit 2 Jahren ihren Blog www.myspace.com/weightwatchers. Dort sind zwei Videos zu sehen, eines davon ist ein Spot der weight watchers Kampagne “Stop dieting, start living”. Im zweiten Beitrag beschreibt Starlite Ihr Leben mit Diät.

“Echte” Menschen schreiben über ihr Leben und über Produkte. Dies wirkt, zumindest wenn es geschickt gemacht ist, glaubhaft und authentisch.

Weiteres unter http://www.adweek.com/aw/creative/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003697639

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Google may lose ad spend to Facebook

Thursday, 17. January 2008

Der britische Telegraph unkt, dass die Werbebudgets von Suchmaschinen sich zugunsten von social-networks abschwächen werden:

“Google and its rival search engines may lose advertising pounds to sites such as Facebook and Bebo this year, as businesses shift their marketing focus to cash in on the social networking phenomena.

A new report, The Impact of Social Networking in the UK, claims that 2008 will see social networks improve their functionality, and in particular their ’search’ facilities.”

weiter und Quelle: >> hier

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affilinet weiterhin die Nummer 1

Tuesday, 15. January 2008

Affilinet liegt angeblich vor Zanox, adbutler und TradeDoubler.

(Ebersberg 9. Januar 2008) – Mit einer Steigerung seiner Programmangebote um nahezu 100 Prozent zeigt sich affilinet, der Spezialist für Affiliate-Marketing innerhalb der AdLINK Group, mit dem vergangenen Geschäftsjahr mehr als zufrieden. „Mit inzwischen über 1.200 Programmangeboten allein in Deutschland behauptet affilinet auch in 2007 seine führende Position auf dem deutschen Affiliate-Markt“, zeigt sich affilinet Geschäftsführer Christoph Röck zufrieden. Gleichzeitig setzen immer mehr Advertiser mit ihrem Affiliate-Programm exklusiv auf affilinet: „Der Trend unter den Advertisern geht eindeutig dahin, ihr komplettes Affiliate-Marketing exklusiv über affilinet abzuwickeln und vollständig auf die affilinet Services zu vertrauen“, erklärt Christoph Röck. „Auf diese Weise haben wir alle Möglichkeiten in einer Hand, die Publisher optimal zu betreuen und den Werbetreibenden die besten Konditionen zu bieten. Dieses Konzept zahlt sich für beide Seiten nachhaltig aus!“

„affilinet ist bereits seit zehn Jahren die Nr. 1 unter den deutschen Affiliate-Netzwerken. Und auch im vergangenen Jahr konnten wir unsere führende Position im deutschsprachigen Affiliate-Markt – mit einem vom OVK prognostizierten Marktvolumen von über 210 Millionen Euro – weiter festigen“, so Christoph Röck weiter. „Unseren namhaften Advertisern wie ADAC, ebay, Arcor, oder und den über 400.000 leistungsstarken affilinet Publishern werden wir auch künftig alle Möglichkeiten bieten, die Potenziale eines der margenstärksten Bereiche des digitalen Marketings effizient auszuschöpfen. Hierfür steht die von uns im Jahr 2007 eingeläutete neue Generation des Affiliate-Marketings, die wir mit zahlreichen Innovationen in 2008 sukzessive weiter umsetzen werden.“

Quelle: Auszug aus Pressemitteilung des Unternehmens

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DoubleClick launcht innovatives Reporting für komplexe Rich Media-Features

Tuesday, 15. January 2008

“Spotlight for Rich Media” analysiert Effekte einzelner Elemente von Rich Media-Werbemitteln auf Kaufabschlüsse. Neue Reporting-Funktion ermöglicht detaillierte Einblicke in die Effizienz von Rich Media-Kampagnen.

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Frankfurt, 14. Januar 2007 – DoubleClick, ein führender Anbieter von Marketinglösungen für Media-Agenturen, Medienunternehmen und Werbetreibende, kündigt heute den Launch von Spotlight for Rich Media an. Spotlight for Rich Media ist für DoubleClick ein wichtiger Meilenstein in der Entwicklung von Reporting-Tools. Dabei handelt es sich um den ersten Report von DoubleClick, der individuelle Rich Media-Messdaten wie z.B. Interaktionen, Einblendungen, multiple Click-Throughs und Videoabspielungen direkt mit den Abschlüssen, die auf einer Website getätigt werden, in Korrelation setzt. Mithilfe dieses Reports können Werbetreibende die Effekte von bestimmten grafischen und interaktiven Elementen von Rich Media-Kampagnen bewerten und dabei Erkenntnisse über das Verbraucherverhalten und die Optimierung von Kampagnen erhalten.

Auf den Landing-Pages der Kampagnen kommen Spotlight-Tags zum Einsatz, die die Messung von Abschlüssen ermöglichen. Zu den gemessenen Abschlussarten gehören u.a. der Bezahlvorgang im Warenkorb, Pageviews oder Newsletter-Anmeldungen. Spotlight-Tags sind beliebig konfigurierbar und ermöglichen ein Reporting über Abschlussmessdaten für Abschlüsse durch Post-Impressions- und Post-Klicks. Sie wurden entwickelt, um herauszufinden, welche Wirkung Werbeausgaben auf Abschlüsse haben, und um Abschluss-Ziele bei Suchmaschinen-, Display- und Rich Media-Kampagnen im Internet zu messen.

Angesichts der deutlichen Zunahme der Werbebudgets für Rich Media-Werbung wird es immer wichtiger, ein fundiertes Wissen über die Effizienz komplexer Rich Media-Werbung zu erhalten. Laut dem im Oktober 2007 von Forrester Research veröffentlichten Report „US Interactive Marketing Forecast, 2007 – 2012” wird Rich Media-Werbung bis zum Jahr 2012 auf 42 % des gesamten US-Markts für Online-Marketing ansteigen.

Spotlight for Rich Media wurde entwickelt, um das Verhältnis zwischen standardmäßigen oder benutzerdefinierten Rich Media-Messdaten und allen Formen von Spotlight-Abschlüssen zu ermitteln, ohne dass ein erneutes Tagging oder Veränderungen an den Rich Media-Werbemitteln nötig sind. Der Report benennt die Anzahl der Abschlüsse und den aktuellen Geldbetrag, der durch Videoanläufe, Videokomplettabspielungen, Einblendungen, Interaktionen oder individuelle Exit-Links (Klicks) erzielt wurde und ermöglicht ein kundenspezifisches, benutzerdefiniertes Reporting.

Quelle: Auszug aus Pressemeldung des Unternehmens

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permission-marketing

Friday, 11. January 2008

Neue Kategorie, in der Posts zum Thema Email-, Newsletter-Marketing, Adress- und Leadgenerierung und -nachbearbeitung geschrieben werden.

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Xing: personenbezogene Werbung auf den Profilseiten?

Monday, 7. January 2008

Mitteilung von XING über zielgenaue Werbung. Detailliertes Targeting wird angekündigt.

“Seit Samstag, den 05. Januar 2008, sind die Profilseiten von Premium-Mitgliedern generell frei von Werbung. Wir reagieren damit auf das anhaltende Feedback, wonach die Mehrheit unserer Premium-Mitglieder keine Werbung auf ihren Profilseiten für Basis-Mitglieder wünscht. Wir bedauern es sehr, dass wir die Situation falsch eingeschätzt haben. Dafür möchten wir uns bei Ihnen entschuldigen.

Die XING-Plattform ist somit für alle Premium-Mitglieder werbefrei. Dies betrifft sowohl die eigene Profilseite als auch die Nutzung der XING-Plattform an sich. Basis-Mitglieder sehen Werbeeinblendungen auf der Startseite, den Profilseiten von anderen Basis-Mitgliedern, den Such- und den Suchergebnisseiten sowie weiteren Seiten.

Warum hat XING Werbung für Basismitglieder eingeführt?
Neben den Mitgliedsbeiträgen (Premium-Mitgliedschaften) und E-Commerce (Marketplace und PremiumWorld) stellt Werbung eine weitere wichtige Ertragssäule dar. Warum ist das für Sie als Mitglied relevant? Sie haben sehr viel Zeit und Arbeit in den Aufbau und die Pflege Ihres Netzwerks und viele von Ihnen als Moderator in den Aufbau von Gruppen auf XING investiert. Auch XING investiert kontinuierlich in die Weiterentwicklung, Sicherheit und den Ausbau der Plattform, um Sie dabei effektiv zu unterstützen. Die Mehreinnahmen aus Werbung versetzen uns zusätzlich in die Lage, die Plattform noch schneller weiterzuentwickeln und Ihnen so noch mehr neue und innovative Features und Services anzubieten. Davon werden alle Mitglieder profitieren. So ist geplant, die Basis- als auch die Premium-Mitgliedschaft kontinuierlich aufzuwerten: Basis-Mitgliedern werden in Zukunft ausgewählte Features zur Verfügung stehen, die heute nur Premium-Mitgliedern vorbehalten sind, während wir für Premium-Mitglieder neben der Werbefreiheit weitere neue exklusive Services und Funktionen einführen werden.

Welche Daten werden für Werbung auf XING verwendet?
Wir planen, die Werbung für unsere Mitglieder so relevant wie möglich zu machen. Targeting – also die zielgruppengenaue Auslieferung von Werbung – gibt es derzeit noch nicht auf XING, ist aber für die Zukunft geplant. Die Auslieferung von Werbung wird anhand anonymisierter Merkmale wie z.B. Geschlecht, Stadt oder Alter erfolgen. Personenbezogene Daten von Mitgliedern – also Einzelangaben, die einer bestimmten oder bestimmbaren Person zugeordnet werden können – werden zu keinem Zeitpunkt an Dritte weitergegeben. Dazu zählen selbstverständlich alle persönlichen Angaben wie z.B. Ihre Adressen oder Ihre Handy- oder Telefonnummer.

Als Betreiber tragen wir die Verantwortung dafür, dass die Daten unserer Mitglieder bei uns sicher sind und den Datenschutzbestimmungen entsprechend geschützt werden. Uns ist mehr als bewusst, dass unseren Mitgliedern der sensible Umgang mit ihren Daten äußerst wichtig ist.

Die Werbung auf XING steht selbstverständlich im Einklang mit den deutschen und europäischen Datenschutzgesetzen und -richtlinien.

XING-Mitglieder haben die volle Kontrolle über die Sicherheit ihrer Daten und Privatsphäre – daran wird sich auch in Zukunft nichts ändern. Die Werbung für Basis-Mitglieder auf der XING-Plattform wird uns dabei helfen, unsere Services für alle Mitglieder weiter zu verbessern.

Ihr XING-Team”

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Hochzeit im Online-Dialogmarketing

Monday, 7. January 2008

AZ Direct übernimmt Nayoki Interactive Advertising

(Pressemitteilung von AZ Direct Gütersloh / München, 7. Januar 2008) 
Mit Wirkung vom 1. Januar 2008 übernimmt die zum international vernetzten Medien- und Kommunikationsdienstleister arvato AG gehörende AZ Direct 51 Prozent der Anteile an der Nayoki Interactive Advertising GmbH.

Nayoki ist eine Full Service-Agentur im Bereich Online Marketing. Für namhafte nationale und internationale Kunden entwickelt das Unternehmen ganzheitliche, auf die jeweilige Marketingstrategie ausgerichtete Kommunikationskonzepte. Diese beziehen alle relevanten Online-Werbeformen mit ein. Aufbauend auf einem umfassenden Beratungsansatz steht Nayoki für eine performance-orientierte Umsetzung und Optimierung kanalübergreifender Kampagnen. Dabei liegt der Focus auf E-Mail Marketing, Display Advertising, Affiliate Programmen, Sponsored Links, Lead- und Adressgenerierungslösungen sowie E-Mail Listbroking.

Abgerundet wird das Leistungsportfolio durch eine eigene Tracking- und E-Mail-Management-Software.
Grundlage für die jetzt erfolgte Übernahme ist die seit mehr als zwei Jahren bestehende erfolgreiche Zusammenarbeit zwischen der AZ Direct und Nayoki. Im Verlauf dieser Kooperation haben die beiden Unternehmen zahlreiche Kundenprojekte gemeinsam realisiert.

“Nayoki Interactive Advertising hat mit seinem schlagkräftigen Team bewiesen, dass es komplexe Kundenprojekte in den neuen Medien erfolgreich umsetzen kann. Durch die Übernahme der Mehrheitsanteile an Nayoki bauen wir unser Leistungsportfolio im Bereich Online-Marketing weiter aus. Damit festigen wir unsere Position als Full Service-Dienstleister im Dialogmarketing und können unsere Kunden in Zukunft noch besser bei den Herausforderungen unterstützen, die mit der sich stetig verändernden Kommunikationsnutzung der Konsumenten einhergehen”, so Michael Baumbach, Geschäftsführer AZ Direct GmbH.

“Die mehrjährige Zusammenarbeit mit einem der Top-Player im deutschen Direktmarketing hat uns die Tür zu sehr interessanten Kunden und Kampagnen geöffnet. Wir sind stolz darauf, die in uns gesteckten Erwartungen erfüllt zu haben. Mit der Integration in die internationale arvato-Gruppe erhoffen wir uns einen weiteren Wachstumsschub in einer sehr dynamischen Branche, die in Zukunft noch so manche spannende Entwicklung nehmen wird. Wir freuen uns auf eine erfolgreiche Zusammenarbeit mit unseren neuen Kollegen innerhalb der arvato AG”, so André Soulier, Geschäftsführer Nayoki Interactive Advertising GmbH.

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Buch “Verkaufsweg Social Commerce – Wie man mit Web2.0 Marketing Geld verdient“

Thursday, 27. December 2007

Die konsequente Antwort auf das erste Buch „Community Marketing Management“ der beiden Autoren Frank Mühlenbeck und Prof. Dr. Skibicki erklärt, wie man mit Web 2.0 Plattformen (endlich) Geld verdient.

Die Verknüpfung von Online-Shops mit Community Lösungen spielen ebenso eine Rolle wie die Unternehmensperspektive. Die Auswirkungen des neuen Mitmach-Netzes auf Firmen und Kundenbeziehungen werden durchleuchtet und es werden Ansätze aufgezeigt, wie man sein Unternehmen Enterprise 2.0 fähig macht.

Blogs, Podcasting und Communities sind durch die spektakulären Übernahmen von YouTube, MySpace oder StudiVZ unter dem Schlagwort Web2.0 bekannt geworden. Diese nächste Entwicklungsstufe des Internets erobert als soziales Netz die Welt des Marketing und des Verkaufs – E-Commerce und Real Commerce wachsen zusammen zum Social Commerce und revolutionieren ganz nebenbei die klassischen Marketingbeziehungen. Der Kunde wird tatsächlich König, weil er durch Social Software die Macht dazu hat – Unternehmen, die dieses Marketing 2.0 begreifen und umsetzen, werden enorme Vorteile realisieren, während die anderen im Wettbewerb nicht bestehen können.

Für Betreiber von Internet Plattformen – vom Online-Shop bis zur Community – stellt das Buch dar, welche Möglichkeiten derzeit und in naher Zukunft existieren, um mit der eigenen Plattform Einnahmen zu generieren. Marketing Manager und Entscheider erfahren, was sich hinter dem Phänomen Web2.0 verbirgt und welche Umstrukturierung der Unternehmensstrategie und –organisation damit verbunden sind. Anhand von Beispielen zeigen die Autoren, wie Unternehmen mit der Einbindung von Web 2.0 und Social Commerce ihre Verkaufserlöse erhöhen können und Kosten einsparen.

Quelle: Pressemitteilung von: Brain Injection Ltd. & Co. KG gelesen auf openPR

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