2011 was a crazy year, full of ups and down and big changes. These six experts offer their opinions on the biggest B2B marketing disruptions of last year, from data to content to new social networks.
More publishers and advertisers are discovering the potential benefits of mobile publishing outweigh the risks. Where is mobile advertising heating up the most, and where do the biggest opportunities lie? Here are four emerging areas to be thinking about, if not building competencies around, over the coming months.
Overall, NFC will likely be a common technology that is prominently used within the next three to five years. But that has more to do with the fact that companies and payment processors will start to adopt it and push it on consumers than any real consumer groundswell.
Building a cross-channel marketing organization requires three processes: creating a cross-channel marketing strategy, integrating cross-channel activity, and measuring a common cross-channel metric. Here's a closer look at what each one involves.
Online listening has emerged as a critical tool for brands to gather insights in unprecedented ways. These insights--deeper and more holistic than traditional findings--can shape marketing strategies in ways that allow you to provide better experiences, within your advertising and beyond.
If brands are, in fact, improving their social-media savvy, then consumers should see it in their Super Bowl commercials and their social tie-ins. Otherwise, companies will once again miss a chance to strengthen their brand value in front of a captive audience of multimillions.
You can identify online customers based on three personas: the Connected Customer, the Discount Seeker, and the Social Butterfly. This interactive infographic highlights their characteristics and what marketing teams should be thinking about in relation to each group.
Greg Jarboe, president of SEO-PR and the author of "YouTube and Video Marketing: An Hour a Day," discusses YouTube's future from a marketing perspective and shares his favorite video from 2011. "If there is one top tip that I don’t see many brands utilizing," he says, "it would be 'Tent-pole Programming,'" or programming around specific events.
This study identifies the key digital media challenges that companies are wrestling with, the best practices that marketing leaders are using to win in the marketplace, and the benefits of capitalizing on digital media effectively.
What company wouldn't want to create and dominate a completely new product category or business model? But evidence shows that the biggest rewards usually go to a "fast follower" instead.