Digital marketing requires more than just the laptop-desktop web. As a result, the website, in its traditional sense, is diminishing in importance. I am not saying that brands no longer need websites — but I am saying that for many, the function of the website has changed.
The notion of the distributed web has matured. Digital [...]

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Though Twitter is currently a media darling, only 8% of advertisers and consumers think it is a “very effective” promotion tool, according to June 2009 data from LinkedIn Research Network and Harris Interactive.
The research, which included surveys of US advertisers and Internet users, found that while 83% of advertisers were familiar with Twitter, only 31% [...]

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This is now a familiar story: European privacy concerns and complaints against Google Street View. From angry mobs to European regulators, Google is confronting many more objections as it tries to visually map The Continent than it did in the US.
This installment involves German “data protection regulators” in Hamburg who object to the way that [...]

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Let’s say you’ve got a great product or service and you want to promote it using social media and you also know you can’t approach the social web as if it were old-style marketing.
Targeting prospects, talking about consumers and audiences, crafting and broadcasting your messages – that’s not the way it works. But as you [...]

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Mark Hodson discovers which companies are using Twitter in a useful way – and those you needn’t bother with
In recent weeks, dozens of airlines, airports, tour operators and tourist boards have flocked onto Twitter. Not all are using it effectively. Here’s our pick of the winners – and the losers
TRAVEL COMPANIES TO FOLLOW
Lonely Planet has [...]

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Since the advent of digital, the number of brands using humor to deliver their messages has grown markedly. One can only surmise that this is because humor “works.” It works at both connecting brands to audiences and at reshaping brand imagery in powerful ways.
Of course, humor doesn’t always deliver results for brands. Many have tried [...]

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For marketers, Web 2.0 offers a remarkable new opportunity to engage consumers. If only they knew how to do it. That’s where this WSJ article aims to help.
The Wall Street Journal interviewed more than 30 executives and managers in both large and small organizations that are at the forefront of experimenting with Web 2.0 tools. [...]

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The web 2.0 shift has had a huge impact across a variety of markets. The peer to peer influence on today’s online buyers has prompted many industries to get involved in these new trends to stay on top. One particular market that has fully embraced these new technologies is travel and tourism, writes OneUpWeb.
Many state, [...]

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We have come a long way in the world of Internet Marketing. From the age of information (think glorified electronic brochure) on the web to the world of snappy online transactions…we’ve now moved into the age of an experiential and social Internet, all great leaps in a relatively short space of time.
Hotel eMarketers can lay [...]

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