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By David Burn
Banner ads don't work. Of course they do. That's pretty much where the argument lies. Popular Web sites are chock full of paid banners, and the people who place them are in their offices crunching numbers to determine the return on investment, which is one of the more imperfect sciences. Here's what Alan Wolk has to say on the matter: We're still judging banners by click-through rates. Or using the negative …
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By David Burn
Accenture, the management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company that pays Tiger Woods to be its spokesman is now entering a relationship with Adchemy, a Silicon Valley digital marketing company. According to New York Times: Adchemy is one of several ambitious young companies trying to employ cutting-edge computing techniques -- including machine learning, statistical inference and advanced data …
By David Burn
Shar VanBoskirk, an analyst for Forrester, spent some time in Denver this week with a group of marketing exces that work for Kaiser Permanente, Genesco Retail, Radio Shack, Jones Apparel, and Adidas America. Her big takeaway: That one of the greatest challenges for interactive marketers today is getting support and cooperation from their traditional brand marketing colleagues. Opportunity, please meet Challenge. …
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By David Burn
For it's fourth annual Creative Challenge in China, Pepsi partnered with Tencent, China's internet giant, to effectively allow Chinese netizens the ability to twitter, blog and IM their birthday wishes to China. Here's a look at some of the wishes: The People's Intermediate Court as the brain, national defense as the heart, people's livelihood as the blood, the economy as the skeleton - these four parts combine to …
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By David Burn
I'm really glad Gavin Mevius of Jawbone.tv took the time to describe the inner workings of PartyAcrossTheInternet.com, a digital promo from Axe Bodywash, a.k.a. Lynx, because my brain might have blown a gasket trying to decode it. The experience starts on a fake Men's Magazine known as Ralph, set to a remix of KiD CuDi's Day n' Nite. What follows is a story that brings you through several recognizable places on the …
By David Burn
Cheese & Burger Society is a site from Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board that you don't want to visit on an empty stomach. If you do, you may find yourself longing for an unhealthy but highly satisfying meal. The site uses a rolodex format to walk you through a bevy of delicious looking burgers all adorned with Wisconsin cheese. You can click through to a recipe for each. If you want to share on Twitter or Facebook, …
By David Burn
For the past 20 or so years, advertising finishing schools like Portfolio Center, Miami Ad School and Creative Circus have served as a primary route to a better portfolio and job offer at a top firm. Then came VCU and its Masters program, offering something the others do not, namely a Masters degree from an accredited university. University of Texas and University of Colorado have also been educating future ad peeps …
By David Burn
On the 40th anniversary of the Internet, WE LIVE IN PUBLIC tells the story of the effect it is having on our society as seen through the eyes of the greatest Internet pioneer youve never heard of, visionary Josh Harris. Award-winning director, Ondi Timoner (DIG!), documented his tumultuous life for more than a decade, to create a riveting, cautionary tale of what to expect as the virtual world inevitably takes …
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