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Mon Mar, 2013 by Laura Kirchner
Content is at the heart of all things digital and without content the internet would not exist. Likewise, regularly updated content is at the heart of your online presence, and without it you don’t exist. Why? Because stagnant websites and blogs don’t rank well in search, and social profiles without posts have almost no way [...]
Wed Mar, 2012 by Derek Mehraban
In another blow for free content providers and advertisers The New York Times has announced that it will be making circumvention of its paywall more difficult. Presently, users can access 20 articles per month without a subscription. That number will soon be cut in half. The thinking is that exposure to the brand will make [...]
Fri Mar, 2012 by Derek Mehraban
There is a lot of talk about the possibility of a double-dip recession in the US. News like that keeps digital agencies on the edge of their seats. The easy expense for a brand to cut is advertising, especially its new and hard to quantify advertising units. Recent data from Spain, however, offers some hope. [...]
Mon Mar, 2012 by Derek Mehraban
msnNOW is a new service from Microsoft that tracks “what people are talking about, searching for, and sharing the most.” It launched on February 15 and so far has generated a decent amount of traffic. It seems to be able to generate a fair amount of referral traffic as well. The problem, however, is where [...]
Fri Feb, 2012 by Derek Mehraban
Thursday morning President Obama introduced a Consumer Bill of Rights. Google, Yahoo!, AOL and Microsoft are all stating they will voluntarily comply with the bill. Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome already have ‘do not track’ options even though they are rarely used. That is the main component of the Bill of Rights. For now all [...]
Wed Feb, 2012 by Derek Mehraban
Pinterest launched in 2010 and has registered 7 million unique visitors since December. Shareaholic reports that Pinterest is now driving more referrals than FaceBook, Google+ and LinkedIn combined. With numbers like that it needs to stop being treated as a fad or as an entirely creative platform. The social media marketing agency needs to incorporate [...]
Fri Feb, 2012 by Derek Mehraban
Google is releasing data about searches done on Valentine’s Day. Because of the nature of the holiday we should expect it to be a heavy day for local searches (mainly for restaurants and for products that can be bought immediately). Google’s data supports the expectations, with some surprises. Of all the searches for national restaurants [...]
Wed Feb, 2012 by Derek Mehraban
Most people who own a digital device use it while watching TV. The numbers are actually quite shocking. 18% of people who multitask with a laptop or a desktop computer say they do it once a week while watching TV. 66% of those people, however, multitask daily. There is a drop off with the phone [...]
Wed Feb, 2012 by Derek Mehraban
For years Pandora was the top dog in streaming music. Based on the music genome project, people tune into Pandora to listen to a particular flavor of music and then Pandora serves up other similar artists. Sometimes people even discover new artists or songs that they like through the service. Spotify came along almost a [...]
Tue Nov, 2011 by Derek Mehraban
New data about the UK digital agency is helpful for digital marketing agencies in the US. While the numbers of the latest TNS Digital Life report are about the UK they should translate similarly over here. The data found that 61% of consumers do not want to engage with brands online. Most of the engagement [...]