Digital Marketing Blog

Checkpoint Research has conducted a survey of nearly 1,000 IT managers and the results have some interesting data for the digital marketing agency. For their employees businesses prefer iOS to Android and Blackberry devices. Currently 89% of businesses have smartphones or tablet integration into their corporate ecosystems and 30% of those devices are iOS powered. [...]

Twitvid was a video aggregating site that specialized in user-generated content. Think of it as Twitpic is, however, it is now recreating itself to be open to all kinds of video. What is happening is that users are now able to create feeds and even some channels all of which can be followed. Like a [...]

Metrics for the 2011 Q3 about mobile advertising are out and the news is not good. The clickthrough rate for most mobile ads is about 18%, which is a 1% drop from the Q2 numbers. Many say this fits the trend because the summer months are slower than usual months. However, the 19% number from [...]

Google has announced a new update for Google TV, which was launched last year and was not received with enthusiasm. The update brings a new operating system, Android 3.1, also known as Honeycomb, and with it comes a series of Android apps which are TV-compatible. The update also provides improved search functionality.     Some [...]

    11% of American adults now own a tablet. Three quarters of them use the tablet everyday and more than half of all tablet owners use them as a news delivery vehicle. The tablet,  is beginning to supplant PCs and print media. Pew Research has even learned that many tablet owners consume more news [...]

Facebook has been available on mobile devices, but there were always some functions that did not work correctly on those mobile devices. On Tuesday Facebook released the Facebook Platform on Mobile that will allow apps and mobile browsers to fully use Facebook apps.     This will be lucrative for Facebook as they prepare for [...]

    Even though the holiday season is not yet upon us, the recent announcements of new products from Amazon and Apple can be interpreted as holiday sales. Both the Kindle Fire and the iPhone 4S were announced recently and both will be available immediately before the holiday shopping season. The Fire becomes available on [...]

  Facebook has announced a new type of advertising unit. The new unit is called an Expandable Ad and if the user has liked the brand, then the ad will expand allowing the user to see and make comments. This is unlike Social Ads, which tells if a user’s friend has liked the brand, and [...]

Chomp is a service that hopes to encroach on Google’s territory by connecting application consumers with application developers. What Chomp offers the consumer is a site dedicated to applications. Consumers can then search for terms or names for apps that will suit their needs. Chomp offers application developers an opportunity to spread word of its [...]

Facebook rolled out its small business initiative on Tuesday. It is partnering with the US Chamber of Commerce and the National Federation of Independent Business to bring a series of web based tools as well as a traveling seminar circuit targeting small businesses. The webinars, literature and the seminars will all help the potential clients [...]