A Creative Communications Agency

May 25th, 2007

Categories: Internet Advertising, Internet Marketing

U.S. Online Ad Spending by Format

Paul Kedrosky points to an interesting article on the WSJ looking at Advertising’s Brave New World.
One of the most interesting items in the piece was this chart, showing U.S. Online Ad Spending by Format:

Link:  Advertising’s Brave New World (via Infectious Greed)
While paid search maintains a huge lead in overall ad spend, Rich Media/Video has grown […]

May 18th, 2007

Categories: Brand Strategy Development, Consumer Marketing, Customer Analysis, Global Strategy Development, Integrated Marketing, Internet Marketing, Marketing Plan Development, Online Marketing Analysis, Product Introductions, Product Marketing Development

Create Buzz Through Big Campaigns

AdAge has posted an article about research done on the online buzz marketing and where it comes from. The answer, big campaigns. The article references studies done by two Neilson c.o properties and how the most talked about items on the web are from companies who put the time and resources behind the launch.
“What we […]

May 11th, 2007

Categories: Art Direction, Creative, Video Development

Helvetica: the review

Well, it turns out the Helvetica documentary WAS coming to Charlotte - for one screening. I was there last night and was pleasantly surprised that it didn’t devolve into History of Typography 101.
Chock full of example after example of Helvetica used in the everyday things we take for granted, it was both an entertaining […]

May 4th, 2007

Categories: Consumer Trends & Forecasting, Creative, Customer Analysis, Industry Analysis, Membership Programs, Website Development

Mapping the Internet

Someone found a very clever way to visually map internet site membership. My favorite? “Here be Anthropomorphic Dragons.” Fantastic!