The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has announced it is extending its powers to cover all online marketing and advertising from March 1st 2011. Under the new regulations, the UK’s independent watchdog, committed to maintaining high standards in advertising for the benefit of consumers, advertisers and society at large, will have the power to remove advertisements and statements from Facebook, Twitter and pay per click (PPC) ads on all search engines. Paul Byrne, Senior Account Manager – PPC, at independent search and social marketing agency Greenlight, looks at what this means for online advertisers.
Poole Literary Festival in partnership with the Media School at Bournemouth University has established a prize for new media writing. Closing Date 15 September 2010. By Gary Dalkin.
Great business value can come from harvesting and leveraging the best of knowledge that is created on communities and social networks, i.e. “social knowledge”, for customer service offered through your own contact centres and self-service systems. By Andrew Mennie.
The annual Technology for Marketing and Advertising exhibition took place this week at London’s Earls Court, bringing together some of the UK’s leading Internet marketing innovators. New Media Knowledge checked in to watch Facebook demonstrate its offering for advertisers.
Viral videos are a popular Internet marketing tactic, but has the public become wise to subliminal marketing tactics of businesses? New Media Knowledge spoke to a number of marketers to learn how to make a successful viral.
The growth of social media and the economic crisis have literally catapulted opportunities and entrepreneurship for online business. More and more individuals, as well as businesses have turned to the net to promote themselves and their offerings. The web is becoming more and more integrated and is having an impact not only on business, but also on popular culture. What does this mean for the individual? What does this mean for the small business, and how does this affect the large organisation? E-Business Strategist Deborah Collier has put together an overview of her thoughts for the year ahead.
Viral marketing traditionally began when people started using email to share content with their friends. In the mobile world, despite the increasing popularity of smartphones, viral marketing still rides on SMS. Yet, the implications of depending on texting when exploiting viral marketing in the mobile arena are significant. By Nisheeth Mohan, product manager for mobile solutions and technology at Keynote Systems. more
What does Duct Tape Marketing mean and what relevance is it to me? This short article is designed to introduce the concept of Duct Tape Marketing and to give some practical advice based on the idea. By Alan Gleeson, Managing Director of Palo Alto Software. more
Web consultancy dotCommerce’s recent study of the UK’s leading retailers found widespread neglect when including added-value content and other features that would encourage repeat visits, high transaction values and ongoing brand loyalty.
New Media Knowledge speaks to Simon Bird, technical director at dotCommerce, about the survey’s findings and gets some e-commerce best practice tips.
Get to the Audio
Download/Play just this episode using your MP3 player:
StumbleUpon
Comments
You must be logged in to comment.