Category: Marketing

  • Kred wants to take influence measurement to a new level

    “We all have influence somewhere” is the tag line of Kred, a social influence measurement service created by PeopleBrowsr, a San Francisco-based social media analytics company, to identify influential people in interest-based communities. It’s a credible descriptor to apply to…

  • BBC global survey shows evolving news consumption habits across multiple screens

    It’s doubtful that many people would disagree with the belief that our behaviours in how, where and when we consume content – the evolved way of saying what we used to describe as reading the papers, listening to the radio…

  • Desperation driving ad creativity

    How do you address the clear trend of people not paying attention to your ad during the commercial breaks on TV? They’re either not watching at all during the breaks, or fast-forwarding through the ads if their programme is recorded;…

  • The dawn of the valuable-ad era

    Here are two ideas about advertising – online and offline – that could catch on in a big way and ‘evolutionize’ entire industries. Social news and entertainment site Reddit plans to let users vote on the ads they see when…

  • Easy content-sharing to your Kindle

    Some years ago, Amazon made my blog available as a subscription option for Kindle users. It would cost you 99 pence a month; in return, you’d get all my content delivered to your Kindle device (or Kindle app on your…