Tag Archives: digital marketing

McDonald’s Influencer Marketing: Back with Cactus Jack?

A recent article in the New York Post has marketing minds curious. Is McDonald’s latest influencer partnership a bust or a disruptive experience driving sales? Undoubtedly a big win for Travis Scott, partnering with the international fast-food brand valued at … Continue reading

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Google AND Facebook Say No to More Money: Both Firms Ban Cryptocurrency Advertising Indefinitely

    On Wednesday, March 14th, Google confirmed that it was aligning with Facebook’s lead regarding cryptocurrency advertising by banning all advertisements on its advertising platforms and search results (Wilkes, 2018).  This ban includes cryptocurrency products such as cryptocurrencies themselves, initial … Continue reading

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About-Face: Time to rethink your Facebook marketing strategy

Recently, Facebook’s CEO announced platform changes that will reduce News Feed content from businesses, brands and media to better connect users with friends and family.  According to Zuckerberg, Facebook is focused on improving the experience by “helping users find relevant … Continue reading

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Live Video: Customer Engagement in Real Time!

Live video is being adopted as an effective marketing way by many brands including AT&T, McDonald’s, Maybelline and Airbnb (Dietrich & Weller, 2017). Live videos of McDonald’s and Maybelline were linked directly to specific products that brands are aimed at … Continue reading

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Life is like a Targeted Ad, You Never Know What You’re Gonna Get? Or Do You?

Remember the days when you could simply scroll through social media, visit a website or check your email inbox without being influenced by outside sources? The days when your life was unperturbed by targeted ads, constantly trying to sell you … Continue reading

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Sports Haters: The Next Level of Twitter Engagement

Once upon a time, we sat down to watch our favorite team (as long as it was in the same region where we lived) on  TV. Forget watching Barcelona Soccer playing Manchester, forget watching your daughter’s Division III volleyball team … Continue reading

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Marketing “brand value” with integrated communication strategies: It is more than just a product.

It has already become a norm for companies to combine different marketing communication strategies to help reinforce each other. This tactic of having a wide-ranging plan recognizes the importance of the different communication disciplines such as public relations, sales promotion, … Continue reading

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Digital Media Analytics

Analytics are commonplace for a lot of reasons in the marketing business. They help define who the actual customer is, or who the potential customer might be. They can tell a business owner what is hot and what is not. … Continue reading

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Digital Media Integration in a Post Print World

So in my last post (That seems like an eternity ago, right?) I discussed how the print media is not dead, how perhaps no other medium is better suited to cross the digital divide then a newspaper, with its ability … Continue reading

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Rebrand “marketing”?

Last summer, Harvard Business Review (HBR) declared that marketing is dead (Lee, 2012, para. 1). In the fall, Adobe (2012) commissioned a study that concluded digital marketing is failing consumers (para. 1). IBM (2013), however, sets the record straight: marketing … Continue reading

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