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TV advertising to seed an online experience
I was at an IAB Auto’s conference and heard a great talk by a copy man writing for Mercedes – He went on to talk about the traditional marketing split especially around new car launches – which is to spend most of the budget on TV which is designed to blanket bomb as wider audience […]
Google display ads on image search
Accordign to a Bloomberg interview with Marissa Mayer, Google is considering running display ads on image searches. They tried txt ads with little success but images seems an obvious move.
With Google universal on natural listings, recent tests on video adwords, and hte introduction of display into image search the days of the text link may […]
SEO is Dead again
One of my favourite search people ShoeMoney says SEO has no future and once again the SEO crowd goes wild. The last time this happened was when Jason Calacanis announced the death of Google - with the emergence of social search engines.
When you listen to Shoe’s argument, I think it’s a strong one and […]
Hulu comes back to YouTube
The News Corp alternative Hulu has republish their video on YouTube. This was a project set-up as a competitor to YouTube - part of the idea being, pulling their content from YouTube would somehow make youtube less attractive. No big surprise that they just didn’t get the traffic.
The Web 2.0 Social VRM impact on Insurance and Financial Services
Both Jeff Jarvis and Jeremiah Owyang are discussing the merits of social, web 2.0, VRM concepts in the context of financial services. This is something very close to my heart and while the discussion has attracted some heavyweight attention from the likes of Seth Godin, I’m feeling lucky.
I’ve been convinced for some time that all […]
As I was saying on 2008-04-26
Oh my head - What happended lnight? Coffee kicking in - Sun is calling - Love Brighton.aaaaaahh #
As I was saying on 2008-04-24
Yahoo! opens everything including search platform - But I really am too tired to care tonight. #
Fedup with trying to follow all of you on different platforms - sending invites to join FriendFeed #
Gutted can’t go to the VRM meeting this evening. Family calls #
The Economist have their PageRank reduced for selling links. tut […]
A new look for Nilhan’s Kocchi Kade
After many months trawling through hundreds of WordPress themes, I settled on this one. I really liked the simplicity of the last one but it was time for a change and I wanted more flexibility have a little play.
A big shout out to all the talented folk at DailyBlogTips for creating this theme. Really […]
Twitter Updates for 2008-04-23
Another wet day in Brighton - must find stronger coffee #
Complex networks and decentralized search algorithms - now stop right there #
how about this for a piss-take - type in ‘vrm whitepaper’ into Google and it says ‘ did you mean ‘CRM white paper’ #
promissed I wouldn’t but here I am slagging off everyone in […]
Did the Holiday Inn just get lucky?
On a search for ‘Holiday in Paris’ I got this map box filled entirely with links to various Holiday Inn local listings.
