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Marketers Can Learn from the Boom in Online College Classes

Marketers Can Learn from the Boom in Online College Classes

Marketers can learn a lot from the boom in online college courses -- about communicating and feedback for a mass digital audience.

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Facebook Graph Search Will Give Users a Reason to Be More Authentic

Facebook Graph Search Will Give Users a Reason to Be More Authentic

What most people share on Facebook is a fake life, how they'd like to be seen. But what if users knew their content might contribute to a greater good?

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How to Handle a Cease-and-Desist: Don't Freak Out

How to Handle a Cease-and-Desist: Don't Freak Out

When the FTC sends you a cease-and-desist, it's time to pay attention.

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Facebook Graph Search Is Here. What Do Marketers Need to Know?

Facebook Graph Search Is Here. What Do Marketers Need to Know?

Imagine what happens when you combine intent, social context and custom audiences. All of a sudden, Ford can advertise to friends of their current customers who are in the market for a car today.

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Scoring the 5 Trends for Marketers at CES

Scoring the 5 Trends for Marketers at CES

At their best, Samsung, LG, Ford, Toyota, Intel, and others offered visitors exciting but attainable visions of the future.

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Digital Media's Biggest Opportunity: Convenience Consumption

Digital Media's Biggest Opportunity: Convenience Consumption

The entertainment industry has perfected syndication and multi-platform content. Next hurdle: convenience consumption.

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It's Time to Kill the Day-Part in TV Advertising

It's Time to Kill the Day-Part in TV Advertising

Today, people consume almost all of their media -- even TV -- where, when and how they want.

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There Are 181,000 Social Media 'Gurus,' 'Ninjas,' 'Masters,' and 'Mavens' on Twitter

There Are 181,000 Social Media 'Gurus,' 'Ninjas,' 'Masters,' and 'Mavens' on Twitter

As we start 2013, there are even 174 people who describe themselves as "social media whores" in their Twitter bios.

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Five Trends Marketers Need to Watch at CES

Five Trends Marketers Need to Watch at CES

Forget about the product announcements. What really matters is what consumers are doing with these devices.

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How the Real-Time Ad Market Grows From $2 Billion to $9 Billion

How the Real-Time Ad Market Grows From $2 Billion to $9 Billion

DSPs, SSPs and agency trading desks area all mud wrestling over the same $2 billion. They can break free if they embrace "programmatic guaranteed."

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Learning to Love the Robots That Will Soon Buy and Sell All Media

Learning to Love the Robots That Will Soon Buy and Sell All Media

Traditional sales models -- those based on human-interactions -- can't keep up with marketers' and ad suppliers' needs in a rapidly growing and fragmented device environment.

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Ten Stats That Will Change the Way You Look At Video in 2013

Ten Stats That Will Change the Way You Look At Video in 2013

Online audiences chose to watch video ads at a rate of more than 150 per second in 2012.

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7 Branded Content Campaigns That Got It Right In 2012

7 Branded Content Campaigns That Got It Right In 2012

Though brand-created content is not novel, the practice fully bloomed in social-media-saturated 2012.

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Five Bets On How Digital Marketing Will Change in 2013

Five Bets On How Digital Marketing Will Change in 2013

The irrational spigot of VC funding will become a trickle and Terry Kawaja won't have to update his famous Lumascapes as often.

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Don't Blame Facebook: 10 Reasons Low Conversion Rates Are Your Fault

Don't Blame Facebook: 10 Reasons Low Conversion Rates Are Your Fault

If your Facebook strategy is failing, it probably boils down to one of these ten common mistakes.

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The Trend Few Are Discussing: Brands As Media Companies

The Trend Few Are Discussing: Brands As Media Companies

Brands are the new media companies, as some of the biggest gear up to power third-party advertisers' display ads.

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Don't Let Growth Fool You: Mobile Advertising Is Still Failing

Don't Let Growth Fool You: Mobile Advertising Is Still Failing

Interruption-based advertising is never going to be a great success in mobile. People simply don't want these ads on their phones.

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The Next Revenue Opportunity For Twitter (It's Not Advertising)

The Next Revenue Opportunity For Twitter (It's Not Advertising)

Here's one revenue stream that's hugely scalable and wide open with potential: premium memberships.

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Just Who Do The Data Paranoiacs Think We Are?

Just Who Do The Data Paranoiacs Think We Are?

Far from limiting choice, data-driven advertising helps underwrite independent sites that expand the information and offers available to consumers.

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A Brand's Best Use of Facebook: Engage With the Superfans

A Brand's Best Use of Facebook: Engage With the Superfans

A brand may have lots of Facebook fans, but gets far more return from those who are most passionate. Treat them well.

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