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How Facebook Can Take Photos Beyond Its New 'Camera' and Instagram

How Facebook Can Take Photos Beyond Its New 'Camera' and Instagram

Facebook's instinct to address its mobile issue with images is a good one: it was the first to popularize tagging, which made photo sharing the predominant behavior that it is today.

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EU Cookie Law Could Be the Death of Digital

EU Cookie Law Could Be the Death of Digital

The law, as it stands, does not consider its impact on the industry. Forcing these requirements on marketers lead to huge erosion in the quality of web experiences for consumers -- the very constituents it hopes to protect.

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The Summer Road Trip Went Digital. What's Your Strategy?

The Summer Road Trip Went Digital. What's Your Strategy?

Will the businesses that depend on our vacation travel be ready for this emerging breed of always-on, always-informed and always sharing traveler?

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Want to Raise Online Display CPMs? Pull In Small Advertisers

Want to Raise Online Display CPMs? Pull In Small Advertisers

As Internet ad spending rises, the value of ad inventory is dropping, crushing digital media companies. The solution: more small advertisers.

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The Cultural Connection

The Cultural Connection

Univision Consumer Insights Research has been uncovering and studying the nuances and influence of Hispanic culture on consumer behavior for many years, and has now determined a concrete way of measuring U.S. Hispanics' cultural connections. Here, some highlights.

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How Brands Should Evaluate Startups

How Brands Should Evaluate Startups

Marketers are overwhelmed, but focusing on these criteria will help you see the forest for the trees when evaluating startups and new technologies.

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Doing It Wrong: 11 Boring Things GM Posted on Facebook

Doing It Wrong: 11 Boring Things GM Posted on Facebook

GM's Facebook page is a sterling example of a company that wants to broadcast instead of listen, ignore instead of engage.

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GM Doesn't Have a Facebook Problem, It Has a Brand Loyalty Problem

GM Doesn't Have a Facebook Problem, It Has a Brand Loyalty Problem

Rather than focus on selling cars on Facebook, the brand should have looked at how to connect with its best advocates to influence purchase behavior across the social graph.

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How Walmart Is Localizing Its Stores With Facebook

How Walmart Is Localizing Its Stores With Facebook

A social-local strategy lets retailers capitalize on consumer use of new media, at the store level.

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Why Facebook Isn't Screwed When It Comes to Auto Marketing

Why Facebook Isn't Screwed When It Comes to Auto Marketing

The real questions we should be asking ourselves, before we blame Facebook for GM's marketing effectiveness, are were they doing it right and were they measuring it right?

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Social Sharing Data Vampires: They Vant to Suck Your Data

Social Sharing Data Vampires: They Vant to Suck Your Data

With social sharing tools, publishers are bleeding themselves dry, giving up the very customer data that hold the promise of their continued relevance

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Will Facebook be an Internet Behemoth in 10 Years?

Will Facebook be an Internet Behemoth in 10 Years?

Facebook will need to fight a constant battle if it wants to maintain its dominant position amid ever-shifting consumer preferences and changing technologies.

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Six Things You Need to Know About Real-Time Bidding

Six Things You Need to Know About Real-Time Bidding

Real-time bidding campaigns perform well when executed correctly. But many assumptions about RTB 1.0 are incorrect. An integrated approach is essential.

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Hey Publishers, Time to Increase Your Video Ad Load

Traditional TV found a model that works, but online publishers refuse to fully replicate the TV ad load model in their long-form content.

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Advertising Fits Best in Natural Pauses -- on TV and Online

The new media have natural breaks in the online experience that marketers can take advantage of to engage with their audience in a place where it makes sense.

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What Facebook's Critics Don't Understand: It's a Platform, Not a Publisher

As a platform, Facebook seeks to offer something that publishers don't -- a utility to make marketing programs more efficient, more successful, and more relevant.

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James Dyson: 'I Don't Believe in Brand'

James Dyson, industrial-design icon, purveyor of luxury vacuum cleaners and one-time star of his company's TV ads, doesn't have much use for an important marketing concept: brand.

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'Prometheus' Trailer Sucks Life Out of Campaign

After some masterful marketing (and teasing) for the film, the international trailer makes it look like little more than a prequel for "Alien."

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Famous Faces, Adland Pasts

What do Salman Rushdie and Lindsay Lohan have in common? Both have played parts in the advertising world, as have Terry Gilliam, Jack Black and many others on our list.

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Improving the RFP: Better Questions Yield Better Results

Marketers: If you want to find your agency "soul mate," you'd better review, and possibly retool, your request for proposal process so as not to turn off the perfect prospect.

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China: Can You Afford to Ignore the 'Other Internet?'

Marketing is everywhere you turn in urban areas, surprising, given press depictions of a government-driven and -controlled culture.

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