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Leveraging a new clipping service called Amplify, BitBriefs.com brings you trends, statistics, news, links and perspective on the latest secondary research around topics such as in-game advertising, mobile phone marketing, email marketing, search engine marketing, online media usage, and traditional media marketing.

CHART: Advertising Tactics Trusted by Internet Users

Ad Impressions by Industry (Dec ‘09)

Senior Marketer Top Priorities in 2010

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The “2010 Digital Marketing Outlook” report found that 81% of the brand executives surveyed expected an increase in digital projects in 2010, and one-half will be moving dollars from traditional to digital budgets. Further, more than three-quarters think the current economy will push more allocations to digital.

Senior marketers reported that social networks and applications were their biggest priority for 2010, followed closely by digital infrastructure. While social media marketing looks set to stay top of mind, a majority of respondents considered a range of digital activities at least “important,” with only games failing to inspire widespread interest.

Top Priorities in 2010 According to Senior Marketers Worldwide (% of respondents)
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Study Shows Online Display Increases Performance of Other Digital Efforts

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Dotomi announced results from the use of its attribution technology which reiterates the impact strong attribution models can have in driving display or any digital media’s future growth. From the release: “Dotomi found display increased performance by an average of 20 percent in paid search, 26 percent in natural search, 25 percent in affiliate marketing, 16 percent in CRM email and 26 percent in direct load, where the consumer goes directly to the retailer’s website.” Pour on the attribution for display, and it’s full steam ahead! Read the release.

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Publisher’s Offering More Targeting Options

Cookie Based Ad Targeting Stats Show Flaws in the System

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In the comScore panel, we are able to see cookies passing between Web sites and panelists’ computers; and we are able to see and identify the different persons using those computers at those points in time.
We recently conducted a study across some major online ad sales entities to determine how often the identifying cookie is associated with the behavior of a single user. Across 17 major entities — publishers, ad networks, and third-party services — we found an average of 44% of cookies were associated with a single user. Among the 56% of cookies that point to multiple users, if we assume that the wrong user is identified 50% of the time (which strikes as a conservative assumption), then on average, 28% of the time (half of 56%) the cookie involved in direct audience guarantees is pointing to the wrong person.

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5 Most Underutilized Marketing Technologies

Small Business Online Banner Advertising Plans for 2010

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The results also highlight that small businesses are wary of channels such as online banner advertising and search engine marketing. 54.2% of all respondents stated they won’t do online banner advertising in 2010, and just 23.8% of respondents won’t do SEM such as Google, Yahoo and Bing next year.

Small Business Online Banner Advertising Plans for 2010 (% of Respondents)

Plan

% of Respondents (rounded)

Increase a lot

8%

Increase a little

15

Stay the same

18

Cut down

3

Cut all

2

Not planning to do

53

Source: VerticalResponse Inc, November 2009

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Worse Than Zero: Bad Campaigns Actually Have a Negative Effect

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Online marketers had better not be negligent. Good creative makes a successful campaign, but data from Dynamic Logic suggests that the worst-performing campaigns can actually negatively affect brand metrics.

Online Display Advertising

Top-performing campaigns, by contrast, boosted online ad awareness, message association and aided brand awareness by more than 8 percentage points each.

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Ad Pricing Still Down

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The first half of 2009 has drops in ad spending across all media—even online—but advertisers are more optimistic about the latter part of the year, according to JPMorgan.

The company’s “Advertising Outlook 2H’09 and 2010” survey found that more than one-half of US media buyers and planners polled think second-half spending will be higher than first-half outlays. Only 10% predict spending declines.

The majority of media buyers and planners reported they were paying less in 2009 than the previous year for ads across all media. Nine out of 10 respondents said prices had gone down for radio and outdoor, while 85% reported the same for magazines and newspapers.

Advertising Pricing Change in 2009* According to US Media Buyers and Planners, by Media (% of respondents)

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