Kimberly Maul
Articles By Kimberly
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Adobe Expands Ad Management Platform, Adds Mobile Capabilities to Marketing Cloud
At its 2013 Digital Marketing Summit in Salt Lake City, Adobe Systems announced an upgrade to its digital advertising and analytics platform. And it debuted a new, socially enhanced user interface and mobile capabilities for the Adobe Marketing Cloud. The company’s Media Optimizer, a cross-channel ad management platform, will be available in two versions: standard […]
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Tablet Growth Encouraging for Mobile Marketers
Looking at 2013, mobile ad network Jumptap expects tablets to make up nearly a third of mobile devices, and iOS and Android operating systems to completely overpower RIM. In its February MobileSTAT report, Jumptap reported that in 2012, feature phones still made up 4% of the market share, while smartphones made up 78% share and tablets […]
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One-Fourth of Mobile Website Visits Were to Google Properties
Google properties dominated the top mobile websites in terms of market share of visits during the week ending February 23, 2013, according to Experian Marketing Services. Experian introduced Hitwise Mobile at the beginning of March, a new offering that will provide data on mobile internet activity, including weekly website rankings from mobile devices, share of […]
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Nearly One-Third of Top Retailers Lack Mobile Apps
Of the top 100 retailers in the U.S., 30% do not have mobile apps for iOS or Android devices, according to mobile solutions provider Xtreme Labs. And for those that do, there are still areas where consumers want to see improvement, including that many apps crash too often or lack features. Xtreme Labs pulled retailers […]
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New Pressure For Networks And Exchanges To Shun Piracy Sites
Over the past two months, the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab has released two reports highlighting the ad exchanges and networks that were placing the most advertisements on piracy sites or illegal download sites, and the brands whose ads appear on such sites. This has brought this issue to light once again, after last year’s discussion […]
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Amazon, Showrooming Poses a Greater Threat for Certain Retailers
Amazon continues to be a risk for brick-and-mortar retailers, especially when it comes to consumers showrooming, or visiting a store to try on or see in person a product before then buying it online. The “Aisle to Amazon: How Amazon is Impacting Brick-and-Mortar Retailers” report from Placed calculated the risk level for major retailers from […]
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Salesforce Works Toward Building 'Customer Companies'
Salesforce.com added new mobile customer service solutions to its offerings, the company announced this week. Chairman and CEO Marc Benioff spoke about the new focus for the company, and demonstrated the new features, at an event at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York on Tuesday. The company currently offers three cloud-based products: the Marketing Cloud, which […]
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Opera Creates Opera Mediaworks Division with Monetization Services
Opera Software spun off its mobile advertising, content distribution, and monetization businesses into Opera Mediaworks, the company announced on Monday. The global mobile marketplace will work with more than 80,000 mobile sites and mobile applications, and brings together several recent acquisitions, including mobile advertising firms 4th Screen Advertising and Mobile Theory, which were acquired a […]
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Firefox to Block Third-Party Cookies in Privacy Update
Mozilla’s Firefox browser will have a new cookie policy when its release 22 comes out later this year. The new patch, developed by privacy advocate Jonathan Mayer, will allow first-party cookies, but block third-party cookies. “The new cookie policy is intended to better conform to user privacy expectations and preferences,” Mayer said in an email […]
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London-Based 77Agency Shows Its Experience as a Facebook Strategic PMD
77Agency, one of Facebook’s Strategic Preferred Marketing Developers, has been around for ten years and covers a wide range of digital media services. Founded in 2003, the London-based agency has more than 120 employees worldwide and offices in Milan, Riga, Amsterdam, Madrid, New York, and Sydney. “We like to define ourselves as a media marketing […]
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Moe’s Southwest Grill Adds Programmatic To National Media Strategy
Restaurant chain Moe’s Southwest Grill recently hired marketing agency Engauge as its media agency of record, handling a new national television campaign and the company’s foray into programmatic buying. “Moe’s is about 12 years old and we’ve just now gotten to the point where we’re collecting marketing dollars at the national level, rather than just […]
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DSPs Stole Ad Networks' Thunder In Q4, At Least On Retail Sites
Looking at the 2012 holiday shopping season, retailers with ecommerce websites deployed more marketing technologies, including social plug-ins, than in 2011, according to data gathered from Evidon and analyzed by kbs+ Ventures, the investing arm of kirshenbaum bond senecal + partners. Kbs+ Ventures analyzed 20 retail brands including Best Buy, Old Navy, Gilt, Piperlime, Gap, […]
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Ad Quality Report: Direct Sales Has A Big Edge On Viewability
Despite the benefits of RTB, ads purchased through direct sales still have the highest quality when it comes to viewability and potential risks, according to data from Integral Ad Science. In its 2012 Semiannual Review for Q3 and Q4 2012, Integral, previously known as AdSafe, showcased data related to its new TRAQ Score, a quality […]
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Newly-Funded Persado Uses Data-Driven Software to Make Language More Effective
Persado, a new data-driven marketing software company spun out from Upstream Systems, raised $15 million in funding led by Bain Capital Ventures, the company announced this week. Founded by CEO Alex Vratskides, Persado developed and sells “marketing persuasion technology,” which uses data and software to determine the most effective marketing messages for multi-channel digital marketing […]
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How One Investment Bank Visualizes The Enterprise Marketing Stack
Technology vendors, through mergers and acquisitions, are moving more into the marketing field, as the CMO’s role continues to evolve to include more technology functions. Highlighting the actions of companies such as Adobe, IBM, Oracle, and Salesforce, The Jordan, Edmiston Group, Inc. (JEGI) has proposed a framework it calls the “Enterprise Marketing Management (EMM) Stack,” […]
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Capcom Targets Mobile Users Via Social In New Ad Campaign
In its latest advertising campaign, for the new game Devil May Cry, Capcom used targeted social media ads to engage with its audience through mobile devices in the U.K. The campaign included organic tweets and posts on Twitter and Facebook, with the gaming company promoting several specific posts on both networks, targeted to current followers […]
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Mobile Games Continue Dominance And Advertisers Take Advantage
Games were the number one app category on the Millennial Media platform throughout 2012, and advertisers in the travel, education, retail, and restaurant industries all leveraged that popularity for their advertising strategies. Overall, 74% of mobile game impressions came from smartphones in the third quarter 2012, and when it came to the operating system, Android […]
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Nearly Two-Thirds of Facebook Users Have Taken a Break
Facebook continues to be the most popular social networking site in the US, but users are more likely to take a break from the site or spend less timing using it, according to new data from the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project. In its December 2012 survey, Pew found that 67% of […]
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Facebook Strategic PMD Glow Raises $1.3M, Expands to L.A.
Glow Digital Media, one of Facebook’s Strategic Preferred Marketing Developers (SPMD), raised $1.3 million in its first round of funding. Founded in London in 2009, the company supports direct response advertisers on their Facebook campaigns, and mostly works with clients in Europe, though 25% are based in North America. “Up until December 2012, we were […]
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Health And Drug Ads Are Most Blocked, Says Video RTB Firm LiveRail
Real-time online video ad platform LiveRail found that health, drug, and medicine advertisements were some of the most blocked on its RTB video ad network in Q4 2012. Through its Check Point technology, LiveRail lets publisher clients put up restrictions and blocks when it comes to what ads can win at an RTB auction. LiveRail […]
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Adobe: Super Bowl Boosts Mobile Video Consumption and Advertiser Web Traffic
Mobile video will affect the viewer experience and advertiser strategies for the Super Bowl on February 3. According to Adobe, users turn to mobile video twice as often during a major sporting event than a typical day. Adobe analyzed 1.4 billion mobile video starts during 10 large sporting event days in 2012 as well as […]
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Accordant Media: RTB Growth Slowed In Q4
Interest in real-time bidding continues to grow worldwide, but inventory in North America, the largest market for RTB, is seeing slower growth. Media buying and optimization company Accordant Media found that global RTB impressions during the fourth quarter of 2012 were up 61% compared to Q4 2011 and impressions for all of 2012 were up […]
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Mobile RTB Overcame Holiday Concerns with a Strong Q4
Mobile advertising gained steam in Q4 thanks to increased interest from advertisers and consumers during the holidays, according to recent data and reports from several mobile advertising platforms. As consumers turned to their phones and tablets more often during the holidays — and as they received new devices as gifts — advertisers took advantage during […]
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SmartWool Moves Toward a Mobile-First Social Strategy
SmartWool, a company that sells hiking and outdoor clothing made from merino wool, knows its customers and fans like the outdoors and being on the go. It made sense, then, for the brand to focus on mobile social outreach — and it has seen promising results. “We felt mobile was critical,” said Molly Cuffe, senior […]
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Google Product Listing Ads, Mobile Surged In Q4
Two trends dominated the paid search space during the holiday season of 2012: mobile impressions and spend, and Google’s new Product Listing Ads. Google transitioned its Google Shopping search from a free model to a paid one. The new PLAs work more like AdWords, with retailers and merchants providing Google with information about a product, […]
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Accenture Interactive On Convergence of Creative, Data, And Tech
As global managing director of digital consulting for Accenture Interactive, Glen Hartman sits at the intersection of technology and marketing. With a focus on helping CMOs navigate their changing agendas, Accenture Interactive works to create relevant digital marketing for consumers at scale for their clients, as more competition joins the fray in 2013. “Delivering relevant […]
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A Look at Holiday Foot Traffic, Drawn From Mobile Location Data
The Saturday before Christmas came in as a top three December shopping day for many retailers, including Best Buy, Toys ‘R’ Us, and Walmart. Below we present final holiday 2012 data from location analytics company Placed, which analyzes in-store visits of consumers who have opted-in to a mobile location measuring app. Placed’s location-based network does […]
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Video RTB: Still Waiting For Its Moment
Analysts expect real-time bidding to account for between 25% and 50% of total display ad spend by 2015. Meanwhile the video RTB space is growing at an even faster clip, but not accounting for as much media investment — yet. “We do see RTB in video but it is still early, for everyone from ad […]
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eMarketer Raises Mobile Ad Forecast, Citing Facebook's Rising Fortunes
Mobile advertising revenue will still make up a small percentage of total media ad spending, according to digital marketing research firm eMarketer, but the industry is growing at a faster rate than the company forecasted only a few months ago. In 2012, mobile ad revenues will account for 2.4 percent of total ad spending, and […]
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Demographics And Geographies Influence Digital Coupon Activation
Certain cities, regions and demographics are more prone to activating digital coupons than others, according to a recent study from multichannel promotions platform RevTrax. In the study, five cities — Charlotte, NC; Rochester, NY; Raleigh, NC; Virginia Beach, VA; and Huntsville, AL — turned out to be the best areas to activate digital coupons for […]