Video affects your search engine results

Last week I posted about how video is the fastest growing advertisement method on the internet.  Also this past week, Douglas Karr posted on Marketing Tech Blog the effects video can have on search results.  Karr gives a great example of not only how video can rank highly in search results but the importance of [...]

Online video ad usage is surging

Online advertising is becoming more advanced and taking advantage of consumers attraction to video elements. According to eMarketer online video ad spending will grow by a compound annual rate of 38% in a five-year span ending in 2015. That’s the fastest growing category in the study. In total spend though, video ads are expected to [...]

Tracking customer behavior across multiple channels

Two ads. Two shows. One Brand. While traveling home this week I was skimming a Delta Sky Magazine and noticed two full page ads from Cirque du Soleil. My first thought was that the ads were repetitive. They had different pictures but they were advertising  entertainment from the same brand. With just one page separating [...]

Why you need to know about Google+

What is Google+? On June 28, 2011 Google announced a new social platform named Google+ (also written as Google Plus or G+).  Most people I know and reviews I’ve read compare the platform to Facebook. The influence of Facebook is apparent from the stream (status updates) to connections (friends) to photo share.  But Google+ has [...]

Fighting deceptive adword titles

I wrestled with Google this week. I felt like it was a struggle of biblical proportions. Jacob wrestling with God in Genesis chapter 32. David fighting Goliath in I Samuel chapter 17. But this time it was me, Bob. I wrestled with Google over adword titles that I felt violated their terms and conditions of [...]