With a shifting technological landscape that has relegated television to background noise, advertisers are re-evaluating their needs and looking for new ways to bring their message to the public. Rather than creating entirely new ad campaigns, it's becoming increasingly important to make the method as memorable as the message.
Wheels America Advertising (WAA) uses mobile billboards to catch the eye of drivers and passersby alike. Vinyl 8-by-14-foot billboards are mounted on specially designed vehicles and backlit for maximum visual impact.
Outdoor advertising, such as a billboard, is effective because it's hard to ignore. According to a national survey, it's also memorable. Capitol Communications Group found that 81.7 percent of those polled recalled images they saw on a moving multi-image sign. This is compared to a 19 percent retention rate for static signs.
By virtue of its mobility, this billboard style, already popular in parts of Europe, can be used effectively by businesses in America's car-dominated society.
Unlike a typical billboard, WAA vehicles with their patented backlit images are able to go directly to their target audience. They can be placed wherever there is heavy foot traffic due to an event - including convention centers, train stations, airports and sports arenas. They can repeat routes, ensuring that an advertiser's message is not only noticed, but that information is retained through repetition.
WAA was established in 1995 in Pennsylvania by Henryk Strzeletz, who, confident of his product's marketability, contacted major advertising agencies from his home in Dallas, Pa., to drum up business. Since then, WAA has grown to include clients from Fortune 500 companies like McDonald's, CBS, Toyota and Ikea.
Monday, May 23, 2011
Saturday, May 21, 2011
New Online Ad Service Targets Consumers By Area
It is now easier for businesses to use the Internet for connecting with consumers in their communities.
About 55 percent of consumers used a search engine to find information about a local business last year, up from 47 percent in 2003, according to market-research firm Kelsey Group. When people are looking for products and services such as restaurants, car repair shops and florists, they tend to spend their money in an area near where they live, work or play. It's predicted that local search volume will exceed 20 billion searches in the next year and could exceed 30 billion by 2009.
In response to this trend, Yahoo! Local has designed an easy way for businesses of all sizes-from a major drugstore chain to an independently owned bakery-to place ads online that will be seen by people searching for related services in their community. This can help drive foot traffic to their stores and phone calls to their services at a reasonable price.
Called Yahoo! Local Self-Serve Featured Listings, this new advertising program enables merchants to get the most out of their advertising dollars by targeting their ads by geographic region and product or service category. The ads appear through Yahoo! Local searches, which combined with Yahoo! Maps, had 26.7 million U.S. visitors in March, according to measurement firm comScore Networks Inc.
Yahoo! Local Featured Listings was designed with a self-serve function that makes it easy for local businesses to get up and running quickly. The advertiser simply enters information about the business, selects their category, and then chooses the local regions where they want to advertise.
Pricing is set on a flat-fee subscription that begins at $29.95 per month and can be paid by credit card. Because the program is sold on a first-come, first-served basis, businesses don't end up in a bidding war for popular keywords. The exact rate is determined by the particular business category, the geographic location and also where the ad will appear. Ads that run on the top-also known as the "north" of the page-are more expensive than those that run along the bottom to the "south."
Yahoo! Local Self-Serve Featured Listings complements other Yahoo! Local free and paid advertising products, which include:
• Free Listings: Yahoo! Local offers a free service whereby any merchant can upload detailed information on his or her business-such as hours, address and phone numbers, products and services offered, Web site or years in business-that can be viewed by all users of Yahoo! Local.
• Enhanced Listings: For a small monthly fee, merchants can submit additional content such as photos, logo, and marketing messaging that will help visually differentiate their listing.
About 55 percent of consumers used a search engine to find information about a local business last year, up from 47 percent in 2003, according to market-research firm Kelsey Group. When people are looking for products and services such as restaurants, car repair shops and florists, they tend to spend their money in an area near where they live, work or play. It's predicted that local search volume will exceed 20 billion searches in the next year and could exceed 30 billion by 2009.
In response to this trend, Yahoo! Local has designed an easy way for businesses of all sizes-from a major drugstore chain to an independently owned bakery-to place ads online that will be seen by people searching for related services in their community. This can help drive foot traffic to their stores and phone calls to their services at a reasonable price.
Called Yahoo! Local Self-Serve Featured Listings, this new advertising program enables merchants to get the most out of their advertising dollars by targeting their ads by geographic region and product or service category. The ads appear through Yahoo! Local searches, which combined with Yahoo! Maps, had 26.7 million U.S. visitors in March, according to measurement firm comScore Networks Inc.
Yahoo! Local Featured Listings was designed with a self-serve function that makes it easy for local businesses to get up and running quickly. The advertiser simply enters information about the business, selects their category, and then chooses the local regions where they want to advertise.
Pricing is set on a flat-fee subscription that begins at $29.95 per month and can be paid by credit card. Because the program is sold on a first-come, first-served basis, businesses don't end up in a bidding war for popular keywords. The exact rate is determined by the particular business category, the geographic location and also where the ad will appear. Ads that run on the top-also known as the "north" of the page-are more expensive than those that run along the bottom to the "south."
Yahoo! Local Self-Serve Featured Listings complements other Yahoo! Local free and paid advertising products, which include:
• Free Listings: Yahoo! Local offers a free service whereby any merchant can upload detailed information on his or her business-such as hours, address and phone numbers, products and services offered, Web site or years in business-that can be viewed by all users of Yahoo! Local.
• Enhanced Listings: For a small monthly fee, merchants can submit additional content such as photos, logo, and marketing messaging that will help visually differentiate their listing.
Friday, May 20, 2011
New Google Display url transition your ads
Google has announced some Adwords display url enforcement policies that could affect your campaigns. Most notably, Google wants your display url to be exactly the same as your destination url. You can not have two different display urls that lead to the same destination url. Basically they want to make sure that your when your visitor clicks on your ad that they land on the same root domain that was in the display url. Not really a major change, they are saying they really want you to abide by these rules now, and that you have until April 1st to make any changes necessary to keep your campaigns running above board.
If you are violating the new enforcement, you need to transition your ads carefully, so there is not a major impact to your quality score. Changing the display urls on your current ads will have an immediate impact on your quality score for those ads. When you change the display url, the ad will in effect become a new ad, and your quality score for the old ad copy will be reduced, giving you a new quality score. So what you should do is create ad clones of your old ads with a new rule compliant display url, while letting the old ads run. This will allow the new ads to get an ad history before you need to rely on them. Then when you have sufficient ad history, and the quality score is good, pause your old ads that are violating the rules. By the time April 1st rolls around, you should have everything under control. You can also just change your current ads if they aren't that important or not running much volume, and they should adopt their old quality score in a relatively short period of time.
You shouldn't be scared of changing your ad copy because you fear losing quality score. Changing your ad copy can result in improving the quality score of your keywords in the long term which should lower your bids and increase your profit margins. Considering that a keywords quality score is affected by the average history of all ads related to it, you can really help your bids by improving your ad copy. However, if you feel that your copy is at or near perfection, changing it may not be necessary, and the short term quality score effects could lead to higher cpc and/or ad placement changes. Most of the time, you want to make changes to copy in the beginning of a campaign and let the ad have time to gather history. If your campaign is not doing well, there are many factors besides the copy that are probably affecting its efficacy.
If you are violating the new enforcement, you need to transition your ads carefully, so there is not a major impact to your quality score. Changing the display urls on your current ads will have an immediate impact on your quality score for those ads. When you change the display url, the ad will in effect become a new ad, and your quality score for the old ad copy will be reduced, giving you a new quality score. So what you should do is create ad clones of your old ads with a new rule compliant display url, while letting the old ads run. This will allow the new ads to get an ad history before you need to rely on them. Then when you have sufficient ad history, and the quality score is good, pause your old ads that are violating the rules. By the time April 1st rolls around, you should have everything under control. You can also just change your current ads if they aren't that important or not running much volume, and they should adopt their old quality score in a relatively short period of time.
You shouldn't be scared of changing your ad copy because you fear losing quality score. Changing your ad copy can result in improving the quality score of your keywords in the long term which should lower your bids and increase your profit margins. Considering that a keywords quality score is affected by the average history of all ads related to it, you can really help your bids by improving your ad copy. However, if you feel that your copy is at or near perfection, changing it may not be necessary, and the short term quality score effects could lead to higher cpc and/or ad placement changes. Most of the time, you want to make changes to copy in the beginning of a campaign and let the ad have time to gather history. If your campaign is not doing well, there are many factors besides the copy that are probably affecting its efficacy.
Thursday, May 19, 2011
New and latest concept in Pixel Advertising
While television advertisers are scrambling to conquer Tivo® and get people to actually look at their ads, a new breed of fast emerging media may be just what they’ve been looking for.
The new media that could save the day for advertisers looking to recapture lost viewers is called “pixel ads”. Pixel ads are found on web sites that sell micro-ads sized in 10 by 10 pixel increments. The tiny ads are placed on the pixel ad site’s home page and link to the web sites of the various advertisers.
Here is the domain of InnovativePixelPage(www.innovativepixelpage.com ) a leading micro-ad site. Pixel based ads originally conceived of by Alex Tew of the UK, became popular with the launch of Tew’s Million Dollar Homepage (www.milliondollarhomepage.com) in early September and catering to mainly European businesses and consumers. But US based advertisers had nowhere to go until the arrival of InnovativePixelPage.
While television and other so called mainstream media advertisers are desperately trying to make ads that will be watched by consumers at all, pixel ad sites like InnovativepixelPage and MDH are literally attracting thousands of viewers daily who come to their sites just to look at the ads.
In fact average visitors to innovativepixelpage.com look at a minimum of 4 - 5 advertisers with each visit. In fact, some advertisers report doubling their web site traffic in a matter of days along with greatly increased sales.
The micro-ads are intriguing because of their small size. Basically curiosity forces you to look at them and find out what they are. This writer spent about 5 minutes per visit to each of the above sites “pixeling” (hovering over and clicking on ads). I bookmarked many of the sites and left the pages open so I could go back and click ads I hadn’t seen yet throughout the day. It’s totally addicting. I remember having a similar addition when Tetris was released.
Pixel ads could also help many advertisers reach the coveted echo-boomer generation who are notoriously cynical and averse to advertising. Because of their “cute & cuddly” and off-beat nature, pixel ads are an ideal vehicle to advertise to this demographic.
Peter hill, Creator of innovativepixelpage.com commented, "It's a whirlwind," referring to the many advertiser calls In Touch has received. Cefail is also surprised that, when visitors click on the advertiser's ads, "they are on these sites for hours. Already, the guys that bought the first ads are reporting tremendous volume shifts."
Echo-boomer, musician and rock blog owner Bishop Dolarhyde commented: “…the flow of new traffic to my site stayed steady with my 2,000 pixel block which is still ALOT smaller than your average internet ad. No banner ad I have ever purchased, even at MANY times the size, has out-performed Pixel Bay micro-ads. I’m happy to say that about half of my traffic for the first week came from Pixel Bay. I plan on buying more little blocks to scatter on the page. I am excited about other creative ways I can use these micro-ads to promote my site”.
To sum it up: pixel ads are perfect for advertisers interested in getting their ads really looked at and lots of fun for consumers to explore. These micro-ads are the future of advertising and a win-win all around.
The new media that could save the day for advertisers looking to recapture lost viewers is called “pixel ads”. Pixel ads are found on web sites that sell micro-ads sized in 10 by 10 pixel increments. The tiny ads are placed on the pixel ad site’s home page and link to the web sites of the various advertisers.
Here is the domain of InnovativePixelPage(www.innovativepixelpage.com ) a leading micro-ad site. Pixel based ads originally conceived of by Alex Tew of the UK, became popular with the launch of Tew’s Million Dollar Homepage (www.milliondollarhomepage.com) in early September and catering to mainly European businesses and consumers. But US based advertisers had nowhere to go until the arrival of InnovativePixelPage.
While television and other so called mainstream media advertisers are desperately trying to make ads that will be watched by consumers at all, pixel ad sites like InnovativepixelPage and MDH are literally attracting thousands of viewers daily who come to their sites just to look at the ads.
In fact average visitors to innovativepixelpage.com look at a minimum of 4 - 5 advertisers with each visit. In fact, some advertisers report doubling their web site traffic in a matter of days along with greatly increased sales.
The micro-ads are intriguing because of their small size. Basically curiosity forces you to look at them and find out what they are. This writer spent about 5 minutes per visit to each of the above sites “pixeling” (hovering over and clicking on ads). I bookmarked many of the sites and left the pages open so I could go back and click ads I hadn’t seen yet throughout the day. It’s totally addicting. I remember having a similar addition when Tetris was released.
Pixel ads could also help many advertisers reach the coveted echo-boomer generation who are notoriously cynical and averse to advertising. Because of their “cute & cuddly” and off-beat nature, pixel ads are an ideal vehicle to advertise to this demographic.
Peter hill, Creator of innovativepixelpage.com commented, "It's a whirlwind," referring to the many advertiser calls In Touch has received. Cefail is also surprised that, when visitors click on the advertiser's ads, "they are on these sites for hours. Already, the guys that bought the first ads are reporting tremendous volume shifts."
Echo-boomer, musician and rock blog owner Bishop Dolarhyde commented: “…the flow of new traffic to my site stayed steady with my 2,000 pixel block which is still ALOT smaller than your average internet ad. No banner ad I have ever purchased, even at MANY times the size, has out-performed Pixel Bay micro-ads. I’m happy to say that about half of my traffic for the first week came from Pixel Bay. I plan on buying more little blocks to scatter on the page. I am excited about other creative ways I can use these micro-ads to promote my site”.
To sum it up: pixel ads are perfect for advertisers interested in getting their ads really looked at and lots of fun for consumers to explore. These micro-ads are the future of advertising and a win-win all around.
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Network Marketing Advertising – We Have Vision
Do you ever watch a movie that you think is excellent and wonder why movies like Titanic are the ones to captivate the attention of the greater public? Well, I don’t. People are ridiculous and their taste in music and movies is even worse. But, if there was a case point that we could discuss for a moment, the movie that’s on my mind is Go. While I’m not sure that it created any historical cinematic breakthroughs, I tell you this; I really, really enjoyed myself for a couple of hours watching that movie.
One scene that I particularly liked was when the guy from Party of Five and his boyfriend went to have dinner at the cop’s house. They thought the guy and his wife were hitting on them, but they turned out to simply be trying to recruit them for Amway. I love that. I think that Amway is hilarious and I truly like their style—oversell and under deliver…and that’s just to their employees.
This network marketing business is great. In fact, I’m a little put off that I have to stick with just one anecdote on this one, as I really could drop a few gems that have thankfully come into my life due to network marketing, or multilevel marketing.
What gets into people? I mean at what point does someone drop the dreams they had as a child and decide that the way to personal and career success is through pyramid schemes and selling products to their family and friends? This is what happens when people quite going to church. People obviously are inherently flawed, leaving us with a persistent urge to fill some void in our minds with something to believe in. You can take drugs and ignore it, you can read books in order to recognize that its simply a flaw and thus overcome it, or you can do what every society has done in the history of humankind and utilize religion. But, it appears that another remedy for human imperfection is challenging these time honored techniques…network marketing. So, if you don’t want to buy your cousin’s hokey products for their lack of quality, consider it your contribution to their psychological well-being. Good deed for the day…done.
One scene that I particularly liked was when the guy from Party of Five and his boyfriend went to have dinner at the cop’s house. They thought the guy and his wife were hitting on them, but they turned out to simply be trying to recruit them for Amway. I love that. I think that Amway is hilarious and I truly like their style—oversell and under deliver…and that’s just to their employees.
This network marketing business is great. In fact, I’m a little put off that I have to stick with just one anecdote on this one, as I really could drop a few gems that have thankfully come into my life due to network marketing, or multilevel marketing.
What gets into people? I mean at what point does someone drop the dreams they had as a child and decide that the way to personal and career success is through pyramid schemes and selling products to their family and friends? This is what happens when people quite going to church. People obviously are inherently flawed, leaving us with a persistent urge to fill some void in our minds with something to believe in. You can take drugs and ignore it, you can read books in order to recognize that its simply a flaw and thus overcome it, or you can do what every society has done in the history of humankind and utilize religion. But, it appears that another remedy for human imperfection is challenging these time honored techniques…network marketing. So, if you don’t want to buy your cousin’s hokey products for their lack of quality, consider it your contribution to their psychological well-being. Good deed for the day…done.
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Negative Aspects Of Online Advertising
While there are a host of benefits for companies and websites that choose to advertise via the Internet, there are many negative facets to online advertising as well. These aspects include advertising activities that many deem immoral or even illegal. Such things as Spyware and Adware, commonly referred to as malware, can have detrimental effects on your computer and should be avoided at all costs if possible. Much of this malware is actually viewed and obtained via activity on unsafe websites. Fortunately using the security settings on your computer can allow you to block such websites from being visited.
Essentially adware is an application of sorts which, when come into contact with, can modify your computer system's settings. It is through this modification that your computer is harmed. While there is an extensive variety of this type of damaging adware and spyware programs, the most common of which is perhaps the Trojan. Trojan applications are designed in such a way that once they infiltrate the surface of your computer's inner workings they can become extremely difficult to remove. Many people have written procedures on the Internet trying to explain how to rid your computer of the Trojan, sadly though many of these simply do not work. If you are a well educated individual when it comes to the removal of adware and spyware programs and methods of protecting against infiltration, you are certainly in luck.
If, however, you are not so skilled when it comes to computers and you find yourself directed to an unsafe website, you may be in some trouble. Of course, you may never come across any dangerous adware while visiting such a site but, it is important to keep in mind that this malware can affect your computer in a matter of seconds if you happen to be once again redirected to another less safe website.
Essentially adware is an application of sorts which, when come into contact with, can modify your computer system's settings. It is through this modification that your computer is harmed. While there is an extensive variety of this type of damaging adware and spyware programs, the most common of which is perhaps the Trojan. Trojan applications are designed in such a way that once they infiltrate the surface of your computer's inner workings they can become extremely difficult to remove. Many people have written procedures on the Internet trying to explain how to rid your computer of the Trojan, sadly though many of these simply do not work. If you are a well educated individual when it comes to the removal of adware and spyware programs and methods of protecting against infiltration, you are certainly in luck.
If, however, you are not so skilled when it comes to computers and you find yourself directed to an unsafe website, you may be in some trouble. Of course, you may never come across any dangerous adware while visiting such a site but, it is important to keep in mind that this malware can affect your computer in a matter of seconds if you happen to be once again redirected to another less safe website.
Monday, May 16, 2011
Need Full Service Advertising Agency Dallas
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