Interesting article today in the Baltimore Sun about how the opening weekends of summer movies is being affected by people using Twitter to post their thoughts about the movie as soon as they see it or in some cases from…
The ComScore monthly Search Engine numbers for July are out revealing that Bing made a 2% Gain in July 2009 again at the expense of Google and Yahoo.As I mentioned last month when Bing gained 3%, it's early (only 2…
In an analysis of the latest ComScore search engine numbers, there are some facts that could be easily overlooked. The numbers of people who use a search engine per month isn't really the metric that should be focused on but…
I just read a NYTimes interview of Carol Bartz in which she states that “We have never been a search company”. Excuse me Ms. Bartz, but perhaps while you were busy running Autodesk, you didn't notice that Yahoo pioneered the…
If it actually happens this time.... the deal is a good news bad news thing for advertisers and consumers. The current iteration being tossed around the media is that MS will control Search on both Yahoo and Bing and that…
A new study released today shows the top companies in the US and their use of social media for customer engagement. Most of these companies were no surprise as I've encountered their efforts in my travels online. What was a…
Facebook is set to change their policy of all posts being private by default to making them public by default. As a marketing professional this is pretty heady stuff. The ability to target my advertising based on real-time information being…
News this morning that Google is launching a new OS: Official Google Blog: Introducing the Google Chrome OSDoubtful that MS or Apple are quaking in their boots, but it does give some additional insight into where Google thinks the world…
An April survey of US Marketers reveals that money is moving from more traditional marketing avenues to various online tactics and the main motivator seems to be accountability. American businesses have begun to figure out what we've been saying for…
Google posted this blog post today stating that they will no longer block AdWords users from using trademarked terms that they don't own. On the positive side, that means retailers who want to advertise "Sony Cameras" can do so. On…