Facebook and Nielsen report: “advertisers can’t buy earned media”

Nielsen facebook advertising campaign report 2010Facebook and Nielsen published a joint report, called Advertising Effectiveness: Understanding the Value of a Social Media Impression”.

Both companies want to answer the “need for guidance when it comes to measuring the value of social media advertising” that they have heard from “countless brand marketers”.

The joint report shows some first results of an analysis of survey data from over 800,000 Facebook users and how they responded to over 125 ad campaigns (from 70 brand advertisers) on the king of social networks.

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Tom Pick on social media ROI and web analytics

Tom Pick of KC Associates Recently, contributor Ambal Balakrishnan from Click Documents, interviewed Tom Pick, an online marketing executive with Minneapolis-based B2B marketing and PR agency KC Associates. He shared his thoughts on this year’s marketing evolutions and on social media ROI.

Tom, who blogs about B2B marketing on Webbiquity, believes that with increased time spent on social media marketing, C-level executives will pressure their teams to demonstrate measurable ROI from these programs.

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