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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Using video in email marketing: possibilities and challenges

Email Studies, mainly by ESPs, have shown that using video in email marketing might have a positive impact on conversion and recipient engagement. I have discussed some possibilities for email marketers to integrate video in their campaigns earlier.

In this post, I look at the issue from all possible viewpoints, with additional input from the people at Gold Lasso.

Considering that billions of videos are viewed online every single month, it’s no surprise that marketers and retailers are eager to incorporate video into their email marketing campaigns.

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