Archive for the 'Online Advertising' Category

Simon Sinek has written a book about a brilliant idea: “Start with why“. Now he has written a semi-good blogpost about the ad industry titled “I hate you: a tale about the advertising industry“.  His main take out: agencies knowingly produce stuff people don’t want to see, so they look for ways to make people [...]

I am badly hooked on the series “lost“, as I wrote in my German Blog already. The sixth and supposedly last season started yesterday in the US (the parts are available in Germany always one day later), however in the last couple of days / weeks a few marketing gigs have already taken place. Such [...]

Coming up for an original idea for a rather ordinary product like the cereal wheetabix isn’t always easy. In this case, it’s a play on the fact that wheetabix as a breakfast gives you energy for the whole day. So they came up with a questions that is interesting for all of us: “What makes [...]

Martin, Sarah, Julian and Cornelia are cruising from on Ikea to the next all throughout Germany as part of an Ikea Midsommar Tour, in order to find the best Midsommar bargains in Germany. The whole journey is being documented in many (partially live) video shows, blogs of each of the four and a Google map [...]

14:00 audience session: context by Stefan Erschwendner Some interesting questions arise after the kick off presentation:  Should agencies rather focus on context of the target audience? Will context drive marketing (communicationss) in the future? Which type of agency will be best suited for this in the future? PR or ad agencies? What happens when companies piggyback [...]

11:05 second day just started, with some delay, as Roland points out explicitly First panel:  Trend Cocooning Wie verändert die Krise das Verbraucherverhalten? With Prof. Peter Wippermann and Roland Kühl v. Puttkammer (Organisator der remix09) First, Roland explains the trend cocooning. Prof. Wippermann expands on it. The trend was orifinally coined by Faith Popcorn, before [...]

17:33h – Ok, I skipped a session: quantitative vs qualitative viral marketing by viral seeding company elbkind. Very interesting session with a goood discussion about reach of campaigns in generell (i.e. millions of views) vs reach within a certain target group (wich might result in viewer, but qualitatively lesser views). Now I am sitting in [...]

14:00h – the first afternoon session started with: XING und die Klassiker wahlfreie Informationen und Networking statt einfach nur Werbung Oliver Nickels of IBM starts the session explaining how IBM uses WoM and direct networking to sell their solutions to the German Mittelstand, because it works better than pure advertising. Networking is extremely important in [...]

10:55 at the Museum for Hamburgische Geschichte, and the show will start any minute. The speakers of the first panel are already sitting on stage. First topic:  Share Economy, Collaborative Marketing, Radical Individualism  Markenführung im Spannungsfeld zwischen Klassik und Online, Stabilität und Individualisierung, Kontrolle und Partizipation The first panel is with Bernd M. Michael, Gregor [...]

Tomorrow is the first remix conference: classic meets online (advertising). To recap what it will be all about: Fachleute aus dem klassischen Marketing-Umfeld treffen die Aktiven des Web 2.0 für einen professionellen und persönlichen interdisziplinären Austausch. Feste Konferenzelemente treffen auf die adhoc-Strukturen von BarCamp und Open Space – Beim remix09 mischen sich Unternehmerinnen und Unternehmer, [...]

The year the media died… This video is great. almost 10 minutes long, like the original song by Don Mclean, and in bits seemingly redundant, but fun to watch and listen to nevertheless – well done! For your bookmarks:

Some of you might have noticed the event tip/ad in the righthand column. This is something particularly interesting for my German readers: the remix09 conference is happening on the 12th and 13th of June here in Hamburg. Title: “online meets classic”. The setup of the event is a mixture of barcamp and a regular conference: [...]

Need a short URL for twitter? try http://url.so-smart.be/ instead of the typical tinyurl.com – this is a nice marketing idea by smart, the shortest car around. A nice new advert by Hondy, in stopmotion, using lots and lots of cars: A card board trailer of “300″ by Panasonic – what would happen to Hollywood given [...]

There is a new ad idea for social media, called WOMI – Word Of Mouth Impression. Developed by a company with a name that says it all: Social Media. It functions like a mini-application that spreads in my own social network of contacts and friends, and I wonder: does it do that automatically, whenever I [...]

This isn’t so new any more, but I had this in my drafts and definitely wanted to share it with you. Zuji, an online travel agent, launched a rather unique campaign to illustrate the great possibilities to save money for nicer holidays: The main thing of this was probably the ways the video made it’s [...]