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by Dave Ingalls Digital Marketing Tutorial Blog If you don’t get this daily (M-F) update on the latest online marketing happenings, stop what you’re doing and go sign up for either the email version or the RSS feed right now! Their self-description: “MarketingVOX helps marketers and media professionals save time and do their jobs more effectively … Read more

Why Isn’t My Business Web Site Working?

by Dave Ingalls Digital Marketing Tutorial Blog Sound familiar? You (Director or VP of Marketing) spent all that time (and money!) several years ago building the slickest Web site in your industry, but now it just sits there. Visits, page views, leads are all flat or headed in the wrong direction, and your CEO is asking … Read more

SpiralFrog, Universal to Offer Free Music Downloads

By Alan Sacco CIO Dave’s Comments (Digital Marketing Tutorial Blog): This one is REALLY worth watching! It makes all the sense in the world to do something like this for SpiralFrog’s (stated) target demographic of 13 to 34 year olds. Basically they’ve taken the relevant-ads-displayed-with-relevant-content concept and replaced free text-based content with free music. You … Read more

Google Testing GBuy New Online-Payment Option

By MYLENE MANGALINDAN Wall Street Journal Dave’s Comments (Digital Marketing Tutorial Blog): Here’s an interesting twist on GBuy from analyst Jordan Rohan at RBC in the UK – Google might be building a one ID, one password system to rival Microsoft’s Passport system, and not directly targeting eBay’s PayPal service: “In other words, a user … Read more

Hitwise Data Shows Overall Visits to Video Search Sites Up 164%

Source: Hitwise.com Dave’s Comments (Digital Marketing Tutorial Blog): Video viewing, in ALL forms, is simply exploding on the Web! Here’s the latest example of just how popular it’s become. And the REALLY interesting thing about YouTube phenomenon is that’s becoming as much a SOCIAL networking site (think MySpace) as it is an aggregator of (mostly) … Read more

Google Click-To-Play Video Ads for AdWords

By Lauren Baker Search Engine Journal Dave’s Comments (Digital Marketing Tutorial Blog): Another big announcement regarding the emergence of online video advertising from a major Internet ad serving company. Between the use of free video content containing embedded, short (and “unskippable”) advertisng “clips”, and the emergence of online video ads, online video use in advertising … Read more