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The Word of Mouth Basic Training conference, held over the weekend in Orlando, drew some 450 advertising and marketing professionals, the New York Times reports, and one of the main themes was ethics and full disclosure. Speakers repeatedly warned attendees against misrepresenting themselves. For example, said Robert Ricci, director of web relations for Weber Shandwick, “If you’re working on a video game, and you go onto a video gamer’s blog, let your contacts know that you are an employee of said company.”
Other sessions looked at integrating word-of-mouth with traditional advertising, the role of rewards in word-of-mouth campaigns, Podcasting 101, and using word-of-mouth to bring a brand back from the dead.
Though off-air online and experiential advertising grew modestly as a part of the overall radio revenue pie, and election-related political ads increased in Q3, total radio ad revenues were down 9% to $4.97 billion for Q3 and down 10% for…
Publicis has acquired full-service agency W&K Communications, continuing its Asia expansion that began several years ago.
W&K will be pulled under the umbrella of Publicis’s Burnett agency network, and will be renamed Leo Burnett Beijing Advertising, writes Adweek.
Other recent Publicis…
Everyday with Rachael Ray magazine has created :30 spots for two advertisers who have made 3- to 4-page commitments in the magazine, to run on the CBS Outernet network.
The spots will be shown on CBS Outernet’s supermarket TVs, writes Mediaweek. In a…
It’s official: with a full 28 days of data, ABC can claim to be the top network in terms of adults 18-49, its fourth November win in the demo. CBS can also claim a victory, winning in households and total…
Editors at Gawker, Gizmodo and Jezebel blogs are facing the ax. Gawker editor Sheila McClear has been let go, as has an editorial assistant at Jezebel, while Gawker weekend editor Alex Carnevale’s monthly contract was not renewed, writes FishbowlNY.
Gizmodo lost…
Top American non-luxury auto brands received higher ratings and less negative comments from online consumers than competing Japanese brands, according to an analysis of consumer opinions collected from automotive review websites by Biz360, MarketingCharts reports.
The research, which aggregated a year’s…
