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In March there was considerable coverage of Vitrue’s announcement that using their social platform, they planned to bring age verification to some Twitter accounts. The idea is that liquor companies wanted to be on Twitter, but they were concerned about having under-age followers. Now we are starting to see age verification in action. I recorded [...]
In the video I outline three key reasons that Facebook was willing to make this purchase: 1. Better mobile presence 2. Prevent competitors from purchasing Instagram 3. Facebook taking their deep social graph knowledge and extending it to mobile I also predict that Facebook will eventually have their own web search engine as well [...]
This piece on mobile advertising and marketing ended up running rather long, but it is broken up into three sections for easy viewing: Creating monetizable events on phones is difficult. Three examples of mobile struggles. Where mobile does work. If you want to go right to the success cases, feel free, but I hope you [...]
Miracle Whip has a history of non traditional advertising. They paid Lady Gaga to include their product in the music video for “Telephone” in 2010, and frequently places ads and sponsored content in video games like Skate 3. But all of that is fairly tame, compared to the tweets coming from the Miracle Whip official Twitter account on [...]
American Express is offering 10,000 small and mid-sized business a free $100 credit to start using Twitter’s new self-service ad platform. The news was announced two weeks ago, and I wanted to explore the details and process. In order to qualify for free Twitter advertising you must: Be a U.S. business with a U.S. billing [...]
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