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Penguin Update Peck Your Site By Mistake? Google’s Got A Form For That

April 27, 2012 in Blogs

Was your site hit by Google’s new Penguin Update that targets spam? Are you not guilty as charged? Google’s got a new feedback form for that, as well as a method to report spam that should have been caught.

I’m Innocent!

The head of Google’s web spam team, Matt Cutts, shared the information on Twitter today. The first form is for those who believe they were targeted by mistake. It says:

If your site was affected by the “Penguin” webspam algorithm update on April 24th, 2012, and you don’t think it should have been affected, please give us more details below.

It then asks for the URL of your page, an example of a search that you’d expect it to show up for but which instead lists “non-ideal results” and any additional comments.

They’re Guilty!

The second form is Google’s standard spam reporting page. If you’re seeing spam that you think the Penguin Update should have caught, Google says to use that form, bypass options like reporting paid links and use the “Report webspam” button.

Selecting that brings up a form where you can enter the URL of the spammy page, the exact query it shows up for and any additional details. It’s important to use the word “penguin” as part of the details field.

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Marketer of the Year award winners: Mojo Video Marketing

April 27, 2012 in Blogs

Co-Founders Cory Sanchez, left, and Ira Rosen.

Co-Founders Cory Sanchez, left, and Ira Rosen.







Lynn Ducey
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Mojo Video Marketing

Co-Founders: Cory Sanchez and Ira Rosen

Address: 3131 E. Camelback Road, Phoenix

Employees: 15

Description: Provides strategic video-centric marketing and database development services to clients in 22 countries

When Ira Rosen and Cory Sanchez launched Mojo Video Marketing in 2009, friends and business associates didn’t think the company would make it through the recession. Today, Mojo has 15 employees and clients around the world.

“We started when we were in the middle of the recession, when it was at its absolute worst. Everyone said we were crazy,” Rosen said. “I love when people do that, …

Lynn Ducey covers tourism, hospitality, restaurants and nonprofits.

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Article source: http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/print-edition/2012/04/27/marketer-of-the-year-award-winners.html

UK-Based SEO Company Launches London Internet Marketing Initiative

April 27, 2012 in Blogs

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WebiMax, a Search Engine Optimization company in UK, has announced the launch of its new offering, the London Internet Marketing Initiative.

The company revealed that the new initiative, which is a comprehensive set of web-based marketing services, brings their services to London-area as well as to various UK businesses catering particularly to the arrival of visitors spending their time to the city and surrounding areas.

“It’s a unique time for the city and all of the UK. We simply recognised an opportunity for our services to enable local businesses to capitalize on the web-searching trends of the summer traveler to drive more business,” said WebiMax founder and CEO, Kenneth C. Wisnefski.

The initiative, which attempts to be comprehensive, offers solutions that optimize businesses’ online presence to provide them more direct exposure to online traffic.  As conceived, it will target travelers travelers who search the web through mobile devices to make plans for their stay such as amenities, attractions, restaurants, pubs, and accommodation.

Basically, the initiative concentrates more on local on-site and blog optimization, social bookmarking, directory submission and page optimization. Additionally, it offers article marketing to drive objected traffic for web searching.

The company, which also offers internet marketing packages, stands that the initiative will be beneficial for businesses across sectors as well as those who are on the hospitality and tourism industry as they will be getting the greatest return.

Article source: http://imsoup.com/5510/uk-based-seo-company-launches-london-internet-marketing-initiative/

DCMMoguls.com Using Video Marketing Techniques to Bring Businesses at the Top

April 26, 2012 in Blogs

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Article source: http://www.sbwire.com/press-releases/video/marketing/sbwire-138991.htm

MoZeus Worldwide Celebrates Launch of Newly-Designed Website

April 26, 2012 in Blogs

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The new MoZeus website includes three new experiential marketing tools for the SMART Activator application: mobile donations, the SMART Educator and License and Barcode Scanning.

In the past 18 months, we have been a part of over 100,000 activation days, which resulted in five million unique leads and over 20 million survey questions answered.

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) April 26, 2012

MoZeus Worldwide, creator of the experiential marketing SMART Activator application, recently celebrated the launch of its newly-designed website. The website now includes several new user-friendly and social media components to showcase the company’s latest partnerships and the SMART Activator’s various real-time applications.

Launched in 2010, the SMART Activator is a cost-effective, cutting-edge experiential marketing mobile application that provides clients with a “toolbox” of real-time applications, such as photo and video marketing and augmented reality. MoZeus WorldWide has crafted unique campaigns for smartphones and tablets on behalf of numerous prominent brands, including Disney and Verizon, utilizing its patent-pending technology to capture data on various target demographics.

“Since the SMART Activator’s launch in 2010, our partnerships and our experiential marketing visibility have grown exponentially,” said Charles Jones, Chief Operating Officer of MoZeus Worldwide. “We wanted to create a website that is user-friendly, compelling and informational, as the SMART Activator now offers new components and real-time applications that were not featured in the previous website design. We believe that the new design showcases these attributes as well as our partnerships with valued clients and brands.”

The new website now features an informative video, social networking links, an expanded news section, details about MoZeus Worldwide’s executive team, and information about three new SMART Activator experiential marketing service offerings: mobile donations, the SMART Educator and License and Barcode Scanning. The streamlined website also features user-friendly drop-down menus and a re-designed logo.

“We are prepared to experience more website volume than before,” said Jones. “In the past 18 months, we have been a part of over 100,000 activation days, which resulted in five million unique leads and over 20 million survey questions answered. As our company continues to experience growth, we hope that our newly-designed website better communicates with our online audience to portray any new SMART Activator developments or partnerships celebrated in the future.”

For more information on MoZeus Worldwide and its innovative real-time applications or to learn more about the SMART Activator experiential marketing platform, visit http://www.mozeus.com or call 1-888-221-1005.

About MoZeus Worldwide

MoZeus Worldwide’s technology marketing solutions enable brands, agencies, properties and organizations to connect with consumers by utilizing proprietary event marketing software that allows partners to create initial and follow-up marketing and advertising campaigns. MoZeus Worldwide’s innovative SMART Activator leverages smartphones, Facebook, email and photo/video sharing to provide real-time consumer results from a host of experiential marketing applications, including photo/video marketing, instant win games, augmented reality and digital sweepstakes. The SMART Activator is the most-used event marketing application in the world, with over 100 brands, agencies and sports properties leveraging the application within one year of its launch, resulting in 5 million unique leads and 20 million survey questions answered. For more information about MoZeus Worldwide or to learn more about the SMART Activator, visit http://www.mozeus.com or call 1-888-221-1005.

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Article source: http://www.prweb.com/releases/experiential/marketing/prweb9442843.htm

UK Event Channel Introduces New Video Marketing Service

April 26, 2012 in Blogs

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In addition to providing a player for companies to showcase UK Exhibitions and UK trade show videos , ‘The UK Event Channel’ are now offering an affordable service to businesses who do not yet have a corporate video. The service produces a video made from material provided by the company and can be used on the company website, facebook, youtube, at exhibitions or at client face to face meetings.

The UK Event Channel was launched in February to provide the event industry with an effective Channel to promote exhibitions, trade shows and products and services relating to the industry. The Event Channel is aimed at anyone who is interested in attending or exhibiting at a UK Event, Trade Fair or Exhibition.

With Video marketing proving to be one of the most engaging and effective ways of communicating a message to the consumer, more and more event organisers and businesses are turning to promote their businesses by way of video marketing. However this can sometimes be an expensive and daunting experience . The UK Event Channel aim to make the the service affordable, simple and effective .

About The UK Event Channel

The UK Event Channel is an exhibition, Trade Fair and Trade Show Resource and was created to offer one place for Trade Show professionals and members of the general public to view the Latest Events, Consumer Shows and Trade Show Videos and to provide organisers of events with an effective Channel to promote their events.

To find out more or to receive a quote for a video please contact Alexandra Stearn or visit http://www.theukeventchannel.tv

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Minorities Winning Audiences with Video Marketing

April 26, 2012 in Blogs

A recent Washington Post article, though, by Hayley Tsukayama raises the interesting fact that a disproportionate share of the biggest personalities on YouTube are minorities, which is in heavy contrast to that which is experienced on television in the country, she points out. This reality sheds some insight into the video producing and consumption landscape on the all-important YouTube platform and is worth a closer look for marketers and SEO companies that help businesses strategize videos and optimize them to rank in search engine results.

Further statistics show the considerable segment of the market that minorities have carved out. Eight of the top 20 YouTube channels with the most subscribers feature minority individuals. Most of these are Asian American, however a large amount of African American and Latino shows are among the top 50 subscriber channels. According to research from Pew Internet American Life Project, less than 70% of white individuals regularly watch online videos, whereas almost 80% of minorities regularly view them. These are staggering facts for marketers and those looking to capitalize on the video market. The question becomes how can marketers leverage the popularity of minority production and consumption of online videos?

Article source: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/333629/20120426/seo-companies.htm

Email List Building Tips for Publishers

April 26, 2012 in Blogs

Like all marketers today, magazine publishers are going beyond the printed page to build relationships with readers new and old. That means a robust, content-filled website and a solid strategy to collect email addresses. 


How can you build your file? 

* If you don’t have a line requesting an email address on all of your subscription devices—including bind-ins, blow-ins, direct mail packages and renewal efforts etc.—add one now.  Unless you see requesting an email address depresses overall response, there is no reason to leave it off any of your materials.

* If your house file is large enough, consider an e-append project to add missing email addresses.  If you have not done an append project before, you should expect to gain around 20% and the costs are quite reasonable, especially if you are selling other products to your subscribers to help recover that cost.  You can append your current file and 18 months of expires and still stay complaints stemming from CAN-SPAM.

* An e-newsletter is probably the best way to build your email universe with little effort or expense.  An e-newsletter can be as simple or as complex as your resources allow, and is an effective way to inform prospects about your products or services.

 Here are five steps to remember when working to build your email file:

 1. Drive readers to your website by offering additional content not available in your print product.  Don’t be shy – mention your website as often as possible in your print edition.

 2. Use a prominent location at the top of your home page to encourage people to sign up for your email list.

 3. Immediately acknowledge a new sign up with a welcome email. (Many email deployment platforms allow for triggered emails and this is an excellent tool because once they are set up they basically run unattended until a content change is needed.)

 4. Over the course of the first weeks, make several additional contacts to build community and accustom subscribers to hearing from you via email.

 5. If your privacy policy allows, you can also generate revenue by serving third-party emails to your audience—current print advertisers are often quick to take advantage of this extra exposure to a proven audience.

Jim Chiavelli is a circulation consultant

 

Article source: http://chiefmarketer.com/email-marketing/email-list-building-tips-publishers

TubeMogul Secures Leading Position in Real-Time Video Advertising Market – Virtual

April 26, 2012 in Blogs

By focusing exclusively on video advertising for brand marketers, TubeMogul has grown into the largest buyer of real-time video advertising in the world.

Emeryville, CA (PRWEB) April 25, 2012

TubeMogul, the leading media buying platform for digital video advertising, announced today that it is the largest global buyer of real-time video ad inventory.

Over the past year, TubeMogul partnered with the largest sources of real-time enabled video inventory to help transition the market to buying video in real-time. This strategy delivered substantial market share gains, driving annual revenue growth of over 190% over the past three years. According to February’s comScore Video Metrix report, TubeMogul saw 36% month-to-month growth in video ads served, delivering video ads to a broader percentage of the U.S. population than many other players in the industry, including Hulu, ESPN, Microsoft and Tremor Video.

TubeMogul’s inventory partners stand as witness to TubeMogul’s leading position in the marketplace:

“TubeMogul is an aggressive market leader in buying video via real-time bidding,” says Chip Hall, Google’s Head of Buyer Development for DoubleClick Ad Exchange, an early partner which recently expanded its inventory to include YouTube pre-roll.

“TubeMogul is consistently our largest RTB buyer, quickly adapting as we constantly evolve to meet publishers’ ongoing digital needs,” said Mark Trefgarne, CEO of LiveRail.

“TubeMogul is one of our largest clients buying through real-time bidding and a valued partner as we continue to help grow the ecosystem of top publishers,” comments Michael Shehan, CEO of SpotXchange.

Driving this growth are hundreds of major brands that signed on with TubeMogul since launch. Every Fortune 100 automotive and media company ran a campaign with TubeMogul in the past year, as well as 89% of consumer packaged goods manufacturers. Similar momentum is happening with top agencies and trading desks, including Cadreon (part of Interpublic), Varick Media Management (part of MDC Partners) and many more. To keep up with demand, TubeMogul ramped up hiring both in the U.S. and abroad, more than doubling the size of its London and Sydney offices in the past year.

“We believe there is a ton of potential growth in real-time video. Working with TubeMogul helps us deliver on that promise for our clients by driving the transparent, tangible results that brand marketers want,” commented Jeremy Hlavacek, VP of Strategic Partnerships at Varick Media Management, MDC Partners’ trading desk. “TubeMogul’s technology allows us to cut through the noise and ensure that every impression is both safe and effective.”

The appeal to brands is a platform that simplifies the often-complicated process of buying video ads and gives them confidence that every buy is both safe and effective. On every aspect of a campaign, TubeMogul puts marketers in total control, whether it is selecting the exact audiences and sites to advertise with or offering transparent, site-by-site reporting that accounts for every impression. Combined with TubeMogul’s targeting, which enables brands to easily reach any audience by using their own data or verified third-party data, marketers can achieve branding goals never before possible.

“Partnering with TubeMogul allows us to combine the data driven targeting and effectiveness of real-time buying with the branding power of video advertising,” commented Martin Kelly, Managing Partner at Infectious Media, a client.

“Real-time bidding is changing what is possible for brand advertisers and working with an early leader in the space is opening up new possibilities to more effectively target viewers with the right message at the right time,” said Dewayne Hankins, Director of New Media for AEG Sports, a client.

Brand safety is sacrosanct to established brands, and TubeMogul built its real-time media buying platform to ensure a safe harbor from what some pundits call the “wild west of online video advertising.” To that end, the company layers BrandSafe, a suite that protects marketers from irrelevant, unsafe or fraudulent impressions, into every buy. The results make TubeMogul one of the safest options online, protecting brands in triplicate by using real-time textual scanning, content tiering and proprietary technology that blocks any video a viewer did not explicitly intend to watch.

“TubeMogul’s approach to brand safety is unique, especially in their application of Proximic’s page level data at the system level. We like to partner with companies like TubeMogul that are willing to offer brand marketers more control and transparency for their online buys,” says Rodney Mayers, SVP of Business Development at Proximic.

In all, TubeMogul is well-positioned to be a leader as online streaming and television experiences merge.

“We’re pleased to use TubeMogul as a technology partner and bidding platform. The platform and team were unique in their ability to offer the flexibility, reach, and customization we needed to offer a sharing-focused, and BuzzFeed-unique approach to video,” commented John Chan, Vice President of Social Targeting at Buzzfeed.

About TubeMogul

TubeMogul is the only video marketing company built for branding. By integrating real-time media buying, ad serving, targeting optimization and brand measurement into its PlayTime platform, TubeMogul simplifies the delivery of video ads and maximizes the impact of every dollar spent by brand marketers. Founded in 2006, TubeMogul is based in Emeryville, CA with offices in New York, London, Sydney, Chicago, Detroit, Austin and Los Angeles. April 25, 2012 – TubeMogul, the leading media buying platform for digital video advertising, announced today that it is the largest global buyer of real-time video ad inventory.

Over the past year, TubeMogul partnered with the largest sources of real-time enabled video inventory to help transition the market to buying video in real-time. This strategy delivered substantial market share gains, driving annual revenue growth of over 190% over the past three years. According to February’s comScore Video Metrix report, TubeMogul saw 36% month-to-month growth in video ads served, delivering video ads to a broader percentage of the U.S. population than many other players in the industry, including Hulu, ESPN, Microsoft and Tremor Video.

TubeMogul’s inventory partners stand as witness to TubeMogul’s leading position in the marketplace:

“TubeMogul is an aggressive market leader in buying video via real-time bidding,” says Chip Hall, Google’s Head of Buyer Development for DoubleClick Ad Exchange, an early partner which recently expanded its inventory to include YouTube pre-roll.

“TubeMogul is consistently our largest RTB buyer, quickly adapting as we constantly evolve to meet publishers’ ongoing digital needs,” said Mark Trefgarne, CEO of LiveRail.

“TubeMogul is one of our largest clients buying through real-time bidding and a valued partner as we continue to help grow the ecosystem of top publishers,” comments Michael Shehan, CEO of SpotXchange.

Driving this growth are hundreds of major brands that signed on with TubeMogul since launch. Every Fortune 100 automotive and media company ran a campaign with TubeMogul in the past year, as well as 89% of consumer packaged goods manufacturers. Similar momentum is happening with top agencies and trading desks, including Cadreon (part of Interpublic), Varick Media Management (part of MDC Partners) and many more. To keep up with demand, TubeMogul ramped up hiring both in the U.S. and abroad, more than doubling the size of its London and Sydney offices in the past year.

“We believe there is a ton of potential growth in real-time video. Working with TubeMogul helps us deliver on that promise for our clients by driving the transparent, tangible results that brand marketers want,” commented Jeremy Hlavacek, VP of Strategic Partnerships at Varick Media Management, MDC Partners’ trading desk. “TubeMogul’s technology allows us to cut through the noise and ensure that every impression is both safe and effective.”

The appeal to brands is a platform that simplifies the often-complicated process of buying video ads and gives them confidence that every buy is both safe and effective. On every aspect of a campaign, TubeMogul puts marketers in total control, whether it is selecting the exact audiences and sites to advertise with or offering transparent, site-by-site reporting that accounts for every impression. Combined with TubeMogul’s targeting, which enables brands to easily reach any audience by using their own data or verified third-party data, marketers can achieve branding goals never before possible.

“Partnering with TubeMogul allows us to combine the data driven targeting and effectiveness of real-time buying with the branding power of video advertising,” commented Martin Kelly, Managing Partner at Infectious Media, a client.

“Real-time bidding is changing what is possible for brand advertisers and working with an early leader in the space is opening up new possibilities to more effectively target viewers with the right message at the right time,” said Dewayne Hankins, Director of New Media for AEG Sports, a client.

Brand safety is sacrosanct to established brands, and TubeMogul built its real-time media buying platform to ensure a safe harbor from what some pundits call the “wild west of online video advertising.” To that end, the company layers BrandSafe, a suite that protects marketers from irrelevant, unsafe or fraudulent impressions, into every buy. The results make TubeMogul one of the safest options online, protecting brands in triplicate by using real-time textual scanning, content tiering and proprietary technology that blocks any video a viewer did not explicitly intend to watch.

“TubeMogul’s approach to brand safety is unique, especially in their application of Proximic’s page level data at the system level. We like to partner with companies like TubeMogul that are willing to offer brand marketers more control and transparency for their online buys,” says Rodney Mayers, SVP of Business Development at Proximic.

In all, TubeMogul is well-positioned to be a leader as online streaming and television experiences merge.

“We’re pleased to use TubeMogul as a technology partner and bidding platform. The platform and team were unique in their ability to offer the flexibility, reach, and customization we needed to offer a sharing-focused, and BuzzFeed-unique approach to video,” commented John Chan, Vice President of Social Targeting at Buzzfeed.

About TubeMogul

TubeMogul is the only video marketing company built for branding. By integrating real-time media buying, ad serving, targeting optimization and brand measurement into its PlayTime platform, TubeMogul simplifies the delivery of video ads and maximizes the impact of every dollar spent by brand marketers. Founded in 2006, TubeMogul is based in Emeryville, CA with offices in New York, London, Sydney, Chicago, Detroit, Austin and Los Angeles.

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Article source: http://www.virtual-strategy.com/2012/04/25/tubemogul-secures-leading-position-real-time-video-advertising-market

TubeMogul: We’re Totally The Biggest In Real-Time Video Ads, Delivered 6.6B …

April 25, 2012 in Blogs

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TubeMogul is releasing some statistics today about the success of its video ad buying platform. The big message: When it comes to real-time video ads, TubeMogul is the biggest buyer.

The company initially offered tools to help publishers syndicate and analyze their videos, but it relaunched last year with its current focus on advertising. In the 12 months since, the company says it has delivered 6.6 billion video ad streams. (Or, more specifically, that it served 6,591,981,439 streams from April 2011 to March 2012.)

As for the claim of being the biggest, it’s not quite as simple as pointing to one chart that puts TubeMogul at the top. Instead, the company is relying on a couple of separate data points to make its argument. For one thing, it includes statements from video ad inventory sellers who call TubeMogul either their biggest or one of their biggest buyers. They range from definitive (“TubeMogul is consistently our largest RTB buyer,” according to LiveRail) to more hedge-y (Google says, “TubeMogul is an aggressive market leader in buying video via real-time bidding.”) The company also points to the recent comScore Video Metrix report stating that TubeMogul’s ads were viewed 537 million times in March, reaching 16 percent of the US population. (That’s higher than Hulu and ESPN, for example.) The company notes that it’s the only one on the list focused entirely on real-time video ad-buying.

TubeMogul also says that its revenue has grown more than 190 percent annually over the past three years, and that every automotive and media company in the Fortune 100 has run a campaign on its platform in the past year.

Lastly, here’s the obligatory infographic.

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  • TUBEMOGUL

TubeMogul is the only video marketing company built for branding. By integrating real-time media buying, ad serving, targeting, optimization and brand measurement into its PlayTime platform, TubeMogul simplifies the delivery of video ads and maximizes the impact of every dollar spent by brand marketers.

The company only partners with premium and transparent inventory sources – including direct publishers and private networks – to deliver video to any audience, in any format, on any device. Advertisers only pay when…

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Article source: http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/25/tubemogul-totally-the-biggest/

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