
Stanley Johnson explores the use of blogs as a legitimate vessel of communication in marketing For all their talk about the merits of digital as a communications channel, very few advertising agencies have actually taken the step of setting up their own blog – which is probably not surprising given the cut-throat ...
Kerry Bodine offers some simple suggestions to boost your website’s usability. Whenever we ask web executives how important it is to improve their online customer experience, they reply emphatically, “It's critical.” But firms often flounder when working on site improvements. So, what can they do to get the most out ...
Stanley Johnson explores the use of online banner advertising and its effectiveness as an advertising medium. There’s been much chatter around the blogosphere of late about that most humble of advertising formats, the banner ad. The debate began heating up after respected London ad creative Rob Messeter wrote a thought ...
Web 2.0 is changing the face of web design. Luke Farley explores the features of the new look and how you can incorporate them into your site. The latest and greatest online marketing ideas are often adopted by savvy businesses from the creative breeding ground of the consumer web. Web 2.0 is no exception, but there ...
Ashton Wynne-Yorke discusses what marketers must do to make corporate websites work. The growth of the web as a sales and marketing channel seems limitless, at least for the foreseeable future. In Australia, broadband take-up has skyrocketed and now that consumers have the bandwidth to support it, we’re finally seeing ...
Theresa Cunnington offers some tips for companies thinking of jumping into Web 2.0 Far from being a buzzword, Web 2.0 is providing new opportunities for marketing professionals to reach new audiences and develop new products. So why is this next generation of internet so headache-inducing? Simply, the rules have ...
With both traditional and new web TV players, such as Joost and Babelgum, vying for your advertising dollar, Martyn Thomas asks the burning question: TV or not TV? Despite the seemingly remorseless rise in digital media and the attendant coverage it gets, it is easy to forget that TV is still by far the largest advertising ...
Bob Garfield is an internationally renowned columnist, critic, essayist, public speaker and broadcaster. Lyn Clarke caught up with him when he was in Australia to speak at the recent ADMA Forum. “Welcome to a post apocalyptic media world substantially devoid of brand advertising as we have long known it.” Now there’s ...
As the recent IAB Awards demonstrate, online has come a long way in the last few years. Patty Keegan showcases some of the award-winning campaigns. If the proof of the pudding is in the eating, there were plenty of full bellies at the 2007 IAB Australia Interactive Advertising Awards – and it wasn’t from the gala ...
Facing up to Facebook A couple of months ago I received an email inviting me to join Facebook from one of the people working on a marketing book for which I had contributed a chapter. Given I already had more than enough blogs and RSS feeds to read every day, as well as work and personal emails to keep on top of, ...
Think blogging is self-indulgent diary writing? Duncan Riley explains why this medium can literally make or break a company’s image in minutes. Three years ago, 12 September 2004 started like any other day for the Kryptonite Lock company. Its range of bicycle locks was advertised with the guarantee that Kryptonite ...
Tired of the digital discourse? While no one disputes its relevance in advertising Wai Kwok questions whether digital is ‘just another channel’. I was recently in a brand planning meeting with one of the bigger media agencies in Sydney in which the senior media planner discussed how their brand idea would work through ...
Post ad-tech, Martyn Thomas, called together a few colleagues to discuss the state of digital media in Australia. It seems like eons ago now, but anyone who attended ad-tech in Sydney in February may have come away thinking that we were all there talking to each other. The point being that there appeared to be very ...
Stanley Johnson explores the use of branding in contemporary commerce and culture Russell Davies is one of the godfathers of advertising and marketing blogging. Englishman Davies is a strategy planner who helped Honda gain a serious foothold in the European market before being poached by Nike to become its global ...
PR agencies that embrace the fragmentation of media channels will ensure their survival in the age of new media, advises Catherine Stace. The public relations industry is poised to lead new media communication strategies for a digital, internet-dependent world led by a new generation as it undergoes a dramatic and ...
There is no denying that we live in the digital age, and the innovations in out of home media exemplifies how the new era affects our relationship with advertising. Digital technology boosts consumer interaction, provides advertisers with increased flexibility and, above all, looks impressive. So it should come as ...
Online networks have evolved from the social sphere into serious tools for jobseekers and recruiters alike. Brien Keegan breaks down the art of online networking. The past few years have seen the emergence of a raft of online social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace. In recent times, these networks have ...