New Babes in Social Networking
With the rapidly expanding popularity of the micro-blog text byte, it was only a matter of due course that micro-vlogging would be next.
Step aside you ten-minute rambling vlogs on YouTube and Myspace, here comes QIK which hosts and promotes video communiques, updates, and dispatches from mobile devices that are less than 60 seconds long.
QIK’s motto: “Mobile live video sharing for everyone, everywhere!”
There’s a lot of exciting, innovative things going on in the crazy world of online advertising. Innovators out there are constantly experiemnting with new ways to enhance brands’ online presence, create customer relevance, and making it easy for consumers to find what they want/need when they do their consumasurfing. This is something the team at Ninthlink fully emphasizes when we work with clients.
Here are some recent trends in online advertising…
Social Networks and blogs are visited by over two-thirds (67%) of the global online population, making them the fourth most popular online category ahead of email, this according to Nielsen‘s new “Global Faces and Networked Places” report.
The social network and blogging audience is also becoming more diverse in terms of age: the biggest increase in visitors during 2008 to “Member Community” web sites globally came from the 35-49 year old age group (+11.3 million).
Meanwhile, mobile continues to play an increasingly important role with 23% of users in the UK reporting using mobile devices to check their networks, compared to 19% in the US (10.6 million people). Facebook, now the world’s most popular social network, is visited monthly by three in every 10 people online across the nine markets that Nielson tracks.
Payola scandals rocked the music world in the late ’50s and ’60s, calling into question if “hit” songs were from natural talent or forced onto music` fans by constant paid-for airplay.
Online music site Jango, which boasts having in excess of 6 million users, is trying to resurrect the concept with a new model offering the chance for indie music artists to buy plays in a variety of packages to try and incubate fans for their music.
The Economic Blues
Let’s face it, the news on the economy is bleak. Every day we hear about job cuts and poorer-than-expected earnings that continue to mount in the tech and digital media spaces. Panasonic was the latest electronics manufacturer forced to downwardly revise its full-year earnings outlook, now projecting a net loss of 380 billion yen or $4.2 billion for the year ending March 31.
What Is It?
Band loyalty is a term for when consumers generally buy from the same manufacturer repeatedly over time rather than buying from multiple suppliers within the category. It also refers to the degree to which a consumer consistently purchases the same brand within a product class.
Google Mars!
NASA and Google released a new Mars overlay providing 3D views of the canyons and mountains of the Red Planet, part of the beta launch of the downloadable Google Earth 5.0 client application. Choose from a variety of content categories to view the locations of spacecraft landings and major scientific findings. National Geographic also signed a deal to provide a wide range of content to a new Ocean overlay of Google Earth.
There are a number of important days and holidays in the month of February. Let’s take a look at some, their history, and what they mean to us in today’s culture, and how these events relate to online marketing.
The successful social networking site Facebook turned five years old this month. Here are five reasons why we dig and luv the site:
Happy Mothers Day
Added by: Alex Chousmith on May 13, 2012
Friday Office Humor?
Added by: Alex Chousmith on May 11, 2012
I love it when kids lip sync
Added by: Matt Stallings on May 10, 2012
New Contemporaries 2 featuring Matt Stallings
This Friday the 13th come on down and enjoy the thriving art scene in San Diego. Ninthlink’s Matt Stallings has been nominated for the San Diego Art Prize, other wise known as New Contemporaries 2. This years show is hosted by Little Italy’s newest gallery Noel-Baza. The show is full of a diverse collection of nominated established artists + up-and-comming heroes of the visual stimulation know as artists. READ MORE
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