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By David Burn
According to The Wall Street Journal, AOL is betting it can reinvent itself with a numbers-driven approach to developing content, based on what Web-search and other data tell it is most likely to attract audiences and sponsors. AOL says its technology streamlines the process of assigning, editing and publishing stories by using a series of algorithms to predict the types of stories, videos and photos that will be …
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By David Burn
Mother London is taking us back to an earlier black and white time to promote Stella Artois in an aluminum can. According to Mother, the show is hosted by Alain du Monde, and consists of a sequence of nine episodes through which Alain, his robot butler Albert 3000, the Mondettes, and their guests show that being green and stylish need not be incompatible. The campaign is supported by a comprehensive media spend, …
By David Burn
Candace Bushnell is working with Maybelline on The Broadroom, a made for the Web knock off on her hit show Sex in the City. Episodic content. Episodic content. Episodic content. How many times will Stuart Elliott of the The New York Times and I go over this? Web series are being created specifically for advertisers, borrowing a strategy from the early days of radio and television when shows like "The Kraft Music …
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By David Burn
Steve Rubel, lifestreamer and VP-director of insights at Edelman Digital believes in brand-curated content, as his latest Ad Age piece shows. ...digital curation -- both automated and human-powered -- will be the next big thing to shake the web. There's an evergreen need for those who can separate art from junk online. However, in this era, journalists won't be the only ones to fulfill it. Brands can play here too. …
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By David Burn
Coca-Cola execs hosted an Investor and Analyst event on November 16 and 17 in Atlanta to discuss the company's "2020 Vision and Roadmap for Winning Together." According to Ad Age: Coke pulled out all the stops at the meeting, its first such confab since 1998. There was a dinner designed by Linton Hopkins, named one of 2009's best new chefs by Food & Wine, using Coca-Cola as a key ingredient; a sampling of …
By David Burn
"We now have countless examples of the success of marketer as media owner," Bloom says. Then he kindly lists them. J&J's BabyCenter.com had 3.6 million views last month P&G's HomeMadeSimple.com and Pampers.com pulled in close to a million visitors P&G is launching its beauty mag, Rouge, to six million Americans next year Walmart with its money saving tips on YouTube Grey Goose with its entertainment division American …
By David Burn
According to Ad Age, custom magazines from package-goods marketers have been around for a while, but a new wrinkle in the U.S. rollout of beauty magazine Rouge, is the use of the mommy blogger community to help build the database of the relationship-marketing program. P&G first launched Rouge in Canada in 2005, then tested the magazine with 2 million U.S. households last September. The full rollout with the fall …
By David Burn
Procter & Gamble is funding content, a.k.a. "independent editorial" in effort to reach their desired demographic, in this case women aged 21 to 34. According to BrandWeek, P&G is working with Web content syndicator Studio One Networks. The result is a new editorial offering-- Life & Beauty Weekly--created specifically for Procter & Gamble. Studio One tapped journalist Beth James, a regular contributor to Self, The …
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