Monday, January 5, 2009

What recession? Super Bowl Advertisers Are Back and Paying More Than Ever

It certainly does not appear that the recession is an issue for the Boston Advertising Agencies and other companies advertising during Super Bowl 2009. The cost for a 30-second spot is at an all-time high of $3 million, but we’ll still see the same brands, and some new ones, advertised during the game on February 1, 2009. Here’s some of what you can expect during this year’s big game:

Anheuser-Busch remains a fixture in Super Bowl advertising this year. They plan to run a total of five minutes of advertising throughout the game. Bud Light is expected to receive the most face time with three spots.

PepsiCo and Coca-Cola are bringing their own competitive match to the Super Bowl ads this year. PepsiCo has arranged to block any other soft-drink marketing from the first half of Super Bowl XLIII. It is rumored that Coca-Cola is looking to strike a similar deal for the third quarter of the game.

Audi will run a 60 second ad in the first quarter of the game. They have not confirmed which car they will showcase this year. Last year Audi’s ad featured the R8 in a spoof of “The Godfather.”

Hyundai will air two commercials introducing the 2010 Genesis-coupe.

Look out for Cars.com’s commercial spots. They are expected to be humorous, as they have been in past years.

Danica Patrick will appear in at least one ad for GoDaddy. In keeping with their suggestive theme, this ad is expected to be borderline inappropriate.

Don’t forget to watch for other brands and funny commercials this year. We look forward to hearing what you think.

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Innovations in New Media

As the world is in a constant state of change, Boston Public Relations Firms and Boston Marketing Firms are implementing new innovative ways to promote their clients. No longer are firms focusing solely on traditional media. Instead, new forms of media are becoming the new and improved way to successfully market for a client. While competition online increases, and consumers becoming overloaded with products and marketing ploys, Boston Marketing Firms that have become more involved with new media marketing techniques are being witness to just how effective the internet can be for their customers. A few quick examples of what I am talking about follow:

Social Media
There are number of issues that are impacting the decline of print media, from the economy, to the rise of the internet. Although print media is on a steady decline, and more publications are going out of business, Boston Public Relations Firms are making use of the current uprising of social media, and are creating branding campaigns for their clients with social media marketing. Boston PR 2.0 Firms are effectively using social media sites, blogs and online multimedia to promote clients, which in effect reduces costs of promoting through traditional forms of media, while generating traffic and interest in their products.
Social networking sites are exciting, and strong communication tools that allow your consumers to connect with one another, and have improved business successes across the board. As a top Boston Branding Agency, strong campaigns are created bringing traffic and attention to your brand by adding your brand and your name on the most used social network websites. Online marketing has become a powerful tool that allows consumers to learn about your product, gain interest in what you’re selling, and introduce your brand to new consumers in a ways that were never before possible. When done properly, your brand will generate buzz, will increase traffic to your website, and will open up lines of communication for all of your loyal and future consumers, bringing you profit and great success.

SEO
The internet is being used in new, innovative ways to purchase items, communicate with one another, and to promote your brand and bring traffic to your website. In this modern internet user era, Boston Branding Agencies are using web marketing to bring their clients into the new age. As competition grows, it has become more difficult to get noticed by consumers on the internet. Online branding agencies have cracked the code to grabbing the attention of consumers to your website with Search Engine Optimization. SEO is an extremely efficient way to generate traffic to your website by using key words that are used in search engines to make them more search engine friendly, and making their search engine positions higher.

Mobile Marketing
Cellular phones have become a part of everyday life for people around the globe. As cell phone usage has risen, so has the number of ways in which a cell phone can be used. What was once a means of being able to speak with one another while mobile; cell phones have become internet providers, music players, cameras, as well as marketing tools. Marketing firms are not the only ones taking advantage of mobile marketing. Retailers like Wal-Mart and Target are also using online marketing to send weekly specials to your cell phones, while other retailers are now allowing you to use your cell phones to purchase products from their websites. With millions of cell phone users in the US alone, marketing through cell phones reach out to more people than television, and has become an essential way to reach the masses.

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Eco-Friendly Car Service PlanetTran Announces New Blog

For all of you out there interested in going green check out the Green Transportation Blog that was launched this week by the Eco-friendly car service PlanetTran, who operates out of Boston and San Francisco. There is some great information up there about green transportation and going green, check it out!

www.planettran.wordpress.com

Monday, November 10, 2008

AJ Gerritson's take on the Advertising Industry

I found this great blog post about how drastically the advertising industry is changing for good. It's very interesting, check out the original post here.

Friday, November 7, 2008

451Heat

451 Marketing launched their latest blog this week - 451 Heat. Take a look: www.451heat.com

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Check This Out..

For those of you interested in where the advertising industry is going -

I attended an event last night at Vitale Caturano and saw AJ Gerritson speak about new media and the implications it's having on the worlds of marketing and advertising.

Check out the whole presentation

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Video Game Advertising

In my first post, I spoke about how much the advertising industry is changing, and what it means for Boston Advertising Agencies. Today I thought I would discuss a direct result of the change and how companies are starting to adapt to it: video game advertising.

Video game advertising is simply using computer and video games as a medium to deliver advertising. What’s so great about it is that it allows Boston Advertising Agencies to reach a typically difficult to reach demographic: young affluent males ages 18-34. Video games have the 4th highest reach for teens and heavy gamers (following TV, internet and radio), and a recent article published by cnn.com stated that 97% of America’s youth play video games in some form.
What this all means for Boston Advertising Agencies is huge market potential. The video game industry itself is booming, with global sales rising from $6.6 billion last year to %14.4 billion by 2012. There is just so much opportunity here, it’s amazing.

New forms of in game advertising allow Boston Advertising Agencies to tailor their message to geographic location, and to time zone, allowing for the delivery of time sensitive messages (like a movie launch). Information can also be sent back to the agency from the player’s machine to help evaluate how effective the advertisement placement is for the viewer.

The market is growing at an unprecedented rate, and is presenting a huge amount of opportunity to be taken advantage of by Boston Advertising Agencies. The potential here is amazing, and it will not be long before agencies start popping up that specialize in solely this form of advertising. It is definitely an industry that should be watched and paid very close attention to, and taken advantage of sooner rather than later.