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Emerging Trends In B2B Social Marketing For 2013
Our data shows that social channels are key to the decision processes of your business-to-business (B2B) customers and prospects, so to avoid falling behind or missing emerging trends, you should...
And Why Google, Not Facebook, Will Dominate Affinity Marketing
Every day, huge numbers of people tell us what they like by voting for things, talking about things, reviewing things, and engaging in other online social interactions. All these behaviors add up to...

Kenshoo Leads, With IgnitionOne And Marin Software Following As Strong Performers
In response to growing demand for bid management software, Forrester evaluated this category in addition to two others in separate Forrester Waves™: search marketing agencies and SEO platforms....

Visual IQ, Adometry, And ClearSaleing Lead The Category
In Forrester's 45-criteria evaluation of interactive attribution vendors, we identified and analyzed the eight significant providers in this category — Adobe, Adometry, C3 Metrics,...

As four of the largest and arguably most currently influential technology companies — Google, Amazon.com, Apple, and Facebook — continue to exhibit ambitious tendencies to capture...

MediaMath, Turn, and DataXu Vie For Top Honors
In Forrester's 48-criteria evaluation of demand-side platform (DSP) vendors, we found that MediaMath, Turn, and DataXu led the pack because of the breadth of their media access, the depth and acumen...
Google's statement that mobile payments are just getting started is correct. Its announcement on May 26, 2011, was another early salvo in what will be a long and hard-fought battle to change...
Best Practices For Competitive Branded Keyword Bidding
Recent changes to Google's trademark bidding policy across Europe have reopened the conversation around the opportunities and threats for companies bidding against competitors' brands. Most...
And What You Should Do About It
Search marketing faces a number of changes that will force interactive marketers to think more like business planners than like channel managers. While we expect the future of search to extend...
How To Create Social Media Strategies For Your Conversationalist Customers
With real-time and social search appearing in Google search results and Facebook surpassing Google in number of visits per day, marketers are realizing that earned media on social networks —...
How TV Will Finally Become Interactive, At Scale
Google made significant noise when it recently announced Google TV, the search giant's most recent attempt to influence the future of the TV experience. The news itself was overly complex, and Google...
A Preview Of Forrester's 2010 European Interactive Marketing Forecast
Few interactive marketers enjoyed 2009: The economy was in peril, consumer confidence was low, and for the first nine months European interactive marketing spending was down from the year before. But...
Preparing For An Internet Fragmented By Devices And Passwords
The standardized Internet is fraying. Long live the Splinternet. Interactive marketers have thrived in the golden age of the Web, where people access Web sites using standard, similarly formatted PCs...

How Marketers Can Position Their Brands With Online-Friendly Attributes
Google remains consumers' favorite online brand, with Yahoo! and Amazon not far behind. In the minds of their fans, the top online brands exhibit very traditional attributes such as trustworthiness,...
Search is a high-stakes business: Forrester estimates that the US search market overall is worth $15 billion in 2009, of which local advertising spend is nearly $4 billion. The companies vying for a...
Your Best Defense Is To Build Your Own Social Site Features
Google announced Sidewiki, a product that allows users of Google's Toolbar to share their comments on any Web site. Just as we predicted, this endows all Web sites with social features and...
Vodafone 360 is a bold initiative that will affect every firm's Social Computing strategy. Vodafone aims to drive mobile Internet adoption, acquire new customers, and increase long-term customer...