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Use Mobile Sites And Banners, Not Apps, To Reach The Largest Audience
While European marketers are excited to use mobile tools, few have made mobile a key part of their interactive marketing strategy. In fact, most still aren't using mobile marketing today — and...
The Nine Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up
Since Forrester published its first Wave™ evaluation on marketing mix modeling in 2011, the market has undergone significant growth and evolution as marketers demand more in-depth, real-time,...
Landscape: The Mobile Marketing Playbook
This report for interactive marketers describes the mobile marketing landscape. Interactive marketers are finally beginning to take mobile seriously — and discovering how different and more...

Vision: The Social Marketing Playbook
For Social Media Success, Plan To Bring A Specialist Into The Mix
Agencies play a critical role in your social media marketing's success. But the agency space is crowded and few do it all well, forcing interactive marketers to patch together a portfolio of...
Assessment: The Marketing Mix Optimization Playbook
To ensure continued success in this age of increasingly fragmenting audiences and multiplying communication platforms, marketers need to adapt their strategies and tactics to optimally allocate their...
Processes: The Digital Media Buying Playbook
As more and more interactive marketers buy digital media programmatically, the technologies and processes they use are rapidly maturing. Whether you're a digital media buying skeptic working to build...

Best Practices: The Social Marketing Playbook
After years of aimlessly chasing fans, it's time marketers start driving real business results from Facebook. This requires building a Facebook page that has a clear focus and offers value to...
Performance Management: The Marketing Mix Optimization Playbook
Successful optimization of the marketing mix requires careful coordination of multiple data streams, generation of insights from marketing mix models, and careful review of budget allocation...
Using Blogs To Empower Consumers And Gain Back Trust For Your Brand
Blogging is an often misused social marketing platform. Marketers often recycle generic content, follow quarterly content schedules, and plan more for search optimization than engagement. Old school...
Leverage Professional Crowdsourcing Networks To Create New Video Content
The demand for video advertising and content — whether for television, online, or cinema — is outpacing the rate at which marketers can supply it. Specialized crowdsourcing networks are...
Organization: The Social Intelligence Playbook
Finding and acting on insights gleaned from online and social discussions is a tricky practice. It takes the right combination of clarity of objective, business planning, technology, and, most...
Vision: The B2B Online Community Playbook
This report is designed to help you revisit your strategy for engaging with customers through online communities and discussion forums, and demonstrate why your success will be based on taking the...
Communicating The Right Data To Different Internal Stakeholders
Social media contributes value to interactive marketing programs in many ways — but measuring that value is difficult. The sheer volume of social media metrics can quickly become overwhelming...

In addition to the variety of media options that the digital age has brought forth, TV is the next medium to get a digital makeover. New access points to the living-room screen and the invasion of...
The Rise Of The Joiners And The Conversationalists
Social media adoption in Europe continues to grow: 68% of online Europeans now use social technologies each month, up from 61% in 2009. Not only has the use of social networks grown significantly in...
Agencies Reinvented As Mediators Will Win While The Rest Wither
The agency model is crumbling under the weight of continual innovation in digital channels, the changing media behaviors of the always-addressable customer, and marketers' frustration with a siloed...

Spend Will Near $77 Billion As Interactive Gains Legitimacy In The Mix
By 2016, advertisers will spend $77 billion on interactive marketing — as much as they do on television today. Search marketing, display advertising, mobile marketing, email marketing, and...

Why Marketers Must Use A Skillful Approach To Reach Millennials Effectively
As Millennials continue to flow into the workforce, marketers will naturally focus more of their efforts on this emerging adult generation with increasing purchasing power. However, Millennials are...
B2B Marketers Need To Expand Their Online Advertising Horizons
Display marketing is part of most B2B interactive marketers' plans for 2011, but few are prepared to unlock its full potential. Rather than miss opportunities by simply porting over print media...
As the demand for customer intelligence (CI) from business stakeholders grows and more organizations increase their CI maturity, organizations' marketing agency needs have also changed. A few...
