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As a vice president and principal analyst serving Marketing Leadership Professionals, Nate Elliott helps companies develop interactive marketing strategies for global and emerging markets, with a special focus on branding channels such as social media and online video advertising. His clients come from nearly every industry — including consumer goods, pharmaceuticals, and financial services — and from all over the world.
Nate is an industry pioneer who's been helping marketers create interactive strategies since 1995. He worked at DoubleClick from 1997 until 2001, managing the DoubleClick Studio advertising design team and serving as the company's senior manager for rich media products. In 2001, Nate founded the US IAB's Rich Media Task Force and set the first industry standards for rich media and video ads. He's also worked for Macromedia (now Adobe) developing rich media products and standards, and has been with Forrester since 2003. Nate has lived and worked in London, New York, Berlin, and Vancouver.
Nate has spoken at hundreds of events around the world, including the Web 2.0 Expo and ad:tech; he writes columns for publications such as Mashable, Forbes, and Adweek; and he regularly offers comment to leading media outlets such as the BBC, The Economist, and The New York Times.
Nate studied computer-mediated communication and interactive multimedia design at Cornell University.
How And Where To Tap Into China's Hypersocial Online Population
Chinese online adults are among the most socially active we survey anywhere in the world — so if you're aiming to reach Chinese audiences you'd be wise to invest in social media. But this...

Vision: The Social Marketing Playbook
You already know your audience uses social media; one minute they're planning vacations on Twitter and the next they're toppling governments with the help of Facebook. And because your customers use...

Landscape: The Social Marketing Playbook
Social media has gone global: The large majority of online adults in North America, Europe, metro Asia, and Latin America use social media regularly. For marketers, the question is no longer whether...

Strategic Plan: The Social Marketing Playbook
We're several years into the social marketing boom, but still many executives are going about social strategy backward: picking technologies like Facebook or Twitter first instead of focusing on what...

Interactive Marketing Is The Best Way To Reach Attractive Consumers In The BRICs And Beyond
Interactive marketing often takes a back seat in emerging markets, a victim of the low online penetration in these countries and of local marketing teams who lack experience with interactive tools....

Global Social Media Adoption In 2011 And What Interactive Marketers Should Do About It
It's no secret that the groundswell has gone global: Internet users all over the planet have embraced social media. But there are strong differences from country to country in how people use social...

A Review Of Forrester's Social Technographics® Data From Around The World
Social media has gone global: The majority of online adults in North America, Europe, metropolitan Asia, and Latin America use social media regularly. But usage patterns vary widely by country and...

Use Scale And Audience Trust To Prioritize Interactive Marketing Channels
Building an effective brand ecosystem can be hard: Interactive marketers have dozens of social, mobile, and paid media channels to choose from and often limited resources to work with. To make the...
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...
Put Interactive Marketing At The Heart Of Your Branding Campaigns
Your customers have entered an era of interactivity; it's time for your branding campaigns to catch up. Rather than continue to develop your brand in 30-second snippets and hope you can build a...
The 2010 European Peer Influence Analysis Report
While most marketers struggle to generate reach through their social media marketing programs, a handful have unlocked the secret to finding large audiences: Mass Influencers. Our Peer Influence...
Strategies For Connecting With Increasingly Overwhelmed Audiences
As consumers' use of social media matures, a new challenge faces marketers: connecting with their target audiences in increasingly cluttered social platforms. Many interactive marketers are falling...
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...
How To Navigate The Regulatory Minefield And Build Effective Social Media Programs
Financial services firms are beginning to adopt social technologies: In fact, we found that 79% of companies in the industry have some social media presence. But, held back by regulatory concerns and...
The 2010 Viral Video WebTrack And Consumer Survey
More people are watching online video than ever before, and most share their favorite videos with their friends — but that doesn't mean creating a successful viral video is getting any easier....
The once "ambivalent" Generation X — adults ages 30 to 43 — has become a mainstay of the workforce. This generation has adopted social technologies and is highly vocal as nearly half tell...
Best Practices For Driving More Entries And Creating Viral Impact
Many interactive marketers — encouraged by a string of high-profile user-generated video contests — are beginning to run online video contests of their own. These contests help marketers...