Social networks, creating community

As part of the strategy of communication Yes.fm have begun working on social networks.
I firmly believe this new vehicle of communication, which if it works well and consistently able to establish an excellent channel of communication between users and the staff of any company.
In the beginning our presence will focus on Facebook, Tuenti, MySpace, a video channel on YouTube and a user of Twitter. I think to start are the key points, but if anyone thinks that we let ourselves be somewhere in the air, I'd love to know.

The idea with which we work, and I think that is important is that channels are dynamic and offer new options for the user, run competitions, online events, weekly musical premieres, to encourage the community where we make off portal and exclusive promotions for members Channel; I am particularly concerned that not only are promotional vehicles, but they bring added value to the user trying to get better the more people are sitting around in these channels Yes.fm social media.
I understand that in the coming years we will see flourish dozens of agencies and departments within large companies dedicated to creating community and developing value-added content and promotion within this new type of media.

What power does this have? Suffice it to say that the account of the president-elect of USA, Barack Obama would have continued during the American elections more than 1,700,000 friends on facebook, which provides real-time communication within this social network. Of course it is an extreme case, but today an example to follow.

I have much personal interest in developing these initiatives. I am a user of facebook and twitter, but on a personal level. We have never launched an online campaign and for our products in all these new media social media. I hope we can make them grow and give added value. Create them and take them abandoned half is ridiculous, we must be very active in them and it is a work of hormigita , Working on medium and long term.

If you are a user of these nets canals here are newly created, I hope you snagging one of them, and they're starting to upload content.

Yes community on Facebook

Yes.fm Twitter

Profile Tuenti Yes

Channel Video on Youtube Yes.fm

MySpace Yes

Tags: community, facebook, myspace, social networks, social media, tuenti, twitter, Yes.fm

Mazinger Z in the Gran Via street

This is a picture of 100 x 70 cm, which was hilarious that I have given away a few days ago for my birthday.

Mazinger Z is in the middle of Calle Gran Via de Madrid.

Tags: creativity, Gran Via, Madrid, Mazinger z, Painting

Ecological creativity

A creative example of the Association Milwaukee River to keep the rivers clean:

Tags: creativity, ecology

The real value of a click

The click is the king of advertising since the advent of systems like Adsense contextual advertising. However, in graphic advertising has a very different life, we are tired of seeing campaigns brading graphically and very effective visual click with ratios of less than 1%-0.x.

Advertisers and agencies over the years have gone to seek encouragement and the click of a variety of ways, but there are branding campaigns that should not and can not be measured by the ratio of click thru.
Many carriers, including mine, at any given time in recent years have chosen to avoid or stop CPC campaigns except Adsense.

The reason is obvious, Adsense is contextual advertising, it works and is well segmented. The content is relevant in most cases, and the ratio of click brings the user who is interested in CLICK usually "see behind" the ad. The ratios are positive for advertiser support.
The abuse of graphical advertising on the basis of CPC years ago I did not authorize the sale in our media campaigns CPC, I prefer if there is not even advertising autopromos launch of our websites and services. The reason is the abuse of advertisers (sometimes in convenience with agencies) to deliberately make campaigns brading of which we all know that there will be no click and launch even millions of impressions on your sites at prices of laughter. Over the past 10 years has been notorious cases of banks (especially at the birth of the Internet banking) and I remember a particularly painful for my Yahoo! Music a couple of years ago, in which an August vacation that was launched a brazen campaign brading camouflaged CPC me and millions of prints colaron 8-9 that seemed to say "look at me, but I do not click! "A CPC with what I think they should not bill for it or 200 Euros, so the" colaron "dozens of media. That summer, he and at least 3-4 years, we ban advertising campaigns graphical CPC.

But what a click is worth? That is tremendously variable. I imagine that if you sell cars with a high profit margin, the click of a user interested in that vehicle is high. By that logic very niche areas or large business sectors (tourism, economy, engine) per click prices are high. This is an example of today, nearly 5 Euros for a click on "hotels" and the commission discounting Sedó. Ie click on that should have been paid 6-8 Euros (of commissions Adsense, Sedo) before coming to us. On the opposite side of the clicks you can find everything from token amounts as 0.01 as thematic and Ip.

But for me the most useful to observe the actual clicks is to be able to study, analyze and measure the temperature of niches and segments as competition, price and quantity of advertisers.

Tags: Adsense, branding, clicks, CPC, niches, parking domains, Sedo

Creative examples: Adidas

Some of the ads from Adidas Australia

Tags: Adidas, creativity, creative

The size does not matter (at least in online advertising)

Choose an advertising agency that fit the profile of your web projects is vital in this sector.

An agency is like a bride and as such you should choose and value it and you could end up casándote with her. Now, I know that someone deemed sexist comparison, but it's very graphic.

Firstly not all is the facade, maybe you should look a little inside. Megaoficinas The vast agency, quoted on the stock and with 50 employees and large numbers perhaps is not the yes-or-you need.

Secondly you should try to know it well, and most importantly, you know very well that you and key people who work there in charge of media and business know well what they do, who you are and if possible are able to value it as a prominent asset even when contrasted with others of its media within the same agency.

It is also very important availability, I imagine that if you do not have time for your girlfriend and she for you, duraríais what is right. The same happens here, the agency must have time for you, and you should have all the time she needs for you, yes, even small doubts and campaigns without too much importance to avoid if possible, having to delegate to others and lead a personal, serious, professional and straightforward.

We have so many media, and so much traffic on the websites of the Group Publispain, as in Entertainment Networks, which for us is really important to choose with whom we work.

We work with almost every sector agencies in Spain, and with many or almost all involved in international trafficking in Spanish. Rare is that by default does not work or try new initiatives that we are proposing, but also where no one agency is working with the seriousness expected cut the relationship immediately.

Each agency has a profile, and over the years we have been testing and working with many of them. When preparing a new project, including the launch of Archivos.com or Madrid.net in the coming months is very important for me to define who should deal with the sale of this site. For example in these projects we have not even defined in the hands responsible for placing advertising.

I have always heard in the generalities such as: "AdLINK is the best agency, you'll sell better than anyone. That is not true, AdLINK is a great agency for certain carriers, and could not be for others. Just like other agencies. Here size does not matter, what really matters is personal attention, care, work, the relative importance that you might have in its structure and strength of sales and trading that can dump on you.

In the year 97 - 98 we began to work exclusively with a small advertising agency website that was called XMedia (what times!), Was led by a good friend, Jesus Aldana, and was called AdLINK few months and years later grew more and even more to merge with DoubleClick. They were together for many years but there was a time after the merger AdLINK Double-click on the left for being "our agency" and, as in dating, there are moments when left, and I did.

In those many years to leave AdLINK was crazy, there was not many alternatives; is almost no more. They have already spent many years and survived. There are moments where you have to be where you feel you should be.

Now curiously the circle is closed, and I can announce that Yes.fm we have closed an exclusive advertising contract with AdLINK, which makes me go back somewhat to the starting point of 1997 has been a long road and I am sure they will be fine.

But not only is AdLINK, but there are many other companies we work with regularly: Antevenio, Bar Code, Direct Mail, Addoor, CPX, Hispano Click, Harran Media, Fox, CanalMail, Adprox ... and dozens of others with we have done tests and agreements on time.

In contrast to the example of a large company like AdLINK within this sector there are other options quietest and one of them is what we choose to handle advertising for the network of blogs Entertainment Networks, is called Addoor.

Addoor agency is a different, smaller and accustomed to doing something that I like a lot and that is where I see the future; make special actions. Like sell advertising on your usual format (banners, steals, megs ...) who suddenly sell a widget that plays a concert Amaral of hundreds of Mbs.

I read recently that have signed on as exclusive support for Calico Electrónico. I think that really is a great Addoor choose wisely, because very possibly be the best agency in Spain that you can see, investigate and work in a personalized way new ideas and forms of advertising such as the inclusion in the animated adventures of trademarks and advertising within from the comics.

We return to the top, each must choose his better half, at least at this size does not matter.

Tags: Addoor, AdLINK, adprox, advertising agencies, Antevenio, Canal Mail, Bar Code, Direct Mail, CPX, Fox, Harrad Media, Hispano Click, Internet, advertising

Faced with the crisis, be creative my friend

The best of the week, which falls out there, what I heard on the radio. The Mall Factory in some spots without wasting:

Voice-over female and juvenile:
"If the stock market falls, your Buy a bag"

The creative has designed this, I do not know if it is a criminal and should be behind bars or is simply a horny.

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Sheets to dream:

Indeed AX (these guys are mine)

Tags: announcements, AX, creativity, crisis, factory

Advertising for the social networks grow more than in blogs

It is curious to see that the forecast for this year 2008 will go down a little bit like a house of cards. Nothing is true in the current scenario, you start from scratch, we are in a new arena without rules or expectations.

In a recent report published by Zenith Media follows a historic collapse of the global advertising, with a drop of about 10% talking about the greatest fall in advertising investment in 30 years, a figure devastating.

It appears in this report is saved from the Internet even burning, which I discuss in person, because while it is true that are sectorally grew in the first quarter, I think that in the second things are looking differently and the growth will come or not from afar to 18% in the first few months. I am not surprised that the last quarter of the year growth will be minimal, at about 5-9%. I think there are signs of exhaustion and that advertisers are starting to learn not to comply, and many campaigns are being withdrawn.

The Internet is not a channel more, I personally believe that the growth assimilated worst of the investment, first because we start from very low minimum, and also because carriers are created on a daily basis and with little investment, and these carriers from almost the first day involved taking to a greater or lesser extent its slice of the pie, and second because "internet" are many things at once; portals, social networks, mobile, blogs ... and not all have the same growth. For all these reasons many times when we speak of an acceptable global growth, as 18% in the first quarter, many carriers say "no notice".

Curiously ZenithMedia reflects increased growth of advertising on social networks with 3.6 million Euros, blogs, it seemed that 2008 would be his year, did not come off as expected and remain at 2.6 Million Euros. That breaks the original forecast very much in favor of social networks ... just wait and see how the year-and-put some velit

Indeed, in all the scenarios there who knows manage moments of uncertainty. Antevenio, according to published Joshua Novick has grown its operating profit by 125%! (By the way Joshua, to see if you write something more than you always have some very interesting things that count).

Tags: Antevenio, Blogs, Internet, Joshua Novick, advertising, social networks, ZenithMedia

Art or Advertising?

Via Lab street I met this wonderful action of street marketing to raise awareness and support for the Foundation for Defense of the Polar Bears.

Tags: Art Foundation, Laboratory Street, polar bears, advertising, street marketing

Pepsi, for example creativity

It is curious to see how a company like Pepsi is tremendously creative in the U.S., and almost did not do anything in Spain.

Spain is the country with more curiously% penetration around the world Coca-Cola vs the rest of cola drinks. Maybe that's why it gives us as a "loss" and not just invest and launch campaigns, so fresh and aggressive as the USA here.

For example of creative advertising and graphic Pepsi:

Tags: ad, coca cola, creativity, creative, pepsi

Sample Street Marketing

Here are some examples of street actions funny and original

Jeep

The girls AX control the streets:

Ikea redecorate the subway:

Financial Times

Tags: street actions, the Financial Times, IKEA, JEEP, marketing, advertising, street marketing

Ax the shows where to find you on the subway

The publicity for for AX can be vulgar and some other fun.

The data from the sales growth of this company when it set its online advertising are simply spectacular.

Here is an example of action in the streets of the firm. Imagine you're looking for the exit on the subway and you see this poster.

Tags: AX, street, creativity, eroticism, viral

Become a Playboy girl

The example of creativity this week takes you to any beach, we are in full season.

This towel makes you pretend to be a Playboy girl with all the letters. A street-smart action from the agency.

Tags: street, creativity, ingenuity, Marketing, playboy

Lift of Oreo cookies

There are ideas that are priceless. This could be one of them.

An elevator that leads incorporated a glass of milk with an Oreo cookie.

View from the Blog of Frederik Samuel

Tags: Creativity, Marketing, airing, advertising

Example of creativity: D

I've always been a fan of the Argentine creativity.

A good friend of mine, president of a well-known investment bank that has led in Spain and Argentina, said that in recent years there has been creativity fired by the economic situation, for better and for worse, that it should be say that the "hunger sharpens the wit."

This is an example of a notice of rental cars at a gas station sky:

Tags: ad, guerrillas, Marketing