This is very interesting and maybe new information to some. Turkcell, the leading mobile phone operator of Turkey has seen significant gain since launching the world’s first ringtone advertising platform, Tone & Wine or TonlaKazan.
Tone and Win allows Turkcell members to select branded content and let their callers listen to a branded ringtone instead of a regular ringtone. To use Tone & Win Turkcell members can sign up through the Web, WAP and/or SMS channels. In addition to being an advertising platform, Turckcell also acts a loyalty program, offering incentives to its members who download Tone & Win. Turckcell subscribers can win airtime or credit depending on the amount of time their callers listen to their ringtone advertisement. Of course, there are many different ways to offer incentives for the cell phone subscribers, but for now this is what Turckcell is offering.
For advertisers this is a revolutionary advertising platform and I am interested to see if/when ringtone advertising will migrate to the US. Turkcell offers brands exclusive reports containing members' demographics, socioeconomic status, total impressions and total branded RBT seconds listened to by callers. The reason advertisers relay on digital media is for the simple fact that it is easier to track compared to broadcast or print. Advertisers love trackable media platforms; it helps them to gain more insight as to who their target audience is and allows them to narrow in on their specific interests/needs.
September 19, 2009
July 27, 2009
Viva Vevo!
Vevo can best be described as the Online MTV... or at least what MTV used to be like. It will be a central hub for all things music. Music videos are ranked 2nd in most popular searches on the Youtube website. Vevo is tapping into this large viewership and creating a custom site soly or the use of online music video.
At its launch, Vevo is anticipated to receive more traffic than any other music video site in the United States and in the world.
This will serve as competition for Youtube and will be a haven for advertisers even though prices may be higher. Viva Vevo!!! I look forward to the launch. I think this will be a great success and will help take the music industry into the future.
June 27, 2009
Make Way for the New Wave of Radio
A while back I wrote about the use of Radio. I recently read an article on MediaWeek.com about how brands have seen amazing success with streaming radio.
In the article, Esurance, a Web-based auto insurer invited would be movie directors to create a music video riffing off one of 10 dance numbers selected from recent Bollywood films. Esurance needed to reach hard-core Bollywood fans. They had to find a way to reach a highly specific audience while also keeping the appeal broad and national in scope. The answer was Internet radio. According to the company’s media director, Darren Howard, the choice of streaming radio was simple. “We can go to our streaming vendors and find those specific channels that play that type of music and would draw interest in our contest,” he says. “It’s not something you can do on terrestrial radio.”
There is much potential for Internet Radio but there still remains challenges. While the medium has proven itself a worthy buy for national campaigns, for example, Webcasters have yet to make significant inroads into the lucrative local marketplace. Agencies also complain that in a frenzy to deliver sufficient impressions some Webcasters end up annoying listeners by airing the same spot too frequently. Others mislead clients by padding their advertising proposals with international listeners that are not relevant to the buy.
In the article, Esurance, a Web-based auto insurer invited would be movie directors to create a music video riffing off one of 10 dance numbers selected from recent Bollywood films. Esurance needed to reach hard-core Bollywood fans. They had to find a way to reach a highly specific audience while also keeping the appeal broad and national in scope. The answer was Internet radio. According to the company’s media director, Darren Howard, the choice of streaming radio was simple. “We can go to our streaming vendors and find those specific channels that play that type of music and would draw interest in our contest,” he says. “It’s not something you can do on terrestrial radio.”
There is much potential for Internet Radio but there still remains challenges. While the medium has proven itself a worthy buy for national campaigns, for example, Webcasters have yet to make significant inroads into the lucrative local marketplace. Agencies also complain that in a frenzy to deliver sufficient impressions some Webcasters end up annoying listeners by airing the same spot too frequently. Others mislead clients by padding their advertising proposals with international listeners that are not relevant to the buy.
March 06, 2009
How Do Some Brands Become a Household Staple?
Now, this is an old company but a great example of how a brand becomes a staple. Campbell's soup saw the "niche" market for the magazines they decided to advertise in. By advertising in the Ladies Home Journal they reached out to mothers everywhere. They asked the question "who eats soup?" Kids! Campbell’s Soup was the first canned soup brand and with the help of niche marketing became a household name.February 20, 2009
Another Word For Creativity Is Courage
“To be or not to be?”- William Shakespeare
Like this famous quote creativity has a plethora of meanings. For me, I see it as being a way of self expression. When I think of the word “creativity” I immediately think of the way a child thinks; simple, curious, inquisitive, and non-discriminative.
Just this morning I read the Forbes 400s richest people. A majority of them share a similar self-made story. They started from nothing, an idea, and turned it in to gold. These are qualities I admire in people not because of their wealth but because of their ability to think and act beyond limitations.
This goes to show that creativity is a personal challenge to oneself. It’s breaking out of your shell; showing your thoughts just how they appear in your mind. This is difficult because our minds are so cluttered with images of how we think things ought to be, leading into creative blockage. Creative thinking is something that is given to all of us at birth but as we become more exposed to society throughout our lifetime our creative insight is narrowed.
As we look into creative thinking we see that it starts from within. You need to be comfortable with yourself; knowing your body, your mannerisms, your thoughts and senses. This is a beautiful life long process. If you can first do this then you can take your personal views and use them in your physical life. It is important to know that boundaries are merely the limits you put on yourself. By breaking through those boundaries the creative possibilities are endless.
Like this famous quote creativity has a plethora of meanings. For me, I see it as being a way of self expression. When I think of the word “creativity” I immediately think of the way a child thinks; simple, curious, inquisitive, and non-discriminative.
Just this morning I read the Forbes 400s richest people. A majority of them share a similar self-made story. They started from nothing, an idea, and turned it in to gold. These are qualities I admire in people not because of their wealth but because of their ability to think and act beyond limitations.
This goes to show that creativity is a personal challenge to oneself. It’s breaking out of your shell; showing your thoughts just how they appear in your mind. This is difficult because our minds are so cluttered with images of how we think things ought to be, leading into creative blockage. Creative thinking is something that is given to all of us at birth but as we become more exposed to society throughout our lifetime our creative insight is narrowed.
As we look into creative thinking we see that it starts from within. You need to be comfortable with yourself; knowing your body, your mannerisms, your thoughts and senses. This is a beautiful life long process. If you can first do this then you can take your personal views and use them in your physical life. It is important to know that boundaries are merely the limits you put on yourself. By breaking through those boundaries the creative possibilities are endless.
December 19, 2008
Effective Commercials
At some point in your TV viewing lives you have asked yourself, what the hell was that commercial all about?
You may be familiar with the Vonage ads where people get hit with a Vonage package. I've wondered - what is the best quality to have as a TV commercial? I remember the commercial but if I had no prior knowledge about what Vonage is I would have been lost. I couldn't explain it to someone if they asked me what it their service is, but I could tell them I saw the commercial. So, did the advertisement work effectively?
That is a tough call, especially with TV ads. It did spark attention with the humor of the ad but could have done a better job at displaying the actual service that it can provide its customers.
You may be familiar with the Vonage ads where people get hit with a Vonage package. I've wondered - what is the best quality to have as a TV commercial? I remember the commercial but if I had no prior knowledge about what Vonage is I would have been lost. I couldn't explain it to someone if they asked me what it their service is, but I could tell them I saw the commercial. So, did the advertisement work effectively?
That is a tough call, especially with TV ads. It did spark attention with the humor of the ad but could have done a better job at displaying the actual service that it can provide its customers.
October 15, 2008
SIMPLICITY
In American Culture there are a number of things that we deal with on the day-to- day. The stress of the little things we do such as paying bills or studying for an exam. The added pressures in life tend to distract us from the things that bring joy to our lives.
After I returned from South America after living there for five months I found a greater appreciation for the simplest things in life. Being in a third world country will make you ask yourself a lot of questions.
In the beginning, I found it very frustrating as I tried to make my transition in a foreign country. It annoyed me how slow the lifestyle was. It took forever to get anything done. For example it would take three to four hours just to have a meal at a restaurant.Eventually, I adjusted and slowed my pace down. I sat and ate for every meal, walked two miles every day to and from school and almost everywhere else, functioning with no cell phone, no microwave and no car. These little changes might not seem like much but it has forever changed my views about my lifestyle here in the States.
Upon my return to the US I was overwhelmed with the speed of things. I learned to relax and not stress so much. What the hell was I always worrying about? I know one thing for sure is that I don’t miss is driving - everyone speeding around in all directions, not caring where the other driver is going; creating a cluster of stressed and anxious people. It took me sometime to re-adjust.
“Taking it so seriously” simply should be stated to “slow the hell down”. We tend to throw ourselves in fifty different directions and it is easy to get lost in the middle of it. We all have responsibilities in our lives but we treat them more like chores; just going through the motions.
When I thought of this saying I thought to myself and I’ve thought about this many times before - what if I lived in the past where technology was not around. So, I imagine myself working all day on a farm in a wide open field, nature all around and with just a few simple worries any farmer might have. I have found that living life like a simple farmer has greatly reduced the stress in my life and allows me to take the time to be around those I love and do the things that that I love the most.
After I returned from South America after living there for five months I found a greater appreciation for the simplest things in life. Being in a third world country will make you ask yourself a lot of questions.
In the beginning, I found it very frustrating as I tried to make my transition in a foreign country. It annoyed me how slow the lifestyle was. It took forever to get anything done. For example it would take three to four hours just to have a meal at a restaurant.Eventually, I adjusted and slowed my pace down. I sat and ate for every meal, walked two miles every day to and from school and almost everywhere else, functioning with no cell phone, no microwave and no car. These little changes might not seem like much but it has forever changed my views about my lifestyle here in the States.
Upon my return to the US I was overwhelmed with the speed of things. I learned to relax and not stress so much. What the hell was I always worrying about? I know one thing for sure is that I don’t miss is driving - everyone speeding around in all directions, not caring where the other driver is going; creating a cluster of stressed and anxious people. It took me sometime to re-adjust.
“Taking it so seriously” simply should be stated to “slow the hell down”. We tend to throw ourselves in fifty different directions and it is easy to get lost in the middle of it. We all have responsibilities in our lives but we treat them more like chores; just going through the motions.
When I thought of this saying I thought to myself and I’ve thought about this many times before - what if I lived in the past where technology was not around. So, I imagine myself working all day on a farm in a wide open field, nature all around and with just a few simple worries any farmer might have. I have found that living life like a simple farmer has greatly reduced the stress in my life and allows me to take the time to be around those I love and do the things that that I love the most.
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