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Is marketing blogging dead?

30 November 2010

The once buzzing Australian marketing blogosphere bubble has burst, popular industry blogger Julian Cole tells Marketing magazine.   Earlier this week, Cole released a list of the ‘Top 50’ Australian marketing blogs, based on Google RSS subscribers, web t... read full story

Digital spying on jobseekers

29 November 2010

International government agencies are doing it. Online advertisers are doing it. Stalker-types are doing it. And that company you just submitted a CV to for a job is probably scouring your MySpace, Facebook or Twitter account at this very moment to figure... read full story

Oh, what a terrible feeling for spurned spruikers

26 November 2010

Toyota has dropped an advertising agency from its roster to make room for the Japanese firm Dentsu, despite the newcomer having neither an office in Australia nor any experience of the domestic market.   Toyota has replaced Droga5 with Japan's largest adv... read full story

Dubsat launches Adsend in Australasia

25 November 2010

Omnilab’s content delivery company Dubsat has launched its digital delivery system- Adsend  – in Australia and New Zealand.     The announcement: Sydney, 22 November 2010: Following its recent acquisition of Vio Worldwide, cross-media asset management an... read full story

Myer management regroups for growth

24 November 2010

Myer has announced a comprehensive executive overhaul as part of efforts to drive its impending 'growth phase', with Megan Foster appointed as group general manager marketing. Menswear will receive a new group business manager in the form of Adam Stapleto... read full story

New study says the clicks are in rich media

23 November 2010

A new report by MediaMind Technologies claims that rich media ads receive Click-Through Rates (CTR) three times higher than standard banners.   The study found rich media ads achieve a CTR of 0.15% on average, while standard banners are clocking up 0.05%.... read full story

Westpac revamps marketing dept

22 November 2010

Westpac has undertaken a radical restructure of its marketing department with the creation of three new marketing divisions, in a bid to make its messaging more customer orientated.  The initiative has been implemented in preparation for the arrival of th... read full story

Staff bring up to 3 hours work home: expert

19 November 2010

Bosses should tolerate their employees shopping, checking their Facebook status or instant messaging during work time because they more than make up for it at home, a conference has heard.   Jeffery Cole, a director at the Centre for the Digital Future, s... read full story

Kellogg's defends ads as it comes under attack

18 November 2010

Kellogg's has defended its advertising after being named the worst offender in terms of marketing junk food to children at today's Fame & Shame Awards.The FMCG's ads for LCMs snack bars won the "Pester Power" category, while Nutri-Grain ads won the "Smoke... read full story

Email past its prime: Facebook announces Project Titan

17 November 2010

Facebook unveiled a new messaging platform on Monday that takes aim at one of the internet's first applications, email.   Although blogs had been speculating that Facebook would announce an email service to rival Google's Gmail and others, Facebook said e... read full story