Digital

How is the amount of time spent watching video divided among streaming, DVD's, and broadcast/satellite/cable among the different cultural groups in the US? Here we present some of the data collected by Research Now for the Florida State University Multicultural Marketing study of 2012 that answers that question. By Felipe Korzenny, Ph.D.

Men are favoring their computers—and not their televisions—when looking to be entertained, according to “The Great Male Survey” conducted by AskMen.com from May to July 2012.

TargetSpot released the results of the industry's first multicultural Digital Audio studies. Conducted by Parks Associates, the reports unveil key insights about the Hispanic and African American audiences and their interaction with Internet Radio. Highlights include the growing role of connected devices in facilitating listening, the increase in social interactions while listening, and extremely high advertising recall and response rates, well beyond the click.

Increasing numbers of baby boomers own smartphones and have accounts on social networks.

Relationship marketing (RM) programs are a powerful educational tool that empowers patients to make educated decisions about their treatment. Programs are usually driven by an email component that either contains informative material or drives them to a personal space where they can review content.

Featuring eMarketer Principal Analyst David Hallerman. David will show how brands can take the lessons learned from email and apply them to other important digital touchpoints.

Key takeaways will include:

Search helps build strong brands by bettering brand-health metrics. But creating long-term relationships is usually foremost for brands, and, according to eMarketer, in a new report, “Search for Branding: Tools for Better Campaigns,” “even though a majority of business-to-consumer (B2C) marketers now believe that search affects brand-building, digital executives sometimes still find it tough to prove that search is a critical ingredient in branding.”