To What Extent Do You Trust the Following Forms of Advertising ?Recommendations from consumers 78%Newspapers 63%Consumer opinions posted online 61%Brand websites 60%Television 56%Magazines 56%Radio 54%Brand sponsorships 49%Email I signed up for 49%Ads before movies 38%Search engine ads 34%Online banner ads 26%Text ads on mobile phones 18%Source: Nielsen Online Global Consumer Study April 2007
The Pet Shop Boys single, "Integral," which snipes Britain's national identity card system with the dry sarcasm the duo is known for, now has a music video to carry the message even further.
The stop-motion video centers on a pixelated flipbook of sorts. This doubles as the mobile-friendly version of the video (remove the filmed background and...voila!) and carries in it over 100 "subliminal" QR (quick response) matrix codes. When you scan these frames with your reader-enabled camera phone you get URLs relevant to civil liberty issues, hand-picked by Chris Lowe and Neil Tennant. The individual frames can also be downloaded to create your own homemade version of the video, which are slowly popping up on YouTube.
The whole package—music, message, meme, media—comes together nicely. Like the best cultural phenomena, this can be enjoyed at several levels of participation—at least one of which involves a dance floor.
Cette version interactive est très prometteuse dans un créneau (la musique) qui est en train de se réinventer (après RadioHead, NIN, Oasis et Jamiroquai vont offrir leur album sans intermédiaire).
Simple (first person shooter), le nouveau de jeu d'Axe en ligne pour le Japon est bien fait. Intégration de la vidéo, "chef de la fin", le site est divertissant à souhait. Je me suis rendu au 4e tableau sans peine.
Google de plus en plus important dans le marché publicitaire américain
Selon TechCrunch:
Based on the latest figures from the Interactive Advertising Bureau, shows that in the first half of 2007 Google commanded a 40 percent market share of all online advertising in the U.S.
[...] This means Google is out-pacing the growth of online advertising by a wide margin. Total online advertising revenues grew 26.5 percent year-over-year, while Google’s ad revenues grew 45.7 percent.
Et ce, sans l'entente avec DoubleClick et avec des Adwords et des Adsenses.
Sample addresses in nearly a dozen languages will be added to the Internet's central directories as early as next week, paving the way for Web surfers around the world to get online without knowing any English.
If the global tests go well, non-English domain names could be in use by the end of 2008.
The 11 suffixes now under review will read "test" in Arabic, Persian, simplified Chinese, traditional Chinese, Russian, Hindi, Greek, Korean, Yiddish, Japanese and Tamil.
Quelques chiffres du Ipsos Canadian Inter@ctive Reid Report.
37% des canadiens utilisent les médias sociaux: 63% chez les 18-34, 29% chez les 35-54 et 20% chez les 55 ans et plus.
5,4 heures par semaine: utilisation des médias sociaux...
À propos de Facebook, le média de l'heure au Canada:
Facebook is the most popular online social network among Canadian adults with a personal profile on such a site. Two-thirds of adult Internet users in Canada who have placed a personal profile on an online social network or online community have one on Facebook (65%), compared to one-in-five with a personal profile on Classmates.com (20%), one-in-seven with a profile on MySpace (15%) and one-in-eight with a profile on Windows Live Space (13%). Facebook users spend the most time online using the site per week, an average of 5.9 hours, among all online social network users in Canada.
"Radiohead's next album is being released without a record label. The band made a surprise announcement yesterday: Their new album is finished and will be available only through their website, starting on October 10th. There are two options to buy: A "discbox" edition that includes vinyl, CDs and bonus materials, or just a simple digital download, for which the buyer gets to set the price."
Le futur de la musique: sans DRM, sans Record Label et surtout, ouvert sur la communauté.