April 26, 2008 – 11:03 am
Marketers are constantly challenged with how to best segment our consumers. Search offers an option to allow the consumer to self segment and this option is further evolving. As we all know, segmentation can begin at the keyphrase level. What you may not know, Yahoo is allowing us to further enhance this ability. Let me introduce, Honda’s drive […]
February 12, 2008 – 9:07 pm
We celebrated Catalyst’s 10 year anniversary yesterday. We gathered the company together, had some champagne while Beth and I told some stories about our 10 year journey.
I will share two stories that occurred in our first year, 1998. We rented a room in a house that had been converted to an office building located in Brookline […]
October 19, 2007 – 11:00 am
Google announced yesterday that Google Health will launch in early 2008. Microsoft also recently launched HealthVault Search. Both aim to be part medical search engine and part repository of personal data and health information. We all know the challenges they both face! I would suggest to the marketers out there, test […]
October 18, 2007 – 11:13 am
I think we can all agree that an evergreen approach to search marketing is ideal. However, as episodic events present themselves it is important to strategize accordingly. For instance, launching a DTC campaign will create online buzz (we hope). We need to plan for queries and query volumes created by this DTC campaign. A second […]
October 5, 2007 – 2:49 pm
In case you have nothing to talk about this weekend, Internet advertising revenue for the first half of 2007 hit $10 billion - an increase of nearly 27% over the same period last year, according to the latest IAB report, released Thursday in conjunction with PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Search (41%), banners/display (21%) and classifieds (17%) continued […]
September 24, 2007 – 10:34 am
So we all sighed after the House and Senate passed the Food and Drug Administration bill last week. An article in Friday’s WSJ titled, ‘Media Industry Helped Drug Firms Fight Ad Restraints’ highlights the drug industry
…”found powerful allies among media and advertising firms who were determine to protect one of their biggest and fastest […]
September 13, 2007 – 2:02 pm
I am not sure how many of you saw the article published yesterday, “eMarketer: Pharma Industry Failing at Web 2.0.
“Despite accounting for an ever-increasing spend of online ad spending, the pharmaceutical industry is still failing to embrace the Web 2.0 strategies that could help it better engage consumers looking for health care assistance, according to […]
