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 […]
October 3, 2007 – 2:06 pm
You may have heard the announcement to day, the NYTimes is offering health content supplied by A.D.AM. a company that maintains an online compendium of information on health conditions, treatments and insurance, among other topics. The content is written by physicians and reviewed by a network of third-party doctors. No big surprise, Hearst […]
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 […]
Well my article that appeared recently in MediaPost titled, “Search Insider: Multi-Language Search Strategies” has generated a lot of dialogue and is obviously an emotional hot topic for many people. I’d like to hear your thoughts on marketing to the U.S. Hispanic community.
Shrewd marketers will employ multi-language search strategies! I do not think most folks […]
I read an interesting article on MediaPost Monday. The article discussed a recent study of pharma marketing managers’ opinions on marketing tools for their industry and found that a quarter of the brand managers believe their current marketing mix is only performing “reasonably well” or “not well at all.” Over 80% of respondents said an […]
The Utah legislature has passed a Trademark Protection Act law preventing people from buying ads linked to terms that are also trademarks of others. Paid Search is beginning to get even more complicated!
Our clients live in a heavily regulated world already and we strongly suggest to them that they DO NOT buy the trade […]
We talk a lot about visibility in this blog, from not missing a beat during a domain name change to our Top 5 Paid Search Marketing Tips. Another topic is how the congruence of web technologies may be harming search engines abilities to find your site. I actually wrote about it today on the B2B […]
The big news around the SEM water cooler today is Google’s beta launch of PPA or pay-per-action ads. Although PPA ads are not new, (however, currently there is no network that compares in volume to Google) the ads differ form traditional AdSense ads, in that a user must click the ad and perform a specific […]
Catalyst attended the Exl Pharma SEM conference in February where Mike Moran, author of Search Engine Marketing Inc. presented. After reading Mike’s great post regarding the conference it had me thinking that although Catalyst has been doing search marketing catered to the healthcare / pharmaceutical industry for nearly a decade, industry thought leaders like Mike […]
