Media Two Interactive

Michael Hubbard founded Media Two Interactive in 1998 and currently acts as Media Director and CEO. In these roles, he drives the continuing growth of the agency not only by overseeing the management team, but also by serving as a mentor to account executives, coordinators, designers, strategists, and everyone in between, giving them the benefit of his 10+ years of interactive experience.

Digital Display Media Buying

As I’m flying the wonderful airlines known as Southwest, I have hundreds of thoughts in my mind about how companies are using digital media and how other agencies (and publishers) are explaining it to them – and all of these provocations were awoken again by a simple meeting between an Agency Partner of ours, myself and a potential client today.

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Google Should Try Indexing MCC’s

What if Google monitored agencies MCC accounts for effectiveness of brand reach, conversions, cost efficiencies, CTR’s etc and then indexed every MCC owner? I’m sure they could figure out an appropriate algorithm and even throw in some intangibles like budget scalability based on number of certified adwords employee’s, etc – and then the next time an advertiser needed an agency, they could “google” which agency would do the best job for them.

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A User Experience Isn’t All Graphical

A few months back I was attending a Triangle AMA meeting in which Brooks Bell was speaking about email marketing optimization efforts. During the Q&A session, I asked her the following: “If you only had enough money to hire one person, which would it be – a copywriter, or a designer?” Before I tell you what she answered, let me tell you about a little test we just ran for a client.

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Search Marketing: You Must Bid on Your Brand

Over the years, I have heard many “professionals” debate how much Search Engine Real-Estate is appropriate when it comes to your own brand terms. What percentage of the listings you must “own”, or what keywords you must be on top for. I have heard that as long as you hold the top natural position, you don’t need the paid positioning. I’ve heard that you need a good mix of both. I’ve heard that with universal search you need a balance of everything. Regardless of what I’ve heard over the years, it is still my professional belief that you need to own EVERY spot on your branded search results as you possibly can.

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New Year's Must-Know's for the CMO

I actually have about 25 of these, but if I ever wanted anyone to read to the end, I thought I should focus on the top 4… So, in no particular order, I wanted to address four items that I consistently saw overlooked or misunderstood in 2009 that I’d love to see corrected in 2010:

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Should Agencies Use Ad Servers?

In the last few weeks, we’ve had a lot of traditional advertising agencies asking us about what the benefits of utilizing an ad server are. By now, almost every publisher large and small offers some form of ad serving, so why not just use their numbers and their ad servers and save yourself the monthly commitments, ad serving fees, ad operations man hours and more?

Well, here’s a few reasons why we utilize ad servers – in particular – MediaPlex’ MOJO AdServer (we also use Microsoft Atlas for some clients, and we’ve had great experiences with TruEffect’s Truadvertiser in the past as well):

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Best Practices for Online Campaigns

So yesterday I had the pleasure of moderating a panel discussion on integrating interactive elements of campaigns with traditional marketing as well as online elements such as Social Media, Video, Search and more. The Triangle Interactive Marketing Association invited Christin Prince from McKinney, Michelle Marshall from Mullen and Tyler Kelly from Centro to share their experiences. As I opened with at the event, I of course, invited myself to moderate by way of my twitter whines.

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Search vs Display: Cause & Effect Studies?

I’m heading the SEMPO research committee initiative on deciding whether or not more studies are needed on the relationship between Search and Display advertising. We’ve identified 6 major case studies out there, and before we turn these all over to the rest of our task force for comment, I wanted to make sure we had all of the major studies.

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