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Media Two Welcomes Mike Brown

Mike Brown

Mike Brown is the new business strategist at Media Two. He’s a sales guy, but also awesome! His mom’s name is Cheryl and she’ll vouch for him.

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Internet Summit 2010

Internet Summit Online Advertising panel featuring Emma Battle from Red Hat, Jeff Wood from aiMatch, Nancy Hall from ValueClick Media and Kyle Johnson from Compete.

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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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Art&Copy Inspires!

Art & Copy, a fabulous new documentarty by Doug Pray about advertising, is the kind of movie that lingers with you well after throwing away the popcorn bucket. Many advertising execs, designers and “civilians” met at the Rialto Theater on Wednesday for an exclusive screening of the movie followed by a Q&A session with Executive [...]

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Search + PR = Pretty Cool Strategy

Anyone reading our blog on a regular basis is no stranger to how much we preach about the importance of search marketing.  That said, I’d like to share a quick real-life story that shows just how incredibly powerful and important search engine marketing is to your interactive media mix. About a week ago, I was [...]

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’Tis the season for resolutions…

Since New Year’s resolutions are about adopting best practices or making changes to our day-to-day routines, let’s make marketing resolutions that will have a positive effect on our future. What resolutions are your making to ensure your success in 2010?

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Media Two Announces Catevo Group Hirings

Press Release: RALEIGH, NC – - Just days after The Catevo Group officially closed its doors, local advertising agency Media Two Interactive has announced the hiring of several of the key former Catevo employee’s, with plans to hire more.

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I #RELISH Interactive in the Triangle!

I’ll begin this post with a quick disclaimer. I mean absolutely no disrespect to our friends in Iowa that we’ve been kindly ribbing for the past week, BUT… The Triangle is ALL about Interactive Marketing!!! Having spent the last two days wrapped up in events surrounding the Internet Summit 2009, I have to say I [...]

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Sponsored Tweets… good or bad?

At the risk of losing some credibility as a “professional” in the interactive space, I’ll share a little confession. I hate Twitter. There, I said it. I’m not really sure why I hate Twitter. Perhaps it’s the fact I don’t have enough space on my desk for another computer monitor, or perhaps it’s simply that [...]

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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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