Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Contests Contests Contests!


With so many advertisements on the web, a banner ad just simply does not do it anymore. In order to reach their target market and "leave a mark" in the consumers bind, companies need to think of new and creative ways of reaching them. How? Well canon has created an webpage that hosts a contest they are having called "the story behind the still." Each cycle a famous photographers photo is chosen and people can sumbit videos of how they interpret the picture. This whole contest is to promote one of their new cameras and purpose is to get the more involved with the product. Click here to visit the site and enter yourself!


Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Social Netowork Changes Everything!!

It is amazing how easy it is for advertisers to segment their audiences when advertising on social networks. Every ad that appears on my Facebook is in some way tailored specifically to me.

As seen below, through my Facebook profile they are able to know 1) I live in Ithaca for school, and 2) I am 21 years old!