Adrants Wants Blog Advertising Panelists
We/I/Adrants will be moderating a panel at BlogOn, called "Can Advertising Be Social?", October 18 in NYC. The panel will focus on "social media" but concentrate on weblogs as both a medium through which to advertise and as a standalone element that is part of a larger ad campaign - like the recently launched Vespa blogs or the long running Stonyfield Yogurt blogs. Even character blogs. Basically, it's a panel about how blogs fit into marketing and advertising programs. I'm looking to fill two panel slots with client-side marketers who have used blogs in their marketing mix. The agency side will be part of the panel too but that slot is filled. So if you are a marketer and want to share your insights and success at a big, two day blog conference in New York City, please express your interest in the Comments section.
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I'll make sure to be in the audience for this one. I still need to do my pro-character blog post on my blog.
Customer blogs are a different breed. Do you go for the newbie, the average user and customer, or do you find seasoned bloggers and then hire them? The first is bold and creative, the latter is safe but boring.
How about English Cut http://www.englishcut.com?
The blog IS the advertising and marketing program.
Thomas is planning on coming into NY in October but I'm not sure of the timing. Contact me or Hugh if you are interested....
I would love to participate in the BLOGON to talk about the MotorSport Ranch blog. It details my experience producing a reality television show (of the same name). The blog was the ONLY marketing I did for the show and eventually the show was sold and aired on INHD (an HD network available in 37MM homes in the US). Recently I signed a coproduction deal to make 26 episodes sponsored by a major car company. The blog is going to be the primary advertising medium for the series.
The blog reveals how little I knew about television production - many of the networks we talked to liked that aspect of the show - they made the blog part of the series deal (i.e. I have to blog about the process). Ironically, the blog has better traffic than the show (not sure that is a good thing).
http://motorsportranch.typepad.com
Let me know if you need me. I would consider coming out to NYC.
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Other than the fact that typepad.com is working to fix our headers for our blogs I'd be more than happy to be on your panel as blogs really virally drove the launch of our first product "mypetfat".
Case in point we were on your blog back in January o4
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So after I saw the viral affect of blogging I started a few blogs and once I can get typepad to fix those puppies I'll be back at ya with our links.
Hey, if you want me on your panel I'll bring along some "fat" for show and tell.
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NewsGator would be interested in sitting on the panel. We are an RSS platform company - and we use several blogs as part of our marketing mix. Founder, Greg Reinacker's blog - http://www.rassoc.com/gregr/weblog/default.aspx - Nick Bradbury's blog (which, btw made the controversial Technorati 500) - http://nick.typepad.com/ - and finally our company blog - http://blogs.newsgator.com/daily/.
On a separate subject, Steve, did you teach Market Research for advertising at the U of I ca. 1995?
If you're interested in the character blog side of things, Secret Sparkle Body Spray might be a good one (http://www.sparklebodyspray.com). Lots of debate would come out of it for sure. Have to check on feasibility but I'll raise my hand for now.
Dave, I'm interested but you left me no method of contacting you. Please do.
Steve
This should engender some fascinating debate. I look forward to reading about the write up.
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