Monthly Archives: August 2011

Social advertising increasingly important for brands

Increasing reach of social media platforms: Five weeks after the launch of Google+ the platform counted already 25 mn users. In Germany, the number amounts to almost one million. According to ComScore no other social network has been growing faster: Facebook needed three years to achieve this reach, Twitter needed two and a half years [...]
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Next-Generation Marketing: Social, Local, Mobile

Munich will host the 25th Medientage in October under the motto “Mobile-Local-Social: The trinity of a networking society”. And at Cologne University’s ECC Forum the topic “Social, Mobile, Local: How consumers mobilize retailing” ranks high on the agenda. Considered as the “digital avant-garde”, Universal McCann coined the term LoMoSos in the Internet World. Mary Keeker, [...]
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Any positive signs regarding paid online content?

Revenues coming from print media are further decreasing. The big question the publishing industry is facing is how to get media users to pay for digital content. How to turn back the clock on 15 years of free for all Internet culture? The solutions provided by the big publishing houses are different, ranging from a [...]
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aquarius上海欢迎您!Welcome aquarius Shanghai!

After Munich and Hong Kong, aquarius has opened a third office in Shanghai on July 15. (location) This is with the purpose of enabling our clients in the west to access the fastest growing – and for many companies already the biggest – consumer market in the world. Thanks to a rapidly growing economy, increasing [...]
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Mobile Evolution. Mobile Computing [Stats]

The triumph of the mobile web is inevitable. Almost every one in three Internet users in Germany (29%) uses his or her mobile device to go online. This figure is almost five times it was back in 2008. At the time, 3 mn people went online via mobile, now it is approx. 14.7 mn. These [...]
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5 myths about Social Media

There is no doubt that social media are revolutionizing the marketing business. Reach on social media platforms and the corresponding figures for advertising and eCommerce returns saw a steep increase in the past years. Today’s customers expect individualized communication on all available channels. In the long run, nobody can live without social media tools. But [...]
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