The largest portion of marketing budgets are now focused on customer retention first and customer aquisition second and branding third. Over the next year, 56% of respondents said that they will increase their online marketing spend, 54% will increase their social media spend, and 50% will increase … [Read more...]

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The Modern Media Agency Series is supported by IDG. IDG predicts online ad spend will reach almost $35 billion in the U.S. for 2011, an increase of nearly 14% from 2010. While online advertising continues to register significant gains quarter to quarter, the percentage increases are nowhere near p … [Read more...]

For those who are interested in a little more than just the Top 100 Most Valuable Brands for 2011, the report breaks everything down by industry and region, while also providing some interesting opinion from industry leaders along the way. You can download the PDF report here, view the eReport h … [Read more...]

No. 1 Tiger Woods, $75 million, Golf, Age: 35 Woods has failed to win tournaments or sign new sponsorship deals since his November 2009 car crash and the infidelity scandal that followed. Yet he retains two valuable partners, Nike and Electronic Arts, both of which built businesses with Woods as a … [Read more...]

Mark Zuckerberg ranks 52 on the Forbes list of billionaires. 28 years old and worth $13.5 billion. Facebook has also created 7 more billionaires, Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin and Sean Parker. Facebook has also billionified investors Peter Thiel and Yuri Milner and the two founders of the … [Read more...]