Affinitive’s Social Media Playground

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Affinitive’s Social Media Playground

Product Placement versus Consumer Engagement

July 7th, 2008 · Comments

The idea of “product placement” is one that many entertainment industry veterans are so familiar with, it is likely a part of their daily vocab. There are many memorable examples of product placement throughout the years, including the origin of the “Soap Opera” which comes from the show’s original sponsors, [...]

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Tags: Marketing · Social Media · Technology

Engagement – Marketing’s “New” Key Metric

April 10th, 2008 · Comments

For those of you who might have been following the Forrester Research Marketing Forum 2008 (either via “microblogging” or Twitter), a new set of metrics were put forth to better quantify how consumers engage with products and services.
The engagement model is based on Discovery, Evaluation, Use and Affinity for products and can be used offline [...]

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Tags: Industry News · Marketing · Research

New Analysis of Facebook Engagement

February 26th, 2008 · Comments

Compete (along with Mashable) has just released an interesting analysis of the increasing penetration of Facebook applications. They are growing rapidly with half of Facebook’s 31 million users using applications.
This is very good news for application developers as a whole, but individual developers are primarily interested in their own applications. A critical factor that Compete [...]

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Tags: Social Media