In today’s highly competitive and quickly-changing media landscape, marketers are constantly presented with the challenge of leveraging the strength of multiple mediums, reaching the target audience with the lowest cost solution and effectively driving the desired return on investment.
The NC Health and Wellness Trust Fund (HWTF) is committed to helping North Carolinians live healthier lives. Preventing tobacco use among North Carolina’s teens is a key part of that mission. Tobacco. Reailty. Unfiltered. (TRU) is HWTF’s initiative to prevent teen tobacco use.
A February 2010 study of global Twitter use reported an average daily volume of 50 million tweets - more than 600 tweets every second. While Tweeters range from occasional posters to ten-an-hour fanatics, the medium itself is a mainstream phenomenon that is reaching into more and more households.
Pundits are tripping over themselves telling us agency folk to go mobile. Sure, it sounds reasonable to an iPhone, BlackBerry or Droid user. Mobile capabilities are all that. Media analysts even refer to mobile as the seventh mass media. To help uncover ways clients can have presence with this growing media, let’s look at why it’s so special.
In April, Apple introduced a new advertising platform for in-application ads on the iPhone. iAd, as it’s called, will afford application developers a new revenue stream added to the existing paid application and in-app purchase models. This innovative platform will give advertisers greater access to an increasingly sophisticated mobile audience.
Expectations are high for eHealth. Electronic Medical Records are seen as a remedy for care quality, evidence-based medicine and reduced cost. Telemedicine promises improved access and better treatment. The federal government is pumping billions into health information technology, healthcare providers are evaluating options and technology companies are angling for their share of the pie.