The search engines are always trying to find ways to tempt the user into using their specific site. After all, they are in it to make money, lots of money, buckets of the stuff in fact. Mark my words and mark them well. In the future we will all live and work at the whim of GoogleCorp… until that day, there is some competition in the shape of Microsoft’s oddly named Bing!
Now last year amid much fanfare and cries of invaded privacy (who can forget the poor guy caught leaving a house of ill repute) Google launched ‘Google street view’ a thoroughly marvellous piece of photo tomfoolery that allowed you to walk a virtual mile through any major city in the U.S. and then the UK and Europe.
When it comes to Eye Tracking, there isn’t much that we don’t know. Which is why Marketing Week approached Red C’s Client Services Director, Rosemary Walton, to help out on an article about this fascinating subject. here’s what Rosemary had to say on the subject:
For Rosemary Walton, Client Services Director at agency Red C Marketing, fast eye tracking means clients can make changes to campaigns in real-time. In a world where people Twitter their thoughts to the world, brands expect to be able to find out insights immediately and communicate them back to base. Real-time analysis is vital.
Contrary to myth, Bing is not a recursive acronym ‘Bing is not Google’, nor is it slang for cocaine (as I found out when I presented this to the agency!). It is in fact, the reincarnation of Microsoft Live search, a much publicised, heavily advertised step by Microsoft to finally get it right and rival Google. Bing is actually an onomatopoeic name, designed to represent the sound of the ‘moment of discovery and decision making’.
Say Google to almost anyone and they’ll know what you mean.OK, so great grandma Ruby may look at you vacantly, but that’s about it.Google has become synonymous with the web and the term ‘google it’ is now an everyday phrase.Google became the No. 1 brand in the world in 2007, according to Millward Brown Brandz Top 100.
But start to talk about the Google logo to someone and they will immediately have a favourite.A version of the logo which has stuck with them.They may have hovered over to see what it’s all about, clicked through to find out more or discussed it with colleagues and waxed lyrical about how clever it all is.
You could be forgiven for approaching the New Year with some trepidation, if you work in the marketing and advertising industry.Some of the traditional big-spending UK marketers are in trouble.Retailers are succumbing to depressed High Street spending in record numbers – Woolworths, MFI, Whittards, Zavvi, Adams – and predictions are for several more high profile casualties in Q1 2009.Financial services is carnage – a roller-coaster stock market, collapsing house prices, dismal rates for savings and investments, reluctant lenders– the only useful role for marketing seems to be chasing debt.And it doesn’t take much foresight to predict a treacherous year for holiday companies – teetering airlines and the collapse of sterling against most major currencies are making the B&B in Blackpool look an attractive option right now.
The search engines are always trying to find ways to tempt the user into using their specific site. After all, they are in it to make money, lots of money, buckets of the stuff in fact. Mark my words and mark them well. In the future we will all live and work at the whim of GoogleCorp… until that day, there is some competition in the shape of Microsoft’s oddly named Bing!
When it comes to Eye Tracking, there isn’t much that we don’t know. Which is why Marketing Week approached Red C’s Client Services Director, Rosemary Walton, to help out on an article about this fascinating subject. here’s what Rosemary had to say on the subject:
Say Google to almost anyone and they’ll know what you mean.
