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Brands represent a huge amount of asset creation from advertising and other brand building investments and marketers need to find a way to make the connection or they will continue to make the wrong marketing investments.

The 4 things that Social Media and California Raisins have in common

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Social media is not just a “thing”; it will be integrated into EVERYTHING. Verizon Fios is integrating social media (Facebook, Twitter) into TV. Facebook and twitter apps and web access are now fairly common in cell phones. On the other hand, it is important to realize that social media is part of mobile life, not the other way around.

Meet the CIMMs; “Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement”. While Sims try to get through their daily virtual lives, CIMMs are 15 of the largest media and advertising companies trying to kickstart innovation of long-form video measurement across 3 screens; TV, internet, and smaller mobile devices.

Marketers want to use brand extension strategies as much as possible today because it is a more affordable way to introduce products but the key is having enough rocket fuel, i.e. brand equity, to get the rocket (i.e. brand extension) off the ground.

Understanding “Path to Purchase” will change marketing and media priorities. In most cases, it is likely to increase the budget for search, comparison shopping, and particularly in-store shopper marketing vs. using a media habits approach because those places don’t have a big share of media time but they are where the “lean-forward” action is.

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