MARCOM Strategy Example in a B2B Environment from IBM

IBM's Smarter Planet: A belief, a purpose, a behavior, and an advertising campaign

IBM's Smarter Planet -- a campaign theme that has united the company's mission and marketing for the last five years -- offers marketers a number of lessons in the areas of positioning, advertising, content creation, social behavior and more.

It's not the kind of advertising that regularly makes its way onto the creative journals' top 10 lists. It doesn't necessarily make you want to post it on Facebook or share it with friends. It probably wins more Effies than Cannes. But Smarter Planet is most definitely smart. Brilliant, even. It's a tagline, an ad campaign, a social media program, an attempt to educate customers and influencers, a library of thought leadership, an employee motivational program, and a clearly defined.. [read the rest]

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Could Tumblr Be The Next Instagram? - a very recent acquisition.. What do you think?

May 21 2013, 06:58
By Shelly Palmer

 

When Facebook (FB) bought Instagram for $1B last year, it was a startup less than 2 years old. Its photo app attracted over 30m users and sported an eye-popping user growth curve. Since then, entrepreneurs, VCs and pundits have actively wondered who would be next. I think we know now. And, ironically, it isn't a natively mobile service.

On Sunday, it was reported that Yahoo's (YHOO) board approved the acquisition of Tumblr for... [read the rest]