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All Manner of Failures (www.gstories.com)

How sad, on Maundy Thursday, too—all manner of failures: Second Life marketing = failure: GigaOM outlines 3 Reasons Why Marketing in Second Life Doesn’t Work. Oh, good. Now that he’s taken care of that fad, I can go back to bashing covering mobile marketing. Johnson & Johnson’s Ortho Evra: The patch itself has been quite effective at preventing pregnancy, but the company is embroiled with lawsuits over the accompanying

Targeting Online Ads to a User Session (www.gstories.com)

Merrell Ligons has come up with a new idea for targeting ads on a web site. As you know, it often takes repeat exposure to get a consumer to notice an ad and recall the company. Merrell suggests that, instead of exposing a site visitor to multiple ads, why not show them just one ad for their entire user session?
What if an advertiser was able to sponsor user sessions instead of buying impressions? For the less technical folks, what if we could guarantee an advertiser that as long as someone