Whilst the world’s greatest athletes arrived last summer to compete in the London Olympics, this February will see Europe’s greatest search marketers congregate to share expertise and sharpen their skills.
Last summer, they celebrated the Olympics with a series of Olympic Games themed Doodles based on Olympic events. A Google Doodle today celebrates Frank Zamboni, the creator of the standard in ice cleaning and resurfacing for ice rinks the world over.
In June, “teamusa.org” was distributing approximately 22 percent of their budget to the keyword “2012 olympics”, and were also bidding on other keywords such as “us womens soccer team”, “usa field hockey”, and even “shaun white snowboarding...
London’s SummerOlympics took the gold with over 150 million tweets broadcast over the 16-day event. Twitter has released their annual “Year on Twitter” collection of the hottest trends, topics, and people across five different categories.
Olympics 2012 Olympics 2012 Donna Summer Today, Google published their search trend data as an interactive summary called, as always, Zeitgeist. If you were thinking of stabbing yourself in the eye after reading the data from Yahoo's 2012 search...
Events such as the Oscars or the Super Bowl might draw international audiences to greater or lesser degrees, but the 2012 SummerOlympics, featuring participants from more than 200 different nations, had truly global appeal.
For example, the results page for a search on the Olympics becomes indexable and therefore could show up in Google search results to users seeking information on the event. We are a bit surprised by Twitter's comments about Search plus Your World...
This month marks the start of the 2012 SummerOlympics in London. Today’s social media community isn’t what it was four years ago and this year’s summerOlympics will be what some are calling the first “Socialympics”.
The Olympics are interesting because so many athletes spend their entire lives playing and practicing for one event or race where glory or defeat is attained in as little as 10 seconds. The Summer Olympic Games are just over a month away.
Led by Google and aided by the SummerOlympics and national elections, search ad spending will grow 27 percent to $19.51 billion in 2012, according to a new eMarketer report. By 2016, U.S.search spending could approach $30 billion.
They credit the quadrennial effect - events occurring every four years - as growth drivers in 2012, as the summerOlympics, U.S. Google’s share of the Internet ad market has risen almost 10 percent in the last five years, from 34.9 percent in 2006...
Calder's largest sculpture until that time, 20.5 meters high, was "El Sol Rojo," constructed for the 1968 SummerOlympics in Mexico City," Wikipedia notes. If you’re wondering what the logo is on Google today, it's a mobile – perhaps you have...
With the World Cup now behind us and Spain crowned the new champions, the next biggest sporting event that will capture our search imaginations will possibly be the SummerOlympics in London in 2012. Looking at search interest from the last two...
After all, that aforementioned 600% came the summer of the 2008 Olympics. With the Winter Olympics and the World Cup both being held this year, they're hoping for big ad numbers to come in. Perhaps their disappointment is due to the fact that Sohu...
Online Video Advertising to Peak in 2012 Predicts eMarketer Report Posted by Greg Jarboe Sep 12, 2008 According to a new report from eMarketer entitled, "Video Advertising Online: Spending and Pricing," online video advertising will peak at 78.9...
According to a new report from eMarketer entitled, "Video Advertising Online: Spending and Pricing," online video advertising will peak at 78.9% in 2012 -- when "both traditional and alternative media companies will be distributing far more...
ConnectU Co-Founders Place 6th in Olympics Rowing Posted by Nathania Johnson Aug 18, 2008 Facebook competitor ConnectU's co-founder twins, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, placed 6th in men's pair rowing in the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
By the time of the next summerOlympics, China is expected to exceed the U.S.in internet use. One day before the Olympics in Beijing, Ominture has announced that its SearchCenter integration with Chinese search engine Baidu.com is now available.
SEM CROSSFIRE Not too many advertisers are focusing on the SummerOlympics in Beijing so far. The "Olympics 2008" SERP is an interesting study in SEO tactics and mistakes. Olympics 2008: Which Search Advertisers Get the Gold?
SEM CROSSFIRE Not too many advertisers are focusing on the SummerOlympics in Beijing so far. Olympics 2008: Which Search Advertisers Get the Gold? The "Olympics 2008" SERP is an interesting study in SEO tactics and mistakes.