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Apple's Twitter ads may have been bid to prevent "brand-jacking" | Facebook lets advertisers mine topic data | Brands learn the power of having a personality
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March 12, 2015
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Apple's Twitter ads may have been bid to prevent "brand-jacking"
Apple spent serious money to buy Twitter's top ad spots during its Apple Watch announcement, possibly to prevent rivals from poaching its buzz. "Apple has been forced into a 'defensive' move towards advertising on Twitter," Ewan Spence writes. Forbes (3/12), Internet Retailer (3/10)
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Facebook lets advertisers mine topic data
Facebook is giving brands free access to a wealth of topic data from posts, essentially allowing them to mine the site for keyword mentions. The tool should help marketers create more focused ads, and could aid in product development, Facebook's Matt Idema says. Re/code (3/10)
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Brands learn the power of having a personality
Arby's success on Twitter is due to its ability to project a clear and compelling personality through its tweets, Tessa Wegert writes. That's something other brands should seek to emulate in all their customer-facing messaging, Wegert writes. ClickZ (3/12)
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A human's personality might be largely innate. For brands, it must be crafted -- molded from the moment the brand is born, and by every message it shares moving forward."
-- Tessa Wegert, writing at ClickZ
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 Andy Sernovitz, Editor at Large
Andy Sernovitz is the New York Times best-selling author of "Word of Mouth Marketing: How Smart Companies Get People Talking" and the blog "Damn, I Wish I'd Thought of That!" He runs WordofMouth.org, where marketers and entrepreneurs learn to be great at word of mouth marketing, and SocialMedia.org, the community for social media leaders at the world's greatest brands.
 
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