What Runs Where – competitive intelligence service for online advertising

WhatRunsWhere is a competitive intelligence service for online advertising. It’s helps companies purchase the right online and mobile advertising.

Learn what other businesses like yours are doing to advertise online. Keep an eye on your competition, research for new campaigns, get ideas for your existing media buys and so much more. Use WhatRunsWhere to buy more effectively for you and your clients, limit your risk and spend less advertising online boosting your ROI.

Sounds pretty cool! Little expensive, but certainly worth a look at! Also you know I’m always up for free content so please do check out their blog and free white papers.

Here is a video interview with Max the co-founder of WhatRunsWhere here

 

Inked – Buy & Sell Graphic Design Templates

Inked is a great online design firm for small to medium sized originations that do not have the access to design professionals. They have tons of templates t0 choose from; brochures, business cards, and letterheads. They also have many competitive designs in every industry type from medical, real estate, to music. In addition they also offer custom logo designs and printing.

What’s cool is Inked is also a marketplace for graphic designers, you can earn 20% commission when your design sells in Inked. The site brings freelance opportunities directly to the designers from around the world.

It’s stock photo agency, but for graphic designs but they handle marketing, promotion, ordering and customer service. You provide great design in any style and form you like. You can now utilize leftover concepts or experiments, and make money while keeping in practice with trends and software.

Love it! 🙂

 

Whil – Advertising Campaign

I came across this site Whil.com  “Meet Whil the New Face of Meditation”. I was intrigued and a little confused the site offers a free how-to 60 meditation how to. Quote from the site:

“With the speed of information coming at us today, whil is the tool to help you hit your reset button and reboot before you burnout. It’s 60 seconds of meditation to help you calm the mind, make an immediate measurable commitment to do something great, and the power to achieve it.” 

When you click on shop there is a big circle that says “but you already have everything you need.”  The site  is clean, well written, and lovely…..but why? what is it for? Then I figured it out, it a brilliant advertising  campaign from Lulumon! I love the idea, I can’t wait to see how far the campaign reaches, and the attention it receives. So far 175 likes of Facebook & 140 Twitter followers.

Ad Yappers – Advertising

So if you are thinking about creating a new ad, you may want to check out this site. Ad Yapper has developed a site where consumers can rate ads (liked, hated, or meh). You also have the ability to comment and interact with fellow consumers. It’s an interesting idea; I personally think this is WAY more useful for the advertisers. Their BLOG is pretty funny, with things like a list of worst Thanksgiving ads. Check it out, it may help you in your ad creation!