Great Sites Christmas Advertising Packages – get the creative for free!

October 12th, 2012

Its a 3Di Christmas

In the lead up to the November and December Christmas shopping period we are offering a comprehensive advertising package on our Great Sites online membership portal.

Great Sites is the largest and one of the most responsive consumer survey databases across Australia, New Zealand & The United Kingdom. The membership portal attracts a broad range of consumers, who actively opt-in to participate in our survey panel for the chance to win $30,000. Our database is fresh, and readily available for you to begin communicating to our 500,000 members.

Advertisers can take advantage of:

  • - Solus email (third-party advertisement that is sent to an opt-in subscription email list)
  • - Inclusion on our Great Shopping newsletter
  • - Site take over (wallpaper)
  • - Branded video on Great Video
  • - all creative included in the media buy!

This is a great package for retailers and businesses looking to support a sales push over this busy Christmas period.

Great Shopping Christmas Banner

Benefits:

Email marketing is a very effective and flexible communication channel that offers many unique capabilities including; extensive targeting options, rapid results and high levels of referrals. The creative can be housed in the recipients inbox increasing brand exposure and is especially relevant to retail offers and promotions.

Contact 3Di sales to find out more about Great Sites Email, Phone and Postal Campaigns and Data.

Australia: 1300 806 986 or Email
New Zealand :  09 920 1755 or Email

Great Sites Member Demographics 2012

October 12th, 2012

Great Sites recently published its latest member demographics (below) for its Australian and New Zealand members. The analysis is based on their most active members over the last 12 months.

Great Sites offers advertisers Solus email campaigns which can be targeted to audiences using member demographics derived from  over 50 survey questions that members have answered. Telemarketers and Direct Marketers can access phone and postal data to support their campaigns using the same targeting capabilities.

Solus email is a third-party advertisement that is sent to an opt-in subscription email list comprised of demographics of target consumers. For example, the owner of an opt-in list related to Internet Security would allow an anti-virus software company to send a direct advertising email about their Internet Security product to members of the opt-in list. The e-mail advertisement will generally not show any information about the Web site or company who owns the email list, but will appear to come directly to you from the third party brand.

The analysis from Great Sites highlights that it’s most active members consist of a third of longer term members (over 3 years), one third medium term members (1-3 years) and one third new members. Great Sites runs an extensive member acquisition program to ensure the membership is always fresh and growing, see the  channels we use to recruit members by below.

Australian Members of Great Sites

Great Sites Members - New Zealand

New Zealand Great Site Members

Great Site Members - Australia

How Great Site Members Recruited

Contact 3Di sales to find out more about Great Sites Email, Phone and Postal Campaigns and Data.

Australia: 1300 806 986 or Email
New Zealand :  09 920 1755 or Email

We’ve just launched Great Video

August 6th, 2012

great_video_au

We’ve just launched Great Video the latest enhancement to the Great Sites membership rewards portal. Great Video offers advertisers a new way to reach targeted consumers with dynamic content such as TV shows, advertisements, films and trailers.

Great Sites has now hit over 300,000 registered members and is growing rapidly with thousands of new members joining each week. With the Great Sites memberrship portal all members have completed a detailed profile and survey and also opt-in to receive all emails and communication with brands.

Great Sites screen shot

How does it work?

After members sign up to the Great Sites and have filled out their membership profile they are able to earn rewards (prizes) for engaging with ads, surveys, Q&As, research and more. All members go into the grand prize draw and also earn entries to receive weekly prizes and incentives. The more entries they earn, the more chance they have of winning. Loyalty and interaction with the Great Sites membership portal is extremely high so advertisers have the benefit of reaching extremely targeted segments based on their demographics and purchase preferences.

Great Video allows members to earn more entries in a fun and engaging way and can earn entries

Earning Entries can be linked to specific “actions” such as — Completed views

- Q & A (multiple choice)

- Q & A (survey)

- Opt IN/OUT (lead generation)

- Social Sharing

Great Video is also streamed direct to their Desktop, Tablet or Smartphone.

Benefits for Advertisers

  • Advertisers only pay for proven video engagement “actions”
  • Proven engagement and direct response from video campaign
  • Ads viewed in high definition
  • All platforms supported (desktop, tablet, smartphone)
  • Any length of video supported
  • Unique video engagement from $1.00

Enhancement Options ($ depending on requirements)

  • Target ads to specific demographics or interests
  • Add a Survey
  • Add Lead Generation
  • Add social Sharing
  • Custom integration
  • Video encoding and hosting

Speak to us for more information on campaigns and ask us about free video encoding and hosting.

Australia: 1300 806 986 or Email
New Zealand :  09 920 1755 or Email

Great Sites screen shot 2

It’s All About Tweens

July 20th, 2012

tween-texing-hm

What is a ‘Tween’ you ask? Well it’s those in ‘preadolescence’, that is, the stage between middle childhood and adolescence, in the range of 10 to 12 years old. In short one of the fastest growing audience segments with an even faster growing appetite for smartphones and tablets.

Two thirds of tweens own or have access to smartphone while almost 50% have regular access to tablets, a new report from Pacific Magazines has revealed.

The Tween Tracker research study, which surveyed over 1700 people aged between six and 12 years, illuminates the lifestyles of a demographic which controls $1.4bn annual spend in the economy, according to Pac Mags.

Other findings included the fact that three in five tweens have a say in choosing the grocery products bought each week, and that social connections are more important than ever, with the top five sources of happiness in 2012 family, friends, pets, magazines, and TV/movies.

Miriam Condon, research and strategy director, Pac Mags, said: “Children are often at the heart of family decisions, with activities and purchases centred on their likes and interests.

“This latest research reflects Pacific Magazines’ commitment in the future generation of consumers. As one of the most innovative research studies of its kind in the country, Tween Tracker presents a unique overview into the needs, likes, fears and ambitions of Australian tweens today.”

Mychelle Vanderburg, youth publisher, Pacific Magazines, said: “The results provide a barometer into the hearts and minds of Australian youth – but also clear-cut guidelines to marketers on how to communicate, engage and interact in a meaningful way with tweens today.”

The new research comes as Pacific Magazines expands touch-points for K-Zone and Total Girl readers, with newly launched Channel Seven TV shows K-Zone TV and Total Girl TV.

In the past six months, K-Zone and Total Girl’s circulation increased by 3.0% to 42,042 copies and 3.4% to 48,145 copies respectively.

Getting the most from a CPC campaign: TPN Performance Email

July 4th, 2012

Performance email logo

Lowering Your Cost-Per-Click…While Maintaining Value

How do you go about lowering the price you’re paying for each click, while sustaining (or even improving upon) the value of your visits?

Refine and Expand Your Reach – By simultaneously eliminating irrelevant or overpriced clicks, while also continually discovering new relevant and valuable clicks the distribution of your budget will be iteratively improved.

With TPN Performance Email not only do advertisers only pay for clicks received from their campaign, recipients keep and forward the email, increasing it’s performance.

TPN email

The Performance Network (TPN) partners with new database proprietors every month, we currently have access to over 7 million Australian and 170,000 New Zealand email records across our network.

Audiences can be segmented by; age, location and gender it proves to be  extremely cost effective.

Sample Creative

HP creative

Q Ltd ASX Media Release: Sale and Purchase of Digital Marketing Business

March 26th, 2012

On Friday 23rd March 2012 Q Ltd (ASX:QXQ) and Beyond D Pty Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Beyond International Ltd (ASX:BYI), entered into an agreement that proposes the sale of all Q Ltd’s digital marketing operations and assets to entities controlled by Beyond International Ltd. The proposed sale is the culmination of a review undertaken by the Q Ltd board of directors to assess the most appropriate action to be taken to create value for shareholders.

Under the Sale Agreement, Q Ltd (parent company of 3Di) will receive up to approximately $3.25 million for the underlying assets,
comprising:
- Approximately $1,500,000 in cash on completion;
- Up to $500,000 subject to verification of the level of net financial assets transferred to the Buyer;
- Up to approximately $500,000 subject to the trade debtors transferred to the Buyer being collected; and
- Up to $750,000 of deferred consideration subject to the business achieving an agreed EBIT target for the financial year ending 30 June 2013.
The sale is subject to obtaining the shareholder approval of Q Ltd and other conditions usual for a transaction of this type. An Extraordinary General Meeting of the shareholders of Q Ltd  will be called to vote on the proposed sale. The Directors have unanimously indicated that they intend to vote in favour of the Resolution and recommend that Shareholders vote in favour of the Resolution.
Jon Ostler, Q Ltd CEO stated that “I’m very pleased that we have a proposal that meets the needs of our shareholders while providing employment and growth opportunities for all the employees across our digital  operations”. Jon went on “the proposed sale will also allow the operations to accelerate innovations in digital services and digital media assets offering clients more choice, capability and ultimately results.”
Beyond International Ltd is a leading producer and distributor of television and digital content, head quartered in Sydney. Beyond is a solid fixture in the Australian media landscape and has produced over three thousand hours of television programs for broadcast internationally including Beyond Tomorrow and MythBusters.
Once the sale is completed the acquired operations and assets will be headed up by Jon Ostler and will form a new Digital Division within the Beyond group of companies. The Beyond Group is well funded and reported half year revenue of $44m and pre-tax profits of $4.5m (July 2011 to Dec 2011).
Mikael Borglund, CEO, Beyond International Limited said “As stated at our November AGM Beyond intends to seek opportunities to increase its digital capabilities and activities as we take the Group forward into a digital future. This proposed acquisition will provide Beyond with access to a diverse range of digital expertise, IP and assets covering digital strategy, creative, development, marketing and media”.
Q Ltd , All enquiries should be direct to:
Jon Ostler
CEO, Q Ltd
Tel: 02 9339 6750
Paul G Choiselat
Executive Chairman, Q Ltd
Mob:  0414 232 143
Beyond International Ltd All enquiries should be direct to:
Robert Milne,
Company Secretary, Beyond International Limited
Tel: 02 9437 2000
Print
Beyond logo

72% Increase in video ad spend by 2012

November 1st, 2011

Easy-Online-Video-Tips-101-Reasons-Online-Video

Interactive marketing spending in the US will more than triple over the next five years, reaching $61 billion by 2012, according to a new Forrester Research, Inc. A recent report expects that a maturing perspective about interactive channels coupled with technology advances will eventually lead to interactive technologies infusing all marketing efforts, and the interactive marketing organization will dissolve.

The Forrester forecast is based in part on a survey of 344 interactive marketing professionals and their budget decisions affecting display ads, search, email marketing, online video, and emerging media (social, mobile, and advergaming). Forresters breakdown of spending includes the following:

  • Search marketing will triple in five years. Mainstream marketers aggressive use of search marketing will grow the category at a CAGR of 26 percent to $25 billion by 2012 due to the increasing costs of paid search, additional spending on optimization tools and services, and international expansion.
  • Display advertising will reach $14 billion by 2012. Display ads will be a key factor in the interactive marketing budget by having an essential supporting role for all interactive campaigns.
  • Services and integration  not volume  will drive email marketing growth. Spending will focus on improving email relevancy with analytics and data management, and will grow to more than $4 billion by 2012.
  • Online video ads will significantly increase. Growing consumer adoption of online video will result in a dramatic 72 percent increase in online video ad spending to $7.1 billion by 2012. More customer-centric online video applications will increase the mediums appeal for consumers and marketers.
  • Social media will drive emerging channels to $10 billion by 2012. Mainstream adoption will boost spending in emerging channels such as social media, mobile, game marketing, widgets, podcasts, and RSS. Spending on social media alone will grow to $6.9 billion as marketers understand how to use and measure this channel.
  • Mobile marketing will grow to $2.8 billion. As consumers become increasingly tied to personal computing handsets, theyll want to extend their mobile utility to accommodate transactions. This transition will drive mobile marketing to grow to $2.8 billion by 2012.

3dinteractive’s Head of Digital Media, Jaysen Du Plessis recently explored trends in the Australian market. Online display advertising on a whole is up 17% from Q1 to Q2, with advertising spend for the first half of 2011 valued at $39.8 million (AUD).

Video Advertising grew a whopping 32.6% in the 6 months, representing 12.6% of the overall advertising display revenues.

B&T online display

3dinteractive is an accredited member of the Internet Advertising Sales Houses of Australia (IASH) which recognises best practice among online advertising sales houses in Australia.

Speak with a member of our team about getting the most out of your online advertising spend or more on the trend in online video on

Australia: 1300 806 986 or email us on info@3dinteractive.com.au

New Zealand: 09 920 1755 or email us on info@3dinteractive.co.nz

iash_logo

IAB Best Practice Series: Online Video Advertising

November 1st, 2011

OnlineVideoAds

#1 Getting Started – Length & Quality

The International Advertising Bureau (IABUK) has recently set out a new set of best practices in regards to online video advertising so we thought with the extensive growth in the area you should know about what they had to say. We’ll post a series of top tips that you need to know about online video display advertising.

Video Content

On the internet there are different types of video clips and programmes, known as video content. You must think about the audience you would like to reach, and the type of video content you will advertise around to reach them. Consider two important aspects:

QUALITY AND LENGTH

The quality and length of video content will affect how receptive a consumer is to advertising in the same way as TV or written web pages. With online video, the higher the quality or the longer the clip, the more receptive a consumer will be to advertising. Think about what you want to achieve, short ads or different formats can be effective for your particular objectives.

What types of video are consumers engaging with?

The below tables show what types of video people watch, why they watch it and how they watch it. It is categorised as three types of video content called snippets, boutique and programmes and film.

table1a_4431

Why are they watching it?

table2a_4407

How are they watching it?

table3a_4408

Quality

Obviously, advertising around higher quality, professionally produced boutique, programme and film content will come at a premium cost because they have greater brand association and a large number of people from certain demographics will return regularly.

People that choose to watch high quality content will be more receptive to advertising. For instance, if someone chooses to watch a professionally produced episode of Lost on Channel 4’s website, they will be more receptive to an advert break at the beginning, middle and end of the programme, largely because they are used to it on TV.

Equally, if it’s the world premiere of the latest music video from the Kings of Leon or Lady Gaga, people will be more willing to sit through a short advert to watch it. If someone clicks to watch a home made clip on YouTube, they may be less likely to accept lengthy advertising beforehand because it doesn’t seem worth the wait.

You will be able to judge quality based on your own knowledge of the content, and on information provided by publishers and agencies.

Length

On the internet, very short video content (clips of usually 1 – 3 minutes) is extremely popular, forming the bulk of video consumed. Advertising around this short form content must be approached differently to long form content (programmes usually 15 – 60 minutes). Like quality, you will be able to find out more information from publishers and agencies. Rules to consider for length:

table4_4468

Come back to see the next instalment in the series: #2 Video with other media

What’s Hot: TPN Leads

October 31st, 2011

glossy-burning-fire-flame

TPN Leads is a proven comprehensive lead generation service encompassing unique media, marketing services and technology. TPN Leads generates a constant stream of prequalified warm new business leads. TPNs flexible toolkit allows it to meet the requirements of a wide range of clients and industries whether B2C or B2B. Our expert team can advise on which solution is right for you. TPN Leads is suitable for any company looking to generate demand and drive new business. TPN Leads can be used to generate;

- Email sales leads
- Email newsletter registrations
- Prospect Engagement (lead nurturing)
- Tele-sales leads
- Postal Direct Marketing leads

All these leads are prequalified and opt-in; they have positively chosen to engage with you.

TPN Co-reg Network

One of the most popular media options TPN provides is Co-registration. “Co-reg” involves asking known users if they would like to be contacted by an advertiser about a specific offer or product. If they opt in then their details are automatically sent from the website displaying the ad to the 3rd party advertiser. TPN manages a network of Co-reg partners supported by TPNs unique co-reg ad server. TPN is delivering tens of thousands of sales leads and registrations every month. Advertisers simply pay per lead, typically between $2.00 and $15.00 depending on the type of lead required.

TPN Lead Nurturing System

Co-reg is very popular with telesales and DM marketers. However we have found that many other marketers are missing out on the opportunities offered by co-reg as they do not have a system or team to follow-up with all the leads it generates each day. TPN has developed a solution to this problem with its Lead Nurturing System.

Lead Nurturing is a form of Marketing Automation where the system delivers a series of email communications to the prospect depending on a predefined schedule. It can also send messages based on specific ‘trigger events’. These communications can be used to automatically engage with prospects, to further prequalify them and to even convert them online.  Online Reporting capabilities also allow the hottest leads to be identified and followed up.

Through its partners TPN can provide expert communication strategy, creative design and email copy writing. Typical communication strategies include;

- Simple download, link delivered via email
- Simple welcome email and subscription to a regular e-newsletter
- Sequence of emails; welcome, checkout Blog, Facebook, Twitter and an Offer
- Sequence of improving offers until online conversion occurs
- Sequence of product feature highlights
- Sequence of case studies
- Sequence of ‘useful tips’
- Full free e-learning course

These are normally delivered over a period of days or weeks.

To further extend engagement trigger events can be configured. For example by capturing the prospect’s date of birth, individual birthday offers can be automatically sent. Or downloads can be used to trigger an automatic follow-up after a defined number of days.

TPN Performance Media

Although Co-reg is a powerful and popular marketing tool which offers a guaranteed cost per lead, it is best suited to a long term ongoing campaign designed to deliver a constant stream of leads at a moderate rate. As there is often a need to increase the volume of leads over a specific period, or simply to generate as many leads as possible as fast as possible, we find a lot of co-reg clients also augment their co-reg campaign with performance media campaigns. These are purchased on a Cost Per Click basis, typically paying $1.00 to $3.00 per click (or $3 CPM). TPN operates extensive Email and Display performance networks offering marketers instant access to a flood of new business leads.

TPN Lead Capture & Score System

When buying traffic to drive lead generation one of the most critical factors is the prospect capture system used to turn clicks into qualified leads. Again, we found that many clients did not have a sufficiently effective lead capture approach and so we have developed a range of solutions to

maximise conversion rates and hence the campaigns Return on Investment. TPN offers an advanced lead capture form system which supports lead scoring based on answers given, as well as live feeds to 3rd party CRM systems like SalesForce and the TPN Lead Nurturing System. This intelligent form system can also be enhanced by commissioning a new Landing page or running an online promotion. 3di can arrange both of these from our market leading partners.

Complementary Services

Landing Page Design

Our partners are experts in persuasion architecture and usability, designing landing pages offering unrivalled conversion rates. A dedicated campaign or product landing page will always outperform a standard website page as it can be designed with conversion optimisation at its heart, and typically has a single minded focus on conversion. www.MarketUnited.com

Great Promotions

For competition based lead generation programs we operate one of Australia’s most sophisticated and trusted promotions platforms www.GreatPromotions.com

Get in touch with our team to speak about pricing and service options to suit your campaign objectives.

info@3dinteractive.com.au