Mike O'Brien

A former ClickZ editor, Mike O'Brien couldn't stay away and now contributes to the site in addition to working as a content marketer at Sailthru, the world's largest sender of personalized email. He primarily writes about the innovative ways brands use technology now and the ways they might in the future.

Brands <3 Emojis
Marketing

Brands <3 Emojis

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Brands <3 Emojis

Emojis are so popular among consumers that brands have graduated from tweeting them to launching keyboards, and in the case of Domino's, allowing cons...

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Data and Analytics Make Way For "Customer-to-Business" Marketing
Analytics

Data and Analytics Make Way For "Customer-to-Business" Marketing

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Data and Analytics Make Way For "Customer-to-Busin...

Brands are leveraging data and more sophisticated analytics to do C2B marketing, a term referring to marketing plans driven by customers' established ...

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The Social Why Behind Burger King's Chicken Fry
Social

The Social Why Behind Burger King's Chicken Fry

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The Social Why Behind Burger King's Chicken Fry

Social media plays a big role in Burger King's marketing, between its funny tweets to the relaunch of its chicken fries. ClickZ caught up with the bra...

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What Does the Growth of Mobile Payments Mean for Older Companies?
Media

What Does the Growth of Mobile Payments Mean for Older Companies?

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What Does the Growth of Mobile Payments Mean for O...

As mobile payments become more commonplace, brands like Western Union and MoneyGram are forced to adapt. Can they keep up with digital native platform...

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Hyundai Tops YouTube's April Leaderboard
Media

Hyundai Tops YouTube's April Leaderboard

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Hyundai Tops YouTube's April Leaderboard

The video-sharing giant released its monthly list, which highlights the 10 video ads that amassed the most views. Featured brands include Hyundai, Nik...

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New Snapchat Videos to Cost Advertisers $0.02
Display Advertising

New Snapchat Videos to Cost Advertisers $0.02

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New Snapchat Videos to Cost Advertisers $0.02

With the new offering, announced at The Daily Mail's NewFront event yesterday, Snapchat's publishing partners can run 10-second ads on Discover. Read ...

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Will the New Hamburglar Help McDonald's With Its Brand Image?
Marketing

Will the New Hamburglar Help McDonald's With Its Brand Image?

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Will the New Hamburglar Help McDonald's With Its B...

As McDonald's struggles, the brand relaunched the Hamburglar, a marketing mascot who hasn't been seen since 2002. But is that enough to help foster a ...

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Why Location-Based Emails Are So Important for Your Brand
Email

Why Location-Based Emails Are So Important for Your Brand

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Why Location-Based Emails Are So Important for You...

Location-based email campaigns are on the rise, as brands realize that geographic personalization, which Millennials have come to expect, leads to str...

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Brands Use GIFs to Make Their Emails Pop
Email

Brands Use GIFs to Make Their Emails Pop

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Brands Use GIFs to Make Their Emails Pop

As people's inboxes become fuller and fuller, brands like Dell, ASOS, and eBay Enterprise are standing out by including animated elements, like GIFs a...

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IBM Partners With Facebook to Improve Targeting
Display Advertising

IBM Partners With Facebook to Improve Targeting

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IBM Partners With Facebook to Improve Targeting

Facebook and IBM both have features that provide advertisers with behavioral insights about consumers. A new partnership combining them will result in...

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Less Is More: Simple Data Serves Killer Email Marketing
Email

Less Is More: Simple Data Serves Killer Email Marketing

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Less Is More: Simple Data Serves Killer Email Mark...

Though marketers have access to a wealth of consumer data, many of them leverage the most basic data sets, such as birthdays and purchase histories, f...

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Can Social Help Grow Email Campaigns - or Is It Vice Versa?
Email

Can Social Help Grow Email Campaigns - or Is It Vice Versa?

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Can Social Help Grow Email Campaigns - or Is It Vi...

Many marketers have integrated their social and email campaigns, though industry experts are divided on whether social is actually useful in expanding...

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How Friendly's Made BFFs Through Email
Email

How Friendly's Made BFFs Through Email

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How Friendly's Made BFFs Through Email

After renovating restaurants and holding subsequent reopening celebrations, Friendly's realized how much its emails resonate with the "BFFs" who recei...

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Patrón Takes Viewers on a Virtual Tequila Tour
Marketing

Patrón Takes Viewers on a Virtual Tequila Tour

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Patrón Takes Viewers on a Virtual Tequila Tour

The latest brand to use virtual reality, Patrón shows users the entire tequila-making process, from picking agave plants to boxing bottles, from the p...

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Yahoo Beefs Up Digital Content With New Video Channels
Media

Yahoo Beefs Up Digital Content With New Video Channels

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Yahoo Beefs Up Digital Content With New Video Chan...

After a successful rebrand with its 13 digital magazines, Yahoo plans to continue adding onto its video offerings with more series, in addition to oth...

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Twitter Partners With Google to Boost Attribution Capabilities
Social

Twitter Partners With Google to Boost Attribution Capabilities

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Twitter Partners With Google to Boost Attribution ...

To improve attribution, Twitter announced a new partnership with Google. The platform has also reached an agreement to acquire TellApart, a company th...

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Marvel Gives Superheroes Twitter Handles to Promote 'The Avengers'
Social

Marvel Gives Superheroes Twitter Handles to Promote 'The Avengers'

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Marvel Gives Superheroes Twitter Handles to Promot...

Captain America and Iron Man tweet to promote "The Avengers" release, while other brands like Krispy Kreme, Mattel, and NFL celebrate the unofficial #...

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Could Facebook's Video Growth Steal YouTube's Limelight?
Media

Could Facebook's Video Growth Steal YouTube's Limelight?

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Could Facebook's Video Growth Steal YouTube's Lime...

Not even a year after Facebook made its algorithm more video-friendly, the social media giant has 4 billion daily views, posing the biggest threat to ...

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Google 'Mobilegeddon' Has Officially Arrived
Search

Google 'Mobilegeddon' Has Officially Arrived

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Google 'Mobilegeddon' Has Officially Arrived

Nearly two months after its announcement, Google has changed its algorithm to favor mobile-friendly sites. Brands like Ryanair and American Apparel ar...

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Are Dating Apps the Next Big Thing in Marketing?
Marketing

Are Dating Apps the Next Big Thing in Marketing?

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Are Dating Apps the Next Big Thing in Marketing?

Dating apps are growing in popularity among older Millennials, who are generally single, employed, and attractive to brands. Is Tinder's first video a...

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UNICEF Turns to Snapchat to Advocate Awareness of Missing Childhoods in Nigeria
Social

UNICEF Turns to Snapchat to Advocate Awareness of Missing Childhoods in Nig...

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UNICEF Turns to Snapchat to Advocate Awareness of ...

In UNICEF's latest campaign, Snapchat's disappearing messages represent missing childhoods as a way to remind Millennials that the violence in Nigeria...

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Disney, Samsung Among Instagram Carousel Ad Pioneers
Social

Disney, Samsung Among Instagram Carousel Ad Pioneers

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Disney, Samsung Among Instagram Carousel Ad Pionee...

Shortly after Instagram launched carousel ads, which give advertisers more flexibility on the platform, brands like Banana Republic, Showtime, and L'O...

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AOL ONE Aims to Simplify Programmatic
Media

AOL ONE Aims to Simplify Programmatic

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AOL ONE Aims to Simplify Programmatic

AOL's ONE, an open, unified programmatic platform, will allow advertisers to optimize against various screens, formats, and inventory types. Read More...

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Clinton's Social Candidacy: A Sign of the Times
Social

Clinton's Social Candidacy: A Sign of the Times

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Clinton's Social Candidacy: A Sign of the Times

Social media played a big role in President Obama's campaign four years ago. Hillary Clinton announcing her candidacy via YouTube shows that trend wil...

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YouTube Stars Are Not Themselves When They're Hungry
Marketing

YouTube Stars Are Not Themselves When They're Hungry

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YouTube Stars Are Not Themselves When They're Hung...

For a clever twist on an old campaign, Snickers enlists 13 YouTube personalities from around the world to post bad how-to videos, demonstrating that t...

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Toyota Shares Manufacturing Process With Consumers
Marketing

Toyota Shares Manufacturing Process With Consumers

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Toyota Shares Manufacturing Process With Consumers

Bringing consumers behind the scenes at an American Toyota factory, the automaker's Gifony website features 45 GIFs, which can be mixed together into ...

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YP Partners With Uber to Bring Cars to Your Door
Media

YP Partners With Uber to Bring Cars to Your Door

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YP Partners With Uber to Bring Cars to Your Door

In the platform's first API integration with a local search site, Uber is now featured on the directory listings in YP's app, allowing users to order ...

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