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.

Tweets to Appear in Google Searches
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Tweets to Appear in Google Searches

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Tweets to Appear in Google Searches

Twitter has reportedly partnered with Google, continuing its mission to expand the reach of tweets. Within the next three months, tweets will appear i...

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Romanian KFC Campaign Taps UGC to Parody Rich Kids of Instagram
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Romanian KFC Campaign Taps UGC to Parody Rich Kids of Instagram

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Romanian KFC Campaign Taps UGC to Parody Rich Kids...

To promote KFC Romania's value meals, MRM Worldwide launched a user-generated content (UGC) campaign based on Millennials mocking a famous Instagram f...

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Super Bowl XLIX Ad Winners and Losers
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Super Bowl XLIX Ad Winners and Losers

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Super Bowl XLIX Ad Winners and Losers

With 30 seconds of advertising costing a cool $4.5 million, brands had a lot riding on their Super Bowl purchases. Who made the best use of their ad d...

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ClickZ's Super Bowl XLIX Live Coverage
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ClickZ's Super Bowl XLIX Live Coverage

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ClickZ's Super Bowl XLIX Live Coverage

Check back here all night for the latest Super Bowl ad buzz. Read More...

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Real-Time Advertising a Staple of the Super Bowl
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Real-Time Advertising a Staple of the Super Bowl

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Real-Time Advertising a Staple of the Super Bowl

Brands can reach consumers during the Super Bowl with real-time video ads on Facebook and through Twitter war rooms. And with a shoppable halftime sho...

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Spotlight On: Pandora's Jack Krawczyk
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Spotlight On: Pandora's Jack Krawczyk

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Spotlight On: Pandora's Jack Krawczyk

The director of product management recently spoke with ClickZ about Pandora's troves of user data, which goes back more than eight years, and how it e...

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ClickZ's Super Bowl XLIX Ad Preview
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ClickZ's Super Bowl XLIX Ad Preview

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ClickZ's Super Bowl XLIX Ad Preview

The Super Bowl is right around the corner, so ClickZ is taking a peek at some of the ads from staples like Anheuser-Busch and Coca-Cola, as well as ne...

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Brands Increasingly Choose Data Ownership
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Brands Increasingly Choose Data Ownership

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Brands Increasingly Choose Data Ownership

By bringing programmatic buying in-house and having their own data management platforms, brands like Allstate and Netflix are able to exercise total c...

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Discover Gives New Advertising Opportunities to Brands on Snapchat
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Discover Gives New Advertising Opportunities to Brands on Snapchat

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Discover Gives New Advertising Opportunities to Br...

With Discover, news sources such as CNN and ESPN will appear in users' Snapchat Stories. The ad-integrated feature lets brands reach the platform's fa...

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Data's Role in Music and Marketing
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Data's Role in Music and Marketing

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Data's Role in Music and Marketing

Platforms like Pandora, Spotify, and Shazam know a lot about their millions of users. How does this vast amount of data impact the relationship betwee...

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How Is Data Changing Programmatic Buying?
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How Is Data Changing Programmatic Buying?

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How Is Data Changing Programmatic Buying?

As programmatic media buying grows, the increasing availability of user data has helped the process evolve to become more efficient and cost-effective...

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ClickZ Is Not as Fun as Katy Perry
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ClickZ Is Not as Fun as Katy Perry

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ClickZ Is Not as Fun as Katy Perry

A company that turns language into data files, Relative Insight, analyzed ClickZ's Twitter feed and then compared it to that of the platform's most-fo...

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What Does Big Data Mean for the Internet of Things?
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What Does Big Data Mean for the Internet of Things?

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What Does Big Data Mean for the Internet of Things...

As the Internet of Things grows, so does the amount of data that comes with it. Is there too much data? Absolutely not, say industry experts who belie...

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The Home Depot Rocks Social Media [Study]
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The Home Depot Rocks Social Media [Study]

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The Home Depot Rocks Social Media [Study]

Sprinklr analyzed data from 18 retailers' social feeds, and ranked them based on impressions and engagement. The Home Depot was the clear winner, beat...

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Mazda Ad Pops Off Page With Parallax Effects
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Mazda Ad Pops Off Page With Parallax Effects

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Mazda Ad Pops Off Page With Parallax Effects

Using three-dimensional advertising technology by Cxense, Mazda Motors Norway is attempting to engage customers by deploying an ad that appears to mov...

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YouTube Takes on NBC With Own Super Bowl Halftime Show
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YouTube Takes on NBC With Own Super Bowl Halftime Show

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YouTube Takes on NBC With Own Super Bowl Halftime ...

For the first time, YouTube will compete with NBC's halftime show. Do its stars like Freddie Wong and Tobuscus have enough draw to compete with the li...

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Social Media Will Have 5.4M More Users by 2016
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Social Media Will Have 5.4M More Users by 2016

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Social Media Will Have 5.4M More Users by 2016

Comparing the user bases of five social networks in the U.S., eMarketer found that Instagram use is growing the fastest, while more and more senior ci...

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Kohl's Teams Up With Fitness Bloggers for #MakeYourMove Campaign
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Kohl's Teams Up With Fitness Bloggers for #MakeYourMove Campaign

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Kohl's Teams Up With Fitness Bloggers for #MakeYou...

As part of its new fitness-focused social media marketing, Kohl's is giving gift cards to bloggers who will write about their products. But is there a...

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Twitter to Beef Up Advertising Options Beyond Own Site
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Twitter to Beef Up Advertising Options Beyond Own Site

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Twitter to Beef Up Advertising Options Beyond Own ...

Twitter will soon sell ads against tweets embedded on third-party websites. In addition, the platform will increase video advertising options in the c...

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Newcastle Brown Ale Tries to Sneak Into Doritos Commercial Contest
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Newcastle Brown Ale Tries to Sneak Into Doritos Commercial Contest

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Newcastle Brown Ale Tries to Sneak Into Doritos Co...

The beer brand entered the Doritos "Crash the Super Bowl" contest as a joke, mocking Super Bowl commercials with its own clever ads. Read More...

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Google to Roll Out Viewability Reporting
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Google to Roll Out Viewability Reporting

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Google to Roll Out Viewability Reporting

At CES in Las Vegas, the search giant announced that it will offer viewability reports across its ad platforms, and touted the early success of its pr...

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Microsoft Opens Up Advertising on MSN Apps
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Microsoft Opens Up Advertising on MSN Apps

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Microsoft Opens Up Advertising on MSN Apps

Shortly after Microsoft made its apps available on iOS, Android, and Amazon devices, the software company made it possible for marketers to advertise ...

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McDonald's Revamps "I'm Lovin' It" With New Video Ad
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McDonald's Revamps "I'm Lovin' It" With New Video Ad

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McDonald's Revamps "I'm Lovin' It" With New Video ...

As the chain tries to revitalize its "I'm lovin' it" tagline, the "Archenemies" video, created by Leo Burnett, focuses on love, though ignores the ele...

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Top 10 Industry Highlights of 2014
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Top 10 Industry Highlights of 2014

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Top 10 Industry Highlights of 2014

From Amazon to Apple Pay to Facebook doing absolutely everything, ClickZ looks at the year in review, in no particular order. Read More...

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Will Losing Starbucks Mean the End of Square?
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Will Losing Starbucks Mean the End of Square?

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Will Losing Starbucks Mean the End of Square?

With the impending discontinuation of the Wallet app, the world's largest coffee company will no longer take Square's payments, instead focusing on it...

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McDonald's Experiments With Geo-Marketing in Georgia
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McDonald's Experiments With Geo-Marketing in Georgia

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McDonald's Experiments With Geo-Marketing in Georg...

As McDonald's struggles to capture the mobile Millennial demographic, the world's largest fast-food chain outfitted one city's franchises with beacon ...

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Bloomingdale's Focuses on Instagram Community With New Holiday Campaign
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Bloomingdale's Focuses on Instagram Community With New Holiday Campaign

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Bloomingdale's Focuses on Instagram Community With...

The Zoomingdales campaign, named for the act of zooming in, features large Instagram photo mosaics made up of smaller photos, which link back to the B...

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