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.

Eight examples of excellent ecommerce emails
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Eight examples of excellent ecommerce emails

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Eight examples of excellent ecommerce emails

Inboxes are so crowded, how can a marketer stand out? Here are eight brands that cut through the noise with great emails. Also, we are all about allit...

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What's the difference between responsive, adaptive and mobile-friendly sites?
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What's the difference between responsive, adaptive and mobile-friendly site...

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What's the difference between responsive, adaptive...

Mobile adaptive sites and mobile responsive sites are the same, and both are synonyms for mobile friendly... right? Not quite. Here's a breakdown of t...

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The Digital Download: Facebook additions amid Yahoo speculation
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The Digital Download: Facebook additions amid Yahoo speculation

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The Digital Download: Facebook additions amid Yaho...

This week in digital has seen some exciting events, in addition to a new IAB tool and Wall Street analysts picking their horse in the race to acquire ...

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If it 'doesn't make any f**king sense,' it's ripe for disruption
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If it 'doesn't make any f**king sense,' it's ripe for disruption

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If it 'doesn't make any f**king sense,' it's ripe ...

As we've seen in the digital age, any industry can be disrupted at any time. But those with obvious inefficiencies are the most vulnerable. Read More...

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Sincerity: The secret of Chobani's social success
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Sincerity: The secret of Chobani's social success

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Sincerity: The secret of Chobani's social success

How do you launch a brand that seems like a longshot? The same way you score on social: with sincerity, according to Chobani CMO Peter McGuinness. Rea...

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Seth Godin: Nobody makes a purple cow by sticking with what's safe
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Seth Godin: Nobody makes a purple cow by sticking with what's safe

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Seth Godin: Nobody makes a purple cow by sticking ...

Yesterday's over. Being different is what's going to help you win tomorrow - not simply repeating your previous success. Read More...

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What can chatbots do for ecommerce?
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What can chatbots do for ecommerce?

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What can chatbots do for ecommerce?

Despite the ways in which they can be manipulated for evil, bots are a hot topic in digital marketing at the moment. How can they enhance ecommerce? R...

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The Digital Download: Facebook and Amazon soar, while Yahoo struggles
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The Digital Download: Facebook and Amazon soar, while Yahoo struggles

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The Digital Download: Facebook and Amazon soar, wh...

A book highlights Yahoo's problematic finances on the eve of its bidding day, as Facebook and Amazon each become more competitive in a new area. Read ...

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Nine retail brands rocking Instagram
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Nine retail brands rocking Instagram

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Nine retail brands rocking Instagram

From Lowe's to Chanel to Dollar Shave Club, here are nine retail brands we commend for their Instagram feeds. Read More...

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Study: Marketers are clueless on cross-channel measurement
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Study: Marketers are clueless on cross-channel measurement

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Study: Marketers are clueless on cross-channel mea...

A new study from Origami Logic highlights how much marketers struggle with cross-channel measurement. How can they make data less overwhelming? Read M...

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And the winners are...
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And the winners are...

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And the winners are...

ClickZ‘s inaugural social contest is now over, and six of our readers get to attend ClickZ Live New York for free. We decided to take a page fro...

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The Digital Download: Video, VR, and volatile chatbots
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The Digital Download: Video, VR, and volatile chatbots

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The Digital Download: Video, VR, and volatile chat...

This week featured a lot of video offerings, in addition to Microsoft reintroducing Tay after her disastrous debut and Google giving AdWords its first...

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What personalization means for the travel industry
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What personalization means for the travel industry

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What personalization means for the travel industry

All signs point to personalized marketing being the way to go. That's particularly relevant in the travel industry, where people aren't typically bran...

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Ad buying: a glossary of key terms and acronyms
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Ad buying: a glossary of key terms and acronyms

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Ad buying: a glossary of key terms and acronyms

For beginners, buying ads can be a confusing labyrinth of jargon and acronyms. To help you make sense of them, we've compiled this (we hope) helpful g...

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Study: 73% of 'millennials' prefer to contact brands via email
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Study: 73% of 'millennials' prefer to contact brands via email

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Study: 73% of 'millennials' prefer to contact bran...

Millennial consumers aren't seen as the biggest email users, but new research from Adestra finds that email is their preferred way to interact with br...

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How The Container Store used data to build its loyalty program
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How The Container Store used data to build its loyalty program

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How The Container Store used data to build its loy...

Launching its POP! program two years ago, The Container Store was determined not to go the generic rewards points route. Instead, the retailer focused...

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Q&A: Deloitte Digital's Mike Brinker on digital transformation
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Q&A: Deloitte Digital's Mike Brinker on digital transformation

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Q&A: Deloitte Digital's Mike Brinker on digita...

"Everybody thinks everybody else is doing it, but nobody's doing it well" is how Deloitte Digital's Mike Brinker thinks about teen sex - and digital t...

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The Digital Download: Transparency, viewability win the week's news
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The Digital Download: Transparency, viewability win the week's news

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The Digital Download: Transparency, viewability wi...

This week's viewable and transparent happenings include Spotify's new mobile ad format, new insights from Facebook and the IAB, and Adobe's data ambit...

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How Ford plans to evolve past selling cars
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How Ford plans to evolve past selling cars

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How Ford plans to evolve past selling cars

One of the largest automakers on the planet, Ford plans to stay relevant in the digital age by transitioning from a product brand to a product and s...

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Three tips for becoming an experience-based brand
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Three tips for becoming an experience-based brand

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Three tips for becoming an experience-based brand

Execs from McDonald's, Comedy Central and the Royal Bank of Scotland took the stage at Adobe Summit to share their journeys toward being experience-ba...

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Chobani CMO Peter McGuinness on its heart first marketing
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Chobani CMO Peter McGuinness on its heart first marketing

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Chobani CMO Peter McGuinness on its heart first ma...

With ClickZ Live just three weeks away, we caught up with Chobani CMO Peter McGuinness to chat about heart-based marketing and how plain yogurt is the...

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Five brands mastering March Madness marketing
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Five brands mastering March Madness marketing

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Five brands mastering March Madness marketing

There are a few more weeks of March Madness - the Sweet 16 games start Thursday - but brands have already started their campaigns. Here are our favori...

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The Digital Download: New algorithms, ad formats and appointments
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The Digital Download: New algorithms, ad formats and appointments

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The Digital Download: New algorithms, ad formats a...

BuzzFeed announced a plan to further monetize its social traffic , JWT saw a scandalous resignation, and Google and Instagram upped their algorithmic ...

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Case study: How MasterCard is disrupting the disruptors
Case Study

Case study: How MasterCard is disrupting the disruptors

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Case study: How MasterCard is disrupting the disru...

VR and mobile payments have the potential to completely alter the way we watch videos and make purchases. MasterCard plans to disrupt both disruptors,...

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Throwback Thursday: Minnesota pride for SapientNitro's John Biondi
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Throwback Thursday: Minnesota pride for SapientNitro's John Biondi

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Throwback Thursday: Minnesota pride for SapientNit...

A favorite ad John Biondi, Midwest creative lead at SapientNitro, is the 1999 campaign that helped Target transcend being "every bit as cool as the do...

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Agencies lack the diversity of the ads they create
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Agencies lack the diversity of the ads they create

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Agencies lack the diversity of the ads they create

New research from BabyCenter shows that consumers love diversity in advertising. But there isn't much of it behind-the-scenes, which came up during a ...

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Come to ClickZ Live New York - for free!
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Come to ClickZ Live New York - for free!

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Come to ClickZ Live New York - for free!

You can attend ClickZ Live New York the old-fashioned way, by purchasing a ticket. Or you can come the fun way, by winning a platinum pass in our soci...

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