{"id":69,"date":"2010-08-24T23:49:26","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T23:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buyerads.com\/blog\/?p=69"},"modified":"2022-03-11T14:51:25","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T14:51:25","slug":"entertainment-meets-advertising-a-love-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buyerads.com\/blog\/?p=69","title":{"rendered":"Entertainment Meets Advertising: A Love Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fusions give rise to terrific innovation and success: just look at peanut M&amp;M&#8217;s, cockerpoos, and the smoothie. Today, the latest combination that&#8217;s stirring things up in the social media world is mixing games and advertising venues. Mobile media is making it all possible.<\/p>\n<p>MyTown, a game for your iPhone, lets you scan barcodes of stuff you having lying around your house in order to to build up your player score and obtain titles such as \u201cThe King of Rum\u201d (for owning the most rum-related paraphernalia, of course). You share your rankings with friends for fame and bragging rights. The marketer&#8217;s swing on this, of course, is integrating special offers into the application itself. The guts of the software tracks the amount and types of the items you own, shares that information with participating companies. From there, based off of your own profile, companies craft marketing plans targeted for individual players. Today, 3.1 million users are already scanning to their hearts&#8217; content.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s important to keep up with these trends. As younger consumers grow up hard-wired into social media and applications such as these, ignoring new media means opportunity lost. Instead, take stock of what mobile marketing, games, and new applications can do for your business, and play the game to win.<\/p>\n<p>Until next time,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buyeradvertising.com\">www.buyeradvertising.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fusions give rise to terrific innovation and success: just look at peanut M&amp;M&#8217;s, cockerpoos, and the smoothie. Today, the latest combination that&#8217;s stirring things up in the social media world is mixing games and advertising venues. Mobile media is making it all possible. 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