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There’s A New Tool For Brands To Launch Instagram Campaigns

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/new-tool-for-brands-instagram-campaigns-2012-9

With 100 million (and counting) registered users on Instagram and 5 billion photos shared, brands are clamoring to find new ways to engage with users on — not to mention monetize — the new social media platform. 

This comes in many forms, from companies creating a new Instagram persona to them integrating the photo stream site onto their actual company websites. Urban Outfitters owned Free People, for example, uses Instagrammers who post shots in the retailers’ jeans as models on the company website.

In the same vein, VenueSeen launched a management and CRM tool that that allows brands to run Instagram campaigns that integrate onto their company websites.

The tool aggregates photos that have been labeled with a specific hashtag and brings them to a company’s campaign page. Instagrammers can then claim their photograph and collect prizes, coupons, and other incentives the company have put in place. This allows for easy company/consumer interaction and gives brands customer contact information.

“The price for a campaign can range from under $1000 a month to tens of thousands, depending on the scope and reach of the project,” CEO Brian Zuercher told Business Insider.

VenueSeen originally was a social media management and monitoring tool that helped brands identify fans based on hashtags, check-ins, comme! nts, and location-specific photos on Instagram and FourSquare. It worked with The Columbus Zoo, Macaroni Grill and other restaurants and vendors.

It now has an Instagram specific campaign tool. “The question was, how do we get to the next level and see Instagram as a monetization strategy,” CEO Brian Zuercher explained.

Warrior, a New Balance owned company that sells Lacrosse equipment, was the first brand to use VenueSeen for an Instagram campaign.

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Amazon just kicked off a new TV campaign for the Kindle Fire, which it doubtless hopes will further dent sales of Apple’s iPad. But Kindle has a long way to go before it starts threatening the iPad as a device for serving online ads to consumers.

Data from Rimm-Kaufmann Group, an online marketing agency, show that the iPad maintains its total dominance of the tablet market when it comes to ad traffic. Kindle is slowly making progress, but it only has 3.48 percent of the market to iPad’s 88.1 percent.

iPad had a 93.44 percent share of the market late last year, so share is being traded quickly in this category.

With iPad 3 on the way, even those small gains for Kindle may be in jeopardy.

When it comes to ad performance, the iPad also has a significant edge. If you index the data to the average ad displayed on a desktop computer, ads on iPad get 10 percent more revenue per click, the same level of overall clicks, and a greater average order value.

All the other tablets, including Kindle, perform much worse than ads displayed on PCs.

iPad dominates ad traffic on tablets, but its dominance is slipping.

The Kindle is gaining share of ad traffic the fastest against the iPad.

But the iPad is still the most effective tablet device by far, for advertisers.

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See Also:

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