Wow, we are blushing….Amanda Vega, thanks for the kudos. Kudos also goes to the UGOBE team, and SHIFT communications for working hard in ensuring that Pleo is getting the right attention, that Pleo fans are being communicated to, and that it’s launch and beyond is a success. We thank you for the kudos. OK, back to work here.

We had the pleasure to recently review and evaluate the new product (still in Beta) from BuzzLogic called BuzzLogic AdTargeting. Wow, what a great product.

If you are a company like many of our clients that wants to advertise on blogs, yet have no idea about the results, don’t want to risk, don’t have the time to research which blogs to advertise on, search no more.

BuzzLogic’s ad targeting product allows you to run a search on the top influential bloggers for your industry (Say you are TravelPod (an old client of ours) your top 50-100 influencer blogs/social media sites could include About.com’s Europe section , ReadWriteWeb, Kattie Fehrenbacher from GigaOm, Emily Chang’s eHub - all of whom have written about travel and travel start ups ). From there, you can select the sites (that offer Google Ads now, but I am sure they will add ad networks such as Blog Ads, Text Ad Link, Ad Brite, etc. more later) on which you want to place a Text Ad or Visual Ad. You create the ad. Then you launch.

Now not only this takes the work out of figuring out which blogs to place your ads on since the tool identifies for you, the influential bloggers that have covered your product/service (or competitors’ product), but it also brings forward two strong things in BuzzLogic’s favor:
- Through the development work they have done with Google, they are able to allow us agencies and advertisers to do site targeting on sites that usually you can not target through Google’s content network (I am not talking about site targeting here, we are talking about being able to target sites in the “content network” of Google)
- Because you are placing ads on blogs that have covered your product or service (or competitors), your ads on such sites are VERY relevant, and therefore will perform that much better because your ads are going to be VERY relevant to your target audiences.

We are launching a few test campaigns and am sure we will see great results.

Congrats to BuzzLogic for being innovative.

Jai Decker and Pleo attended Ad-tech in New York last week, ok so Pleo and Jai attended a few parties as well. We were honored by Josh Greene’s blog post who said that Pleo’s appearance at the show was a great viral marketing tactic, we are blushing….thanks Josh.

We were very pleased to see that OneUpWeb, an integrated marketing firm, created a report on “Secrets of Social Media Marketing - How 2007 Hot Holiday Products are Marketed Online” which identified our efforts with our partner Crimson Consulting and our client UGOBE for the promotion of Pleo online. We have spent numerous hours strategizing on the best ways to connect with Pleo fans, help them understand how Pleo is being developed and all the challenges that it has brought. We thank Lisa Wehr and her team for writing a great report on social media marketing and comparing the marketing of Pleo to that of iPod Touch, WebKinz and many leading companies.