While it may have seemed like a good idea at the time, advertising a business internationally may induce laughter rather than sales. Take a look at this infographic to see mistakes for advertisements that took a different turn when advertised in countries other than their own.

With a recovering economy, small business owners have to show as much wisdom as they can when creating their marketing plan and deciding on the total spending budget for the New Year. Marketing budget consists a common woe for small businesses. Let’s see some trends.

INC 500 and 5000 is the hall of fame for the best private companies across the US. Guys from eMaint give us a breakdown for the fastest growing, as of 2012, based on location, industry, number of employees, annual, revenue, and growth.

Do you know what parts of your marketing budget generate positive ROI and what parts you should cut out? Tracking and monitoring of multi-channel campaigns on modern media is a real challenge. This infographic focuses on the importance of conversion attribution and initiates marketers to the attribution web in order to get the data that they need to make informed decisions on their marketing mix.

See what makes a top marketing executive, the average salary and the best paying cities in the US to work as a CMO. Learn the generic duties of a marketing manager and what ails US Marketers most.

This report outlines the advertising from the consumers’ perspective. According to this report, only 3% of the 500 surveyed individuals consider the claims in ads as accurate. The majority is wary due to use of smarty tricks from advertisers. Discover what makes an ad resonate with consumers’ brand perception.

Break for commercials! We love them, we hate them. One way or another it’s a whole industry and here are the numbers for the US market.

The explosion of the new smart mobile devices has resulted in a fast growing new market ready to be utilized by the online marketers. FInd some useful demographics and habits of the furious generations.

Content markteting is a force to be reckoned with. Shoulld marketers devote more resources content creation than traditional marketing tactics?

This infographic illustrates the sensitive balance of modern marketing as a process between artistic and scientific approach. Sometimes it’s just a matter of creativity, intuition or even taste, some other it’s more in strategy, tactics or data analysis. But at the end it tends to be a mix of both.

Are Ro-bots taking over? Bot traffic warps the effecitveness of online advertising resulting in significant online media spend loss. While non-consumer traffic rises so does merkers’ and agencies’ concern for efficient media spending. Here you will find facts about the current state and suggestions on how to protect against bots.

A “cityville” layout is used here to show the increased spending of tech companies on online ads and promos during 2011. Expectations are that in 2012 internet advertising will top on the second largest medium after TV.

Some insights from the citizen-powered ad platform “LoudSauce”.

Here you see a study from Catalina Marketing Co. showing that consumers’ demographics are not necesserily a strict path for targeting.

It’s one of the greatest TV show hits theming the American advertising industry in 60’s. On this sheet you will see an illustration of major changes happened in the advertising industry during the last 50 years backed with the Mad Men series spirit.

The buzz created on the 3rd day of the Cannes creative media festival including some fun facts, collective statistics, winning trends and award statistics. See also the crowning of “the media person of the year”

The week overview of the most creative festival in Cannes. The hottest topics, the top tweeting coutnries, the buzz-iest days & hours and more.