iPhone and Android are Smartphone Leaders

When it comes to smartphone platforms, our audience is using a mix with iPhone/Android/Blackberry on top. According to the latest ZimmPoll, sponsored by Rhea+Kaiser, 32% say they use iPhone, 32% are using Android, 28% are Blackberry lovers. A small minority (5%) said Other and only 3% are using Windows. We may have to ask that question again later this year …

Busy January for ZimmComm

After a nice quiet holiday season, ZimmComm immediately got back on the road with the new year. We started out the month in “Icelanta” covering both the second AG CONNECT Expo and the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) annual meeting. The weather was okay for the first couple of days, but on the first day of the AFBF meeting we …

Happy New Year Survey Winner!

The new year is starting off a little greener for the latest winner in our ZimmComm publication survey drawing. The winner for December is Michelle Stahlhut, an Agwired reader and crop farmer from Indiana. Michelle actually filled out her survey in November and since we put all the entries back in the pot for the next month, she was the …

ZimmComm Year in Review – 2010

Our seventh year in business was the busiest yet for the ZimmComm team. We spent a total of 172 days on the road – traveling from Seattle to Orlando, San Antonio to Atlanta, Dallas to Louisville, Mexico to Memphis, Anaheim to Miami, the Netherlands to the Carolinas, Denver to Panama City Beach, St. Paul to Savannah, Lexington to Lancaster – …

ZimmComm Survey Winner

Jamie Wilson with the Corn Marketing Program of Michigan was the first winner in our ZimmComm survey contest . The Domestic Fuel reader was chosen from almost 200 entries – those who had filled out a survey on one or more of our four primary on-line publications to help us learn more about our audiences – to win $250. All …

Looking for Audience Answers

The more eyeballs we have looking at our online publications, the more people want to know just who they are. It stands to reason that the majority of our 15,000 unique visitors a month on World Dairy Diary are somehow involved in the dairy business. We can tell where the most traffic comes from in terms of geography, search engines …

ZimmComm Wins Public Relations Awards For Social Media

The revived Golden ARC Awards were presented at the Ag Media Summit that took place this week in St. Paul, MN. ARC President Deron Johnson, Rhea & Kaiser and Golden ARC Awards Contest Manager, Amy Keith McDonald, McDonald Marketing Communications, presented the awards. ZimmComm New Media won two awards in the Tactics Division. Working with BCS Communications for John Deere …

ZimmComm Introduces AgWired iPhone App

ZimmComm New Media announces the first agricultural news media app for the iPhone – the AgWired iPhone App. The app offers one-touch access to all the latest news and information in the agribusiness and agricultural marketing world posted on Agwired.com, including audio, photos and video, and connections to other ZimmComm news sites. The AgWired App features a news tab drop …

Top Ten Reasons To Have ZimmComm Cover Your Next Event

We’ve pioneered online event coverage. Some call it live blogging an event. We like to think of it as “telling a story, your story.” Since we started our unique brand of on-location multimedia content creation we’ve taken the approach that we’re there to convey the sights and sounds as we see them to an online audience that’s interested to know …