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February 17th, 2007

Google: Why use Gmail?

Posted by Donna Bogatin @ 12:58 pm

Categories: Advertising, Google, Google Software Applications, Marketing, ROI, Search, Search Advertising, Self-Promotion, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Web, Video, YouTube

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Google is no longer shy in touting its Gmail.

On Valentine's Day, Google shed the Gmail veneer of exclusivity, as I discuss in "Google’s Silence."

I pointed out in "Gmail for the masses" how Google is exploiting the most valuable Web real estate to promote Gmail uptake: its own $150 billion market cap Google homepage.

Google has also taken to using its own $1.65 billion video real estate to spread Gmail love: YouTube.

Now showing at the YouTube Gmail Theater: "Why use Gmail?":

Four benefits of a Gmail account…as told by puppets.

Is Google Overrated? Tapped Out?
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