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Industry Buzz & Snippets: 01/06/10

Media: US Local News Network partners with LA Times on new site. Analytics: In wake of data mergers, hyper-targeting takes shape. Search: How to   [...]

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 10/7/09

Ad Networks and Analytics: Facebook shutting out developers. Magazines band together for new ad network. Agencies and Marketing Execs:   [...]

Platform-A Uses BidPlace to Sashay into Online Ad Exchange Market

AOL's Platform-A marks its foray in the online ad exchange space with BidPlace, a self-service marketplace exchange with an eye toward helping marketers better manage display campaigns, reports MediaBuyerPlanner. BidPlace launches in the first half of next year. The marketplace lets advertisers bid for CPM, CPC and CPA ads on AOL, across other partner sites, and across Platf  [...]

Amazon Snaps Up Book-Lover SocNet Shelfari

Amazon.com has acquired social library network Shelfari for an undisclosed amount. Shelfari lets users showcase books they've read on virtual bookshelves. Books can be reviewed and discussed among "friends," which occasionally form on-site reading groups. Some months ago, Shelfari also made it possible to embed virtual bookshelves onto other websites. In addition to all that, Shelfari users now have the option of purchasing books they l  [...]

IAB Lends Helping Hand to Small Online Publishers

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) created a new membership level for small online publishers, part of an effort to help them "prevent adverse state and Federal regulation that could hinder [their] ability to sell or carry advertising." Any publisher that vends ads directly, indirectly or through a third-party network may join the IAB Small Publisher network, provided they make less than $1 million in annual revenue. The introductory rate is $500 per year. Interested publishers may   [...]

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Yahoo to AMP Up Online Publisher Opportunities

Yahoo has revealed news of a new online ad system intended to improve affiliate sales for graphical and other forms of premium advertising. The system, dubbed AMP (formerly Apex), enables marketers to put ads on their sites, Yahoo sites, and sites participating in Yahoo's publisher network. Ads may target audiences by demographic profile, geography or online behavior,   [...]

KickApps Opens Back-End, Adopts OpenSocial and Facebook

KickApps, a provider of social tools for websites, is opening its back-end to developers and adopting Facebook and OpenSocial standards. In effect, any app that works on Facebook or on Google's OpenSocial platform will also work on a KickApps-enabled website, and vice-versa. The news followed the release of the KickApps API Developer Kit, which allows customers to build their own apps, necessitating collaboration with the Kic  [...]

Elsevier Prescribes Ads to Salve Medical Content Costs

OncologySTAT.com, a medical resource that launched last weekend, provides doctors with access to over 400 medical and scientific journals, including its own content, in hopes of footing the bill with ad revenue. In exchange for registering one's personal information with the site, users receive access to journals that include The Lancet and Surgical Oncology. Pricing for access to these journals can hit hundre  [...]

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Internet Book for Cause Marketers Liberates Contents Online

The Internet Advocacy Book, a tool written by Michael Organ for cause marketers and non-profits, has just been published in full at www.issuemarketing.com. The book is written in a "how better to" format rather than as a "how to," covering topics like keyword research, online copywriting, SEO, press releases, advocacy blogging and affiliate programs, among others. Existing internet cause marketers are also included in the publication, including PETA and the March of Dimes.   [...]

Blog Widgets Bring Dollars to Bloggers

With a new service from Mpire, bloggers can choose from widgets that point shoppers to Amazon and eBay, reports The Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Widgets are snippets of code that users place on a website. A small icon can bring clickers to Amazon or eBay. The widgets are free and those using them may keep 100 percent of the revenue from subsequent sales. The co  [...]

YouTube Dollars Not a Priority for Producers

While they welcome the revenue sharing plan put in place by YouTube, some content creators still see the site as a primarily promotional outlet, reports BusinessWeek. YouTube remains a means to an end for creators of shows like HappySlip. That end is building up their o  [...]

Shop.org Launches Cyber-Monday Deals Site

Shop.org, which invented the term "Cyber Monday," has now launched a site that features the best deals online on the Monday after Thanksgiving. The site, www.cybermonday.com, will feature holiday deals and promotions from nearly 400 retailers for Monday, Nov. 27, and throughout the holiday season, DMNews reports. Some of the major retailers featured are Nordstrom, Barnes & N  [...]

Brightcove Takes on YouTube; Bows Ad, Syndication Networks

Online video solutions firm Brightcove on Monday launched a consumer-destination site in an effort to compete with video-sharing sites such as YouTube, as well as an advertising network and syndication marketplace. The Brightcove consumer site offers many clips by content providers that offer their content online with Brightcove's help; it also offers video web searc  [...]

BT Connects with TradeDoubler for Affiliate Marketing

Leading European online marketing and sales solutions provider TradeDouble has re-signed BT (as in British Telecom). The renewed relationship will extend TradeDoubler's role, running five affiliate programs for BT, which will use TradeDoubler's affiliate marketing product, promoting BT Shop, BT Fusion, BT Broadband, BT Vision and wholly owned subsidiary Dabs.com (an online electronics retailer). BT is also r  [...]

BlogKits, Bought by Forge, Bows Performance Marketing Network

Global performance marketing firm Forge Corporation Ltd. has acquired the BlogKits blogging network and is launching the first performance-marketing network built for bloggers, the company announced. BlogKits, intended to help match bloggers with advertisers, was acquired from Jim Kukral - recently appointed to Forge as the VP of branding and marketing. He will be respons  [...]

eStara Powers Click-to-Call Advertising for AzoogleAds

Click-to-call, chat and call-tracking solutions provider eStara today announced an agreement with performance-based advertising network AzoogleAds to power its new click-to-call service. eStara's technology will provide AzoogleAds advertisers with the opportunity to bid on live-call transfers that match specific customer criteria. Azoogl  [...]

Google Testing Cost-per-Action Ads

Google is testing cost-per-action ads according to an email that Google sent out yesterday (Wednesday) to some AdSense publishers, reports Bloomberg News, citing an initial report in the SeekingAlpha blog by David Jackson. "You get paid whenever a site visitor clicks on the ad on your   [...]

eBay Launching Contextual Ad Program

As anticipated, eBay will be introducing an online contextual advertising system for eBay sellers to promote auctions, reports Reuters from the eBay Developers' Conference in Las Vegas. Contextual ads will be placed on other websites in exchange for a share of the resulting eBay sales.  [...]

Commission Junction Reins in Affiliates, Appeases Advertisers

Affiliate network Commission Junction (a division of ValueClick) today announced its decision to change its fundamental link structure - the means through which affiliates send traffic to advertisers - from HTML to Java script, writes Jeff Molander on Thoug  [...]

Think Buys IceRocket to Reach Blogosphere

Think Partnership plans to acquire blog search engine IceRocket from Mark Cuban, its sole investor, reports Red Herring. Though terms have not been disclosed, Think probably has some $20 million available for the IceRocket deal. Think Partnership "has a lot of revenue  [...]