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Industry Buzz & Snippets: 02/04/10

Campaigns: Case study: Direct mail, SMS lift reward program. Search: Google updates online ad patent. Troubleshooting tips from AdSense. Mob  [...]

Dockers Links TV Tag, Content Site in Super Bowl Ad

Dockers is advertising during the Super Bowl for the first time since 2002 with an integrated campaign that includes technology provided by a mobile music discovery application provider and a branded content site to engage the consumer more deeply than a 30 second spot during the game could. Men Without Pants Dockers has partnered with Shazam to develop the "Men Without Pants" TV commer  [...]

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 12/15/09

Strategies: The future of geo-targeting is here. Stats: Study: connecting with friends via Facebook more popular than texting, email. Retailer emails   [...]

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 12/14/09

Account Moves: TVGuide.com has selected PubMatic to optimize its ad revenue. Strategies: Package-goods players are ramping up online spend. Email Marketing: Embedded video in e-mail slows  [...]

Online Shoppers Still Want Warm Body

Despite the growing popularity of internet shopping, most online shoppers still want to reach a living and breathing person when they have a question, problem or issue. A recent study found that a live voice is still the most preferred form of customer service among online Americans, writes MarketingCharts. At the same time, the move to online also means that consumers are warming to the  [...]

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Mobile IM Use May Overtake SMS, Mobile Email

SMS (texting) and mobile email may well be overtaken by mobile instant messaging (MIM), according to a TNS Global Telecoms Insight (GTI) survey of 17,000 consumers across 30 countries, MarketingCharts reports. Globally, 11   [...]

Mobile Music Appreciation Blossoms with Music Phone Adoption

Nearly 11 percent of mobile subscribers in the US and Western Europe (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the UK) listen to music on their mobile device, with the proportion of listeners ranging from 5.7 percent (in the US) to 20 percent (in Spain), according to an M:Metrics survey, writes MarketingCha  [...]

Canadian Teachers Put Foot Down on Cyber Bullying

Teachers across Canada are increasingly concerned about online bullying, reports The Globe and Mail, and this week, they will try developing national policy for protecting students and educators from the tactic. A Toronto-based gathering of the Canadian Teachers' Federation will try to tackle the elusive problem of bullying over the Internet. The Federation   [...]

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Windows Messenger Comes to Xbox Live

Microsoft announced yesterday the May launch of Windows Live Messenger on Xbox 360, allowing subscribers of the Xbox Live online service to connect with Windows-based PCs and Windows Mobile-powered devices. Already, the six million strong Xbox Live community can voice- and video-chat with other players; the added messaging features will connect the Live community with 260 million active Windows  [...]

'Yahoo Go': Mobile, TV, PC Services without a Browser

Click to enlarge Yahoo Chief Executive Terry Semel is scheduled to announce today the Yahoo Go  [...]

AOL Launches AIM Triton Upgrade

AOL officially launched the Triton upgrade to its AOL Instant Messenger, which it now describes as a "new front door" to digital communications, including PC-to-PC chat through voice over internet protocol (VOIP) technology that would help AOL compete with programs such as Skype, reports E-Commerce Times. "We anticipate that the AIM Triton service will accelerate the growing use of  [...]

Play Station Portable Gets Wireless Web Access

Sony is adding wireless web access to its Play Station Portable, intending to increase the handheld gaming device's appeal as a mobile entertainment center, writes Reuters. Sony will provide a software upgrade that will allow wireless internet access on the device, including a new Web browser to connect to news, entertainment content, online s  [...]

Yahoo IM Beta Promotes VoIP, Social Networking

Yahoo has launched a beta of its instant messaging software that promotes VoIP and its new social network, writes CNET. The new version is designed to make free calling via computer easier, as well as sending messages to mobile devices, sharing photos or posting content to a personal web log. Yahoo Messenger, ranked second in the market, has an estimated 65 million users and will offer a free update  [...]

AOL Cleverly Makes IM into Aid for Deaf

CNET: AOL debuts service for disabled AOL introduced a relay service for its instant messenger application that allows deaf and hard of hearing people to use their buddy lists as a directory for placing teletypewriter or TTY phone calls. Users can type directly into the instant messenger application, rather than using another application or piece of hardware.   [...]

Word of Thumb Turning Movie Marketing Upside Down

UK Independent: Texting Blamed for Summer Movie Flops LA Times: High-Tech Word of Mouth Maims Movies in a Flash These two pieces dissect how new technologies like SMS and other online forums cut the legs out from under Hollywood's traditional marketing strategies. Where it used to take a week, or  [...]

Battle of IM Standards Thwarts Adoption

WSJ (subscription required): Instant Messaging Firms Back Different Standards It really is a pain in the backside that there is still no standard instant messaging protocol. I'm an MSN man. I used to have Yahoo and AOL accounts as well and used Trillian to package them all together, but at one point I reinstalled my OS and never got around to downloading Trillian again. So now I'm lazy: y  [...]

AOL IM Now Works With Verizon Wireless

Silicon.com: Instant messages take aim at texting AOL and Verizon Weireless have struck a deal where AOL IM users can send an IM to a Verizon Wireless customer by typing in their phone number. Verizon Wireless users can then reply as they do to any text message. Those who use both AOL and Verizon Wireless can have their IMs forwarded to their phones. It does not seem that an IM can originate from the wireless phone though. Sou  [...]

TV Meets The Web Conference Wrap-up

EuropeMedia: Fifth Annual TV Meets the Web Seminar: Final Report Long, fascinating article for anyone interested in the issue of the convergence of TV and the Internet, a thorough wrap-up of the conference TV Meets The Web. The article touches on a wide range of related trends, most with three-letter abbreviations, including SMS (short message service) and its emerging relation  [...]

IM Spam

Ugh. I just got my first-ever piece of IM spam -- not surprisingly for porno. Anyone know how common this phenomenon is? Until now, I was under the apparently misguided impression that no one could send me IM (I use MSN Messenger) without my granting them permission to IM me. Is that a fallacy?   [...]