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Microsoft Honors Consumers' Touchiness about Email with No Ad Pledge

Microsoft pledges not to scan users' email as a way to tailor advertising, according to Tim O'Brien, Microsoft senior director of platform strategy. Speaking at the SaaSCon 2010 conference in Santa Clara, Calif., this week, O’Brien told the audience that Microsoft has a big responsibility in maintaining users' data as part of the company's cloud-hosted applications such as Hotmail (via Network World  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, April 7th 2010

eBay Launches Rainforest Preservation Marketing Efforts

eBay has launched two green initiatives to position itself as a conservationist in the eyes of consumers. The online marketplace has unveiled a new green shopping hub that will help consumers find millions of green products, and launched its eBay Green Team Challenge that commits the online giant to save up to a quarter of a million acres of rainforest for consumers who reuse,   [...]
Posted: Thursday, March 11th 2010

Top Jan. ‘10 Coupons: Kohl’s, Gap

An online coupon for free shipping at Kohl’s and a printable coupon for 20% off a total purchase at Gap were the most popular coupons for the second straight month in January 2010, according to [pdf] coupon aggregator RetailMeNot, which recently released its coupon data report for the month. (via Market  [...]
Posted: Friday, February 26th 2010

Facebook Sees Profit; On Target for $500M Year

Facebook has overcome doubts about whether it can turn a profit, and has turned cash-positive this year instead of in 2010 - as was previously predicted, the social network's COO Sheryl Sandberg said last week at a Churchill Club interview and event in Palo Alto. The company was on target to bring in $500 million in revenue in 2009, a board member told  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, October 20th 2009

Pharma Steps Back from Sponsored Ads

Pharmaceutical companies are struggling to reconcile online marketing techniques with a stepped-up oversight campaign by the Food and Drug Administration's Division of Drug Marketing, Advertising and Communications (DDMAC), which is specifically targeting such activities. While industry-regulatory give and take on marketing is a long-standing and complicated dance, recent events appear to have caused pharma companies to take a step back from several strategies – at least until they can be s  [...]
Posted: Friday, October 16th 2009

Invisible Ads Haunt Marketers

Marketers are becoming increasingly vulnerable to fraud on the internet – both from targeted attacks launched from fake ads, and more recently, from 'legitimate' publishers looking to eke out extra money from advertisers. In 2007, MarketingVOX was snookered by a fraudulent and malicious trojan-horse campaign, while the most recent victim has been The New York Times, after the venera  [...]
Posted: Friday, October 16th 2009

Facebook Teams With Nielsen BrandLift For Ad Measurement

The result of a partnership between Facebook and Nielsen, Nielsen BrandLift is intended to help brands measure ads more effectively. Nielsen and Facebook both get access to what is essentially a real-time focus group of 300 million users. This allows them to be able to conduct surveys and solicit feedback on what works and what doesn’t more quickly. For Fa  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, September 23rd 2009

IAB President to Defend Role of Internet Advertising in Small Business

This afternoon President Randall Rothenberg of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) will testify at a House Small Business Committee Hearing, regarding how internet advertising affects small business growth. "Small business websites are the Mom & Pop grocery stores of the World Wide Web," he stated. "Just as the local retailer anchors a geographic community, these sites anchor communities of interest that span towns, cities, states, even nations. "They do this with their content -- an  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, June 25th 2008

IAB Releases Definitions for Digital Video In-Stream Ad Metrics

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has released its 2008 definitions for Digital Video In-Stream Ad Metrics. The document is organized thus: 1. Linear Video Ad With or Without Companion Ad 2. Linear Video Interactive Ad 3. Non-linear Overlay Ad 4. Non-linear Non-Overlay Ad Download the definitions (pdf) or review   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, June 17th 2008

American Idol Charity Effort Tests Sponsors' PR Savvy; ExxonMobil Proves a Peach

Direct marketing firm SendTec examined the TV sponsors for Idol Gives Back, an event during which American Idol viewers were admonished to donate to charities. Sponsors included ExxonMobil, Ford, Coca-Cola, AT&T, iTunes, Allstate and the M·A·C AIDS Fund. The study profiles how well ExxonMobil, iTunes, Ford and Coca-Cola maximized their public relations. ExxonMobil  [...]
Posted: Monday, April 14th 2008