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Pandora: Losses Way Up, But So Is Ad Revenue
In a "there’s good news and bad news" themed earnings call on Tuesday, online radio provider Pandora Media reported that its net loss tripled in Q1 2012, but the results and outlook are topping analysts' forecasts, reports BusinessWeek.
Bad news: Pandora's loss in the three months through April 30 were $20.2 million ($.12 per share) versus a loss of $9.1 million ($.61 per share) for the same period in 2011.
Go [...]
Posted: Thursday, May 24th 2012
Microsoft's Xbox LIVE Beats iPad In Video Viewing, And Has Ad Platform
Sure, you can watch digital TV on your iPad, but suppose you want to watch it in your living room? It seems that the xBox gaming console is the most popular non-computer device to watch streaming video, edging out the Apple iPad by 28.2% to 27.1%. Advantage, Microsoft, which owns the Xbox LIVE digital media delivery service.
AllThingsD’s Peter Kafka describ [...]
Posted: Monday, May 14th 2012
Top News: AmazonSupply | ESPN Cross Platform Strategy | "Enquirer" on iPad | Digital CW Annoys Stations
Ad Technology:
Amazon Goes After B2B Market With AmazonSupply
The App That Zaps Junk Mail - And The Postal Service
Business Strategies:
Inside [...]
Posted: Monday, April 23rd 2012
Digital Agencies That Aren't So Digital
Digital agencies may talk the talk when it comes to online marketing, but preliminary findings of a survey suggest that they do not follow what they preach. Andrew Ballenthin, president of Sol Solutions, recently conducted a sample review of integrated marketing agencies to see where they were at in their own application of social media as part of their digital media services.
One hundred websites were analyzed and within that group 5 [...]
Posted: Wednesday, April 14th 2010
Real Estate Apps Give Agents New Ad Option
Recently-released apps for real estate agents, developed by Visionary Apps, have tweaked this model to give agents an overt way to advertise their services and mine for prospective leads while not disrupting the user experience - at least not too much.
The apps - Complete Foreclosures and Complete Homes - list homes for sale nationwide. The Complete Foreclosures app has proven to be popular, making into Apple’s top ten business apps. It lets [...]
Posted: Thursday, March 25th 2010
Marketers Adopt Emerging Channels
More than eight in 10 marketers plan to leverage at least one emerging marketing channel in the next 12 months, according to [pdf] a new study from marketing technology provider Unica.
Almost Everyone Uses or Will Use Emerging Channels
The internet, combined with broad consumer adoption of mobile, social and rich media technologies, has set in motion a chain reaction in the fragmentation of media and the proliferation of market [...]
Posted: Friday, March 19th 2010
Valpak Launches Mobile Coupon Apps
Direct marketer Valpak is taking its coupons mobile. Valpak has recently launched free mobile coupon applications for the Android, iPhone, iPod Touch, and Palm Pre mobile and smartphone platforms. Valpak delivers more than 17,000 offers through the mobile couponing app platform, the same as those available in digital format on Valpak.com, [...]
Posted: Tuesday, March 16th 2010
Podcasts Players in Battle for Local Online Ad Dollars
Podcasts are becoming viable contenders for the much-coveted local online advertising dollar. A new survey suggests that consumer attitudes towards advertising around pod casts is favorable. Then there is the business case - unlike radio advertising, which is aimed at passive listeners, podcasts can assure advertisers that their listeners are not only receptive to their programs but have actively sought them out.
From Radio to the Internet
That is the case that Mike O’Me [...]
Posted: Tuesday, February 23rd 2010
Premier Retail Networks Adds Fresh Market Stores as DOOH Grows
Premier Retail Networks has contracted to provide its in-store Checkout TV Network to Associated Food Stores Inc.'s newly acquired Fresh Market stores.
Associated Food Stores has purchased 34 Albertsons stores throughout Utah, and will be rebranding them as Fresh Market.
"Because our customers are our top priority, we wanted a way to inform them about upcoming promotions and product specials in a way that would add to their shopping experience at Fresh Market… which PRN’s Checkout TV N [...]
Posted: Monday, February 15th 2010
Google Patent Suggests Ad Placements in Maps
Google has been awarded a patent on ad technology that inserts ads in its Street View mapping images - suggesting the search engine giant will expand its ad offerings to this popular application.
In the patent application, Google says it will identify buildings, posters, signs and billboards in its StreetView images - a [...]
Posted: Wednesday, January 13th 2010
DOOH Signs Get Smarter under Intel, Microsoft
Intel Corp. and Microsoft Corp. are envisioning a new generation of so-called smart signs that can recognize the age, gender and height of people in front of them. These digital signs could also serve as on-the-spot providers of raw analytics, conveying back to retailers what products and images have received the most attention on the store floor (via the Wall Street Journal).
[...]
Posted: Tuesday, January 12th 2010
Industry Buzz & Snippets: 12/23/09
Trends:
Ad Network CEO: celeb deaths of 2009 benefited some marketers.
Search:
The science of managing search ads.
Google unveils new tools for display advertisers on Content Networ [...]
Posted: Wednesday, December 23rd 2009
Local Service Companies Intrigued by Pay Per Call
Local service companies such as attorneys, dentists and credit and debt counseling firms are primed to embrace pay per call advertising platforms next year.
Pay-per-call models in general are poised to experience explosive growth in 2010, according to Telmetrics. If 2009's activity is any guide, it will be local campaigns driving adoption next year - the number of local search pay-per-call advertising programs the company monitors tripled from January 2009 to June 2009, [...]
Posted: Wednesday, December 16th 2009
Cox Keeps ValPak Now That It's Digital
Cox Enterprises has decided to keep Largo, Fla.-based Valpak in its corporate family after announcing last year that it was exploring its sale.
A number of factors no doubt went into this decision, including the likely dearth of offers during the sharp recession. However Valpak has begun to aggressively enter new forms of media - and Cox has said it believes it has a promising future [...]
Posted: Friday, December 11th 2009
Industry Buzz & Snippets: 11/30/09
Ad Industry:
Ad industry produces ads and logos in response to pending privacy legislation.
Holiday Shopping:
Amazon tops Black Friday retail web traffic.
After 'Black Friday,' industry [...]
Posted: Monday, November 30th 2009
Federated Media Aims to Improve SocNet Scene for Display Advertisers
Federated Media has launched Ad STAMP, an ad platform designed to integrate more naturally into social networks -- traditionally high-traffic markets that endure low display ad click-throughs.
Under the Ad STAMP system, three units deluge a site concurrently -- meaning the single advertiser effectively "takes over" the site for that day. The rationale behind this method is that it reduces clutter experienced when a user is deluged by many different brand message, and their respective styles, [...]
Posted: Thursday, September 10th 2009
Tuesday Tops for Brands on Facebook
Data from social media services vendor ViTrue says Tuesdays are the day in which click-through rates are highest on content posted on Facebook-based brand pages: 9.89%.
Brand pages are like human profiles, except for companies. They typically aggregate news about the brand in question. Users can become "fans" of ones for which they feel an affinity, and receive updates from them on their news feeds.
Click-throughs for Fac [...]
Posted: Wednesday, September 9th 2009
Facebook Invites Charities into Experimental Gift Shop
At the Social Good Conference on Friday, marketing/outreach director Randi Zuckerberg announced Facebook would be opening its new "credits" platform to four non-profits: Project Red, Toms Shoes, Kiva and the Wold Wildlife Fund.
The non-profits add to the four online gift and greeting companies that were invited to try the platform last week: American Greetings Interactive, GreetBeatz, Someecards and Real Gifts.
"We are exploring ways for developers to use the Gift Shop to offer...virtual, [...]
Posted: Monday, August 31st 2009
One-Hit Video Wonders May Win Entry into YouTube Partnership Program
Google property YouTube is extending its YouTube Partnership Program to increase the likelihood ordinary users, and not just so-called "cewebrities" (online celebrities), can profit from high traffic to their videos.
Moving forward, proprietors of videos generating a plentitude of views may be offered invitations to monetize those videos in a revenue-sharing deal. Other factors include view count, compliance with YouTube's Terms of Service and whether or not the video has gone viral.
Eligi [...]
Posted: Wednesday, August 26th 2009
VSS Forecast: Comms Spending to Top $1 Trillion
Total communications spending will decline 1% in 2009 to $882.6 billion, but will grow 3.6% per year over the next five years to more than $1 trillion, according to a report from private-equity firm Veronis Suhler Stevenson (VSS).
This growth will make communications the third fastest-growing sector (behind mining and construction) of the US economy through 2013, [...]
Posted: Wednesday, August 5th 2009