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Yahoo Introduces Genome, A Robust Big Data Solution

"Big Data" is a data set that is so large it is impossible to decipher, and Yahoo! is promising an answer. Yesterday, the company's newly appointed EVP of the Americas Rich Riley introduced "Genome from Yahoo!" at a panel discussion at Internet Week New York. Genome is a new custom audience buying solution that leverages big data and insights to h  [...]

Microsoft Folds on QR Code Tech

One reason why QR codes may not have caught on with the public--at least to the degree that marketers would like--is the varying providers and systems.  One vendor, Microsoft, has surrendered by opening its proprietary Microsoft Tag so it can read and generate QR bar codes. Likely the reason is that Microsoft has recognized that Tag will not be able to gain critical mass at this point, Dan Shust, director of emerging media at interactive marketing firm Resource Interactive,   [...]

QR Code-based Advertising May Be Getting Too Complex

QR code-driven branding has reached a new level of complexity with the introduction of Phillips & Co.'s new branding and advertising platform that turns rooftops into billboards via a QR code. As described in Mediapost, the app, Blue Marble, allows brands to place a QR code on the building and then shoot an aerial or satellite image from space. It then becomes accessible in navigation apps such  [...]

DOOH Technology Adds Groupon Deals, Music Downloads

DOOH tech firm rVue has introduced a digital sign that incorporates it already existing interactivity with infomercials that run on the sign, location-based Groupon deal offers and music downloads. It does this via a "Content Hub," through which rVue's network partners select content - such as Groupon deals and music downloads - to play on their networks, Digital Signage Today rep  [...]

Adidas, Kraft Push Facial Recognition Ad Envelop

Adidas and Kraft are two of the latest major brands to experiment with incorporating facial recognition technology with digital ad strategies. Currently Adidas has partnered with Intel to install and test digital walls in the U.S. and U.K., reports the Los Angeles Times. The paper gives the example of a woman in her 50s stopping in front of the display. The wall will recognize her ge  [...]

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New Entrants Join the AR Space

Cadbury has created an augmented reality game. As is usually the case with a mobile augmented reality app, all the user has to do - once the application is installed on the headset - is point the device at a Cadbury product and a 30-second game is launched. (via Gadget). "The player is challenged to tap quacking cartoon ducks as they appear 'out of the bar' on an augmented-overlay on their device's screen," it says. "T  [...]

Follow the Money: ThinkNear | Nanigans | BigCommerce

Today’s mainstream online ad application was yesterday’s start up venture, funded by the usual sources. MarketingVOX will regularly take a look at some of these firms tapping the venture capital markets to see what may be in the offing for marketers eager to try out the latest tech solutions. Targeting Daily Deal Offers By Time, Inventory, Weather ThinkNear turns mobile ads into hyper-targeted daily deal offers for local   [...]

Top News: Luminate turns pictures interactive | First Mango | Facebook for Business debuts

Ad Technology: Google-backed Luminate turns pictures into interactive money-makers. Mobile Computing: First Windows 'Mango' phone unveiled. Apple's new rules   [...]

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Get Ready for Voice-based Interactive Ads, Starting with Search

Google executive Mike Cohen described a new feature Google plans to debut - voice search for the desktop -at its Inside Search event being held in San Francisco this week. The feature appears to perform similarly to voice search on mobile, according to the Washington Post, with the user clicking on an audio micr  [...]

A Digital Billboard with Feelings (Sometimes Yours)

ADstruc, Tronic and GoldRun have created a new digital billboard under Adstruc's "A Billboard for Everyone" program, in which it is partnering with artists and designers to promote creativity in the outdoor space. This particular billboard also offers interesting possibilities for advertisers.   [...]

Convenience Stores, Sports Venue Try Out iSIGN's DOOH-Mobile Ad Product

Besides rolling out its mobile-digital sign marketing product to some 1,400 Macs convenience stores in Canada, iSIGN is also picking up orders from other retailers in the U.S., a company spokesperson tells MarketingVOX. "There is one chain with 3,000 st  [...]

Under the Microscope: An Indoor AR App That Works

What: SITA Lab and Copenhagen Airport are releasing an iPhone app using AR within the terminals, Tnooz reports. Why: AR platforms up to now have been focused for outdoor settings. That is because the GPS signals required for geo-positioning do not penetrate building, Tnooz explains. How: Copenhagen Airport and SITA  [...]

Conventions and Meetings Want New Ad Technologies Too

Location-based marketing and augmented realty are not necessarily ad technologies immediately associated with conventions and meetings. That, however, is changing as some companies try out these targeting technologies, with successful results. The Chicago Convention & Tourism Bureau, for example, first moved into location-based marketing through the social gaming platform SCVNGR last September, Harvey John Morris, director of the bureau’s Digital Marketing & Social Media div  [...]

Foursquare and Groupon Vie for the Fickle Lunchtime Crowd

Foursquare and Groupon are both vying for a subset of consumers in the daily deal market, which BIA/Kelsey recently sized as reaching $3.9 billion by 2015: a worker on his or her lunch hour on the prowl for something or someplace new to try. Groupon is targeting this person with a soon-to-debut offering called Groupon Now, a service that offers coupons good only during certain hours for nearby consumers. Foursquare, for its part,   [...]

What Will RadiumOne Do With $21M?

RadiumOne has closed a $21 million Series B funding round led by Crosslink Capital. DFJ Esprit also participated in the round along with previous investors Adams Street Partners and Trinity Ventures, bringing total funding to $33.5 million. According to the company, the latest funding round will primarily be used for international expansion and acquisitions. RadiumOne recently opened its UK office, and in the coming months wil  [...]

Interactive Ad Technologies That Can Read Our Moods

Yes, by now we have heard of the gender-aware billboards rolling out in pilot projects and such advanced retail technology as interactive dressing room mirrors and shopping carts equipped with digital scanners that offer personalized discounts. It doesn't stop there, however. Compute  [...]

Top News: Online providers of targeted ads rake in funding | HuffPo to try out AOL ad formats | Who is lifting display ads? | Digital marketers earn more than traditional counterparts |

Online Ad Market: Online trackers rake in funding despite growing concern about technology. Ad Technologies: AOL's first big change for Huffington Post: bigger ads from Project Devil. Display ads get lift fr  [...]

Pay-for-performance: DOOH's Next Front

Experiments by some forward-looking DOOH vendors may usher in another wave of innovation in this space: pay-for-performance. The driver behind this nascent trend is the interactivity that many of these billboards now support, the Wall Street Journal reports. There are increasing examples, for instance, of brands deploying interactive campaigns at bus stops - along with complimentary WiFi in s  [...]

Top News: Top tech toys at CES | American Airlines v travel web | Toshiba's glasses-free 3D TV | CityVille gets 100M users |

CES: Five technologies to watch for at CES. With CES raining tablets, some will get flooded out. CES 2011 photo gallery: the   [...]

Top News: Congress looks at online privacy | Data miners get ready to reveal cards | Facebook seeks friends in Washington | Verizon LTE blows through data cap

Privacy: Some data-miners ready to reveal what they know. Policing privacy on the web debated in Congress. Facebook   [...]