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The New Yellow Pages: "Local is Where We Play/Shop/Live"

The quaint old Yellow Pages have evolved into YP.com, and what may be North America’s largest local search, media and advertising company. YP Holdings LLC (“YP”) combines the assets of AT&T Advertising Solutions and AT&T Interactive. YP Holdings launched yesterday with the closing of a 53% controlling interest in the company by Cerberus Capital Management, L.P. (“Cerberus  [...]
Posted: Thursday, May 10th 2012

LinkedIn Sticks To Business, And That's Good For Marketers

The newly ad-friendly LinkedIn is poised to become “The strongest social media network for professionals,” according to analysts at Frost & Sullivan, and despite the buzz about young-turk competitors. LinkedIn last week further cemented its go-to position for professionals by acquiring professional content sharing platform SlideShare for $119 million in cash and stock. LinkedIn shares have more than doubled since its initial public offering (IPA) in May 2011, and the network cl  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, May 8th 2012

New App Pushes Newspaper Display Ads, Daily Deals to Facebook

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Posted: Friday, May 4th 2012

Engage:BDR Claims to Fill A Void with Self-Serve RTB Display Platform

Digital advertising and marketing agency engage:BDR has launched its self-service real-time bidding (RTB) display platform, First Impression. The company claims First Impression is the “first platform to provide customers with direct access to publishers' inventory in addition to engage:BDR's exchange traffic,” which enables media buyers with full control to maximize the value of an impression and increase ROI. This fills a much-needed void, claims engage:BDR. Brands and agenci  [...]
Posted: Friday, May 4th 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

Facebook Marketplace Ads: 41% Higher CPMs, But Softening U.S. Market

Facebook's average Cost per Thousand impressions (CPM) has increased by 41% since Q1 in 2011 according to the latest Global Facebook Advertising Report compiled by TBG Digital (TBG) and verified by the University of Cambridge in the U.K. This is the latest report examining the trends and changes in the performance of Facebook campaigns managed by TBG Digital. As the U.K.’s   [...]
Posted: Monday, April 16th 2012

Mobile Ad Pricing, Creatives Entering Period of Flux

Mobile ad pricing is likely entering a state of flux. The more immediate reason is the probable entrance of Facebook in this space. There are longer-term trends impacting pricing as well, including new thinking about mobile’s role in the online ad budget and the evolution of this space towards better creative. AdMob's Move Perhaps the most visib  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, February 22nd 2012

Private Mobile Exchanges, RTB Advance with Nexage's New Offering

Mobile ad exchange provider Nexage has launched a private exchange for premium publishers and developers. Its launch follows a series of similar developments in this space, building support to the notion that both private exchanges and real-time bidding--the private exchange is built on Nexage integrated RTB platform--is becoming a favored way to buy and sell online ads. Nexage touts the   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, December 14th 2011

RTB Mobile Debuts in Asia

Real-time bidding functionality has been proliferating on the mobile platform – and is now expanding into overseas markets. Adiquity Mobile Ads Platform has launched an RTB exchange for Mobile Ads, the first, it says, from Asia. The platform’s global ad inventory is accessible through Adiquity’s Ad network partners, transacting seven bill  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, November 8th 2011

A Marketer's Guide to the Daily Deal Market Beyond Groupon and LivingSocial

Merchants that participate in the daily space must choose carefully on which sites they will advertise. Groupon and LivingSocial have huge scale, but companies that immediately go to these firms without considering the alternatives may be doing themselves a disservice. At one time, the daily deal market was typified by sites that offered little personalization or localization for merchant or buyer. That changed a few short years ago when sites such as Groupon and Livin  [...]
Posted: Monday, August 29th 2011

Three Examples Make a Trend: NBCUniversal Creates Private Ad Exchange

NBCUniversal has rolled out a private ad exchange for select digital agencies, including BlueKai, Nielsen and Quantcast. It is part of an online ad network it launched a year ago, meant to offer clients d  [...]
Posted: Friday, July 22nd 2011

How to traffic mobile placements through DFA | Navigate adCenter’s new budget options

How to Traffic Mobile Placements Through Mobile trafficking in DFA is very similar to standard image trafficking with a couple key differences -- as long as the publishers on the media plan are able to dynamically serve mobile ad tags to users, writes Google’s DoubleClick blog. For instance, to create a mobile placements you select   [...]
Posted: Thursday, July 21st 2011

The Deflating Value of a Facebook Fan; Now at $1.07

A consumer who became a fan on a brand's Facebook page via an ad is worth about $1.07. At least that is what the cost of advertising is to the brand to attract said fan, according to an analysis by the Wall Street Journal of new data from Webtrends. The report has generated much digital ink as it also showed that the   [...]
Posted: Thursday, February 3rd 2011

Will Google's New Mobile Ad Format Usher in CPA on a Wide Scale?

Google has launched a new mobile local ad product that extends the click-to-call phone number functionality that debuted at the beginning of the year. This latest enhancement lets marketers embed maps within expandable ad units, and then target the ads according to a customer's immediate location.   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, August 3rd 2010

Unlike Promoted Tweets, Earlybird May Work

Twitter's first Twitter account to promote deals from select advertisers, Earlybird, has launched with its first deal. According to the Twitter Blog, the site’s first exclusive offer comes from The Walt Disney Studios. "For a limited time, @earlybird followers in the U.S. can get a special deal on tickets for "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," a new feature film from Walt Disney Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer Films that opens   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, July 14th 2010

TwidVid Launches SocialAds Video Ad Network

Twitter video hosting service TwitVid has launched standalone video advertising network called SocialAds. Its goal is to help businesses connect with customers by collecting followers and retweets for their advertising campaigns. The company is positioning it as a departure from the traditional pre-roll ads that dominate video advertising now, offering access to social medi  [...]
Posted: Monday, July 12th 2010

iPad Ad Creators Claim Better Engagement than Online Counterparts; Ford Concurs

iPad campaigns from Target, Dove and Ford Lincoln all had higher levels of user engagement than their online campaign counterparts, according to textPlus, an ad-supported mobile application that allows free unlimited texting over Wi-Fi and on the iPad. textPlus partnered with PointRoll to create some of the first iPad apps that ran in the days following the iPad’s release, the companies say. (  [...]
Posted: Thursday, June 17th 2010

Digital Media Spend Remains Traditionally Focused

The breakdown of media spend in digital is focused mainly on traditional online media choices, according to a recent study from digital marketing agency Razorfish. Highest Percentage of Digital Ad Spend in Established Online Media Online media outlets that have existed for a long period of time, such as verticals, search, ad networks and portals, received the bulk of digital ad dollars spent in 20  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, June 15th 2010

What's New For Marketers in the Apple-Google War? (Not Much)

Apple dropped the equivalent of a nuclear bomb on Google this week with its revision of its developer policies. Now, only "independent" ad-serving companies will be able to serve ads for the iPhone. That rules out AdMob, now owned by Google. The changes also appear to target third-party app usage analytics firms. Flurry, in particular, has been singled out for criticism by Jobs. Such applications are also banned from the iPhone. The Federal Trade Commission has taken an interest and is rumor  [...]
Posted: Friday, June 11th 2010

Will AT&T's New Data Plan Strangle iAd?

Apple has $60 million in commitments for iAd mobile ads, the first of which will run on July 1 on the iPhone and iPod Touch devices, CEO Steve Jobs said during the company’s Worldwide Developer Conference. That same week, AT&T Wireless announced its move to tiered pricing, saying it will no longer offer new smartphone buyers a simple $30 plan for unlimited data use. Instead, customers will have to estimate how much data they are likely to use and buy an appropriate plan. Are the twain abo  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, June 9th 2010