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Last month American Express used Twitter's Promoted Tweets and Promoted Accounts to offer special deals to cardholders. The campaign was deemed a success and now Twitter and the financial services company are  expanding the offering to select SMB cardholders in its long-awaited self-serve ad offering for SMBs. Initially, only a small group of businesses will have acces  [...]

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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   [...]

Macy's Leads the Way in Department Store Social Media

Macy’s took the top spot in NYU’s Luxury Lab’s think tank’s annual Digital IQ Index, which ranks specialty retailers according to their online competence. It is a surprising finding until one considers that department stores in general have been stepping up with social media strategies, the survey said, according to Woman’ Wear Daily. The average  [...]

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The Private Ad Exchange Concept Gains Momentum, Taking RTB Along For the Ride

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Microsoft Ad Exchange Open for Business. Again

Microsoft has unveiled the latest iteration of the Microsoft Advertising Exchange, which is now integrated with the AppNexus real-time bidding (RTB) platform. It previous platform, AdECN, is now officially retired. Microsoft is positioning the exchange as offering better advertiser ROI via its premium assets - a category that   [...]

Is In-Game Mobile Advertising Here? Tap Me Says Yes. A Wealth of Anecdotal Evidence Says No.

Tap Me has unveiled an in-game mobile advertising platform that it says solves two problems that have hampered the mobile gaming ad market to date: it will make ad insertion easy and the ads will non-disruptive to players. Certainly the details of the offering as described by Tap Me sound promising.   [...]

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Boarding Passes: Another Variation of Online Ads

Ryanair is partnering with London-based Ink to sell ads on the one piece of paper that no traveler can afford to overlook: a boarding pass. The strategy, described in the Wall Street Journal, borrows from current travel advertising techniques in that the travelers is targeted based on his or her route an  [...]

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   [...]

TargetSpot's $8M Round of Funding Indicates Big Brands' Belief in Online Radio

TargetSpot will soon be expanding its network and growing its national sales force, thanks to a new round of $8 million in equity funding. The funds will also be used to fuel investments in the company’s advertising technology, according to the company. The fundi  [...]

Soup to Nuts Guide to Changing Ad Formats

Earlier this year MSNBC.com introduced a site design - a 'single-page' format. The goal, it said, was to be able to sell large, customizable ads, with advertisers offered the choice of as many as 30 different combinations. Banner ads, though, were not among them. It was, in the eyes of the ad industry, the final nail in the coffin for the much-maligned banner ad. After years of being ignored by consumers, online publishers   [...]

Real Time Bidding: The Sleeper Ad Technology Growth Story

At least half of all targeted ads will be bought using real-time bidding technologies within five years, predicted Neal Mohan, Google's VP of product management at the Mixx Conference in New York. That has been Google's experience with DoubleClick, which has seen its real-time advertising triple in the past year. Particularly hated by privacy advocates, real-time bidding lets advertisers target audiences by individual impressions via auctions. Advertisers get access to consumers based on thei  [...]

For Better or Worse, Demand Media's Plans Tied to Google

Demand Media is beginning to move toward its initial public offering - which could well be the biggest web IPO this year. The company filed a S-1 disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission - the first step in this process. Criticized by some as a content mill, Demand Media's business strategy produces online content for the purpose of attracting keyword advertising. The company's algorithms look at what search words are most popular, and then pays writers to produce content for s  [...]

How Engaged? Some Tips from Mobclix to Up iPad Ad Interactivity Even More

Early advertisers on the iPad - Target, Dove and Ford Lincoln - all sounded the same trumpet call: their iPad campaigns had higher levels of user engagement than their online campaign counterparts. Since then research firms have been scrambling to quantify just how much more engaged iPad users are with advertisers. New figures come from   [...]

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

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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   [...]