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ValueClick Adds Digital Video Ads To Its Offerings

ValueClick Media has announced the launch of its new digital interactive video ad platform, ValueClick Video. The idea is to arm advertisers with “industry-leading targeting capabilities and optimization technology,” focused on video content. The new video platform offers an available inventory of 10,000 brand safe websites—CNN, Fox News Channel, New York Post, Kiplinger, an  [...]
Posted: Friday, May 11th 2012

NBCUniversal Announces Social Gaming Network, Promises Advertisers 115 Million Fans

NBCUniversal yesterday announced what it calls an “arsenal of digital and Social TV opportunities” with the Universal Games Network (UGN). UGN will aggregate all of NBCU’s online, mobile and social gaming efforts around a single platform. The solution will allow fans to play games, engage and consume content, amass reward points and redeem them for real and vir  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, May 2nd 2012

Closing Bell: Netflix Chastises Comcast | ScoreBig Mimics Priceline | FCC Fines Google

Streaming Media: Netflix CEO Calls Out Comcast on Net Neutrality Business Strategies: ScoreBig Uses Priceline’s Model to Name Your Own Price for Live Events Privacy:   [...]
Posted: Monday, April 16th 2012

Advertisers Love Facebook Tweaks; Users Not So Much

Facebook recently made some modifications to its home page that are undeniably more advertiser-friendly; ads are now much more prominent on the site and enable brands to expand their reach across the network. Not surprisingly, many Facebook users are less than enthusiastic about the changes. As has also been the case after most major Facebook redesigns, various groups, including one with more than 1.2 million members called "  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, October 27th 2009

Ford Outpaces Industry with 25% Digital Spend

Ford Motor Company is spending 25% of its marketing budget on digital and social media programs, double the amount of any of its competitors, according to a recent report from BusinessWeek. Industry experts expect that other auto companies are soon likely to follow Ford down the same digital path, though perhaps not quite as aggressively. J.D. Power & Associates estimates that the averag  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, October 21st 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

Bamboozled By Fake Ad, NYTimes.com Suffers Malware Attack

Over the weekend, The New York Times Co.'s site, NYTimes.com, was victimized by what appeared to be a legitimate advertiser -- whose ads suddenly attacked site visitors with aggressive adverts that appeared to be virus warnings, the Times reports. "The culprit masqueraded as a national advertiser and provided seemingly legitimate product advertising for a week. Over the wee  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, September 15th 2009

FTC Makes Sears Destroy Web Tracking Data

The Federal Trade Commission has approved a settlement that forces Sears Holdings Management Corp. to destroy data it collected from online users. Users downloaded Sears' tracking software, which monitors web activity, between April 2007 and January 2008. Each was paid $10. The program involved sending pop-up advertisements to 15 out of every 100 visitors, requesting email addresses. Via email, respondents were invited to download the online browsing tracking software and were promised $10  [...]
Posted: Friday, September 11th 2009

Most Users Peeved by Internet Ads

While internet advertisers ramp up their web advertising efforts, the majority of US consumers say they are frustrated by common types of internet ads, according to (pdf) a recent study by Harris Interactive. Pop-ups, ads that are "moused over," difficult-to-close ads, and musical ads are some of the worst offenders. Ads that spread acros  [...]
Posted: Thursday, July 23rd 2009

Gmail Adds 'Unsubscribe' Option to Select Marketing Messages

Now users on Gmail can divide themselves from unsolicited and unwanted marketing emails with ease. When users mark certain emails as "Spam," a window will appear asking if they would like to unsubscribe from all future instances of messages from the sender: "We'll send a request to the sender that your email address be removed from  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, July 22nd 2009

Ad Coalition Preps Behavioral Ad Guidelines for '10

In yet another hard-pressed effort to keep federal regulation at bay, a coalition of major media and marketing trade associations have issued self-regulatory principles for behavioral advertising (pdf). The principles, drafted by American Association of Advertising Agencies, Association of National Advertisers, Direct Marketing Association, Interactive Advertising Bureau and Council of Better Business Bureaus, prioritize privacy and dema  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, July 7th 2009

Burst Vets Transparency Commitment with NAI Allegiance

Ad representation firm Burst Media has joined the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI), a gathering of online ad giants dedicated to transparency and user disclosure in behavioral advertising. The NAI is composed of companies like Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL, and Fox Audience Network. Its objective is to act as a central body to police data use in the ad industry, as well as reward businesses that act responsibly. Late last year, the organization rel  [...]
Posted: Friday, June 26th 2009

FetchBack Brings Privacy Data, Opt-Outs to Behavioral Ads

This week, FetchBack began adding a link in its behavioral ads that tell users how such ads were delivered -- as well as how they can opt out. "By providing greater consumer disclosure and clarity, Fetchback can enhance the consumer's ability to exercise meaningful choice," said President/CEO Chad Little. "It was only logical to deliver this information within the ad itself, rather than have consumers go to an advertiser’s privacy policy to fish through for details." Spearheads of the be  [...]
Posted: Friday, June 12th 2009

ShortTail Tests Interstitial Video Ad Format

ShortTail Media will launch a beta test this summer of Digital 30 (D30) - a full-page, interstitial placement, through which 15- and 30-second TV spots can be incorporated between web pages -- as they load, for example. In a speech at the Interactive Advertising Bureau's annual meeting in February, David Payne, ShortTail's CEO (and former head of CNN.com), advocated a new app  [...]
Posted: Monday, May 11th 2009

Nielsen to Measure Internet Viewing by TV Ratings Sample

This week Nielsen begins a controversial move to measure the online behavior of a small subset of its national TV ratings sample, writes MediaBuyerPlanner. Because the test uses a portion of the same accredited, national TV sample that it uses to generate TV ratings, some researchers are pointing out that it could potentially impact TV ratings results. Nielsen   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, April 29th 2009

Amazon UK Says No to Phorm's Behavioral Ad Probe

In a symbolic stance against its business model, Amazon has stated it will not permit behavioral ad firm Phorm to scan its webpages for targeted ads. UK-based Phorm works directly with ISPs to build profiles of user interests, based on their overall web surfing behavior, and serve relevant ads to them across participating websites. The company suffered hard times last year after a series of   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, April 15th 2009

W3i Renews Partnership with Yahoo

W3i, a Sartell, Minnesota-based company that delivers integrated desktop and browser marketing services, yesterday announced a global partnership with Yahoo. In 2004, W3i began offering key services like the Yahoo Toolbar, sponsored search, and contextual advertising services to W3i’s estimated 16.5 million monthly visitors. A company release confirmed W3i is renewing this distribution deal. W3i launched in 2000 as Freeze.com and changed i  [...]
Posted: Friday, April 10th 2009

Spam Spectre On The Rise

Only a few months after the shutdown of San Jose-based web hosting company McColo, which was reportedly responsible for an estimated 75% of the internet's daily junk, spam is back where it was before the crackdown. The report from Postini, which provides e-mail security to 15 million users of Google's enterprise services, states spam is growing faster than ever, with spammers diversifyi  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, April 1st 2009

Google Toys with Behavioral Advertising, Keeps Users Apprised

Today Google will unveil revised privacy measures that give users more control over behavioral targeting. When Google serves banner ads on publishers' sites, ads will feature links that explain how and why they were served. Clicking through will lead to information about its behavioral advertising program -- which terraces consumers based on interests in goods or services, reports MediaPost. The pro  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, March 11th 2009

3 in 5 Web Users Think Sites Track Their Behavior

The vast majority of US web surfers are concerned about the privacy of their information online. And though there is significant concern among all ages, levels of concern are higher among older Americans, according to a study from Burst Media. The survey, undertaken to understand how privacy concerns affect the internet experience and perceptions of advertising, found  [...]
Posted: Monday, March 9th 2009