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Streaming Entertainment Skyrockets, Authentication On The Rise

Some compelling evidence for the value of in-stream and preroll marketing. Streaming entertainment is strongly on the rise, according to DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group. As Hollywood Reporter describes, consumer spending on home entertainment rose in Q1 by 2.5% to $4.45 billion—largely due to the strength of streaming video. Subscription streaming rose an est  [...]

Online Ad Spending to Grow 20% in 2012. TV Ads Come Along for the Ride

Spending on digital ads will grow 20% this year to reach nearly $40 billion, according to eMarketer. By 2014, it expects online ad spending to reach $52.8 billion and by 2016--$62 billion. "Advertisers' comfort level with integrated marketing is greater than ever, and this is helping more advertisers—and more large brands—put a greater share of dollars online," said David Hallerman, eMarketer   [...]

Video Ads Get More Media Buyer Cred with Tremor-Nielsen Agreement

VideoHub, a division of Tremor Video, and Nielsen, are giving VideoHub customers access to Nielsen Online Campaign Ratings gross rating points via VideoHub for Advertisers. The collaboration gives advertisers a single metric for their gross reach – that is, the total number of people exposed to an ad--as well as effective reach. Th  [...]

Top News: Vevo launches new artist-athelet web series | TV taps social media | Is blogging still relevant? | Smartphones that spy on you | More about Xoom

Online Video: Vevo fuses artists and athletes in new web series. Social Media: TV industry taps social media to keep viewers' attention. Internet Strategies: In a cutthroat world, so  [...]

A Multichannel Strategy Can Goose Catalog Sales

A client of Experian wanted to determine just how significant an impact catalogs were having on its sales. Experian analyzed the online and retail orders, attributing them to the appropriate catalog mailings. It determined that internet orders generated an additional 34 cents per book and retailer orders, an additional 64 cents per book - for a total multichannel impact of $1.99 per book, justifying catalog circulation. At one time it seemed that print catalogs were going to be relegated to t  [...]

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Cross-channel Retailing Grows in Popularity

An increasing number of consumers are performing a wider variety of cross-channel retail activities,   [...]

Online Video Ads Beat Regular TV Ads

Video ads shown during full-episode online TV shows yield deeper brand impact than corresponding on-air TV ads, according to data from The Nielsen Company and Microsoft. Consumers Prefer Online Video Ads by Wide Margin The across-the-board superior performance of online video ads compared to traditional TV ads is significant,   [...]

Industry Buzz & News: 3/15/10

Ad Technologies: Exploring ways to build a better consumer profile. Google-funded Pixazza courts advertisers with new platform. Legal/Regulatory: U.S. to roll out major broadband pol  [...]

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Americans Watch 33B Online Videos in Dec. '09

Americans watched 33.2 billion online videos in December 2009, according to data from the comScore Video Metrix service. Nearly 178 million US internet users watched online video during the month. Online Video Watchers Prefer Google Sites Google Sites accounted for 13.2 billion videos, or almost 40% of total   [...]

Online Video Replaces DVR

The habits of US visitors to online TV sites reveal that online TV-viewing acts as a replacement for DVR (digital video recorder) viewing, according to research from Nielsen. Online Video - The New DVR? The broader usage patterns suggest that online video is, for the most part, a replacement of DVR use, or used by those who do not have immediate access to TV.  [...]

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,   [...]

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 12/04/09

Ad Campaigns: New Droid ad claims iPhone is clueless. Southwest Airlines tests Facebook video contest. Online Media: Google CEO deflects blame for news media woes. Google   [...]

Email Marketers Combine Tactics for Echo Mondays

In recent years, retailers have sent more email marketing messages on Cyber Monday than on any other day of the year. This year will be no exception, according to Responsys. In 2009, email marketers are hoping to be out in force with emails - not only on the Monday directly after Thanksgiving, but on all four Mondays in December. It is on these so-called 'Echo Mondays,' when marketers say consumers are most most likely to be   [...]

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 11/20/09

Ad Strategies: Marketers hop on augmented reality bandwagon to promote 'Avatar.' AT&T's anti-Verizon ad is a stinker. Social Media: Facebook Ads customer support   [...]

SocNet Experiments Bode Well for Holiday Season

Inspired by the results of experimental social media campaigns, some major retailers are gearing up to roll out more elaborate social networking campaigns than they did last year. Though overall online ad spending among retailers is expected to increase this holiday season, details have emerged over the last several weeks that indicate merchants plan to use more of this money on sites such as Twitte  [...]

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 10/23/09

Web 2.0 Trends: Amazon: Earnings are up; Kindle is best seller. It's official – Facebook is king of the social networking scene: MySpace has conceded defeat in contest to become the largest online social network. Dailymotion, Europe’s biggest online video challenger to YouTube  [...]

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 10/22/09

Web 2.0 Trends: Internet advertising is just about the only bright spot in Q3 reports of two major newspaper publishers, Gannett Co. and McClatchy Co. The New York Times sets 7 digital priorities. Th  [...]

WOM Stars in Hollywood; Plays Leading Roles Elsewhere

Movie studios and music houses are tapping social media not only to generate digital word-of-mouth (WOM) appeal - a strategy first deployed to great success with the Blair Witch Project more than 10 years ago - but also to listen to fans' judgments of film and music and make decisions based on them.  Though Hollywood has always intuitively understood the power of WOM marketing, such buzz usually paled in comparison to the publicity generated by mammoth-sized advertising a  [...]

Mobile Junkies Hard to Reach with Other Media

The majority of US mobile users who watch mobile video at least once a week spend more time using their mobile device than they do their computer - and represent a unique audience that may not be reachable with other digital media, according to a study from Transpera, conducted by InsightExpress. The study, which measured consumers' reliance on mobile devices for information, found that 62% of mobil  [...]

Most Marketers Pursue Email, Social Media Marriage

Two-thirds of email marketers plan to integrate their email and social media campaigns in the second half of 2009. 48% have already formulated a strategy for achieving this initiative, according to a survey by StrongMail Systems, Inc.   [...]