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Industry Buzz & Snippets: 8/12/09

Ad Networks and Analytics: Who's No. 1 in mobile advertising? AD network halo stories. Agencies and Marketing Execs: Euro RSCG Taps Marian Salzman for PR.   [...]

aQuantive Acquisition Makes Microsoft Buyer & Seller

The acquisition of aQuantive will give Microsoft a boost in metrics and prepare them for the future of advertising, according to Martin Laetsch, senior director of search strategy at SEMDirector, in an email correspondence. Laetsch calls Microsoft's acquisition a reaction to the Google/Doubleclick deal, and the reason they didn't   [...]

Leaked Documents Confirm MySpace News Coming

The MySpace News site has apparently been confirmed in leaked Fox Interactive Media sales documents, including screenshots, about the MySpace news-aggregation service, Wired writes. The site, reportedly to launch later this year, will automatically collect news items from various news sites and blogs. MySpace users will then be able to rate and comment on each story the  [...]

Yahoo Courting Sponsors for Social Media Sites

Yahoo is beginning to increase efforts to monetize its social media sites, including Yahoo Groups, Yahoo 360 and Yahoo Video. This week, Yahoo will begin a high-profile marketing initiative with Nissan Motors, after having recently launched its first corporate page on Yahoo 360 for Travelocity, MediaPost reports. Yahoo promises that similar marketing efforts will be coming soon to   [...]

Wal-Mart, Apple Considering Digital Download Deal

After months of pressuring movie studios not to partner with Apple to make movies available for download via iTunes, Wal-Mart itself may be ready to partner with Apple over movie, music, and TV show downloads. Apple and Wal-Mart are considering an alliance that would allow consumers to purchase a digital download "coupon" that would let consumers download movies, music, and TV shows, with Apple paying Wal-Mart a portion of the proceeds, Variety   [...]

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Google Gets into Radio Ad Biz with dMarc Purchase

Google announced Tuesday that it has acquired privately held radio advertising firm dMarc Broadcasting Inc. in a deal that could be worth up to $1.24 billion, including an initial payment of $102 million, writes Reuters. dMarc connects adverti  [...]

4Q Online Advertising Beats Media Execs' Expectations

Online ad spend increased 15 percent in the fourth quarter of 2005 from the third quarter, according to surveyed media executives who during the previous quarterly survey by Deutsche Bank and MediaPost had forecast a 10 percent increase. The cost of premium inventory increased, on average, 6 percent, while run-of-network inventory costs increased about 3 percent, and pay-per-click prices were   [...]

Media Matchmaker Hooks up Buyers, Potential Partners

In Media Matchmaker, Media buyers wishing to find product placement, promotions and integration opportunities for their clients have a new tool to help find potential partners that are likewise looking to negotiate and close deals, writes MediaBuyerPlanner. As traditional advertising has been augmented by digital opportunities, product placement and other non-traditional approaches have become increa  [...]

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Tremor to Launch Online Video Network

Ad network Tremor Network, which runs campaigns on some 300 sites, will launch a video online advertising network after its acquisition of in-stream video ad technology provider Dynadco, reports AdWeek. The new network will offer online publishers video serving, content and ad s  [...]

Gather.com Gets Funding, Writers Get Ad Revs

Boston-based Gather.com, set to receive $6 million funding this week, intends to become an eBay of sorts for bloggers, other writers and their readers - with a business model that recruits writers by offering them a share of online advertising revenue, writes the Boston Globe. The m  [...]

Million Dollar Homepage Reaches Goal, Suffers DDoS Attack

Click to enlargeThe final 1,000 pixels of the Milli  [...]

MSN, SuperPages.com Partner for Local Ads

MSN'S local search began on Thursday to include three Verizon SuperPages.com local ads - a mix of pay-per-click, pay-per-call, and fixed-rate - for every search results page, reports MediaPost. The ads are sold by Verizon's local sales teams. The ad unit in which the SuperPages ads appear is at the top of the MSN Local Search results pages. The ads are from SuperPages.com's list of local adver  [...]

Google Seeks Mobile Click-to-Call Ad Patent

A new Google patent application hints at the search giant's plans for the mobile advertising market, with a type of ad that would result in a phone call instead of a visit to a website, reports ClickZ. A senior research scientist at Google, Shumeet Baluja, filed U.S. patent application 20060004627 for the "call-on-select" process that takes into account screen size, connection speed and input capabilities of mobile devices to determine  [...]

Murdoch: MySpace Can Beat Theirs (Yahoo's, MSN's)

News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch finally revealed, at least in part, his plans for the social-networking website MySpace.com, announcing that the recently acquired site would challenge portals such as Yahoo and MSN, writes iMedia, citing a Wall Street Journal report. Murdoch said MySpace would offer free video downloads,   [...]

Consumers: For VOD, We'd Rather See Ads than Pay

Sixty-two percent of consumers prefer free on-demand TV programs with commercials rather than commercial-free VOD programs that cost $1.99, writes MediaBuyerPlanner, citing new research from Point  [...]

TV Stations' Website Revs Doubled in 2005

Online advertising revenue for local TV websites was an estimated $283 million in 2005, twice as much as in 2004 - and is expected to again increase, by 39 percent, in 2006 - according to a new Television Bureau of Advertising survey conducted by Borrell Associates, writes MediaWeek. Considering their strength in delivering online video content, local TV station websites are poised to make s  [...]

Miva May Be up for Grabs

Online marketing firm Miva, formerly known as FindWhat.com, said it has hired Deutsche Bank Securities to help it explore strategies to boost its share price, including a possible sale of the company, as well as selling securities, selling assets, recapitalizing, or  [...]

CNN, Time Merge Biz Sites, Rely on Online Advertising

Time Warner's CNN and Time Inc. have re-launched CNNMoney.com with content from Time's business and finance titles, abandoning  [...]

Circ Auditor Gives Nod to Standalone Digital Pubs

Media circulation auditor BPA Worldwide has amended its rules (pdf) to audit standalone digital magazines in addition to digital versions of print publications, writes DM News. The amendments revise BPA's definition of digital  [...]

Clear Channel VODs to Offer 15-Second Ads

A beta version of a Videos on Demand feature will be available on 16 of Clear Channel Radio's Online Music & Radio websites from stations in New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Washington, D.C., and St. Louis, the company announced Monday,   [...]