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Top News: MS Backs Nook | The Anti-Groupon | WPP Lifts Forecast | Social Cola Wars | Hulu Less Free

Ad Technology: Meet the anti-Groupon Agencies: WPP Lifts Forecast Campaigns of Note: Flexjet   [...]
Posted: Monday, April 30th 2012

Top News: Anheuser-Busch Scolds UFC | Digital Future "Blight?" | Commissions for "Likes" | Vevo Original Shows

Ad Technology: Issuu: A Tool for Marketing, Not Just Magazines Greystripe® Introduces PC-to-Mobile Ad Targeting with ValueClick Audience Mapping Technolo  [...]
Posted: Thursday, April 26th 2012

Top News: Wikipedia Errors | LeBron James Social | Brands Migrating from TV? | Samsung Claims More Infringements

Ad Technology: Innovid Announces Interactive Video Ad Studio Enhancements Marketo adds social platform with Crowd Factory acquisition Branding: 60% of Wikipedia articles about companie  [...]
Posted: Thursday, April 19th 2012

E-commerce Spending Falls First Time

U.S. e-commerce spending fell for the first time on record in 2009, according to the comScore 2009 U.S. Digital Year in Review. Total U.S. e-commerce spending reached $209.6 billion in 2009, down 2% compared to the previous year and the first year on record with negative growth rates. Travel e-commerce spending dropped 5% to $79.8 billion, while retail (non-travel) e-com  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, February 16th 2010

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 02/12/10

Ad Formats & Technologies: Facebook releases beta version of ad conversion tracking. Yahoo display strategy turns to OPA ad formats in effort to drive premium prices. Scotttrade   [...]
Posted: Friday, February 12th 2010

Senate Sniffs Out Shady Direct Marketing

A recently released Senate Commerce Committee staff report is taking aim at the dark side of 'aggressive' online direct marketing, and has singled out shady and controversial practices by three companies - Affinion, Vertru and Webloyalty, in addition to the hundreds of retailers that have used their services. The report details purchase procedures in which consumers rarely realize they are signing up for a monthly cl  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, November 18th 2009

Web Retailers Cope with Shipping-Charge Rejection

In response to consumer demands for low or no-cost shipping and the increasing role shipping costs play in online purchase decisions, a growing number of top online retailers are planning free shipping promotions during the 2009 holiday season, the Wall Street Journal reports. The moves come as a slew of industry studies and internal retailer data confirm that shipping charges rank as one of the bigge  [...]
Posted: Thursday, October 22nd 2009

Phony Online Flu Cures Draw FDA Ire

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is monitoring the online marketing and sale of products that claim to diagnose, prevent, treat or cure the H1N1 influenza virus - and in at least one high-profile case - is ordering the well-established brand, doctor Andrew Weil, to cease marketing a product in this way. As part of its enforcement activities, the agency, which issued a   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, October 20th 2009

Pharma Steps Back from Sponsored Ads

Pharmaceutical companies are struggling to reconcile online marketing techniques with a stepped-up oversight campaign by the Food and Drug Administration's Division of Drug Marketing, Advertising and Communications (DDMAC), which is specifically targeting such activities. While industry-regulatory give and take on marketing is a long-standing and complicated dance, recent events appear to have caused pharma companies to take a step back from several strategies – at least until they can be s  [...]
Posted: Friday, October 16th 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

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

AP Software Tracks Appropriation of Content

The Associated Press is adding software to its articles, intended to inform readers of usage rights associated with the content -- and act as a policing agent, automatically informing the AP about how the article elsewhere online. Each article will be published with a digital "wrapper" -- data not visible to users that maximizes the content's ranking in search engines and tracks its movements across the web. The program will be introduced in stages stretching over the course of the next year,  [...]
Posted: Monday, July 27th 2009

Popfly Games/Mashup App Goes Belly-Up in August

On August 24, Microsoft will be discontinuing service and support for Popfly, a mashup and games creation app. A blog post by team leader John Montgomery reports that all sites, references and resources will be removed after August 24. Account access, and games or mashups created via Popfly, will also be discontinued. "However, Microsoft is still very much dedicated to helping you express your creativity,"   [...]
Posted: Friday, July 17th 2009

Hacked Accts Divulge Twitter's Thirst for Solvency ... and Meditation

A French hacker that managed to penetrate a number of sensitive Twitter employee accounts has leaked documents that reveal the company's financial ambitions, pending profit models and a "growing sense of entitlement" among its workers, Valleywag reports. The hacker, who goes by the pseudo Hacker Croll, accessed the email, Paypal, Amazon, Apple, AT&T, MobileMe, and Gmail accounts of higher-ups  [...]
Posted: Thursday, July 16th 2009

McAfee Pegs 'Lyrics,' Free Downloads, Economic Crisis Keywords Risky

Online security firm Mcafee has released a report about the most dangerous search terms online -- terms that, once sought, may lead users to unsafe malware websites. Of the 50 riskiest expressions to search across sites like Google, Yahoo, Live, AOL and Ask, "word unscrambler," "lyrics," "myspace" and "free music downloads" topped all others:   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, June 10th 2009

College Facebook Users Have Lower GPAs

College students who use Facebook spend less time studying and have lower grade-point averages (GPAs) than students who have not signed up for the popular social networking site, according to a study by researchers at Ohio State University. While the study of 219 OSU graduate and undergraduate students did not uncover a direct cause-and-effect link between Facebook use and lowe  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, June 9th 2009

Americans Choose ID Protection over Weight Loss

Though two-thirds of US adults are now considered overweight or obese, nearly 60% of Americans would rather reduce their risk of identity theft by 20% than lose 20 pounds, according to a survey from Ipsos Public Affairs and ID Analytics.   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, May 27th 2009

26% of Mobile Users Text While Driving

Despite an increasing number of state bans on driving while texting (DWT) and numerous reports of texting-related accidents, more than one-fourth (26%) of US mobile-phone users send and/or receive text messages behind the wheel, finds a study from Vlingo. Vlingo's second annual Consumer Mobile Messaging Habits Report reveals that drivers in  [...]
Posted: Friday, May 22nd 2009

Bandwidth-Thirsty Developing World Poses Threat to Web's Bottom Line

Photo-sharing sites, social networks, and video distributors (e.g., Flickr, Facebook, YouTube) are booming in developing nations like Turkey, India, and Brazil - but struggling to turn a profit from online advertising alone. Internet entrepreneurs have always operated under the ideals of uniting everyone in a single online "village" by providing free services to   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, April 28th 2009

Yahoo Broadcasts Requiem for GeoCities

Last week Yahoo announced plans to shut down GeoCities, an old-school web hosting service, later this year. "We have decided to discontinue the process of allowing new customers to sign up for GeoCities accounts as we focus on helping our customers explore and build new relationships online in other ways," the company stated. "We'll provide more details about closing GeoCities and how to save your site data this sum  [...]
Posted: Monday, April 27th 2009