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Top News: E-Tail Spending Skyrockets | Google Defense | "Do Not Track" Looms | AOL Keeping Publications

Ad Technology: Exponential Interactive Launches Appsnack, Global Mobile Advertising Solution For Brand Advertisers Business Strategies: Creating True Accountability for the Customer Experience Campaig  [...]
Posted: Thursday, May 10th 2012

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

Online Newspaper Ad Revenue Falls 17%

Online newspaper advertising revenue dropped by a precipitous 17% in Q309, compared with the same quarter in 2008, from $750 million last year to $623 million this year, according to the most recent figures released by the Newspaper Association of America (NAA). That number, though, pales in comparison with the total newspaper revenue decline of 28%, writes  [...]
Posted: Monday, November 23rd 2009

FDA Declares War on Fruity Cigarettes

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is exercising its recently acquired regulatory authority over the tobacco industry by targeting online ads for cigarette products that are aimed at youth. In this case, the government agency has sent warning letters to several companies selling flavored cigarettes through their websites, directing them to either cease their marketing or sales or bring the products in  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, November 10th 2009

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  [...]
Posted: Friday, October 23rd 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

Complaints vs Video AdNets Rise as Buyers Pay for Ineffective Ads

With the popularity of online video advertising on the rise, media buyers are faced with large variations in pricing and options to decipher. Pre-roll video ads can run anywhere from CPMs under $10 to $50 CPMs - and if buyers aren't careful, they can end up paying for ineffective ads. Some industry observers are pointing out that video ad networks are deliberately inflating ad impression numbers by running video ads that begin automatically when a user lands on a site, with those ads sometime  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, September 29th 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

Time Warner Reabsorbs Google's 5% Cut of AOL

In a deal valuing the former internet subscription company at less than $5.66 billion, Time Warner bought back Google's 5% stake in AOL. The planned $283 million purchase includes share of cash distributions Google received from AOL during its investment. It was finalized on July 8. Google bought the stake in 2005 for $1 billion, valuing AOL at $20 billion at the time. $726 million of the investment was written down last year. Time  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, July 28th 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

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

MySpace to Cut 30% of US Team

This week MySpace announced plans to cut 30% of its US workforce -- a total of 420 employees. "Simply put, our staffing levels were bloated and hindered our ability to be an efficient and nimble team-oriented company," stated CEO Owen Van Natta. comScore figures suggest Facebook had about half of MySpace's US audience this time last year. But by May 2009, MySpace's audience plummeted to 70 million and is now outpaced by Facebook, which has over 300 million users worldwide. (The US userbase  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, June 17th 2009

Time Warner to Divorce Company Balance Sheet from Ailing AOL

Yesterday Time Warner announced it shall move forward with its anticipated spin-off of AOL as an independent entity with separate, publicly traded stocks. The company owns 95% of the former online subscription service giant. Google owns 5% (worth $1 billion three years ago). Time Warner shall repurchase Google's stake in Q3 to prepare for AOL's solo release on the stock exchange. AOL's ad revenue fel  [...]
Posted: Friday, May 29th 2009

B2B Media Revenue Falls; Online Offsets Some Print Losses

Business-to-business (B2B) media company revenue declined 2.2% in 2008 vs. 2007, but revenue growth in online, live events, and data products helped offset revenue declines for magazines, according to American Business Media's (ABM's) 2009 Media Financial Survey. The new survey, which attempts to accurately measure today  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, May 5th 2009

Court Rules Certain Keywords Potential Trademark Violations

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a ruling in a Google case that may impact the way AdWords operates nationwide. Reversing a 2006 ruling that judged advertisers could buy trademarked search terms without violating trademark law, the Court concluded that recommending and "selling" a mark to advertisers -- for the purpose of triggering a sponsored link -- could violate trademark law. It also claimed product placements could be subject to trademark law if the trademark holder ca  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, April 8th 2009

Ad Spend Falls Thru '09, Forecasts Slightly Better for '10

Ad spend is expected to drop 12% in 2009, but signs indicate a leveling-off in 2010, according to a recently released Media Business Report from Jack Myers.com Media Network. The Myers report predicts a double-digit drop in total ad spending in 2009, following a 4% decline last year. It also projects this decline to continue into 2010, with a 5% dip for the full year, albeit off of a smaller base, MarketingCharts   [...]
Posted: Monday, March 16th 2009

IAC Suffers Dismal Q4, Repositions Ask (Again)

This week InterActive Corp. reported a 19% drop in Q4 media and advertising revenue -- a plummet more significant than any experienced by other publicly-traded internet search providers. (Time Warner's AOL ad unit came close, however. Its Q4 ad revenue clocked an 18% drop.) Search ad prices for IAC fell 8-12% compared to the same period last year. The company projects media and ad revenue to decline by over 20% in 1Q  [...]
Posted: Friday, February 6th 2009

Time Warner Takes $16B Loss

Time Warner posted a loss of $16.03 billion, or $4.47/share, in 2008's Q4. The results were due mainly to a $24.2 billion write-down for its cable, publishing and AOL assets, reports MediaBuyerPlanner. Prior to this, Time Warner predicted it would report an operating loss for the fourth quar  [...]
Posted: Thursday, February 5th 2009