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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   [...]

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  [...]

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  [...]

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  [...]

Fitch Touts Grim '09 Outlook for Media, Entertainment

Outlook for the media and entertainment industry is especially gloomy for 2009. It will be fueled by recession, the combined effect of local and national ad weakness, a broad weakness across all major ad categories, and an increase in ad inventory, according to a forecast from Fitch Ratings, MarketingCharts   [...]

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Speculators: NBCU Reorg Could Alter Network's Fate

NBC Universal -- co-owner of video site Hulu.com and ad gatekeeper of this year's Beijing Olympics -- is undergoing a restructuring at its studio and programming divisions. Angela Bromstad, most recently president of NBCU's London-based international production unit, will head scripted programming   [...]

YHOO Layoffs Draw More Blog Coverage than Most Ad Campaigns

Yesterday Yahoo began making good on its promise to lay off 1500 members of its staff -- nearly 10% of the search brand's workforce. Affected departments include sales, marketing, content, administration, engineering, and acquisitions like Maven Networks and Right Media Exchange. According to Advertising Age, marketers from its category-  [...]

Gun-Shy Spend Cripples Restaurants, Green Products

58% of Americans feel the economy has reached a low point. Nearly half (47%) think it will stay this way for a while, prompting spending cutbacks on nearly everything -- from charitable contributions to dining out to beauty and grooming products, according to the November/December 2008 Insight Report from MarketTools, Inc. , MarketingCharts   [...]

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Valleywag Enveloped into Gawker's Prominent Bosom

Tech rumor blog Valleywag is folding into Gawker.com, Gawker Media's flagship celebrity gossip site, according to founder Nick Denton. In admirably pithy style, Valleywag writer Paul Boutin framed the situation thus: Some guy named Denton can't figure out how to sell ads on Valleywag. So he's going to sneak Valleywag posts onto Gawker.com, where Ketel One is ha  [...]

Consumers See Recession for Long Haul

Most (86%) US consumers believe the country is in a recession and more than half (54%) think the current economic conditions will last longer than 12 months, according to a the Nielsen Online Global Consumer Survey from The Nielsen Company, conducted last month, MarketingCharts write  [...]

Terrorists May Twitter, Army Says

The US Army has posted a report citing certain mobile and web technologies that could be used to enable terrorism. One chapter, entitled "Potential for Terrorist Use of Twitter," observes that the Los Angeles earthquakes in July were reported by users of the microblogging site long before established news outlets had time to cover it, writes the BBC. Perceiving Twitter's ability to publish anything, instantl  [...]

Net Radio Can Talk Terms with Music Biz

The House has passed a bill permitting Pandora and other internet radio webcasters the right to negotiate with the music industry over royalty rates. Such "performance royalties" -- fees webcasters must pay music owners each time a listener streams a song on their network -- are currently determined by the Copyright Royalty Board. In March 2007, the Board   [...]

Brad Pitt, Beyonce 'Most Dangerous Names to Search'

A recent McAfee study finds users seeking Brad Pitt-oriented themes, including photos, screensavers or desktop wallpaper, have an 18 percent chance of encountering malware, reports Ars Technica. At-risk searchers sometimes click on fake celebrity websites that infect their computers with Trojans and worms. "These websites differ from standard malware landing pads, inasmuc  [...]

eBay to Slough Off StumbleUpon

Insiders say eBay is planning to sell StumbleUpon, a Firefox add-on that recommends sites based on user input, reports TechCrunch. The online auction house acquired StumbleUpon last year for about $75 million. Deutsche Bank has been hired to locate a buyer. And while the pricetag was kept mum, it's doubt  [...]

California 'iTunes Tax' Returns for Round II

The so-called California "iTunes Tax" (bill AB 1956), which calls for an added tax on digital media and was tossed earlier this spring, is again up for debate, reports Wired. Assemblyman Charles Calderon, who introduced the bill, has proposed a second bill called ABX3 22, drawing ire from Democrats and Republicans alike. In an   [...]

Music Ups and Downs: Online, Mobile vs. Physical; Spenders vs. Spend

Weighed down by plummeting CD sales, the global recording industry is struggling to find footing in a changing marketplace: spend on physical music is down as online and mobile formats gain momentum, according to eMarketer, writes MarketingCharts. Global spend on recorded music will fall from  [...]

UK 2008 Ad Spend Growth Forecast Slips to 4%

2008 figures for United Kingdom (UK) advertiser investment are staying put, but discretionary spend is becoming shorter-term, at or slightly short of budget. Nonetheless, WPP's GroupM forecasts 4 percent growth in 2008 and 3 percent in 2009 for the UK, thanks to internet advertising, reports MarketingCharts.   [...]

What Kids Really Do Online (Despite What Parents Think)

US moms and dads estimate their children spend only two hours a month on the internet, but kids say they actually spend 10 times more time -- or 20 hours -- according to a recent study, the first Norton Online Living Report by Symantec (  [...]

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 5/18/08

Ad Networks and Analytics: Online video site OVGuide.com selected DoubleClick's Dart for Publishers to sell ad inventory on the site. comScore Arbitron provide Online Radio Ratings for TargetSpot's 600 radio station partners.   [...]

DVR Owners - Moms Especially - Still Don't Pay Attention to Ads

DVR owners say they generally ignore commercials on TV and the web, but tend to watch more TV than viewers on average. American mothers may be the biggest ad-skippers, according to a couple of new surveys, MarketingCharts writes (via Adweek). About 35 percent of DVR owners say they at least occasionally pay attention to ads   [...]