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Publications Rethink Anonymous Comments. Should Your Site?

The Washington Post, New York Times and several other papers are rethinking policies that allow online commenters to remain anonymous, according to a report in the New York Times. The Washington Post, for example, is considering giving greater weight to comments that are signed. The Huffington Post is another example; that site is expected to announce changes that rank commenters based on how well other r  [...]
Posted: Monday, April 12th 2010

Click Fraud Gets More Elaborate with 'Real' Purchases

A Harvard Business School professor has identified a new breed of click fraud that not only simulates clicks on a Google ad - but also seemingly generates a 'real' customer purchase on the advertiser's website. Professor Ben Edelman, who has researched such related issues as invisible online ads - sleight-of-hand tactics used by some websites to sell more advertising than they have space for - calls this new form   [...]
Posted: Thursday, January 21st 2010

Competitive Data Ripe for Picking on SocNets

Social networks have become a goldmine of information for companies skilled in the art of connecting the dots - a little-noticed development that is beginning to concern companies. According to a global study commissioned by Cisco only one in seven of the companies that participated in the research has a formal process to adopt consumer-based social networking tools for business purposes - indicating that the potential  [...]
Posted: Friday, January 15th 2010

New Statistics Support Controversial Ad Strategy

New statistics that show half of all Americans would watch ads for money support the premise behind a controversial ad technology patent filed by Apple that would compel recipients of cheap mobile devices to watch videos at any time. More than half of Americans (52%) say they’d be willing to watch the ads if paid to watch them, such as through a discount on their cable bill, according to a multi-country survey by Synovate. The US was the second-highest market globally that said this, after   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, December 15th 2009

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 11/10/09

Online Ad Strategies: Groups redirect health-care ads to cheer and jeer Democrats. Local online to grow 12% in 2009; will slow next year. Burberry looks online for ways to gain customers. Se  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, November 10th 2009

Ford Outpaces Industry with 25% Digital Spend

Ford Motor Company is spending 25% of its marketing budget on digital and social media programs, double the amount of any of its competitors, according to a recent report from BusinessWeek. Industry experts expect that other auto companies are soon likely to follow Ford down the same digital path, though perhaps not quite as aggressively. J.D. Power & Associates estimates that the averag  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, October 21st 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

'Sunday Times' to Become Test Case for Murdoch's Paid Content Plans

Rupert Murdoch plans to use the Sunday Times as a test for his new push to charge for online content, beginning in November. The Sunday Times website is currently combined with sister title the Times, but it will be launched as a stand-alone site in the fall and will begin charging a fee to access content, according to the Guardian. So far, it is unclear whether the s  [...]
Posted: Thursday, August 6th 2009

Insurance Providers Ignore Gen X, Gen Y

Health and life insurance providers are much more likely to market to Baby Boomers than to younger consumers who fall into Generation X and Generation Y age groups, according to research from Mintel Comperemedia. In the 12 months ending June 2009, a study found that Gen Xers (those born in the mid 1960s to the early 1980s) rece  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, August 5th 2009

YouTube Goes After Local News, Attempts to Sign Newspaper, TV Partners

YouTube has created a new feature called “News Near You” which uses the internet address of the visitor’s computer to determine the user’s location, and offers relevant local videos from within a 100-mile radius.The feature is just one element in YouTube’s push into news video. This summer, YouTube invited more than 25,000 news sources from Google News to become video suppliers,   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, August 4th 2009

Hampered by Debt, Zango Shuts Down

Controversial adware firm Zango was sold last week, following a bank foreclosure after its failure to honor over $44 million worth of debts. The company launched over a decade ago as 180solutions, after which it changed its moniker several times: 180solutions and Hotbar, before concluding its trajectory as Zango. Security firms -- to which it often conveyed threatening letters, and the occasional lawsuit -- gave it flak for installing potentially harmful a  [...]
Posted: Thursday, April 23rd 2009

Domino's Employees Incite YouTube Brand Scandal

Two Domino's employees have released a series of YouTube videos in which they playfully molest food products before allegedly passing them on to customers. In the most recent video posted on YouTube, "Michael" -- one member of the duo -- inserts cheese into his nose and waves salami over his backside before placing both ingredients on a pair of sandwiches.   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, April 15th 2009

Revised TOS Gives Facebook Perpetual Rights to User Content

This month Facebook revised its Terms of Use, a document it is legally permitted to update at any time without informing users. Users demonstrate tacit acceptance of the Terms by continuous use of the site. The revision grants Facebook complete, perpetual ownership of content up  [...]
Posted: Monday, February 16th 2009

Biz Stone: Twitter to Charge Brands for Use

Twitter co-founder Biz Stone has confirmed the microblogging network will begin charging companies for certain components of its service. Rumors that Twitter may start charging for use began taking concrete form in November. "We are noticing more companies using Twitter and individuals following them. We can identify ways to make this experience even more valuable and charge fo  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, February 10th 2009

Unwanted 'American Idol' Text Message Backfires on AT&T

This week AT&T Wireless sent a text message to a "significant number" of its 75 million customers, promoting the Tuesday premier of American Idol, a popular show where Americans compete for pop stardom. The wordy SMS read: AT&T Free Msg: Get ready for American Idol! AI 8 starts this Tues (1/13) at 8pm on FOX. Check out AT&T's official AI web site from you [sic] PC - www.att.com/idol for the latest info on our $1MM sweepstakes, test your AI IQ by playing the trivia game  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, January 14th 2009

African-Americans Dramatically Underrepresented in Ad Industry

Racial discrimination affecting African Americans is 38% higher in the advertising industry than in the overall US labor market. It is also more pronounced now that it was 30 years ago, according to (pdf) a study from the Madison Avenue Project, a coalition of legal, civil rights and industry leaders. The study, "  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, January 14th 2009

Twitter Finally Draws Attention from the Spammer Community

Perhaps as a tribute to its mainstream legitimacy, Twitter's turf has been invaded by at least two spammer-orchestrated scams. In the most widespread of the two, users receive a direct message from a follower, bearing this or similar bait: "hey! check out this funny blog about you...", followed by a link to a webpage. After clicking on the link, victims are presented with a false Twitter login page. Usernames and passwords entered on the page become vehicles for spammers to distribute sim  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, January 6th 2009

NY Governor Proposes iPod Tax

Hoping to expedite the close of the state's $15 billion budget gap, New York Governor David Paterson is proposing a tax on music and other downloads made online. To download online content from a site like iTunes, for example, users must create an account with a billing address, so additional fees to New York residents can be applied with relative ease, observes the New York   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, December 17th 2008

Aussie Gov't to Pilot Nationwide 'Net Filter

The Australian government is moving forward with plans to implement a nationwide online filter of objectionable material. The filter is one component of an $82 million cybersafety effort to protect children from exploitation and discourage adults from downloading illegal content, including terrorist materials or child pornography,   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, December 16th 2008

Digitas Heads to Roll in US

Digitas announced plans to lay off approximately 70 of 2,100 US-based employees, citing reduced client budgets. Non-US employees will not be affected. "We have redeployed talent wherever possible, but the realities of the current economy did require that we let some talented people go in order to best position the agency for continued growth and success," one spokesperson stated. Digitas, the digital unit of global conglomerate Publicis Groupe, has o  [...]
Posted: Friday, December 12th 2008