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Facebook Adds LGBT-friendly Categories. Advertisers Shrug

Facebook has introduced two relationship status indicators aimed at the LGBT community in the US: now available are "In a domestic partnership" and "In a civil union." These join Facebook's other categories, such as Single, In a relationship, Engaged, Married, It's complicated, In an open relationship, Widowed, Separated and Divorced. For advertisers, though, the new categories are meaningless - outside of the fact in general Facebook has become more Gay-friendly. Advertisers  [...]

Bargain-Hunting Consumers Choose Print Ads over Online

Age, gender and educational level all play a role in whether a consumer will more inclined to seek out bargains from online ads or print ads, according to a new Adweek Media/Harris Poll survey. In general, the survey found that newspaper and magazine ads are considered the best place to f  [...]

One-Fifth of US Households Use Only Wireless Phones

More than one of every five US homes (22.7%) had no landline and only wireless phone service during the first half of 2009, an increase of 2.5 percentage points since the second half of 2008, according to preliminary results from the January - June 2009 National Health Interview Survey by the US Centers for Disease Control (  [...]

Discount Site Groupon Goes Hyper Local

Groupon, a site that offers deep discounts for local services such as restaurants, auto detailing, spas and holistic healing, is refining its segmentation even further: in some markets, such as Washington, DC, it has begun offering hyper local discounts. Instead of a coupon served up to the entire region of Northern Virginia, the District and southern Maryland, viewers can ask to see only, say, coupons from southern Maryland. Launched in November 2008 in  [...]

Micro-Targeting Focuses on Consumers Most Likely to Buy

Google's custom targeting features lets marketers move beyond traditional geographic segmentation by defining complex targeting by longitude and latitude - a strategy that is part of a larger micro-targeting trend that allows marketers to zero in on online consumers most likely to visit a particular bricks and mortar store. This more focused method of geo-targeting can include such factors as overall drive time or other obstacles such as traffic, according to Michael Kahn, SVP of marketing at  [...]

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Connecting Online Ads and Offline Purchases: Two Approaches

By exactly how much do online brand campaigns drive sales of these products in brick and mortar stores? The online advertising industry has tried to answer that question, but much to their client base's dismay, have not really succeeded. Now two new applications have just come to market that purport to bridge that gap. VideoEgg and comScore VideoEgg has   [...]

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 10/7/09

Ad Networks and Analytics: Facebook shutting out developers. Magazines band together for new ad network. Agencies and Marketing Execs:   [...]

62% of 'Net Users View Online Video

Fully 62% of adult internet users have watched online video on a video-sharing website, a figure that has nearly doubled from 33% in 2006, according to a research report (pdf) from the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life project, which also   [...]

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Google Publishes Whiplash Reaction to Microsoft/Yahoo Bid, Microsoft Snaps Back

The Googleblog has published insights on Microsoft's unsolicited bid for Yahoo, which was announced Friday. "The openness of the Internet is what made Google -- and Yahoo! -- possible," wrote SVP David Drummond of corporate development at Google. "Microsoft's hostile bid [...] is about more than simply a financial transaction. [...] It's about preserving the underly  [...]