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Pandora: Losses Way Up, But So Is Ad Revenue

In a "there’s good news and bad news" themed earnings call on Tuesday, online radio provider Pandora Media reported that its net loss tripled in Q1 2012, but the results and outlook are topping analysts' forecasts, reports BusinessWeek. Bad news: Pandora's loss in the three months through April 30 were $20.2 million ($.12 per share) versus a loss of $9.1 million ($.61 per share) for the same period in 2011. Go  [...]
Posted: Thursday, May 24th 2012

Freemium Creates "Happy To Pay" Customers for Video, Radio, Services

Pandora lets you try it out. So does Audible.com for audiobooks, Norton for security, the New York Times with its 10 articles per month paywall. This is "freemium," aimed at tempting paid subscribers with free content, and it works. A new study conducted by iYogi Insights, the research division of the on-demand remote tech support services provider, reveals that 42% of consumers subscribe to  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, May 16th 2012

Jelli Offers Terrestrial Radio with Social Media Analytics, Ad Engagement

Social radio provider Jelli is claiming to have “reimagined the radio spot, making it more engaging and interactive.” Jelli promises a radio/social media mashup for advertisers, and now promises it can quantify those exposures with social media analytics. TechCrunch described Jelli  [...]
Posted: Thursday, May 3rd 2012

Google: Why a Mobile Site Over An App?

Google in its adSense blog has offered some pearls of wisdom about prioritizing between mobile sites or mobile apps. Aren't apps the step-change evolution over mobile sites? Not necessarily, advises Google’s app expert Tuyen Nguyen, who offered some questions to consider. First, decide how you want users to access content. Mobile sites require users to have data access, while apps enabl  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, May 2nd 2012

NBCUniversal Announces Social Gaming Network, Promises Advertisers 115 Million Fans

NBCUniversal yesterday announced what it calls an “arsenal of digital and Social TV opportunities” with the Universal Games Network (UGN). UGN will aggregate all of NBCU’s online, mobile and social gaming efforts around a single platform. The solution will allow fans to play games, engage and consume content, amass reward points and redeem them for real and vir  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, May 2nd 2012

Just What Is A "NewFront?" And Should Brands Be Interested?

It would have been fun to see cranky interviewer Piers Morgan meeting Mashable Editor Adam Ostrow, or to see if Tom Hanks and a Yahoo! executive have anything in common. (They do.) This was Digital Content NewFronts, a two-week event in New York that wraps next week, and which brings together brands, marketers, distributors, and talent to explore (and sell) digital content and media opportunities. These are much like the TV upfronts, but instead the “networks” included AOL, Google/YouTube, H  [...]
Posted: Friday, April 27th 2012

Top News: AmazonSupply | ESPN Cross Platform Strategy | "Enquirer" on iPad | Digital CW Annoys Stations

Ad Technology: Amazon Goes After B2B Market With AmazonSupply The App That Zaps Junk Mail - And The Postal Service Business Strategies: Inside   [...]
Posted: Monday, April 23rd 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

Podcasts Players in Battle for Local Online Ad Dollars

Podcasts are becoming viable contenders for the much-coveted local online advertising dollar. A new survey suggests that consumer attitudes towards advertising around pod casts is favorable. Then there is the business case - unlike radio advertising, which is aimed at passive listeners, podcasts can assure advertisers that their listeners are not only receptive to their programs but have actively sought them out. From Radio to the Internet That is the case that Mike O’Me  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, February 23rd 2010

Digital Coupon Growth Outpaces Inserts

During 2009, the growth rate of digital coupons outpaced the typical annual growth rate of free standing insert (FSI) coupons by a factor of more than 10-1, according to Coupons.com. Coupons.com annual data indicates that savings US consumers obtained from digital coupons grew 170% in 2009, compared to a typical annual growth rate of 8-16% for FSI coupons. Printed savings from Coupons.com and the  [...]
Posted: Monday, February 15th 2010

Virtual Goods, Apps, Even E-Cards Part of Facebook's Valentine's Day

Virtual goods, apps and (by now) old-fashioned e-cards are among the various ways one can send a Valentine's Day message on Facebook this year. Virtual goods appear to be the most popular vehicle, although final tallies won't be made until after the holiday on Sunday. 220 Million Virtual Gifts and Counting FarmVille players have already sent more Valentine virtual gifts - 220 million - than all the 152 million Valentines Day cards exchanged all year,   [...]
Posted: Friday, February 12th 2010

It's a Mobile World: How Does Search Adapt?

Mobile SEO, still a nascent industry as it is, is getting even trickier. New developments in the mobile industry - such as growing mobile advertising opportunities and technologies, new location-based technologies and mobile social networking - are already rewriting business rules only established a short while ago. To help navigate the changing environment, SEO experts advise the following: 1. Remember that search engines don't have a lot to work with,   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, February 9th 2010

Coke’s Cause Marketing Campaign Ties to Super Bowl, as Pepsi Sits Out

Coca-Cola is jumping on the cause marketing bandwagon with a campaign that extends its Open Happiness theme while giving Facebook fans an advance look at its upcoming Super Bowl ads - and while taking advantage of Pepsi’s decision to sit out the Super Bowl. Each time a Facebook user passes a virtual Coke along to a friend, a $1 donation by Coke to Boys & Girls Clubs of America is   [...]
Posted: Friday, January 29th 2010

Valpak Preps New Augmented Reality Envelope

Valpak, the print and online coupon company owned by Cox Enterprises, is prepping for its latest innovation: envelopes that can carry embedded augmented reality code. The company is in final negotiations with a national advertiser and plans to launch the campaign by the end of February or beginning of March, Jim Buckley, head of Valpak's New Media Business tells MarketingVOX. The company has been avidly following developments with this technology in the marketing space - including the rece  [...]
Posted: Thursday, January 28th 2010

Sponsored Forum Posts Increase Response by More than 100%

Sponsored posts that appear in targeted online forums, clearly marked as advertisements, appear to actually increase in their ability to drive response over time - by more than 100% one year after a paid campaign has ended, according to a recent analysis released by PostRelease. The study also showed that 60 days after a typical sponsored forum post’s appearance, the t  [...]
Posted: Thursday, January 21st 2010

Google Patent Suggests Ad Placements in Maps

Google has been awarded a patent on ad technology that inserts ads in its Street View mapping images - suggesting the search engine giant will expand its ad offerings to this popular application. In the patent application, Google says it will identify buildings, posters, signs and billboards in its StreetView images - a  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, January 13th 2010

Sponsors Line Up for Popular Apps

Mobile apps, in some cases, are proving to be money-makers for developers and publishers, thanks to advertisers' increasing willingness to sponsor their development and rollout. Not every app that comes to market attracts sponsors - or many viewers for that matter. The apps that have the best appeal to both groups are those that either entice with special deals, such as coupons, or constantly update content, such as a news site. Msnbc.com's free application for the iPhone and iPod touch, l  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, December 29th 2009

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 12/17/09

Ad Platforms: AOL clarifies what Seed could mean for advertisers. Search: Google unveils tool to see how others view a website. Google enhances analytics API.   [...]
Posted: Thursday, December 17th 2009

Virtual Goods Reap Real Sales

Specialty youth-apparel brand Boy Meets Girl is teaming up with online fashion game/community Fashion Fantasy Game to drive real-world sales with virtual goods. As part of the promotion, all Fashion Fantasy Game members will receive a free virtual version of the Boy Meets Girl  [...]
Posted: Friday, December 4th 2009

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 11/30/09

Ad Industry: Ad industry produces ads and logos in response to pending privacy legislation. Holiday Shopping: Amazon tops Black Friday retail web traffic. After 'Black Friday,' industry   [...]
Posted: Monday, November 30th 2009