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Microsoft's Xbox LIVE Beats iPad In Video Viewing, And Has Ad Platform

Sure, you can watch digital TV on your iPad, but suppose you want to watch it in your living room? It seems that the xBox gaming console is the most popular non-computer device to watch streaming video, edging out the Apple iPad by 28.2% to 27.1%. Advantage, Microsoft, which owns the Xbox LIVE digital media delivery service. AllThingsD’s Peter Kafka describ  [...]

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  [...]

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  [...]

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  [...]

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   [...]

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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  [...]

The Golden Road (to Unlimited Branding)

While 1960s countercultural jam band pioneers The Grateful Dead do not have an image associated with the traditional business world, they do have much to teach marketers, writes Copyblogger.  [...]

Inbound Marketing Costs Less

Marketers who spend more than 50% of their lead generation budget on inbound marketing channels report a significantly lower cost per sales lead than those who spend 50% or more their budgets on outbound marketing channels, according to the "State of Inbound Marketing Report" [pdf] from internet marketing firm Hubspot. Average Cost Pe  [...]

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Industry Buzz & Snippets: 12/23/09

Trends: Ad Network CEO: celeb deaths of 2009 benefited some marketers. Search: The science of managing search ads. Google unveils new tools for display advertisers on Content Networ  [...]

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 12/11/09

Ad Campaigns: Sony taps YouTube phenom to remix TV ads. KISS shows beer can be sold at web concerts too. Analytics: Majority of online retailers not confident w  [...]

WOM Stars in Hollywood; Plays Leading Roles Elsewhere

Movie studios and music houses are tapping social media not only to generate digital word-of-mouth (WOM) appeal - a strategy first deployed to great success with the Blair Witch Project more than 10 years ago - but also to listen to fans' judgments of film and music and make decisions based on them.  Though Hollywood has always intuitively understood the power of WOM marketing, such buzz usually paled in comparison to the publicity generated by mammoth-sized advertising a  [...]

Social Media Drives Increased Email Use

Despite an initial hypothesis that increased time on social networks might be taking Americans away from their email, a Nielsen Company analysis found that the heaviest social media users actually use email more, perhaps because of the steady stream of messages that social networks dump into participants' inboxes. For the informal r  [...]

Technorati to Reposition as Blogger Rival

Technorati, at one time the go-to place to locate popular blogs by topic, is planning a strategy that will pit it against the industry it once attempted to organize and aid. The company is now in the process of hiring writers with the objective of creating its own content site, according to TheNextWeb, which published a letter discreetly sent to bloggers last week: Become a Techn  [...]

ABC Turns Print Ads into Online Video Platforms

In an effort to draw more viewership to thriller FlashForward, ABC has begun incorporating codes into print ads promoting the show. When held up to a webcam, the codes deploy a 3-D ad for FlashForward on computer screens, including photos from the show. Each photo turns into extended episode clips when clicked on. "It appears to play right out of the ad," explained VP-Advertising/Marketing Darren Schillace of ABC Entertainment (  [...]

Talbots Restyles Online Customer Experience

Specialty women's apparel retailer The Talbots, Inc. is relaunching its e-commerce site with new functionality, features and personalization. The updates are designed to align its online shopping experience with in-store product offerings and catalog customer service, Retailer Daily reports  [...]

1-800-Flowers Pings Facebook for eCommerce

1-800-Flowers.com has enabled registered fans of its Facebook page to order floral arrangements right on Facebook. Customers can shop 1-800-Flowers.com and execute transactions without leaving Facebook. Using technology from online ad network Alvenda, the site also lets users gain access to an online product assortment by clicking on a "shop" button. They can browse items, place them in a cart, select a delivery date, and send. Planned upgrades include birthday calendars and group gifting  [...]

Silverman Quits NBC, Joins Diller on Ambitious Production Venture

Ben Silverman is leaving his post as NBC Entertainment co-chairman come September, and will join Barry Diller of InterActive Corp. (IAC), parent company of Ask.com, to form a multi-platform production company. Marc Graboff, also co-chairman, will continue as chairman of NBC Entertainment and Universal Media Studios. He will report to Jeff Gaspin, former head of NBC cable unit and now-chairman of NBC Universal Television Entertainment,   [...]

EyeWonder Helps Fox, GE Pontwificate with Users

To promote Season One of "Dollhouse," out on DVD and Blu-ray on July 28, Fox Home Entertainment launched a rich media ad that streams Twitter tweets and enables users to engage in conversation through the ad itself. The unit was developed with help from EyeWonder and Moxie. It showcases tweets from the feed of Eliza Dushku, star of "Dollhouse," and encourages users to jump in by logging in with existing Twitter accounts. Submissions are manually screened, after which tweets are permitted t  [...]

Veodia Snaps Up Screen Capture Startup

Enterprise video firm Veodia has purchased ScreenToaster, a web-based screen recording platform vendor based in Paris, France. ScreenToaster enables users to record the contents of their screens, then share and stream those videos in Flash format. The content can be embedded onto sites or sent via email. It launched in private beta eight months ago; the founders say it has enjoyed 40% month-to-month average user grow  [...]

LocaModa Weds iPhones to Times Square Spectacolor Board

Word game Jumbli, which connects audiences with thousands of place-based screens, including Clear Channel's Spectacolor Jumbotron in Times Square, can now be played via iPhones. The game, from LocaModa, has users build words from a screen of floating letters. Jumbli is displayed several times per hour on the Spectacolor screen; when Jumbli is live in Times Square, all plays made during that period are displayed in real-time,   [...]