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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   [...]

Industry Buzz & Snippets 11/12/09

Online Ad Spending: IDC: worldwide online ad spending drops slightly in Q3. Online Ad Strategies: IAB, Bain offer roadmap for online publishers. Warner Music   [...]

Amazon Explores PPC Model on Product Pages

Amazon.com debuted an affiliate advertising feature called Product Ads on Amazon, which enables e-commerce sites to promote their own wares on Amazon's product pages. Ads can consist of both a price and product image. "Amazon will display your ads in highly targeted placements," -- including positions beside the shopping cart button, according to the program description.   [...]

Ad Rates Lower from '07 to '08 -- but Stabilize Between Last Two Quarters

Ad optimization firm PubMatic released its AdPrice Index for Q4 2008, a quarterly industry-wide measure of online ad network rates for publishers. According to the AdPrice Index, 4Q08 reflected a sizable decline in online display ad pricing, compared to the same period in '07, across all verticals, no matter what the website's size. (In Q3, PubMatic pegged a   [...]

With Oodle's Help, Facebook Moves in on craigslist Turf

Online classifieds ad vendor Oodle is taking the reins on Facebooks's "Marketplace" application, according to Oodle CEO Craig Donato. Donato feels Facebook users and advertisers will benefit from Oodle's capacity to serve as a "weirdo filter" -- that is, to stalwartly protect both sides from having to deal with unsavory advertisers or content providers. Oodle will also use Mar  [...]

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In 2009, Hulu Ad Spend to Nip YouTube's Heels

In terms of ad revenue in '09, one-year-old Hulu might give YouTube a run for its money, MediaBuyerPlanner reports. Unlike the older video site, Hulu streams primarily professional content, including network TV shows, clips and films. If its ad revenue manages to surpass that of YouTube's, it could  [...]

One Billion Tweets Strong, Twitter Contemplates Charging for Use

Microblogging service Twitter may be brewing a pay-to-Tweet model for businesses using it to promote wares or connect with consumers. Twitter enables users to publish "microblogs" of up to 140 characters apiece. Last month it ranked among the fastest-growing social networks -- racking up 343% growth year over year. It received between $1 million and $5 million in VC funding   [...]

Video Ads (Finally!) Invade Facebook

Facebook now offers video ads on the right-hand side of its homepage, reports All Facebook. Users can leave comments directly beneath them and see what friends have said. Like standard comments and wall messages, reactions to video ads will appear on Facebook news feeds. The addition of video ads, coupled with user feedback, puts Facebook in a position to contend with   [...]

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Effectiveness of TV Advertising Backslides in Two Years

Most marketers say television advertising has become less effective in the past two years, but many are interested in exploring new ad formats and forms of video commercials, according to the Association of National Advertisers and Forrester Research, MarketingCharts writes. Among the major   [...]

Industry Buzz and Snippets: 11/27/07

To avoid a previously planned countersuit, Japanese ad firm Dentsu may opt to seek dismissal of a scandal-ridden lawsuit involving illicit behavior amongst a few of its Stateside executives. Making good on early speculative reports, Cl  [...]

Size Matters: Major UK Mags, 'Other' Media to Compare Figures

Audiences for print, online and events will be listed together for what is allegedly the first time ever in this week's Audit Bureau of Circulations release. The Guardian reports that the average circulation of magazines proffered by the BBC and IPC Media will be featured alongside audience figures for other platforms, which common practice among newspaper publishers but unheard-of in th  [...]

Magazines Not Only Sell Ads -- They're Creative Too

An unexpected force has lifted a challenge to creative agencies: the publishing world. Condé Nast and Meredith have arranged their ad sales units so that they're not only selling ad pages, they're building the content and marketing as well, reports The International Herald Tribune. Condé Nast Media Group operates like an ad agency. It has sweepstakes, TV specials, radio and, of course,   [...]

aQuantive Acquisition Makes Microsoft Buyer & Seller

The acquisition of aQuantive will give Microsoft a boost in metrics and prepare them for the future of advertising, according to Martin Laetsch, senior director of search strategy at SEMDirector, in an email correspondence. Laetsch calls Microsoft's acquisition a reaction to the Google/Doubleclick deal, and the reason they didn't   [...]

Brands Create Own Shows - Cheaper than TV Ads

To solve the problem of TV viewers' not liking ad interruptions, some brands are creating their own shows, reports USA Today. Gillette, for one, is producing an ABC prime-time reality series starring a group of NASCAR drivers dubbed the "Young Guns," who are featured in its TV ads and online. Gillette is a NASCAR sponsor for each driver and his race team. An MTV special produ  [...]

'The Week' Publishes Online-Only Extra, Lexus Sponsors

Dennis Publishing's The Week will produce a bonus issue focusing on environmental issues,but will not be distributing it in print form. The extra issue, due out April 20, will be online only. It's the first time The Week will have published a themed issue - and its first time publishing an issue solely online, writes the New York Times (  [...]

NeoEdge Releases RSS-Powered Game Player Targeting Women

Targeting women over 20, casual game destination NeoEdge has launched a downloadable game player titled Most Fun, reports ClickZ. Investing in content, game developers publishing for the player will receive a 50 percent revenue split on the ad-supported titles. The game is delivered via an RSS feed  [...]

In-Game Advertising to Reach $1.2B in 3 Years

in-game advertising will be worth $1.2 billion in three years, Ed Bartlett, VP of publishing for in-game advertiser IGA Worldwide, told SPOnG (via Adverlab). Bartlett said that two or three years ago, the in-game ad spend was dramatically under-represented in relation to its share of media usage: "Ba  [...]

Product Placements in Video Get Interactive

Imagine watching a James Bond flick online - and being able to click on 007's watch, his car or his cell phone and purchasing them on the spot. Offering clickable links inside video is what vendor VideoClix wants to make possible with the latest version of its VideoClix 3.0 software, reports ClickZ. Slated for release next week, it will also allow metrics tracking. The vendor bills .01 cents per click i  [...]

Banner Ads Come to Verizon Mobile Phones

With mobile advertising poised to surge in 2007, Verizon wireless - a brand among the nation's most advertised - intends to seize the opportunity and itself become an ad medium. Banner ads will begin appearing on news, weather, sports and other websites that users visit via their Verizon mobile phones, reports the New York Times. Verizon officials say they are b  [...]

Bid4Spots Signs 200 Internet Radio Stations in First Month

Bid4Spots has signed 200 internet radio stations within the first month of announcing its reverse auction to facilitate buying and selling advertising for independent online radio, reports MediaBuyerPlanner. The company's goal is to have 2,000 stations by the end of Q1 2007. Bid4Spots, which also operates a reverse auction marketplace for terrestrial radio, is inviting i  [...]