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Adap.tv Unveils App Platform To Meld TV, Video Ad Sales

In what it calls a "First-of-its kind offering built for brand advertising," Adap.tv today introduced its new App Center for video advertising, which the compan  [...]

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New Bing Premieres With Special Guest Star: Facebook

“Introducing the New Bing: Spend Less Time Searching, More Time Doing,” Microsoft cheerfully described in its Bing blog yesterday. The company unveiled a major update to the Bing search engine, which it promises will “fundamentally [transform] the way users search the Web, [helping] users act quickly by taking advantage of the Web’s ev  [...]

Streaming Entertainment Skyrockets, Authentication On The Rise

Some compelling evidence for the value of in-stream and preroll marketing. Streaming entertainment is strongly on the rise, according to DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group. As Hollywood Reporter describes, consumer spending on home entertainment rose in Q1 by 2.5% to $4.45 billion—largely due to the strength of streaming video. Subscription streaming rose an est  [...]

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Spotify Pens Global Promotional Deal With Coca-Cola

It is official: Music-streaming service Spotify has signed a strategic partnership with Coca-Cola. Spotify will provide a brand app for the beverage giant inside the Spotify desktop app, alongside brand apps for AT&T, McDonelds, Intel and Reebok. In return, Coca-Cola will feature Spotify as the centerpiece of its "Year of Music" campaign in 2013. The announcement broke on Ad Age, which repo  [...]

Industry Buzz & News: 4/05/10

Ad Targeting: Make friends and boost sales with a content marketing strategy. Ad Technologies & Vendors: YouTube's new look draws mostly cheers. Sharp to   [...]

Marketers Adopt Emerging Channels

More than eight in 10 marketers plan to leverage at least one emerging marketing channel in the next 12 months, according to [pdf] a new study from marketing technology provider Unica. Almost Everyone Uses or Will Use Emerging Channels The internet, combined with broad consumer adoption of mobile, social and rich media technologies, has set in motion a chain reaction in the fragmentation of media and the proliferation of market  [...]

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The Pros and Cons of Crowdsourcing a Marketing Campaign

Crowdsourcing is expected to be one of the top trends for marketers this year, according to the digital experts at Last Exit. The concept certainly resonates with cash strapped companies: tap an online community for ideas on how to advance a brand, or develop a product or, in many cases, both. However as the concept gains traction thanks to success stories - Netflix developed   [...]

Local Search Directories Tap Twitter

IAC’s Citysearch announced a new integration with Twitter that enables local businesses to incorporate their existing Twitter presence - or create a new Twitter account - directly from their Citysearch business profile. The free feature, made available through Twitter’s new Sign-Up API, allows  [...]

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  [...]

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 12/04/09

Ad Campaigns: New Droid ad claims iPhone is clueless. Southwest Airlines tests Facebook video contest. Online Media: Google CEO deflects blame for news media woes. Google   [...]

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 12/03/09

Ad Industry: It's synergy time at Razorfish and Digitas. Social Media: Google experiments with public domain name system (DNS). Google Friend Connect competes with Facebook Connect.  [...]

Charities' Creaky Websites Poised to Rake in $4B

Websites are a growing force in consumers' decisions to donate to non-profit organizations, and charities that use the internet to solicit funds can benefit from making their sites easier to use - and ensuring that donations are properly processed. A recent study by Convio found that charities with an online presence can expect to reap more than $4 billion during this holiday season,   [...]

Marketing Will Drive Content in AOL's Rebrand

Marketing-driven content will figure prominently in AOL's plans to re-establish itself as a premier online channel after Time Warner spins it off next month. The company's chief executive, Tim Armstrong, said that content is the one area on the web that hasn't seen its full potential. He therefore plans to significantly increase the amount of content AOL produces. The company currently employs 3,000 journalists, and that number is growing,   [...]

Zappos 'Overlays' Interactive Video for Nike

Zappos is leveraging its recently announced partnership with Overlay.TV to produce interactive video ads for Nike products on its retail website. Though Zappos has hopes to deploy the technology across its entire site, Nike shoppers are the first to enjoy the benefits of the clickable videos, which are fully integrated with the site's   [...]

Nook, Other Efforts Reward Barnes & Noble Online

As a result of a number of innovative strategies that Barnes & Noble has put in place, the book retailer's online sales have jumped 9% during Q2 fiscal 2010, from roughly $110 million last year to $120 million. Most significantly, B&N is taking orders for the Nook, its new wireless e-reader. Nook gives customers 3G wireless access to AT&T’s mobile broadband network and Barnes & Noble in-store WiFi at no additional cost. In addition, Nook features a color touchscreen with EInk display, digit  [...]

PR Firms Build New Tools for Social Monitoring, Metrics

While public relations practitioners have long been in the business of tracking media coverage for their clients, a growing number of firms are beefing up their digital media monitoring and measurement capabilities and developing new and innovative tools that bring together both traditional and social media content under one umbrella. The latest example of such an effort was announced earlier this month by Omnicom's Fleishman-Hillard, Inc., which  [...]

Firms Poised to Pounce on Paid News

Though the majority of online news can still be accessed for free, a new crop of companies is springing up and preparing for the day when readers will have to pay for online content. Though pay-for-access may seem far off in a world where most news can still be found gratis, the experiment to migrate to paid content - pushed most famously by News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch - is clearly under way.   [...]

New Apps Disable Texting while Driving

New applications and tech products are hitting the market that prevent teens - as well as adults - from distracted driving, and are being designed to disable the texting function of a cellphone while a car is in motion. Texting while driving has been identified in many high-profile studies as a leading cause of accidents and one that is equal in danger to driving while intoxicated. Increasingly,  [...]