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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  [...]

Research: Mobile Nets "Teeming With Streaming" From Ad-Friendly Providers

Mobile networks are “teeming with streaming,” finds Sandvine, the provider of broadband network solutions for fixed and mobile operators. Sandvine has released its Internet traffic trends report “Global Internet Phenomena Report 1H2012,” based on data from a selection of Sandvine’s 200-plus customers spanning North America, Europe, Middle East and Africa, Caribbean and Latin America and Asia-Pacific. The news is good for  [...]

Tech News: Google Instant for mobile | Nielsen undercounts web traffic | Hulu Plus exits closed beta | 300,000 Apple apps?

Search: Google introduces Google Instant for mobile. How one company games Google News. Social Media: Google To Facebook: You can't import our user data without reciprocity  [...]

Tweets Predict Oscar Upset

Twitter community conversations predict “The Hurt Locker” will upset the mega-blockbuster “Avatar” for Best Picture at this year’s Oscar awards, according to communications agency Waggener Edstrom Worldwide. ‘The Hurt Locker’ Edges Out ‘Avatar’ Based on analysis of tweets by the WE twendz pro service, most Twitter dialogue about the Oscars has centered on “The Hurt Locker” and “Avatar.” (  [...]

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 01/13/10

Campaigns: Coors deploys handheld game to bars for Super Bowl build up. Search: Google threatens to pull out of China, citing censorship, hack attacks. AdWords' policy adjustment for display   [...]

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Industry Buzz & Snippets: 12/30/09

Industry: Four ways technology will change advertising in 2010. Virtual Goods: Virtual goods give web firms new revenue in ad slump. Campaigns: NHL goes  [...]

New SocNet Tools Seek Missing Revenue Link

CMOs are seeking better ways to link social media advertising and investments with related revenues. Some companies, most notably Procter & Gamble in the UK, have begun experimenting with "pay for engagement" strategies. In September, the company decided to pay publishers when a consumer downloads a game or otherwise indicates he or she has interacted with the site instead basing compensation merely on site visits or number of eyeballs. (  [...]

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 12/07/09

Measurement: IMMI issues new cross-platform metrics, mobile on rise. Search: Google promotes place pages in shop windows. Yahoo a  [...]

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Industry Buzz & Snippets: 12/02/09

Online Media: Google offers publishers limit on free news access. New AOL gambit could undermine premium content goals. Ad Metrics: Under threat, Nielsen accelerates plan to measure online video. Ad Indu  [...]

Video Games Rev Up Holiday-Season Ads, Promos

The video-game industry is ramping up its holiday-season promotional activity and ad spending for popular game titles in hopes that a Q409 consumer spending spree will help defray a year-long sales decline. These efforts were notable on Black Friday and Cyber Monday, according to the Wall Street Journal, which reported that Best Buy, for example, is selling Electronics Arts' Dragon   [...]

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 10/23/09

Web 2.0 Trends: Amazon: Earnings are up; Kindle is best seller. It's official – Facebook is king of the social networking scene: MySpace has conceded defeat in contest to become the largest online social network. Dailymotion, Europe’s biggest online video challenger to YouTube  [...]

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 10/22/09

Web 2.0 Trends: Internet advertising is just about the only bright spot in Q3 reports of two major newspaper publishers, Gannett Co. and McClatchy Co. The New York Times sets 7 digital priorities. Th  [...]

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  [...]

GOOG (and Copyright Holders) Make Good with YouTube's Content ID

Through Content ID, a service that protects copyright holders, enables them to profit from music appropriated by users, and lets them track user sentiment (via YouTube Insights), Google has found a way to monetize video socnet YouTube. In general, Content ID enables companies, such as music labels, to track unofficial uses of their content, then decide whether to forbid that use (by stripping a video if its music, for example) or monetize it by adding music-purchasing buttons alongside the co  [...]

Content Trumps Community, Communications Online

In research that appears to reinforce the adage that "content is king," the most recent data from the Online Publishers Association's (OPA) Internet Activity Index (IAI) reveal that consumers are now spending more time online with content than they do with either community or communications activities.   The latest figures come from a six-year analy  [...]

Football Fans Rush August's Top Sites

Enthusiastic football fans, back-to-school bargain hunters and newshounds on the beat were responsible for increases in visits to the top-gaining websites in August 2009, according to Compete.com, which provided a snapshot from the its monthly ranking of the top 250 trafficked web sites.  Top Sites Google, Yahoo, Facebook,  YouTube and MSN.  [...]

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  [...]

Google Analytics Tracks Fresh YouTube Viewer Data

Through YouTube's Insight analytics offering (via Google Analytics), users can now keep track of new data on how their videos are faring. Previously-unavailable information includes bounce rates, length of visit, page views, and return visits. "For those who want to tailor their videos to a specific audience, Google Analytics also provides info about where viewers are located geographically and what languages they speak," the YouTube Biz Blog   [...]

Mobile Web Poised for Fast Growth

Up to 71% of consumers in the US and 41% in parts of Western Europe anticipate that they will use the mobile internet and other mobile data services on a daily basis over the next two years - with a significant ramp-up in the next 12 months, according to a survey from Tellabs, writes Marke  [...]

News of Facebook's User Base Greatly Exaggerated

Facebook claims it currently has 175 million users, but many suspect that the real number is much more than that, reports TechCrunch. In a recent video, Facebook developer Wei Zhu seems unsure how many users he is allowed to say Facebook has. He is heard saying that they currently have between 2  [...]