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Facebook Self Service | Lamborghini Shops PR | iOS/Publishing Non-Fit? | Oracle Goes Social | Yahoo's Axis

Ad Technology: Sense Networks Releases New Predictive Mobile Ad Targeting Services Facebook Premium Ads Get Self-Service Availability  Facebook 'plotting ad-tracking system'  [...]
Posted: Thursday, May 24th 2012

Univision Gives Real-Time Control to Hispanic Advertisers

Univision is launching an online ad network designed to help advertisers better connect with US Hispanics. Called Univision Partner Group, it will encompass its own properties as well as third-party publishers based in the US, Latin America and Spain and will feature "a collection of premium Spanish-language websites and mobile web publishers handpicked by the Univision editors." The network will give companies targeting Hispanic audiences the ability to control their campaigns and monitor th  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, December 2nd 2009

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 10/21/09

Web 2.0 News and Trends: Rumor has it that Google will launch a music initiative called One Box to offer song previews, artist bios, graphics, and video - but no downloads or subscriptions. One Box won't be limited to music, according to CNET's Stephen Shankland. There are several different kin  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, October 21st 2009

LinkedIn Reaches 50 Million Milestone

LinkedIn, the social networking site for business professionals, announced Wednesday that it has reached 50 million users worldwide.  In a post on the company’s blog, LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner said that while it took the social network more than a year to reach one million users after its founding in 2003 - it took only 12 days to attract the last million users to reach this new milesto  [...]
Posted: Friday, October 16th 2009

'Sunday Times' to Become Test Case for Murdoch's Paid Content Plans

Rupert Murdoch plans to use the Sunday Times as a test for his new push to charge for online content, beginning in November. The Sunday Times website is currently combined with sister title the Times, but it will be launched as a stand-alone site in the fall and will begin charging a fee to access content, according to the Guardian. So far, it is unclear whether the s  [...]
Posted: Thursday, August 6th 2009

iRex Approaches E-Reader Market from Corporate Back Doors

iRex, a spin-off from an e-ink research group at Phillips that developed the screen technology used by eBook readers, is positioning itself to contend more readily in the e-reader market, writes the New York Times. Amazon's Kindle and Sony's eReader are still the largest players in the US. But unlike other eReader vendors, which go directly after consum  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, June 24th 2009

Facebook Reaps $200M from Russian Investment Group

This week, Russian investor firm Digital Sky Technologies took a $200 million stake in social network Facebook, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg says will make a solid cash "buffer" amidst a rough economic clime. Zuckerberg declined to estimate a valuation based on the investment figure, arguing the shares are private and thus difficult to quantify, but Facebook's overall value is nonetheless speculated to be about $10 billion -- meaning the $200 million investment reflects a 1.96% stake. In 2007  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, May 27th 2009

Bandwidth-Thirsty Developing World Poses Threat to Web's Bottom Line

Photo-sharing sites, social networks, and video distributors (e.g., Flickr, Facebook, YouTube) are booming in developing nations like Turkey, India, and Brazil - but struggling to turn a profit from online advertising alone. Internet entrepreneurs have always operated under the ideals of uniting everyone in a single online "village" by providing free services to   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, April 28th 2009

Glam Strengthens Foothold in Land of Rising Sun

Vertical content network Glam Media has received an investment from Mizuho Venture Capital, as well as a second round of investment from Germany's Hubert Burda Media -- a company with which it strategically liaised in 2008. In addition to Mizuho, the company's Japanese arm, Glam Media Japan KK, is enjoying infusions from Dentsu and ADK, publishers Shogagukan and Syueisya, and news/pr  [...]
Posted: Monday, April 6th 2009

EU Gets Tough On Privacy

The European Union warns it will intervene to protect users' personal data from abuse, reports Reuters. In a speech that underscores EU's seriousness about protecting user privacy, EU Consumer Affairs Commissioner Meglena Kunevaco will set tougher rules on how Internet users' personal data should   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, March 31st 2009

GSMA to Debut Mobile Measurement Service, Sell Behavioral Data

The Global System for Mobile Association, an industry body composed of major European mobile operators, is preparing to sell behavioral data for ad-targeting purposes. The GSMA includes T-Mobile International, Orange, Vodafone, Telefonica and 3. The coalition will launch a fully-audited mobile measurement service in the second half of 2009 in addition to three working groups -- one for advertisers, publishers and media/ad agencies. The technology was piloted among United Kingdom-based mobi  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, February 18th 2009

SocNets Sign Pact to Protect European Youth

Social networking sites operating in Europe signed a pact on Tuesday, dedicated to tackling the problem of "cyberbullying" and protect the privacy of underage users, reports The Globe and Mail. Hoping to make the internet safer for children, the European Commission (EC) announced that some 17 social networking sites -- including Facebook   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, February 11th 2009

Pope Benedict XVI Gets His Own YouTube Channel

Hoping to convict the hearts of "the digital generation," the Vatican has launched its own YouTube channel. Like respective channels for President Obama, The British Monarchy, and Queen Rania of Jordan, the Vatican YouTube channel features video and audio footage of its avatar's speeches, a  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, January 27th 2009

EU To Microsoft: For the Last Time, Stop Bundling IE With Windows

This week Microsoft suffered a heavy blow when the European Commission (EC) issued an order demanding that it remove its browser from the Windows operating system package. "Microsoft's tying of Internet Explorer to the Windows operating system harms competition between web browsers, undermines product innovation and ultimately reduces consumer choice," the Commissi  [...]
Posted: Friday, January 23rd 2009

YouTube Broadens Click-to-Buy eCommerce Effort

Expanding on a program that enables video viewers to click on ads related to content they're watching, YouTube's "click-to-buy" ad program will now be available in Germany, Spain and the Netherlands. The program launched in October 2008 for the US and United Kingdom. It empowered music labels to capitalize on their content, as well as pirated material, by providing links where users can buy songs  [...]
Posted: Thursday, January 22nd 2009

PC Market Growth Plummets in Q4

Following roughly six years of growth, with the last five averaging 15% increases, worldwide PC shipments fell 0.4% year-on-year in the fourth quarter of 2008 (4Q08), according to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker, reports Retailer Daily. The slowdown was enough for a sequential decline of 2.5% from  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, January 20th 2009

Bartz Addresses Media, YHOO Shafts European Ad Offering

Yesterday Yahoo confirmed plans to discontinue Content Match, a contextual ad product that operates in Europe. Slated to fold in March, Content Match displays contextual advertisements on sites within Yahoo's Publisher Network -- much the way Google AdSense serves ads across the sites of participating publishers. "By focusing our efforts on Sponsored Search and Display Solutions in Europe, we strengthen our commitment to deliver advertisers a high ROI and underline our mission to be an adv  [...]
Posted: Friday, January 16th 2009

WPP Trims Thousands, Ogilvy Already Under the Knife

WPP, which employs more than 100,000 people, plans to cut several thousand jobs worldwide, reports MediaBuyerPlanner. The staff-slimdown will take place where labor costs exceed 60% of revenue, the Guardian said. According to R  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, January 7th 2009

Social Features Beef Up Bebo -- and AOL -- Value Add

This morning AOL launched a revamped version of social network Bebo, replete with social features that suggest relevant content and track the activities of "friends." Heavy Bebo users will now be served recommended content, based on past activity, stated interests and the interests and activities of friends. Recommendations can include videos, music, groups and games. AOL reportedly built its content recommendation engine from the ground up. Capabilities from Socia  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, December 10th 2008

Millions of Visitors Capsize 'Europeana' Digital Library

Last week the European Commission launched Europeana, a digital library of over two million documents, art, video and audio clips chronicling the continent's culture and history. The site, funded in several million euros by 27 nations, went down hours after launch due to "overwhelming interest" -- about 10 million hits per hour, according to site's temporary error page. Europeana includes paintings, maps, videos and newspapers, enti  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, November 25th 2008