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To narrow down your selection of articles, click on the "AND" or "NOT" next to any of the categories below. Say you’re currently browsing entries in category "A", you can then drill down into entries that belong both to category A and another category, or belong to category A but not another category. For instance, you could list entries about demographics in the automotive sector, or entries about email marketing that are not about spam. Numbers in the columns below indicate how many entries the selected operation will narrow your query to. You can combine multiple intersection and exclusion criteria to further limit the number of entries.
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| » ad pricing | 5 | 341 |
| » ad selling | 28 | 318 |
| » ad targeting | 95 | 251 |
| » ad technologies & vendors | 78 | 268 |
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| » best practices | 29 | 317 |
| » biz buzz | 226 | 120 |
| » branding | 89 | 257 |
| » broadband | 8 | 338 |
| » campaigns & creatives of note | 38 | 308 |
| » case studies | 3 | 343 |
| » co-op marketing & partnerships | 63 | 283 |
| » computers & tech | 10 | 336 |
| » consumer packaged goods | 7 | 339 |
| » CRM | 1 | 345 |
| » cross media | 20 | 326 |
| » demographics | 19 | 327 |
| » direct marketing | 4 | 342 |
| » don't believe the hype | 20 | 326 |
| » e-commerce | 56 | 290 |
| » email marketing | 3 | 343 |
| » entertainment | 85 | 261 |
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| » events | 1 | 345 |
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| » global | 4 | 342 |
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| » How-to | 1 | 345 |
| » I-PR & business communications | 6 | 340 |
| » instant messaging marketing | 6 | 340 |
| » intrusive formats | 15 | 331 |
| » legal, government & regulation | 43 | 303 |
| » loyalty & retention | 40 | 306 |
| » major account moves | 33 | 313 |
| » major brands | 294 | 52 |
| » measurement & analytics | 10 | 336 |
| » media convergence | 65 | 281 |
| » mobile marketing | 18 | 328 |
| » multi-channel marketing | 5 | 341 |
| » new and improved | 28 | 318 |
| » nonsense & parodies | 3 | 343 |
| » online ad market | 243 | 103 |
| » people | 34 | 312 |
| » personalization | 12 | 334 |
| » political parties & organizations | 8 | 338 |
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| » promotions | 5 | 341 |
| » publishing | 73 | 273 |
| » real estate | 1 | 345 |
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| » Segmentation & Markets | 1 | 345 |
| » seniors | 1 | 345 |
| » sex sells | 1 | 345 |
| » signs of doom | 23 | 323 |
| » signs of recovery | 4 | 342 |
| » signs of what's to come | 166 | 180 |
| » small business | 4 | 342 |
| » spam & anti-spam | 6 | 340 |
| » syndication & RSS | 39 | 307 |
| » technical innovation | 3 | 343 |
| » telecom | 5 | 341 |
| » text ads | 63 | 283 |
| » tools & software | 21 | 325 |
| » top stories | 13 | 333 |
| » travel | 2 | 344 |
| » user experience | 91 | 255 |
| » viral marketing & social media | 38 | 308 |
| » weblog marketing | 25 | 321 |
| » women | 9 | 337 |
| » worst practices | 27 | 319 |
| » Youth | 25 | 321 |
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Posted: Thursday, December 3rd 2009
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Twitter Lets Users Build Playlists of Followers
Twitter is testing a new feature called Lists among a handful of users.
Much like desktop app Tweetdeck, Lists enables users to create lists of Twitter accounts, grouped by interest. "For example, you could create a list of the funniest Twitter accounts of all time, athletes, local businesses, friends, or any compilation that makes sense," wrote Nick Kallen, product lead.
Lists can be either public or private. Other T [...]
Posted: Thursday, October 1st 2009
GOOG Hopes Fast Flip Opens Profit to Publishers
This week Google Labs launched Fast Flip, a news/story search engine that provides results as screenshots of relevant articles.
The idea behind Fast Flip is to enable users to visually "flip" through the information they most want to read. Headlines and popular topics are easy to spot.
Fast Flip is also "smart," meaning it tailors itself to a user based on the selections s/he makes, making it a melange of "fast browsing, natural magazine-style [...]
Posted: Wednesday, September 16th 2009
Bamboozled By Fake Ad, NYTimes.com Suffers Malware Attack
Over the weekend, The New York Times Co.'s site, NYTimes.com, was victimized by what appeared to be a legitimate advertiser -- whose ads suddenly attacked site visitors with aggressive adverts that appeared to be virus warnings, the Times reports.
"The culprit masqueraded as a national advertiser and provided seemingly legitimate product advertising for a week. Over the wee [...]
Posted: Tuesday, September 15th 2009
Yahoo Drops $150M Worth of Alibaba Shares
Yahoo is preparing to sell 57.48 million shares of Alibaba.com, China's largest B2B marketplace. The sale will raise about $150 million -- the full 1.14% stake it purchased four years ago.
When Yahoo made the purchase, Alibaba took charge of Yahoo China. The department recently restructured, during which much-used classifieds service Koubei was transitioned to Taobao.com.
In part because of this, tension has begun to rise between Yahoo and Alibaba, [...]
Posted: Monday, September 14th 2009
YouTube Video Reviews Join Google Product Search
Google is incorporating user-created YouTube reviews onto releated results pages in Google Product Search.
"Videos include reviews from sources like USA Today, Wired, and Digital Trends, and they appear above the 'Similar Items' section of the page," the company explained. One example of how reviews have been incorporated is in [...]
Posted: Thursday, September 10th 2009
YouTube to Launch Movie Rental Service
Google is reportedly preparing a movie rental service for YouTube, the Wall Street Journal reports.
The service -- which would compete with online rental firms like Apple, Amazon and Netflix -- is pending closed testing among 10,000 employees. The pilot shall last three months and is currently awaiting the completion of negotiations with Warner Bros., Sony Corp. and Lions Gate Entertainment before kick-off.
Rentals will [...]
Posted: Wednesday, September 9th 2009
Tuesday Tops for Brands on Facebook
Data from social media services vendor ViTrue says Tuesdays are the day in which click-through rates are highest on content posted on Facebook-based brand pages: 9.89%.
Brand pages are like human profiles, except for companies. They typically aggregate news about the brand in question. Users can become "fans" of ones for which they feel an affinity, and receive updates from them on their news feeds.
Click-throughs for Fac [...]
Posted: Wednesday, September 9th 2009
Google Books Massages European Publishers' Concerns
Yesterday Google decided to make public concessions to publishers outside the US, part of an effort to ease concerns over its Google Books project.
In October 2008, Google was granted temporary approval for a settlement that enables it scan non-copyright-protected books -- including those whose copyrights have elapsed -- and put them online. Final approval of the settlement was delayed for a fairness hearing, scheduled this October 7th.
Meanwhile, companies that include Microsoft, Yahoo an [...]
Posted: Tuesday, September 8th 2009
Bing & Ping Connects Search to Socnets; Windows Live Ominously Omitted
Microsoft is now inviting Facebook fans to test a new program called Bing & Ping, which enables them to share their Bing search results with friends on various social networks, as well as email.
Results include restaurant recommendations, local movie times, flight statuses and other means by which data has been terraced.
"Say you use Bing's Instant Answers feature to check the score of the game, and you notice that your buddy's favorite team has just been beaten pretty handily," surmised N [...]
Posted: Friday, September 4th 2009
Facebook, Nokia Partner for Mobile/Socnet 'Lifecasting'
Nokia is partnering with Facebook to launch a "lifecasting" feature that weds both the socnet and the mobile vendor's handsets.
The service would enable users to post locations and status updates from their phones to their Facebooks. It debuts in October on Nokia's touchscreen N97 mini, a handset particularly suited to the liaison because its home screen was created especially for application personalization via Ovi Store, the Nokia equivalent of Apple's App Store.
Nokia added that the Lif [...]
Posted: Thursday, September 3rd 2009
Yahoo Preps English Version of Microblogging Service
An English-language version of Yahoo Meme, Yahoo's Twitter-inspired microblogging platform, is in the works.
The service launched in Portuguese in early '09, followed by a Spanish version last month. Now, when users in the US visit meme.yahoo.com, they are brought to a homepage in English, with the option to enter their emails for an invitation to the program.
Like a cross between Twitter and blog/cura [...]
Posted: Wednesday, September 2nd 2009
Facebook Invites Charities into Experimental Gift Shop
At the Social Good Conference on Friday, marketing/outreach director Randi Zuckerberg announced Facebook would be opening its new "credits" platform to four non-profits: Project Red, Toms Shoes, Kiva and the Wold Wildlife Fund.
The non-profits add to the four online gift and greeting companies that were invited to try the platform last week: American Greetings Interactive, GreetBeatz, Someecards and Real Gifts.
"We are exploring ways for developers to use the Gift Shop to offer...virtual, [...]
Posted: Monday, August 31st 2009
Bing Tosses Wrench into SEO Game
In about a year, Microsoft will fulfill a planned integration to power Yahoo's search results with the snappy new Bing. The move shall effectively consolidate 28% of the US search market, giving both companies a platform -- albeit a modest one -- upon which to seriously battle Google.
As this integration [...]
Posted: Monday, August 31st 2009
Tribune Co. Offers Localized Network of 70+ Blogs to Advertisers
Tribune Co.'s Tribune Media Group has created a blog network of about 70 local blogs on Chicago-area interests, anchored by the Chicago Tribune, reports MediaBuyerPlanner.
The network, ChicagoNow.com, is the first in a series of blog networks the Tribune Media Group hopes will increase its online footprint and expand market share in Chicago.
The Tribune Co.'s plans f [...]
Posted: Wednesday, August 26th 2009
Dell, Moonfruit Claim Twitter Campaigns Effective
At a Twitter for Brands event hosted by New Media Age in London on Friday, Dell representatives said they have seen tangible uplifts in sales which can be directly attributed to marketing on Twitter. The brand's Twitter account has driven $3 million in sales since it began operation in 2007.
Moonfruit, a website builder, also said Twitter campaigns have helped the brand. Moonfruit said it spent around 10,000 pounds ($16,400) on prizes for the campaign [...]
Posted: Tuesday, August 25th 2009
Twitter to Add Latitude/Longitude Data to Tweets
Twitter is preparing to add an additional detail to each and every tweet published by its users: location, according to co-founder Biz Stone on the Twitter Blog.
"A new API will allow developers to add latitude and longitude to any tweet," wrote Stone, adding that with "accurate, tweet-level data" you can immediately toggle to the tweets from users in your neighborhood or city -- even if you do not follow them. It w [...]
Posted: Friday, August 21st 2009
MySpace Snaps Up iLike Music Sharing Service
Adding credence to a week's worth of rumors and hearsay, social network MySpace has purchased iLike, a music application that lets users recommend songs and share playlists on their social networks of choice.
iLike is among a handful of brands that managed to build a viable business atop open platforms proffered by traffic-rich sites like Facebook. In July the site served 2.9 million unique visitors in the US, 59.2 [...]
Posted: Thursday, August 20th 2009