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Yahoo Rushes To Market With Axis

Yahoo! announced its Axis browser yesterday, and promises a "new experience that re-imagines" the web browsing experience. At first glance, it appears to do that, and the company admits to putting the user experience ahead of ad revenue or the marketer experience.   [...]

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  [...]

HubSpot Launches App Version of Marketing Grader Tool

All-in-one marketing software company HubSpot has launched a dashboard web app based on its popular Marketing Grader tool. The idea is to "quickly answers marketer's burning questions at a glance," said the company in a statement. Did growth of inbound links take a nosedive? Does the competition suddenly have a lot more indexed pages? Has the last three months of marketing effort improved effectiveness? Are competitors accruing more Facebook fans faster  [...]

Google Updates/Re-Launches "Our Mobile Planet" Consumer Data Source

Google yesterday, along with the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA), announced an update/relaunch of "Our Mobile Planet," the mobile consumer data resource that provides free access to powerful data across 40 countries in 22 languages. "Understanding the mobile consumer is absolutely critical for marketers, and 'Our Mobile Planet puts an invaluable resource in their hands," said Greg Stuart, Global CEO of the MMA. "Users can cr  [...]

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  [...]

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The New Yellow Pages: "Local is Where We Play/Shop/Live"

The quaint old Yellow Pages have evolved into YP.com, and what may be North America’s largest local search, media and advertising company. YP Holdings LLC (“YP”) combines the assets of AT&T Advertising Solutions and AT&T Interactive. YP Holdings launched yesterday with the closing of a 53% controlling interest in the company by Cerberus Capital Management, L.P. (“Cerberus  [...]

Google, DudaMobile Offer A Five-Minute Web-To-Mobile Site Conversion

It has been a little over a month since Google partnered with DudaMobile, the do-it-yourself mobile website builder. The partners are offering a quick “test drive” to see what a converted website looks like in a mobile format, with a rating (1 to 5) of mobile friendliness. The companies on April 5th announced a joint effort to expand GoMo, a Google-led initiative to help businesses “Go Mobile.”   [...]

comScore Releases Mobile Metrix 2.0, Proves Utility With Initial Findings

comScore has announced the U.S. launch of Mobile Metrix 2.0, its next generation mobile behavioral measurement service. To prove Mobile Metrix 2.0’s utility, comScore released some first-round findings. Among them, 82% of time spent with mobile media happens via apps. Mobile Metrix 2.0 brings comScore’s Unified Digital Measurement to smartphone devi  [...]

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Engage:BDR Claims to Fill A Void with Self-Serve RTB Display Platform

Digital advertising and marketing agency engage:BDR has launched its self-service real-time bidding (RTB) display platform, First Impression. The company claims First Impression is the “first platform to provide customers with direct access to publishers' inventory in addition to engage:BDR's exchange traffic,” which enables media buyers with full control to maximize the value of an impression and increase ROI. This fills a much-needed void, claims engage:BDR. Brands and agenci  [...]

Weather Channel at 30: A Local Ad Champ

The Weather Channel companies (TWCC) turned 30 yesterday, having first broadcast on cable on May 2, 1982. Since then it has gone online and mobile, and with a strategic relaunch (exclusively sponsored by Anheuser-Busch's Bud Light Lime), 95% of weather.com's 1 billion monthly page views now have a new look. The online properties are more personalized, “to help consumers better forecast and plan their lives” with a   [...]

InMobi Launches Privacy-Friendly, No-Cost Mobile Conversion Tracking

InMobi, the independent mobile advertising network, has announced the launch of its free-to-integrate-and-use mobile conversion tracking platform, InMobi Ad Tracker. The platform is designed to allow advertisers and agencies to track any post-click mobile conversion (app downloads, lead generations, sales, or other events) across all mobile marketing channels (both, ad networks and mobile publishers) through a single platform. The solu  [...]

Microsoft Announces adCenter Usability, Importing Upgrades

Microsoft on late Friday released an update of its adCenter, and ran down the improvements. Desktop Import Enhancements: Desktop import capabilities have been enhanced, which Microsoft claims “[makes] it even easier and faster for users to import your campaign data via source files (e.g. Mic  [...]

New App Pricing Models May Emerge Under 4G

The newly released updated iPad from Apple has made clear to consumers just how quickly data can be consumed on a 4G network. Reports are emerging about consumers who steamed through their plan's capacity within days. The problem, as one such account in the Wall Street Journal explained, is not solved merely by cutting back on video consu  [...]

Closing Bell: Android grabs new smartphone buyers | More heat for Apple | Microsoft CRM

Mobile Computing: Android nabbing more than half of new smartphone buyers. Super Bowl: Samsung SuperBowl misses gigantic opportunity, fails socially. Business News:   [...]

Top News: CES Highlights | Medialets platform | Fragmented Android

CES Highlights: The Next Big Thing: Android in the home, and in the fridge. Razer's 'Project Fiona' gaming tablet concept is awesome. Hope to see the next iPad at CES? You   [...]

Experts, Public Split on Web 3.0

Technology experts and the general public are both split on the likelihood of the semantic web, or 'web 3.0,' becoming a reality by 2020, according to a study from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center. The semantic web is an internet concept that would allow software agents to carry out sophisticated tasks for users, making meaningful connection  [...]

DOOH Signs Get Smarter under Intel, Microsoft

Intel Corp. and Microsoft Corp. are envisioning a new generation of so-called smart signs that can recognize the age, gender and height of people in front of them. These digital signs could also serve as on-the-spot providers of raw analytics, conveying back to retailers what products and images have received the most attention on the store floor (via the Wall Street Journal).   [...]

Newly Funded VigLink Promises Boost for Affiliates

VigLink is getting set to launch new technology that promises to help web publishers better monetize hyperlinks that connect to affiliate marketers. The company has just closed on seed funding from First Round Capital, Google Ventures and other sources - thus positioning the start-up to deliver a generally available version of its curr  [...]

Google, Others Build New Connections Between Online Ads, Leads

Companies are finding there are more options to connect to, and track the leads that arise from their online ads as Google along with other companies continue to refine their offerings and approaches. Click-to-Call Recently Google has been testing the inclusion of click-to-call phone numbers in search ads on high-end mobile phones, according to Search Engine L  [...]

Retailers Invest in Search Tech

In growing numbers, retailers are upgrading their website's search functionality to make it easier for customers to find specific products or sizes. The enhancements are long in coming for the retail industry, which has treated search as a second tier function, providing only rudimentary functionality - a fact that Google highlighted when it rolled out Google Commerce Search, a $50,000 search engine for   [...]