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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  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, May 16th 2012

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  [...]
Posted: Friday, May 11th 2012

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  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, May 8th 2012

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   [...]
Posted: Thursday, May 3rd 2012

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  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, March 21st 2012

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:   [...]
Posted: Monday, February 6th 2012

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   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, January 11th 2012

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  [...]
Posted: Friday, May 14th 2010

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  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, January 12th 2010

Discount Site Groupon Goes Hyper Local

Groupon, a site that offers deep discounts for local services such as restaurants, auto detailing, spas and holistic healing, is refining its segmentation even further: in some markets, such as Washington, DC, it has begun offering hyper local discounts. Instead of a coupon served up to the entire region of Northern Virginia, the District and southern Maryland, viewers can ask to see only, say, coupons from southern Maryland. Launched in November 2008 in  [...]
Posted: Monday, January 4th 2010

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   [...]
Posted: Monday, December 14th 2009

Even Human Resources Wants Twitter

Google is incorporating Tweets into the search results of its Google Search Appliance - a server-based offering that is deployed behind a corporate firewall. This move is a nod to the huge demand that internal corporate divisions, such as human resources, R&D and even finance, have for these 140-character messages. This news   [...]
Posted: Friday, December 11th 2009

Linked Landing Pages Deliver Bigger Benefits

Tying an online ad or piece of email marketing directly to a customized landing page that acknowledges the communication and has a specific call to action can improve lift by 40% and is a necessity for marketers, according to a survey by CrownPeak. However, the survey also shows that a majority of marketers still do not take the basic st  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, December 1st 2009

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 11/30/09

Ad Industry: Ad industry produces ads and logos in response to pending privacy legislation. Holiday Shopping: Amazon tops Black Friday retail web traffic. After 'Black Friday,' industry   [...]
Posted: Monday, November 30th 2009

Tech Meets Turkey-Day: Searches Yield Better Insights

During most of the year, web analytics focused on the food industry - including dining, cooking and grocery shopping - reveal fairly stable trends that tend to occur over long periods of time. Thanksgiving season in the US, however, is a clear exception. During this unique period, marketers have the once-a-year opportunity to use the web as a barometer for Americans' food tastes, as well as their eating and cooking habits. They can also see the extent to which consumers are turning online   [...]
Posted: Friday, November 27th 2009

Online Recipe Sites See Pre-Thanksgiving Surge

Online recipe and cooking sites are hot commodities right now and - if last year's stats are any indication - are not likely to see any decrease in traffic before the end of the year. In 2008, the first and highest peak in visits to these sites took place on the days before Christmas and Thanksgiving - the second happened three to four days prior to the holidays, according to Heather Dougherty, research director at Hitwise, who   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, November 24th 2009

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 11/20/09

Ad Strategies: Marketers hop on augmented reality bandwagon to promote 'Avatar.' AT&T's anti-Verizon ad is a stinker. Social Media: Facebook Ads customer support   [...]
Posted: Friday, November 20th 2009

'Share-to-Social' Email Tools Grow Up

As more email marketers adopt 'Share-to-Social' or 'Share-to-Network' tools, best practices are emerging that can serve as role models for future campaigns. Share-to-Social is the next generation of the 'forward-to-a-friend' forms found on many websites and email campaigns. It now enables a recipient to share an item with an entire social network. New Offerings Many new offerings in this area have come to market this year. Exact Target, for example,   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, November 18th 2009

comScore Puts Page-Load Time Under Microscope

Page load time, a do-or-die website-performance issue 10 years ago, is still enough of a concern today that Google is now under pressure to introduce a ranking factor into its algorithm to account for how fast a site or page loads, Search Engine Land reports. The issue particularly resonates with web publishers that hope to benchmark their site performance and measure how they stack up against their competi  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, November 17th 2009

Tweetlevel Measures Relevance, Not Followers

PR-firm Edelman has developed a new tool that measures an individual's importance or "gravitas" on Twitter using metrics that go beyond a mere tally of followers. The tool, Tweetlevel, joins a growing number of third party data mining and analysis tools developed to tease out user trends and influence on the popular microblogging site. Importance and Trust  Tweetlevel does take into account how many people are  [...]
Posted: Friday, November 13th 2009