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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  [...]

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  [...]

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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  [...]

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 12/03/09

Ad Industry: It's synergy time at Razorfish and Digitas. Social Media: Google experiments with public domain name system (DNS). Google Friend Connect competes with Facebook Connect.  [...]

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  [...]

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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   [...]

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   [...]

'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,   [...]

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 11/16/09

Online Advertising: Google trademark policy worries holiday advertisers. Online Payments: More ways to avoid cash or plastic at checkout. Media Strategies: Comcast   [...]

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  [...]

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 11/13/09

Pharma Marketing: FDA tackles gray area of social media. Media Strategies: Forbes buys online photo platform FlipGloss. Search: Google   [...]

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 11/11/09

Online Ads: Online ads are booming, if they're attached to a video. Media Strategies: Murdoch bets on survival without Google. Google   [...]

Android Ads Get Boost from Admob Deal

Google's just-announced $750 million acquisition of AdMob has several important implications for mobile marketers. First, it will help consolidate the mobile ad space, which is currently fragmented and populated with smaller players. Second, it will almost certainly increase overall availability in the now-tiny mobile ad market, while at the same time giving a huge boost to inventory specifically aimed at the Android platform. While Google itself points out that mobile ads currently make u  [...]

Digital Kids' Books Show Robust Growth

Booksellers and content providers are focusing more attention on a specialty niche that is showing robust growth: digital books for children and teens. The splashiest effort to date has been the launch of Disney Digital Books, but there have been many others, most recently by Barnes & Noble. As these initiatives stack up, marketers are revving their own online strategies to harness the demand. Some of these digital-book i  [...]

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 11/06/09

Ad Strategies: The problem with social media agencies. News Corp.'s Miller: Will the display ad market come back? Ad Campaigns: Sirius   [...]

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 10/29/09

Media Strategies: CBS digital guru to leave and start own shop How Twitter search will help Google, Microsoft Bing. Yahoo CEO says 6% operating margin 'unacceptable  [...]

Publicis Banks on Digital to Drive Growth

Publicis Groupe is predicting a better fourth quarter - both for itself and for the overall ad market - and a return to growth in the second half of 2010. The French advertising conglomerate reported that sales were down 5.3% in Q309 compared with the same quarter in 2008, while organic revenues declined by 7.4%, compared with analyst predictions of a 6.9% drop, MediaBuyerPlanner   [...]