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B2B CEOs Cautious About, But Warming To, Social Media Marketing

B2B Magazine reports that business-to-business (b2b) marketers are increasingly leveraging social media, with the newly ad-friendly LinkedIn ahead by a length. The magazine reveals in its report "B2B Social Media Marketing: A Surge In Adoption" that when b2b marketers were asked to choose the one most important method that they use for their social outreach, LinkedIn was the clear leader at 30%, followed by Facebook   [...]

Microsoft Answers Advertisers' Questions About Windows 8

Microsoft has been conducting a press-and-demo tour promoting Windows 8 for agencies and key advertisers over the last few weeks, and it claims positive feedback. A few advertiser questions keep arising, and Microsoft's Rory Otterburn summarized them on Microsoft's blog. Q: What type of ads and formats will Micr  [...]

Microsoft's Xbox LIVE Beats iPad In Video Viewing, And Has Ad Platform

Sure, you can watch digital TV on your iPad, but suppose you want to watch it in your living room? It seems that the xBox gaming console is the most popular non-computer device to watch streaming video, edging out the Apple iPad by 28.2% to 27.1%. Advantage, Microsoft, which owns the Xbox LIVE digital media delivery service. AllThingsD’s Peter Kafka describ  [...]

Facebook App Center: 900 Million Potential Critics

More work for marketers and app developers. Facebook yesterday announced the App Center, “a new place for people to find social apps.” While Facebook promises the center will give developers an outlet to grow their apps, it has a strong ratings element to it; meaning the 900-million-person Facebook community will police and rate the apps, and the App Center will remove the ones rated substandard.  [...]

Top News: E-Tail Spending Skyrockets | Google Defense | "Do Not Track" Looms | AOL Keeping Publications

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Jelli Offers Terrestrial Radio with Social Media Analytics, Ad Engagement

Social radio provider Jelli is claiming to have “reimagined the radio spot, making it more engaging and interactive.” Jelli promises a radio/social media mashup for advertisers, and now promises it can quantify those exposures with social media analytics. TechCrunch described Jelli  [...]

Google Offers TV-Like Viewable Impressions, Ratings Technology

Google joins the list of online ad venue that is “chasing TV ad dollars” (as AllThingsD describes it). Just like streaming video giant Hulu announced yesterday (April 17), Google introduced technologies to enable campaign reporting based on viewable impressions and Gross Rating Points or GRPs, a TV metric. Compared to digital metrics, GRPs are crude, but they are “still the preferred currency  [...]

Responsive Design Gains Traction with Mobile Developers

A few weeks ago, WordPress released 3.3, named "Sonny" in honor of the great jazz saxophonist Sonny Stitt. Its third major iteration, WordPress touts many new attributes to the upgrade: for the user there is a new drag-and-drop uploader, hover menus for the navigation, the new toolbar, improved co-editing support, and the new Tumblr importer. For developers, there is the new editor API, new jQuery version, better ways to h  [...]

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New York's Commuters Can Shop Toys R Us Via QR Code

New York commuters that wish to buy select toys from retailer Toys R Us this holiday season can try out the company's QR code-enabled virtual store, which is debuting on billboards located at the city's airports and 40 New Jersey transit stations. Commuters scan the QR code displayed next to the featured product, which takes them to a m-commerce enabled web portal, Mobile Commerce Daily   [...]

Toyota Drives Car Closer to Its New Role of Online Marketing Channel

Toyota told us one was coming and now it is almost here: an automobile that not only connects to the Internet but embraces it. As more automobile makers move in this direction, this will become another channel available to digital marketers. Called the Fun-Vii, the concept car debuted at the Tokyo Motor Show this week. Its sleek exterior mimics the look of a smartphone, with both the exterior and interior able to be adjusted to fit the driver’s mood, PC Magazine   [...]

Follow the Money: ThinkNear | Nanigans | BigCommerce

Today’s mainstream online ad application was yesterday’s start up venture, funded by the usual sources. MarketingVOX will regularly take a look at some of these firms tapping the venture capital markets to see what may be in the offing for marketers eager to try out the latest tech solutions. Targeting Daily Deal Offers By Time, Inventory, Weather ThinkNear turns mobile ads into hyper-targeted daily deal offers for local   [...]

Top News: Luminate turns pictures interactive | First Mango | Facebook for Business debuts

Ad Technology: Google-backed Luminate turns pictures into interactive money-makers. Mobile Computing: First Windows 'Mango' phone unveiled. Apple's new rules   [...]

Dispatch from the Tablet Wars: Waiting for Amazon

Amazon, according to the latest rumor, is gunning for a low-cost touch screen panel. This means a panel that only supports two-finger multitouch, TechCrunch writes, compared to the 10-finger technology underpinning the iPad and Honeycomb. The report, if it’s true, Tech Crunch says, shows that Amazon is planning to do the smart thing and compete with the iPad on pr  [...]

New Developments May Give Online Advertising for the Disabled a Boost

Online advertising is not typically developed with the disabled - namely sight-impaired and hearing-impaired individuals - in mind. However recent developments - from sight-impaired friendly touchpad technology to Google's decision to pilot test American Sign Language in Hangouts - suggest this may be changing. Some Background The exclusion of the disabled from online technologies has never sat well with this constituency, which has sought to remedy the si  [...]

Windows 8 from the Marketer's Perspective

The user interface will be based on touchscreen technology. Furthermore that same technology will be used across a wide range of computing devices from PCs to laptop to tablets. Whether that will work well for each format is an open question. Maintaining one OS for all of those devices runs counter to Apple's philosophy, ReadWriteWeb   [...]

Girl Scouts Turn to Mobile Payments for Cookie Season | Apple Wins Patent for e-Wallet

The Girl Scouts of Northeast Ohio are using GoPayment, a mobile payment app, to process credit card transactions for this year's cookie season. It is the latest example of how mobile payment technology is evolving to address the needs of the smallest - or in this case, youngest - entrepreneurs.   [...]

Hotmail Adopts New Engagement Metrics

Hotmail has started using new engagement metrics to measure reputation and make inbox placement decisions.  According to George Bilbrey, president of ReturnPath, Hotmail is incorporating user behavior in decision-making about inbox placement. This analysis, he writes in a blog post, overrides the global spam filter's decision. In short, the same e-mail might end up in the jun  [...]

What's Next for Social Buying?

It is getting difficult to keep track of the different providers, model twists and geographic locations that have rolled out a social buying service. The latest examples come from   [...]

Targeting Doctors with the iStethoscope

An iPhone application has come to market that is rapidly gaining popularity with physicians – and providing marketers with another channel to reach medical professionals. The iStethoscope turns the iPhone into a, as the name suggests, stethoscope, allowing the doctor to listen to a heartbeat and see the heart waveform. The free app is ad-supported. There is also a professional version that is ad-free, called iStethoscope Pro. De  [...]

Consumer Reports Warns Against Smartphone Payments

The flurry of smartphone payment offerings under development have caught the attention of Consumers Union, the non-profit publisher of Consumer Reports. Its verdict, as of now: while the mobile payment technologies may be convenient and fun, they are not necessarily safe.  At the very least, says Michelle Jun, staff attorney for Consumers Union, the mobile payment systems   [...]