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Just What Is A "NewFront?" And Should Brands Be Interested?

It would have been fun to see cranky interviewer Piers Morgan meeting Mashable Editor Adam Ostrow, or to see if Tom Hanks and a Yahoo! executive have anything in common. (They do.) This was Digital Content NewFronts, a two-week event in New York that wraps next week, and which brings together brands, marketers, distributors, and talent to explore (and sell) digital content and media opportunities. These are much like the TV upfronts, but instead the “networks” included AOL, Google/YouTube, H  [...]
Posted: Friday, April 27th 2012

Black Friday Survival Guide for Online Shoppers

Cyber Monday is often cast as the online version of Black Friday. Increasingly, though, the same rock-bottom bargains found in the stores on the day after Thanksgiving are also making their way online - on Black Friday. While online shoppers don’t have to worry about the stress of navigating packed malls and sometimes aggressive shopping mobs, Black Friday is no ordinary online shopping day, and consumers should plan accordingly as they digest their Thanksgiving Day meal. Monitor  [...]
Posted: Friday, November 27th 2009

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 11/27/09

Black Friday: Online retailers and networking sites aim to make holiday shopping more interactive. The Shopping Spy looks for bargains online. US shoppers hit Bla  [...]
Posted: Friday, November 27th 2009

New Moon Gets New Blood On MySpace

The stats are in: more than two-million unique visitors, and nearly three-million total viewers watched MySpace's live stream of "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" red-carpet arrivals at the movie's world premiere. The figure was the largest ever for a Ustream red-carpet-live webcast, according to Mashable - and another indicator of how popular the vampire-themed movie alread  [...]
Posted: Thursday, November 19th 2009

NBC Taps SocNets to Generate Olympic Buzz

With 100 days left until the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, NBC Universal is adding a variety of new high-tech and social media features to its main Olympics website, NBCOlympics.com, to generate interest in the games and boost video views of the events. NBC is aiming to build on the success of its live and taped online video offerings during the 2008 Beijing Olympics, which attracted tens of millions of users. As an added feature to its existin  [...]
Posted: Thursday, November 5th 2009

Food Bloggers Cook up Big Business

Club Med is putting together a week-long conference that will gather together popular food writers and bloggers - to mingle, network and share tricks of the trade - but that also will be open to other guests and members of the public who pay a hefty fee to stay at the resort during the conference and hob-nob with their favorite foodies. The event, "Food Blogger Camp by Club Med," is part of a growing movement by companies to bring together influent  [...]
Posted: Friday, October 23rd 2009

Virals Recognized With Their Own Festival.

No longer relegated to living on YouTube, virals have become mainstream and need their due. So goes the thinking behind the second annual Viral Film Festival. The brainchild of French buzz agency Vanksen, the competition seeks to recognize the impact that virals have had in pop culture by giving them a home. The awards will cover the most outrageous clips in eight different categories, includin  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, October 7th 2009

Lands' End Sends Kids Packing

Direct specialty apparel retailer Lands' End, which launched an interactive website specifically targeted at female swimsuit shoppers in May 2009, is aiming another interactive website at another niche audience and product. Lands' End is off  [...]
Posted: Monday, August 3rd 2009

AT&T Webinar Offers Small Businesses Tips on Making Good Business Decisions.

On Thursday, August 13 at 1:30 p.m., AT&T will run another free one-hour webinar aimed to equip small business owners with the knowledge and resources needed to run a successful business. As part of a series of instructional webinars and training courses available on AT&T's small business website, the upcoming webinar, “10-10-10 For Business,” will feature noted business commentator, journalist and aut  [...]
Posted: Friday, July 31st 2009

Obama Campaign Makes Cannes Coup

Obama's political -- and media-fluent -- campaign for President last year won the two major awards at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival this year. Submitted by Obama for America, the effort swept two Grands Prix in both the Titanium and Integrated Lions categories. The Obama campaign incorporated tactical use of traditional TV advertising, grassroots campaigning, the ability to mobilize via an iPhone app,   [...]
Posted: Monday, June 29th 2009

Sprite Experiments With YouTube Series: 'Green Eyed World'

Coca-Cola-owned Sprite is hopping on the reality show bus with an interactive YouTube channel called "Green Eyed World," which will feature Facebook integration, writes The Wall Street Journal. Sprite decided to try reaching out to teens with two things they love most - social media and music - and to use the message of pursuing passions as the driving force behind the campaign. The series, which will f  [...]
Posted: Monday, April 20th 2009

ad:tech Knuckles Down, Cuts Miami Off Roster

ad:tech, which hosts about 11 digital marketing conferences per year worldwide, has decided to cease operating its Miami show. ad:tech Miami launched in 2007 and caters primarily to marketing and advertising professionals targeting the Hispanic and Latin-American communities. Previous attendees received an email this week stating, "due to current economic conditions, ad:tech has made the decision to cancel its Miami event in 2009." The letter was signe  [...]
Posted: Monday, November 3rd 2008

'Conversation Measurement Toolbox' Quantifies Value of Social Media

Federated Media's Conversation Measurement Toolbox is now live in beta.First announced in June, the toolbox enables marketers to track and analyze their conversational media campaigns. 57% of "conversational marketing" early adopters claim social media tools are becoming more valuable, according to a Society for New Communications report (  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, October 15th 2008

80% of Super Bowl 2009 Inventory Already Sold

80 percent of ad inventory for Super Bowl XLIII, which takes place in Tampa Bay, FL on February 1 of next year, has already been sold, reports NBC's Seth Winter, VP of Sports and Olympics sales and marketing. At the going rate per :30 of $3 million, "about a dozen or so advertisers" have signed on thus far, he said. Sales so far have been dominated by automotive marketers and movie studios. Despite new ownersh  [...]
Posted: Friday, September 12th 2008

Wilmington Tests Digital Switch; Nielsen Tests A/P Meter in All-Digital Enviro

Wilmington, NC became the first market to make the transition to digital TV transmission. Yesterday at noon, its two stations switched from analog to digital signals, a full six months before the rest of the country will switch on Feb. 17, 2009, reports MediaBuyerPlanner. Broadcasters received scores of calls from residents unprepared for the switch, or those  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, September 10th 2008

Cancer-Fighting 'Pink Channel' Goes Live on XM

Premiere Radio Networks and City of Hope, a cancer research, treatment and education center, have launched The Pink Channel, the first radio channel supporting the fight against cancers, particularly those that affect women, reports MediaBuyerPlanner. City of Hope gets a portion of advertising and online retail sales revenue, as well as 100 percent of listener donations collected through the cha  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, August 19th 2008

Starcut to Build Olympics Website for Mobile

Starcut has been chosen to build the Olympics Mobile website, which will host NBC coverage of the Beijing games taking place from August 8-24. From the mobile site, fans may access polls, news headlines, videos, slideshow galleries and Olympian profiles. Most of the material will come from NBCOlympics.com. "This site will provide the most ambitious sporting event coverage ever provided to mobile sports fans," said SVP Perkins Miller of Digital Media, NBC Sports and Olympics. Miller's st  [...]
Posted: Friday, August 8th 2008

China Promises 'Sufficient' Web Access for Olympic Journalists

International Olympic Committee (IOC) officials have backpedaled on their promise to provide unrestricted internet access for the 21,500 media planning to cover the Summer Games in Beijing, reports the Globe and Mail. "Sensitive" websites that are not considered Games-related will be blocked, said IOC press chief Kevan Gosper, expressing regret t  [...]
Posted: Thursday, July 31st 2008

Social Media, Mobile -- and Microsoft -- Top Off Beijing Olympic Coverage

With the Beijing Olympics fast approaching, NBC Universal announced it would provide 2200 hours of live competition coverage across 25 sports on NBCOlympics.com. Others will appear on-demand. NBCOlympics.com will also include home video-style content and blogs fr  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, July 29th 2008

ANA: The DTV Transition is Advertisers' Problem, Too!

Ad groups joined broadcasters in a much-publicized effort to help advertisers transition to digital TV with the rest of the nation on February 17, 2009. The initiative, dubbed "The DTV Transition: Keeping the Ad Community in the Loop," consists of the American Association of Advertising Agencies (AAAA), the Association of National Advertisers (ANA), the National Association of Broadcaster  [...]
Posted: Monday, July 28th 2008