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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  [...]

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 12/01/09

Ad Strategies: NAA says behavioral advertising can help revive flagging revenues. Email Marketing: Holidays to restore e-mail marketing levels. Cyber Monday: Shoppers have retailers   [...]

Email, Webinars Top Digital Marketing Tactics for Event Planners

40% of corporate exhibitors and exhibition management professionals feel digital marketing is vital to the execution of live events, while 17 percent of respondents consider it a lead tactic, according to a study by the The Center for Exhibition Industry Research (CEIR) and marketing firm George P. Johnson. What's more, 81% of respondents rely on webinars -- the most common virtual event strategy used. "The find  [...]

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  [...]

Trends in Leadership Conferences: Fewer Keynotes, More Tweeting

Two-thirds (62%) of global conference organizers say the demand for executive conferences increased in the past three years. 46% claim it is still growing despite the recession, according to a survey by Weber Shandwick (  [...]

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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  [...]

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  [...]

Phelps Dominates Olympian Buzz; Visa Rides Coattails

Over the 'net, US Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps is the most-discussed athlete among fellow Olympians, reports Nielsen Online. Nielsen Online tracked buzz about Olympic athletes across message boards and blogs posted between August 4 and August 10. Sports included Olympic basketball, gymnastics, beach volleyball and swimming. Behind Phelps, the second most-mentioned athlete was Chinese basketball player Yao Ming, followed by US ba  [...]

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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  [...]

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  [...]

NBCU to Glean $1B in Ad Revenue from Summer Olympics

NBCU may break a record of its own with the Summer Olympics next month, set as it is to pull in more than $1 billion in ad revenue for the summer games, reports MediaBuyerPlanner. NBC rakes in $750,000 per :30 spot for broadcast coverage, 85 percent of which is already sold. That's a CPM of 10 percent higher than for the 2004 Olympics,   [...]

AT&T Inks Marketing Contract with USA Basketball Men's Team

AT&T is now a marketing partner for the USA Basketball Men's National Team, joining Gatorade, General Motors, McDonald's, Nike, and Electronic Arts. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The USA Basketball Men's National Team is pursuing its first Olympic gold medal since 2000, reports Bloomberg. Before and during the Beijing Games, AT&T will disseminate exclusive men's basketball team content   [...]

Tennis.com to Sport Rolex on Its Backhands

Luxury watchmaker Rolex was chosen as the exclusive sponsor of Tennis.com's Wimbledon newsletter, which runs daily until July 9th. Breakfast@Wimbledon is a recent creation, dedicated to giving subscribers an early-morning preview of upcoming matches, as well as synopses of matches that took place the day before. Rolex ad units will appear throughout the newsletter. Rolex also sponsors a clock on Tennis.com's website. Set to "Wimbledon time" (Greenwich ti  [...]

Jonas Brothers Invade UK Via Bebo, Nokia N95 Tags Along

The Jonas Brothers, a New Jersey band, tapped social network Bebo and Kyte, a digital content production firm, to promote its United Kingdom debut. The campaign includes a Bebo-exclusive contest. Fans may enter to win a private bus tour around London with the band. The trip includes a private acoustic session, broadcast live at the Jonas Brothers Bebo   [...]

Obama Scores in MySpace Primary ... Oh, and at Iowa, Too

Shortly after results for the Iowa caucus came in, MySpace released the winners of its first-ever presidential primary. Senator Barack Obama, who took the Iowa caucus, ran off with 46 percent of the online Democratic vote. Mike Huckabee, who took Iowa amongst Republ  [...]

Publicis' Levy: Too Many Companies Chasing Too Few Online Dollars

Publicis chairman-CEO Maurice Levy believes that advertising budgets are not big enough to support the rapid expansion of online advertising services, and that the industry is approaching the hyper-inflated economics that led to the dot-bust in 2000, reports MediaBuyerPlanner. And without taking time for a breather, he a  [...]

'Computer is Personal Again' Honored in IAB MIXX Awards

Last night in New York City, conference attendees witnessed the presentation of the IAB's third annual MIXX awards. These accolades draw attention to outstanding merit specifically in interactive advertising, with dual regard to creativity and effectiveness. The major honor, Best in Show, was awarded to Goodby, Silverstein and Partners, SF for "The Computer is Personal Again" for Hewlett-Packard. This campaign was perceived as the most successful effort in years on behalf of the computer b  [...]

Google to Take High Road on Internet Privacy Issues

Today Google will attempt to take a moral tack on the internet piracy debate, demanding that new international laws be passed to protect personal information. Early this year EU officials conducted a privacy probe, concerned about how long Google keeps users' personal information. A compromise  [...]

AP Tapped by NBCU to Distribute Content for Beijing Olympics

The Associated Press, NBC Sports and NBC Olympics have reached an agreement through which AP will serve as exclusive agent for the distribution of NBC-produced content. In the US, NBCU holds exclusive broadcast and video rights for the 2008 Olympic Games. The selected material will include text and video links related to the 2008 Olympic Games. AP has a specific online product in mind for serving the material. The AP's online offering, presumably Olympics-centric, will la  [...]

Tradeshows Rely on Online Advertising, Partnership Marketing

Online registration and online housing information are the most popular functions used by tradeshow attendees - as well as exhibitors - through the websites of event producers, according to preliminary results from a recent "Tradeshow Industry Outlook" study, writes MarketingCharts. Reviewing interactive floor plans is the third most-utilized website function   [...]