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Comcast Spotlight Forms Cross-Media Campaign Unit, Comcast Media 360

Cable giant Comcast is going cross-platform with a new business unit. Comcast Spotlight, the advertising sales division of Comcast, is launching Comcast Media 360 (CM 360) is a new business unit focused on helping marketers take advantage of rapidly developing cross-platform advertising opportunities. CM 360 will be led by Group Vice President Andrew Ward. Comcast Medi  [...]

Digimarc, House Beautiful Launch First "Pinterest-Enabled" Print Magazine

Digimarc Corporation today announced that House Beautiful, published by Hearst Magazines, is the world's first publication to enable readers to pin images directly from a magazine to their Pinterest boards. House Beautiful is using the new Print-to-Pin solution from Digimarc to enable this capability in the June issue, which is set to hit newsstands to  [...]

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  [...]

InMobi Launches Privacy-Friendly, No-Cost Mobile Conversion Tracking

InMobi, the independent mobile advertising network, has announced the launch of its free-to-integrate-and-use mobile conversion tracking platform, InMobi Ad Tracker. The platform is designed to allow advertisers and agencies to track any post-click mobile conversion (app downloads, lead generations, sales, or other events) across all mobile marketing channels (both, ad networks and mobile publishers) through a single platform. The solu  [...]

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Ad Technology: CEO Moore On 24/7 Media: We’re A Tech Company, Not An Agency Sinclair Broadcast Group Expands Contract for Harris Corporation Media Software Solution ChaCha Partners With Adometry   [...]

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Google+ Continues Integration Spree, This Time with Gmail, Contacts

Google+ has integrated more of its product line into its social network platform—now bringing Gmail and Contacts into the mix.  When a user opens an email from someone on Google+, he or she can see the most recent post they’ve shared on the right-hand side of the conversation with this change. Other sticky elements Google+ has incorporated: Google+ circles can be used t  [...]

Pillsbury Campaign Ties TV to Mobile CTA

Pillsbury is running a television campaign for its crescent rolls on television that includes a mobile call to action. The TV ads will run through the month, featuring the Shazam logo that users are urged to snap during the commercials to learn more about the product, according to Mobile Marketer. The Shazam logo appears in the upper right-hand corner, which can be scanned with the Shazam iPhone and And  [...]

Users Choice Ad Formats Take on New Urgency as Ad-blockers Step Up

Ad blockers, most commonly offered by browsers as add-ons, have always been a development on which marketers have kept a wary eye. Such technologies show no sign of abating and, at least based on the newest development by OverApps, are morphing into new directions. This long-standing trend, though, is being countered by the growth of  'user choice' ads - that is, online ad technology that gives viewers a  [...]

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E-gift Cards Become Mobile, Social, Integrated to Sustain Relevance, Effectiveness

In 2010 Starbucks was mulling a plan to offer e-gift cards via social media. It quickly decided that just incorporating them in a Facebook app would be clumsy for its customers, as the gift recipients would then have to "like" Starbucks, download and register the card if they wanted to retrieve their gift. So the site opted for a joint venture with CashStar, Ryan Records, director of the Starbucks Card program   [...]

USPS Points to My Macy's E-Commerce-Catalog Strategy

The US Postal Service continues to highlight the increased punch that a combo direct mail- e-commerce strategy can deliver. Its latest example: My Macy's, the department store's localization initiative that was pushed to a new level in November 2010. It was then, USPS' Deliver Magazine reports, that the department store personalized it  [...]

The Golden Road (to Unlimited Branding)

While 1960s countercultural jam band pioneers The Grateful Dead do not have an image associated with the traditional business world, they do have much to teach marketers, writes Copyblogger.  [...]

Inbound Marketing Costs Less

Marketers who spend more than 50% of their lead generation budget on inbound marketing channels report a significantly lower cost per sales lead than those who spend 50% or more their budgets on outbound marketing channels, according to the "State of Inbound Marketing Report" [pdf] from internet marketing firm Hubspot. Average Cost Pe  [...]

Americans Watch 31.2B Online Videos in March '10

More than 180 million US internet users watched 31.2 billion videos in March 2010, according to the comScore Video Metrix service. Google’s Reign Continues Once again, slightly more than four of every 10 online videos viewed in the US in March 2010 were viewed on Google Sites. Americans watched a  [...]

Industry Buzz & News: 4/01/10

Publishing: iPad to launch with payload of ads. Publishers bet future on iPad they have not seen yet. Amazon gives way on e-book pricing.   [...]

What Toyota Still Doesn't Get About Social Media

Toyota is undergoing the largest recall in its history. Not surprisingly it is scrambling to make amends with its global customer base through a multi-platform marketing campaign. More surprisingly, Toyota's efforts in this area - at least the social media component - appear to be falling flat. First a caveat though: The timing for this crisis is unfortunate for Toyota. The public is sick of any sort of corporate malfeasance - or even incompetence -  and when the economic consequences are hi  [...]

HomeAway Integrates Online, WOM into Griswold Super Bowl Ad

HomeAway, an online vacation rental marketplace, is launching its first national integrated marketing campaign on Super Bowl Sunday not only by reprising the Griswolds from the 1980s movie "National Lampoon's Vacation"  but also by incorporating an extended online campaign. This online piece includes a word-of-marketing sty  [...]

A Business Case for Live Streaming the Olympics

NBC Sports will be streaming more than 400 hours of live event coverage on NBCOlympics.com during the Vancouver Olympic Winter Games, along with more than 1,000 hours of full-event replays of all 15 sports. That is about 2,000 hours less than it could deliver if it wanted to, according to Paid Content. The less-than-robust delivery of streaming content is because  [...]

Repurposing GIFs for Email Marketing

Marketers leery of the pitfalls of video email marketing can get the best of both worlds by repurposing a Web 1.0 technology: GIFs - or Graphics Interchange Format - as a substitute, according to Jordan Lane, at Email Responsibly, a website managed by Experian CheetahMail. It is a stable alternative for a format that, while promising, is still in early days with   [...]

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 12/23/09

Trends: Ad Network CEO: celeb deaths of 2009 benefited some marketers. Search: The science of managing search ads. Google unveils new tools for display advertisers on Content Networ  [...]

What TV Everywhere May Tell Us About Online Ads

Marketers are hopeful they will get new insights into online ads as TV Everywhere initiatives such as the rollout of Comcast's on-demand, streaming TV service, Fancast Xfinity TV get underway. Xfinity contains 2,000 plus hours of content, and includes shows - indeed, entire seasons of shows - from content partners including HBO, Cinemax, Starz, TNS, TNT, A&E, AMC, Discovery Channel, History, and BBC America. Comcast also plans to roll Xfinity out to mobile devices next year, the company said.  [...]