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Ad Technology: Amazon Goes After B2B Market With AmazonSupply The App That Zaps Junk Mail - And The Postal Service Business Strategies: Inside   [...]

Top News: iAd pricing drops again | Cybersecurity bill leaves Internet alone | AT&T's data traffic |

Ad Pricing: Apple slashes iAd pricing again as mobile ad share declines. Legal/Regulatory: Senate cybersecurity bill leaves Internet alone, exempts tech companies from oversight. Mobile Computing:   [...]

Facebook, Like the Rest of the Industry, Looks At More Flexible Ad Pricing

Facebook appears to be experimenting with more flexible ad price models, based on an account in All Facebook.  The publication reports that a Facebook advertising test is currently underway in which marketers are charged per action—namely, it is adding likes and comments to the clickthrough-based price model. The social network told All Facebook the test was being conducted to allow marketers "to indi  [...]

A Marketer's Guide to the Daily Deal Market Beyond Groupon and LivingSocial

Merchants that participate in the daily space must choose carefully on which sites they will advertise. Groupon and LivingSocial have huge scale, but companies that immediately go to these firms without considering the alternatives may be doing themselves a disservice. At one time, the daily deal market was typified by sites that offered little personalization or localization for merchant or buyer. That changed a few short years ago when sites such as Groupon and Livin  [...]

Internet Ad Revenues Post 15% Growth; Mobile Breakout Makes Debut in IAB Report

More good news for the online ad industry: the IAB Internet Advertising Revenue Report for 2010 and Q4 2010 posted record growth for both periods. The figures, prepared by PwC US, shows that revenues for 2010 reached a record $26 billion, up 15% from 2009. Fourth quarter revenue also hit new highs at $7.45 billion, up 16% from Q4 2009 and 19% from Q3 2010. Search Wins the Day; Sponsorship Posts Most Growth   [...]

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Reading Between the Lines of Bing-Yahoo's CPC Rate Increase

A newly-released study by GroupM Search confirms what many search marketers had expected might happen: a cost-per-click price increase with the merger of Yahoo! and Bing. The initial period of transition will be extremely volatile, the report warns: during the first three-week period post-transition, advertisers can expect an average increase of 64% over current Bing CPCs for unbranded key  [...]

Top Industry News for 9-01-10: Target to sell Facebook Credits gift cards

E-Commerce: Target to sell Facebook Credits gift cards. Online Ad Market: Start-up seeks to outflank Google in display market. Google lays out display ad strategies.   [...]

Marketing Data RoundUp: What is the best allocation of interactive media spend?

Following are recent findings by various studies on marketing and advertising-related topics. For a more in-depth look at some of these subjects, visit our sister site, MarketingCharts.com. A Formula for the Optimal Allocation of Interactive Media Spend The optimal allocation of interactive media spend should be between 1.6x and 2.2x the percentage of the budget originally allocated to interactive,   [...]

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Top Industry News for 7-12-10: Social media is sinking ad pricing

Ad Pricing: Social media sinks online ad pricing. Social Media: Can the Foursquare keep up with marketers' demand? Gowalla - we're still in the   [...]

Online Ad Revenues to Reach $103B by 2015

Worldwide online ad revenues will grow to $103 billion in constant currencies by 2015, according to MagnaGlobal. Online Advertising to Grow 11% during Next Five Years MagnaGlobal expects worldwide online ad revenues to collectively grow by an average rate of 11% between 2010 and 2015. This means by 2015, online ad revenues will reach $103 billion, Marketing Cha  [...]

Large Advertisers Boost Q1 Spending

The largest advertisers boosted spending significantly in the first quarter of 2010, according to new data from Kantar Media. P&G Remains Biggest Spender The top three advertisers increased spending significantly: Procter & Gamble spending jumped 17.7%, AT&T boosted spending 26.7%, and General Motors increased spending 28.5%, according to Kantar. Procter & Gamble maintained its position as the largest advertiser, spending $772.6 million; budgets continued to shift towar  [...]

Ad Spending Falls in ‘09

Advertisers spent an estimated $117 billion on US media in 2009, a 9% drop from 2008, according to [pdf] figures released by The Nielsen Company. Auto Spending Tanks Spending on automotive-related ads dropped by more than one-fifth during 2009. Although automotive factory and dealership ads were still the number one product category for ad spending with $8.  [...]

Local Ad Spend to Climb 2.2% through 2014; Shift to Digital Continues: BIA/Kelsey

BIA/Kelsey is predicting an annual growth rate of 2.2% from 2009 for the U.S. local advertising market, reaching $144.9 billion in 2014. Following a significant contraction in 2009, local media spending will be slow through 2011, with meaningful recovery beginning in 2012, BIA/Kelsey predicts.(  [...]

Will NYTimes, AOL Finally Prove That Hyperlocal News Works?

The New York Times and apparently AOL are the latest publishers to try their hands - again - at hyper local news. The New York Times has a handful of such initiatives underway; it announced its latest this week - a new partnership with NYU's journalism students and professors to launch a new local news site covering the East Villa  [...]

Industry Buzz & News: 02/25/10

Agencies: Meredith builds up sideline in marketing. Ad Buying/Planning: Marketers targeting 'green moms' in ad networks. Smartphones: Never-ending iTunes sales taly   [...]

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 02/01/10

Analytics: Democratizing behavioral analytics. Finding errors in your Google analytics tracking code. Ad Pricing:   [...]

Portals & Directories Lead Q4 Mobile Advertising

Portals and directories led all advertising verticals in mobile advertising spend during Q4 2009, according to [pdf]  the U.S. Scorecard for Mobile Advertising Reach and Targeting (SMART) report from Millennial Media. This marks the first time since Millennial Media began releasing its SMART report in March 2009 that portals and directories held the number one spot. Entertainment, the Q3 2009 top spot   [...]

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 01/27/09

Campaigns: VA Senate majority leader to Dem candidate: you will use web ads. Why most digital ads still fail to work. Local Search: AT&T to go after Yelp with Buzz.com Media:   [...]

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 01/20/10

Ad Networks: Opera buys AdMarvel to shore up advertising. Analytics: Why your website statistic reports are wrong, part 3. Social Media: Forrester report   [...]

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 01/19/10

Media: Debating journalism post print path. As shrinking newsrooms use upstarts' content, questions arise. Ad Networks: YuMe   [...]