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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.   [...]
Posted: Thursday, April 1st 2010

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 12/16/09

Campaigns: New York Media partners with Clickable for local web ad sales. Email Marketing: AOL's take on permission versus request. Sharing content generates most emails. Search:   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, December 16th 2009

High-Tech College Students to Spend $6.5M on Gadgets

College students in America are expected to lay out an all-time high $6.5 billion this year on technology items and currently spend an average of 12 hours each day engaged with some type of media, according to (pdf) findings released today from Alloy Media + Marketing's 9th annual College Explorer survey,   [...]
Posted: Monday, November 30th 2009

Microsoft Earnings Cap Promising Week

Microsoft capped off a busy week on Friday with its pleasantly surprising quarterly earnings report. Quarterly revenues were $12.92 billion - a 14% decline from this point last year. Net income was $3.57 billion, or 40 cents per share. These results, though, were higher than Wall Street analysts had been projecting; specifically, those polled by Thomson Reuters expected the Redmond-based company to post a profit of   [...]
Posted: Monday, October 26th 2009

Marketers Thwart TweetNothings, Move Toward ROI

Marketers are discovering more and more ways they might potentially leverage Twitter to make money, even as the microblogging site appears to be doing its best to ignore - and in some cases, outright discourage them. In a keynote presentation at the ongoing Web 2.0 Summit conference held in San Francisco, Twitter CEO Evan Williams was adamant that the site remains focused on improving its p  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, October 21st 2009

Hulu's Growth Fuels Rise in Video Streaming

In the past 30 days, 26% of online Americans have streamed a full-length TV show and 14% have streamed a full-length movie, according to recent data from Ipsos MediaCT's MOTION study, writes MarketingCharts.   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, August 5th 2009

MicroHoo Expected to Ink Deal Today

Microsoft and Yahoo are expected to seal and internet search partnership later today, concluding a year and a half of torrid courting, according to people familiar with the matter (via The Wall Street Journal). Microsoft made an unsolicited, and unsuccessful, $47.5 billion bid for Yahoo in February 2008. A consolidation of both   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, July 29th 2009

Bing Sprinkles Tweets into Search Results

Bing is now displaying Twitter results for select users that it deems to be "prominent and prolific." Relevant Tweets will appear in search results, as will a link to "see more Tweets" from the same user. The data is fed to Bing via Twitter's API and is not the result of a liaison with Twitter, Search Engine Land points out. Bing's decision to incorporate real-time Twitter results into search speaks to growing   [...]
Posted: Thursday, July 2nd 2009

Blue Sky Incorporates SWYN to Make Email More Socnet-Shareable

In an earnest attempt to merge email and social media, Blue Sky Factory launched Share With Your Network (SWYN), which enables email subscribers to share the content they read across popular socnets. The "SWYN" acronym is already part of the email marketing vernacular, a generic term for icons that enable users to share a given piece of content with social networks in general. For example, a row of   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, May 5th 2009

Twittad Brings Sponsored Hashtags to Land Rover Effort

Land Rover launched an integrated campaign using Twitter and out-of-home venues like billboards and taxi TVs. The campaign uses "hashtags," or words used in tweets that make it easier to follow a conversation via online searches, in out-of-home venues to spread word of the Twitter-based effort, reports MediaBuyerPlanner. The effort attempts to build conversations around   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, April 21st 2009

AP to News Pirates: Stop Stealing Our Content

The Associated Press announced it will work with web portals and other digital partners to track publishers that use its content without a license, and pursue legal action against them, reports the Wall Street Journal. Much of the AP's content is unpaid for, as it is collected by news aggregators that carefully dodge AP licensing fees. Major internet portals such as Google and Yahoo do  [...]
Posted: Thursday, April 9th 2009

Nike Adds SocNet Sharing Feature to Marketing Emails

Beginning with a February 12 inbox blast, Nike incorporated a ShareThis button to the bottom of email messages promoting its Lunartrainer+iD product line. ShareThis enables users to share portions of an email -- or website -- with friends across the networks they use, giving otherwise static messages a potentially "viral" quality. It and functionalities like it are dubbed "share with your network" (SWYN) links. News of Nike's SWYN inclusion was reported by the   [...]
Posted: Monday, February 23rd 2009

LinkedIn, Sage Ink Engagement-Building Promo Deal

UK-based tech firm Sage has inked a partnership with LinkedIn to promote its ongoing Business Brains campaign. TrainYourBusinessBrain.com subtly promotes Sage's business services and software offerings while streaming video interviews from "business brains," such as Yo! Sushi founder Simon Woodroffe, and material from the Krypton Factor. Five mental agility tests also give users their "business IQ." The site will be promoted across certain p  [...]
Posted: Friday, February 20th 2009

Obama Inauguration Drives Droves to Web

Viewership at the top three US cable network news websites surged fourteen-fold from 12:00-1:00 p.m. EST on Inauguration Day, accounting for 30% of online event viewing, as millions of viewers tuned in to watch Barack Obama take the presidential oath and deliver his address, according to data from comScore Video Metrix (  [...]
Posted: Thursday, January 29th 2009

YouTube Broadens Click-to-Buy eCommerce Effort

Expanding on a program that enables video viewers to click on ads related to content they're watching, YouTube's "click-to-buy" ad program will now be available in Germany, Spain and the Netherlands. The program launched in October 2008 for the US and United Kingdom. It empowered music labels to capitalize on their content, as well as pirated material, by providing links where users can buy songs  [...]
Posted: Thursday, January 22nd 2009

Verizon Taps Microsoft for Exclusive Search, Ad Deal

Yesterday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced the development of a coveted liaison with Verizon Wireless. The five-year contract makes Microsoft the default search provider to Verizon's sizable user base. It will also manage mobile advertising across the carrier's handheld units. Crucially, it gives Microsoft a foothold in an increasingly lucrative mobi  [...]
Posted: Thursday, January 8th 2009

With Oodle's Help, Facebook Moves in on craigslist Turf

Online classifieds ad vendor Oodle is taking the reins on Facebooks's "Marketplace" application, according to Oodle CEO Craig Donato. Donato feels Facebook users and advertisers will benefit from Oodle's capacity to serve as a "weirdo filter" -- that is, to stalwartly protect both sides from having to deal with unsavory advertisers or content providers. Oodle will also use Mar  [...]
Posted: Thursday, December 4th 2008

Take That, GOOG: YHOO Nabs T-Mobile Web Search

Yahoo's search engine has been chosen to power T-Mobile's new "web2go" portal, which will serve approximately 32.1 million US customers. web2go's "mini-portal" provide's blended news, image and other results around a user's query, ClickZ reports. It also comes with a customizable start page and makes downloading mobile content -- like ringtones and wallpaper -- easier. The system will appear on newer handsets first, including T-Mobil  [...]
Posted: Monday, November 24th 2008

Online Ad Spend up 21% in UK; Could Overtake TV by '09

Internet ad spending in the UK grew to £1,682.5 million in the first half of 2008, a 21% year-over-year increase, according to the latest figures from the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB-UK) in partnership with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and the World Advertising Research Center (WARC),   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, October 28th 2008

GOOG/YHOO Liaison Takes Backseat to DoJ Probe

Facing protest from just about every corner, Yahoo and Google have agreed to delay their sponsored search ad deal until after the Department of Justice (DoJ) completes a full review. "The companies have agreed to a brief delay in implementing this agreement to continue our ongoing discussions with the Department of Justice," Yahoo stated. "We have had discussions with regulators  [...]
Posted: Monday, October 6th 2008