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New App Pushes Newspaper Display Ads, Daily Deals to Facebook

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Posted: Friday, May 4th 2012

For Better or Worse, Demand Media's Plans Tied to Google

Demand Media is beginning to move toward its initial public offering - which could well be the biggest web IPO this year. The company filed a S-1 disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission - the first step in this process. Criticized by some as a content mill, Demand Media's business strategy produces online content for the purpose of attracting keyword advertising. The company's algorithms look at what search words are most popular, and then pays writers to produce content for s  [...]
Posted: Monday, August 9th 2010

iAd May Be Tipping Point for Google's AdMob Acquisition

Apple's forthcoming iAd may wind up being the tipping point that will prompt the Federal Trade Commission to approve Google's pending acquisition of AdMob. When it first began to review the $750 million acquisition, staff at the Federal Trade Commission were expecting to recommend blocking Google's acquisition of the mobile advertising network, according to a source quoted in the New York P  [...]
Posted: Monday, May 3rd 2010

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

Geotargeted Ads Gains Non-Search Momentum

Companies of all sizes, from Google down to specialized firms such as location-focused ad network, Lat49, have been working to develop new approaches to geotargeted advertising that aren't search-based. These attempts, for the most part, have been relatively small and narrowly focused and have not made much of an impact on the larger market. However, things may be about to change thanks to a recent Google acquisition and pent-up de  [...]
Posted: Thursday, December 3rd 2009

Univision Gives Real-Time Control to Hispanic Advertisers

Univision is launching an online ad network designed to help advertisers better connect with US Hispanics. Called Univision Partner Group, it will encompass its own properties as well as third-party publishers based in the US, Latin America and Spain and will feature "a collection of premium Spanish-language websites and mobile web publishers handpicked by the Univision editors." The network will give companies targeting Hispanic audiences the ability to control their campaigns and monitor th  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, December 2nd 2009

Google Taps Teracent for Real Time, Customizable Ads

Advertisers will be able to better customize and personalize Google display ads with new technology the company is incorporating from its latest corporate purchase. Google announced this week it was acquiring display ad start up Teracent, a firm that has made a name for itself with real time algorithms that can customize and automatically build ads from among thousands of different choices of creative elements. The algorithms can incorporate user information, such as a viewer's geographic   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, November 24th 2009

Android Ads Get Boost from Admob Deal

Google's just-announced $750 million acquisition of AdMob has several important implications for mobile marketers. First, it will help consolidate the mobile ad space, which is currently fragmented and populated with smaller players. Second, it will almost certainly increase overall availability in the now-tiny mobile ad market, while at the same time giving a huge boost to inventory specifically aimed at the Android platform. While Google itself points out that mobile ads currently make u  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, November 10th 2009

Mobclix Inks Deal to Simplify Mobile Ads

Online ad exchanges Advertising.com and Traffic Marketplace will begin including mobile ads in their inventory through newly inked deals with Mobclix, a mobile ad exchange. Users of the ad networks are not only getting new mobile inventory, but also will be able to buy both online and mobile ads from one source, according to Krishna Subramanian, Mobclix co-founder. Metrics Included The deal provi  [...]
Posted: Thursday, October 29th 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

Yahoo Raises Yearly Outlook with Q3 Earnings

Yahoo is echoing the same optimism for the ad industry as Google did in its earnings call last week. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based search engine runner-up, in fact, has raised its guidance for the rest of the year, citing the stabilization of its major businesses. Excluding traffic acquisition costs, Yahoo   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, October 21st 2009

Pharma Steps Back from Sponsored Ads

Pharmaceutical companies are struggling to reconcile online marketing techniques with a stepped-up oversight campaign by the Food and Drug Administration's Division of Drug Marketing, Advertising and Communications (DDMAC), which is specifically targeting such activities. While industry-regulatory give and take on marketing is a long-standing and complicated dance, recent events appear to have caused pharma companies to take a step back from several strategies – at least until they can be s  [...]
Posted: Friday, October 16th 2009

Invisible Ads Haunt Marketers

Marketers are becoming increasingly vulnerable to fraud on the internet – both from targeted attacks launched from fake ads, and more recently, from 'legitimate' publishers looking to eke out extra money from advertisers. In 2007, MarketingVOX was snookered by a fraudulent and malicious trojan-horse campaign, while the most recent victim has been The New York Times, after the venera  [...]
Posted: Friday, October 16th 2009

YHOO Lets BOSS Devs Add Search Ads to Results

BOSS developers are now able to add Yahoo Search ads in their search results, enabling them to potentially monetize apps they've built, according to the Yahoo Search Blog. Interested users must qualify in an approval process operated by Domain Development Corp., one of Yahoo's third-party syndication partners: signup.ddc.com. The blog also mentioned the Yahoo-Microsoft deal, w  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, October 13th 2009

VSS Forecast: Comms Spending to Top $1 Trillion

Total communications spending will decline 1% in 2009 to $882.6 billion, but will grow 3.6% per year over the next five years to more than $1 trillion,  according to a report from private-equity firm Veronis Suhler Stevenson (VSS). This growth will make communications the third fastest-growing sector (behind mining and construction) of the US economy through 2013,   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, August 5th 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

AdSense for iPhone, Android Apps Goes Live Today

Today Google launches AdSense for Mobile Apps, which lets users develop programs for iPhone and Android, buttressed by text and image ads. Google began testing the program earlier this year on popular iPhone applications like Urbanspoon and Backgrounds. At the time, ads were text-based and featured one company, just below the browser bar. Clicking on an ad guided users to information about the advertiser; or, in  [...]
Posted: Thursday, June 25th 2009

PageGage Takes Content-Crunching Legwork Out of Display Ad ROI

This week FatTail launches the PageGage RAFT (reach and frequency tool), whose aim is to enable online publishers to squeeze more profit out of their display ad inventory. RAFT automatically combines ad contract data and site content by buying search traffic at a low rate and guiding that traffic to the pages most in need of an impressions boost, according to MediaPost. A client dashboard provides page  [...]
Posted: Monday, June 8th 2009

Twitter to Remain Ad-Free, Founder Says

Micro-blogging service Twitter - which enjoyed incredible user growth over the past few months - will continue to steer clear of advertising as a source of revenue, according to founder Biz Stone. Earlier this year, bloggers speculated that Twitter may begin to monetize the site by inserting advertisments directly into users' conversation streams - a  [...]
Posted: Thursday, May 21st 2009