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Industry Buzz & Snippets: 12/04/09

Ad Campaigns: New Droid ad claims iPhone is clueless. Southwest Airlines tests Facebook video contest. Online Media: Google CEO deflects blame for news media woes. Google   [...]
Posted: Friday, December 4th 2009

Vertical Ad Networks Take Root, Grow

Recent statistics and funding projects are a continued testament to the strong momentum of vertical ad networks' industry-specific approach to placing and distributing ads. According to Adify's Vertical Gauge for Q3, released at the end of last month, brand advertising CPMs for various verticals continue to rebound from their depressed state in early 2009. Food CPMs are up 91% from the previous quarter, nearly doubling the category's  [...]
Posted: Thursday, December 3rd 2009

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 12/02/09

Online Media: Google offers publishers limit on free news access. New AOL gambit could undermine premium content goals. Ad Metrics: Under threat, Nielsen accelerates plan to measure online video. Ad Indu  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, December 2nd 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

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

Only 8% of Advertisers Deem Twitter an Effective Promo Tool

Though Twitter is currently a media darling, only 8% of advertisers and consumers think it's an effective promotion tool, according to (pdf) results from a LinkedIn Research Network/Harris Poll. The study found advertisers are more likely than consumers to know about Twitter and are more likely to believ  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, July 28th 2009

EyeWonder Helps Fox, GE Pontwificate with Users

To promote Season One of "Dollhouse," out on DVD and Blu-ray on July 28, Fox Home Entertainment launched a rich media ad that streams Twitter tweets and enables users to engage in conversation through the ad itself. The unit was developed with help from EyeWonder and Moxie. It showcases tweets from the feed of Eliza Dushku, star of "Dollhouse," and encourages users to jump in by logging in with existing Twitter accounts. Submissions are manually screened, after which tweets are permitted t  [...]
Posted: Thursday, July 23rd 2009

Twitcam Brings Livestreaming to Twitter

Live video streaming firm Livestream has launched twitcam.com, an ad-supported app that lets users add live streaming video to their Twitter feeds. The offering works like popular Twitter app Twitpic, which enables users to log in with an existing Twitter account, upload an image and then automatically updates their Twitter streams with a link to the image, as well as any message they include. Following suit, Twitcam.com u  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, July 22nd 2009

Half of Communicators Think Twitter's a Fad

More than half (54%) of professional communicators think Twitter is a fad and believe that the burgeoning number of users and tweets will eventually reach a plateau and likely decline, according to a poll by Rag  [...]
Posted: Thursday, July 9th 2009

Facebook's Hybrid Engagement Ads; Multi-Currency Support

In a bid to increase user interaction and drive new fans to Facebook Pages, Facebook released new versions of its Engagement Ads offering. The additions combine capabilities of ads that already exists. Advertisers can, for example, combine videos and polls in the same piece of creative -- as demonstrated at left. Ads can also be markedly larger than the classified-style ads that typically pepper the right-hand column of a profile page, and leaving more room for copy and interaction tools.   [...]
Posted: Monday, June 29th 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

Twitter to Move into Business Mainstream

More than eight in 10 Twitter users, most of whom represent small businesses, expect their company's use of the popular microblogging tool to increase in the next six months, according to a recent, informal survey from MarketingProfs.   [...]
Posted: Monday, June 1st 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

Young Early Adopters Don't Drive Twitter's Traffic

The majority of Twitter users worldwide are 35 or older. Young adults 18-24 make up only 10.6% of the Twitter population in the US and are less likely than the average user to Tweet, according to an analysis of February data by comScore blogger Sarah Radwanick, MarketingCharts rep  [...]
Posted: Monday, April 13th 2009

Twitter to Charge for As-Yet-Unspecified Add-Ons

Twitter is further solidifying plans to implement a premium account structure for "power" users or companies. Co-Founder Biz Stone confirmed that the company recently hired a product manager to develop commercial accounts, but reiterated that the service would be "free to use by everyone," and for-profit services would be add-  [...]
Posted: Thursday, March 26th 2009

Twitter Posts Meteoric 1,382% YoY Growth

Twitter experienced 1,382% year-over-year growth in February 2009, with the number of total unique visitors increasing from 475,000 in February 2008 to seven million last month, according to Nielsen Online. This increase makes Twitter the fastest growing member community site for the month.   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, March 25th 2009

iBokan: Confessions Of An iPhone App Developer

A recent evaluation of a pricing experiment by iPhone developer Team iBokan, presented as a guest blog on TechCrunch, reveals some of the things app developers should try to avoid. Armed with app download tracking tools and a post-hoc common sense, developer Bo Wang shares insight into the cogs of app development, as well as lessons learned from a pricin  [...]
Posted: Monday, March 23rd 2009

Fresh Facebook Focuses on Conversation, Content Sharing

Yesterday Facebook began rolling out updates to userpages. The revamp notably sports a different interface, enhanced filtering and real-time updating -- which some speculate will put it in direct competition with real-time stream-of-thought aggregator Twitter. The new design also emphasizes the ability to share media and links with friends -- a position Facebook is uniquely positioned to leverage. On some websites whose content   [...]
Posted: Thursday, March 12th 2009

How-To: Lessons Worth Learning from Twitter's Success

This How-To was syndicated from Rohit Bhargava's Influential Marketing Blog. Mr. Bhargava is the SVP at Ogilvy PR and author of Personality Not Included. By any measure, the growth and popularity of Twitter has been phenomenal. To say that Twitter has   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, February 25th 2009