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Industry Buzz & Snippets: 01/28/10
Mobile Computing:
Mobile ads get a makeover.
What the iPad means for online advertising.
iPad blurs line between devices.
Apple's Tabl [...]
Posted: Thursday, January 28th 2010
Industry Buzz & Snippets: 12/30/09
Industry:
Four ways technology will change advertising in 2010.
Virtual Goods:
Virtual goods give web firms new revenue in ad slump.
Campaigns:
NHL goes [...]
Posted: Wednesday, December 30th 2009
Industry Buzz & Snippets: 12/08/09
Media Strategies:
Conde Nast, Hearst, Meredith, News Corp and Time to JV in e-readers.
CNN invests in neighborhood news feed Outside.In.
Springer to launch [...]
Posted: Tuesday, December 8th 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
Industry Buzz & Snippets: 11/27/09
Black Friday:
Online retailers and networking sites aim to make holiday shopping more interactive.
The Shopping Spy looks for bargains online.
US shoppers hit Bla [...]
Posted: Friday, November 27th 2009
GameStop Starts Big Shift to Digital
In a long-awaited move that represents an incremental step toward digital distribution, GameStop is readying plans to let its customers purchase digital upgrades to video games.
Though the move will initially cover just upgrades that can be downloaded from the chain's retail outlets, it is an important step toward new-generation online gaming opportunities at a time when the industry is struggling to establish an online distribution model.
GameStop will start testing the program early next [...]
Posted: Monday, November 16th 2009
Google Eyes Digital Music Biz
Google appears to be prepping for a push into the digital music business, despite previous denials by the company. According to an article in the Financial Times, the search giant is readying plans to launch a music search service with two online music platforms - News Corp's MySpace, and Lala.
The new service will be part of Google's On [...]
Posted: Friday, October 23rd 2009
Industry Buzz & Snippets: 10/23/09
Web 2.0 Trends:
Amazon: Earnings are up; Kindle is best seller.
It's official – Facebook is king of the social networking scene: MySpace has conceded defeat in contest to become the largest online social network.
Dailymotion, Europe’s biggest online video challenger to YouTube [...]
Posted: Friday, October 23rd 2009
Industry Buzz & Snippets: 10/21/09
Web 2.0 News and Trends:
Rumor has it that Google will launch a music initiative called One Box to offer song previews, artist bios, graphics, and video - but no downloads or subscriptions. One Box won't be limited to music, according to CNET's Stephen Shankland. There are several different kin [...]
Posted: Wednesday, October 21st 2009
Industry Buzz & Snippets: 10/20/09
Web 2.0 News and Trends:
Start-up health sites are increasingly leveraging social networking and advertising trends.Â
Ford, NFL find limited success in [...]
Posted: Tuesday, October 20th 2009
Football Fans Rush August's Top Sites
Enthusiastic football fans, back-to-school bargain hunters and newshounds on the beat were responsible for increases in visits to the top-gaining websites in August 2009, according to Compete.com, which provided a snapshot from the its monthly ranking of the top 250 trafficked web sites.Â
Top Sites
Google, Yahoo, Facebook, YouTube and MSN. [...]
Posted: Monday, September 21st 2009
Pizza Hut, blinkbox Liaise for Low-Maintenance Dinner Dates
In a relationship forged by agency Blue Barracuda, Pizza Hut Delivery is partnering with online film/TV aggregator blinkbox.com to offer discounted films when users order a pizza.
Films available for streaming under the liaison will include "Gran Torino" and "Body of Lies" -- enabling those the utilize the service to create a dinner-and-a-movie experience without leaving home.
"Combining an oven-hot pizza with instant video streaming is a quick and simple way to give customers a complete n [...]
Posted: Thursday, September 3rd 2009
Jambool Raises $5M for A-La-Carte Micropayments System
Jambool, the parent company of micropayment platform Social Gold, has raised $5 million in a funding round led by Madrona Venture Group, adding to the $1 million it raised in late 2008. Bay Partners reportedly also participated.
Social Gold enables developers to easily implement a micropayments system into virtual worlds, social networking games and similar engagement offerings. Its suite includes an in-game payment system with support for credit cards, mobile payments and online transaction [...]
Posted: Tuesday, August 18th 2009
Iger: Disney Plans to Monetize Content, Including (Maybe) Hulu
Disney plans to experiment with a paid-subscription model online, Robert Iger said, at a conference sponsored by Fortune magazine.
The Disney CEO added that people are willing to pay for quality content if they perceive it has value, MediaBuyerPlanner reports.
A subscription model will give Disney better knowledge of customers, as their activities and interests can be trac [...]
Posted: Friday, July 24th 2009
Barnes & Noble Embarks on E-Book Adventure
Book retailer Barnes & Noble, Inc. is expanding its e-book program with the launch of an e-bookstore and proprietary Palm OS-based eReader e-book device.
Barnes & Noble calls the new e-bookstore the "first phase" of its digital strategy, Retailer Daily [...]
Posted: Thursday, July 23rd 2009
'Webcam Social Shopper' Brings Dressing Rooms to Computer Monitors
Zugara has launched the Webcam Social Shopper, an app that weds Augmented Reality and Motion Capture technology to yield a private and virtual "trying-on" experiences for retail shoppers -- which can then put items in their shopping carts.
E-retailers that implement the Zugara app can encourage clients to use it without downloading extra software; all they need is a printer and a webcam.
To virtually try clothes on, a user must print out a Zugara "marker" a [...]
Posted: Friday, July 17th 2009
FriendShopper Brings Online Shopping Social
FriendShopper.com is jumping on the retail social networking bandwagon with a service designed to connect consumers in a real-time, centralized environment.
FriendShopper.com allows users to manipulate integrated social tools like instant messaging and content sharing in a customized environment meant to simulate live shoppi [...]
Posted: Friday, July 10th 2009
To Protect Economy, China Sets Limits on Virtual Currency
Online transactions with virtual currency in online gaming has become so widespread in China that the government fears it will affect the actual economy, The New York Times reports.
The country is currently one of the world's largest markets for massive multiplayer online games (MMOGs) like World of Warcraft; tens of millions of youth are reportedly trading virtual goods for real money or [...]
Posted: Wednesday, July 1st 2009
Google Wave Integrates Email, Data Sharing, Tweets
Google demonstrated a new product, Google Wave, yesterday at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco.
Google Wave is the result of a multiyear project bent on integrating e-mail, instant messaging, photo sharing, and possibly social networking. Components of Twitter, Friendfeed, and Facebook, alongside other internet discussions, can be aggregated in one interface, stream-of-consciousness-style.
Users [...]
Posted: Friday, May 29th 2009