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Top Industry News for 7-08-10: Facebook pitches social context ads

Social Media: Facebook touts selling power of friendship. Facebook makes headway around the world. Rich Media: YouTube   [...]

Industry Buzz & News: 3/24/10

Online Ad Market: Improving marketing ROI: towards a more equitable conversion attribution model. On the eve of marketing 2.0, the dawn of marketing 3.0? Online ad market is back to   [...]

Industry Buzz & News: 03/02/10

Ad Technologies & Vendors: AOL sells affiliate firm buy.at Social media ad network LifeStreet acquires competitor SocialCash. Email Marketing: Email still powerful marketing tool despite booming popularity of s  [...]

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: 02/08/10

Industry: Google's display ads should top $1 billion. Mobclix strikes deal to enhance targeting on smartphones. Campaigns: Google scores with Paris Super Bowl ad.  [...]

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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: 01/19/10

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

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 10/7/09

Ad Networks and Analytics: Facebook shutting out developers. Magazines band together for new ad network. Agencies and Marketing Execs:   [...]

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Facebook Teams With Nielsen BrandLift For Ad Measurement

The result of a partnership between Facebook and Nielsen, Nielsen BrandLift is intended to help brands measure ads more effectively. Nielsen and Facebook both get access to what is essentially a real-time focus group of 300 million users. This allows them to be able to conduct surveys and solicit feedback on what works and what doesn’t more quickly. For Fa  [...]

Facebook Retires Beacon

“This is something we think is going to be a really good thing.” What was once heralded by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg as a unique advertising platform that would connect brands with users is now a footnote. As part of a class action lawsuit aimed at Blockbuster for releasing user information, Facebook is finally pulling the plug on the troubled ad platform. The lawsuit also requires   [...]

Mediaplex Tackles Dynamic Behavioral Targeting

Mediaplex, a subsidiary of ValueClick, is launching a suite of Dynamic Behavioral Targeting tools. The offering lets clients tie available inventory to currently-running promotions. It includes: Dynamic Behavioral Targeting, which lets advertisers segment customers based on prior activity. Relevant creative can be served dynamically -- meaning it can be swapped at the last minute. Optimization. Marketers define their own conversion crite  [...]

NebuAd Faces Class Action Suit, Phorm's ISPs Drop Like Flies

This week a class action lawsuit was filed against behavioral targeting company NebuAd and 26 internet service providers (ISPs) that tested the service. Those named in the suit include CenturyTel, WOW, CableOne, Embarq, Knology, and Bresnan Communications, as well as 20 unnamed ISP defendants, referred to as "John Does," that purportedly also worked with NebuAd.   [...]

Digital Element Brings IP-Based Ad Targeting to Japan's Digital Ad Consortium

Digital Element, an IP intelligence, geolocation and ad-targeting vendor, formed an exclusive reseller partnership with the Digital Advertising Consortium of Japan. The Digital Advertising Consortium represents 500 ad agencies and 1000 online publishers, including Google Japan, Yahoo Japan, AOL Japan and MSN Japan. The Consortium plans to avail Digital Element's NetAcuity product to its ad clients. NetAcuity d  [...]

Google Uses Previous Searches to Serve Ads on Current Ones

Google is testing ads that target user behavior, reports The New York Times. Ads a person sees on a given Google search may be influenced by what s/he queried minutes earlier. According to The New York Times, securities analyst Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray discovered this change in Google's ad targeting methods, shortly after launching a series of tests that examine ads in its search en  [...]

Charter Reconsiders NebuAd Behavioral Targeting Campaign

Charter Communications, which announced plans to test the NebuAd system, decided not to monitor customers for ad-targeting after all, reports The Washington Post. The cable provider may have been cowed by   [...]

Advocacy Group Goes After ISP Behavioral Targeting

The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) has filed comments with the Network Advertising Initiative, an industry group that sets guidelines for advertising based on member recommendations, regarding ISPs desire to serve behaviorally targeted ads to users. The CDT stated that internet service providers (ISPs) must collect the consent of customers before serving them ads based on their onli  [...]

Yahoo Responds to Icahn While Constructing Google Deal

Yahoo has issued a formal response to investor Carl Icahn, who announced his intent to oust the company's board. The search company attracted Icahn's mad eye when it   [...]

Prospective Yahoo/Google Deal Generates Minority, Rural Pushback

Google is getting a glimpse of what objections a deal with Yahoo might raise, reports the BBC. 16 American civil liberties groups have banded to scuttle any likelihood of a liaison between the two companies. Groups include the National Black Leadership Forum, which itself is comprised of 36  [...]

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 4/17/08

Ad Networks and Analytics: Tremor Media has launched Acudeo, a video ad delivery platform that gives publishers control over when and where ads appear in videos. Buddy Media announced the creation of a "social media ad network" open to select developers of Facebook and OpenSocial ap  [...]

Google Promises Not to Advertise on Health Platform

To curb user privacy concerns, Google is refusing to sell ads to support its new service, which stores personal medical information. Google Health is a platform where users can manage medical records like test results and prescriptions, according to the Boston Globe. It is accessible via username and password, much like a Gmail account. A recent  [...]