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Apple Designer Regrets | Mobile "Crushes" Facebook? | IBM Distrusts Siri
Business Strategies:
Apple designer 'winces' over some past product choices
Campaigns of Note:
LG Electronics USA Debuts 'Only LG' Ad Campaign
Customer Experience:
Three Myths abou [...]
Posted: Friday, May 25th 2012
Top News: Y&R Falkland Flap | Best of CLIOs | MS E-Bookstore | Apple Gaming Dominates | NBC's Streaming Olympics
Campaigns of Note:
Ad Steps Into Falklands Dispute; Y&R Condemns Local Office's Work
CLIO Awards: Best of the 2012 Winners
How Beer Companies [...]
Posted: Monday, May 7th 2012
Top News: Anheuser-Busch Scolds UFC | Digital Future "Blight?" | Commissions for "Likes" | Vevo Original Shows
Ad Technology:
Issuu: A Tool for Marketing, Not Just Magazines
Greystripe® Introduces PC-to-Mobile Ad Targeting with ValueClick Audience Mapping Technolo [...]
Posted: Thursday, April 26th 2012
Top News: Gannett Earnings Plummet | Olympic Sponsors "Greenwashing?" | Fortune 500 SoMe Infographic | P&G Glorifies Mothers
Ad Technology:
CEO Moore On 24/7 Media: We’re A Tech Company, Not An Agency
Sinclair Broadcast Group Expands Contract for Harris Corporation Media Software Solution
ChaCha Partners With Adometry [...]
Posted: Tuesday, April 17th 2012
Microsoft Yanks Support for Family Guy Special
Microsoft is withdrawing its support for a Family Guy show special that will be airing Nov 8 on the Fox network because the computer giant decided that some of the humor is offensive and edgy and does not fit with the brand image it is trying to project, according to ABC News.
The 30-minute clip, "Family Guy Presen [...]
Posted: Tuesday, October 27th 2009
Spammers Reap Plenty on 0.00001% Response Rate
By effectively "hacking" an existing spam network, researchers unearthed the "economics" of being an email spammer, reports the BBC.
Here's the secret: high volume and a virally-expanding network, which means even the tiniest response rate can produce millions of dollars in profit per year.
Computer scientists at the University of California, Berkeley and San Diego conducted a month-long study of the Storm Network, a spam oper [...]
Posted: Thursday, November 13th 2008
Yahoo's Board Still On Board, Despite Recount
The surprisingly positive results of last Friday's Yahoo shareholder vote prompted Capital Research Global Investors to demand a recount, after which the group discovered that the proxy voting intermediary made "significant errors," reports Mediapost.
The first tally showed 85 percent of sh [...]
Posted: Thursday, August 7th 2008
Yahoo Says No to Search Buyout, Restructuring Proposal by Microsoft, Icahn
Yahoo has rejected yet another offer from both Microsoft and Carl Icahn. On Friday, Microsoft offered to buy its search business if CEO Jerry Yang and his board were replaced by Carl Icahn and directors of his choice.
Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock called the proposal an "odd and opportunistic alliance" between Microsoft and Icahn. "We will not be bludgeoned into a transaction that is not in the best interes [...]
Posted: Monday, July 14th 2008
AP Ends Blogger Battle Over Fair Use of Content
The Associated Press (AP) reports it has resolved its conflict with copyright-infringing bloggers.
The AP recently attacked bloggers in a media fight about "fair use" of content. Specifically, it took issue with bloggers excerpting titles or sentences from its articles, which other publications mus [...]
Posted: Monday, June 23rd 2008
Microsoft Makes it Clear: Yahoo Didn't Dump 'Em for the Shareholders' Sake
At the Cannes International Advertising Festival this week, Microsoft exec Kevin Johnson called Yahoo's search deal with Google anti-competitive and bad for advertisers.
But advertisers already knew the latter, and -- judging from unearthed documents dating months before the Yahoo/Google liaison -- apparently Yahoo has [...]
Posted: Monday, June 23rd 2008
Ask Puts Promotional Guns Behind Privacy Policy
Ask.com wrote an open letter to privacy advocates and the California Attorney General's office, toting a more prominent "Privacy" link on its website.
From the letter:
As of today, Ask.com has added a [prominently placed] direct link to our privacy policy ... right on our homepage. It is only one of four non-search related weblinks ... We’ve also made sure that the "Priv [...]
Posted: Thursday, June 19th 2008
AP, Blogging Group to Create Unified Guidelines
This Thursday, the Associated Press (AP) will meet with the Media Bloggers Association in hopes of creating appropriate guidelines for quoting AP stories, reports Wired (via the AP).
Prominent bloggers recently critiqued the AP for its defensive stance o [...]
Posted: Wednesday, June 18th 2008
Google: Viacom Hurts Internet Users by Suing YouTube
According to Google, Viacom's $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit against YouTube is harmful to data exchange on the internet.
This is not the first time Google has argued this position. It made a similar argument -- that Viacom's copyright lawsuit hurts the internet at large, not just YouTube -- in May of last year.
In its attempt to makeg carriers and hosting providers liable for the sprea [...]
Posted: Tuesday, May 27th 2008
Phorm Still Has a Lot of Public Relations to Do
Despite Phorm's self-styled aggressive stance on user privacy, UK customers remain adamantly distrustful of the service, reports ISPreview.
A survey of 1090 ISPreview readers found 57 percent would leave their ISP if it partnered with Phorm to serve targeted advertising.
Phorm works with ISPs to track online activity, then cr [...]
Posted: Monday, May 12th 2008
Google Attempts to Patent Ad Consumption Behavior
Techdirt reports that Google is trying to patent targeted video advertising behaviors that compel audiences to watch a set number of TV commercials in exchange for programming.
The patent for "Targ [...]
Posted: Monday, May 5th 2008
Chinese Music Industry Lashes Out at Baidu
Two groups representing musicians and songwriters in China have failed a lawsuit against Baidu, citing copyright violation.
The search engine makes it easy for users to access free music. Its service has become so popular that in December 2007, Baidu's search share beat Google in China by 34 points, capturing 5.2 percent of searches globally.
In [...]
Posted: Monday, March 3rd 2008
Google: 'We Are Not Starting an Ad Agency'
Last week Andy Berndt, who left Ogilvy to help launch Google's Creative Lab, told audience members at the Argyle Executive CMO Leadership Forum that "Google is not starting an ad agency."
Acknowledging concerns that Google may go into the agency business, Berndt called the Creative Lab an "internal creative and marketing resource at Google to manage the brand and our onl [...]
Posted: Monday, January 21st 2008
Apple Icon Bashes Android and Kindle, Lauds Macbook Air
In an interview with John Markoff of The New York Times, Steve Jobs aired his personal views on the Amazon Kindle, Google's Android and the Macbook Air, which was released yesterday.
"Having [...]
Posted: Thursday, January 17th 2008
Study: Facebook Is Slow and Unresponsive
A new study by WatchMouse finds that Facebook is slow and unresponsive compared with many other major sites.
WatchMouse monitored 104 sites and placed Facebook at the bottom of the list because of slow loading times and frequent errors.
WatchMouse measured the sites' performance using its Site Performance Index, which "quantifies the user perception of speed and availability of a site in a single number."
AÂ score of 500 signifies good performance, and 1,500 or higher bad pe [...]
Posted: Friday, January 11th 2008
Tax on Internet, Mobile May Replace French TV Ads
President Nicolas Sarkozy of France has proposed a bill that bans commercials on public television and taxes internet and mobile phone service, reports the International Herald Tribune.
On abolishing advertising on public TV, Sarkozy said channels "could be financed by a tax on advertising revenues of private broadcasters and an infinitesimal tax on the revenues of new means of communication like Internet [...]
Posted: Wednesday, January 9th 2008