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Ad Technology: Amazon Goes After B2B Market With AmazonSupply The App That Zaps Junk Mail - And The Postal Service Business Strategies: Inside   [...]

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  [...]

Industry Buzz & Snippets 11/12/09

Online Ad Spending: IDC: worldwide online ad spending drops slightly in Q3. Online Ad Strategies: IAB, Bain offer roadmap for online publishers. Warner Music   [...]

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 10/27/09

Search Technologies: Google Social Search to go live next week. Social web browser Flock is partnering with Spanish-language media company Univision Google Voice lets users keep their numbers.   [...]

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   [...]

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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:   [...]

Ad Spend up 119% on Top Blog, SocNet Sites

The amount of time online Americans spent on social network and blogging sites in August 2009 accounted for 17% of all time spent on the internet, a figure that is nearly triple the percentage of time spent a year ago, according to statistics from The Nielsen Company. Nielsen also reported that year-over-year, estimated online advertising spe  [...]

Google Expands DoubleClick Ad Exchange to AdSense/Adwords Users

Google -- whose profitability was realized in great part by its sponsored search and text ad business -- is making inroads into the graphical display ad market, an arena dominated by Yahoo, The New York Times reports. Today the search giant introduces the new version of a stock market-style ad exchange, where advertisrs and publishers can buy and sell ad space as they please. This mode  [...]

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Industry Buzz & Snippets: 8/7/09

Ad Networks and Analytics: E-mail expands growth by double digits, becomes fastest-growing DM segment. CBS upbeat on ad spend. Analysts cautious. Agencies and Marketing Execs: Publicis in lead to acquire   [...]

Marketers Struggle to Realize Global Reach

The top 50 US websites are getting more traffic from abroad than from within their own borders, yet few are willing or prepared to tap into that market, AdAge reports. Traditionally, US marketers haven't had much interest in foreign audiences. But today there are more online and media players with an international reach, including Facebook, News Corp.'s MySpace, and Viacom, with its MTV and V  [...]

GOOG to Serve 'Premium' News, Unbidden, to Users

At a Hollywood party last week, CEO Eric Schmidt of Google revealed the search giant's intentions to provide a "solution" to the collapsing newsprint industry. "Schmidt is distinctly aware of the newsprint meltdown going on in an information world dominated by his company, and that [the Google News] system only works as long as there is someone to report the news that his system delivers to readers," wrote The Wrap's Sharon Waxman, after sp  [...]

Amazon Explores PPC Model on Product Pages

Amazon.com debuted an affiliate advertising feature called Product Ads on Amazon, which enables e-commerce sites to promote their own wares on Amazon's product pages. Ads can consist of both a price and product image. "Amazon will display your ads in highly targeted placements," -- including positions beside the shopping cart button, according to the program description.   [...]

YHOO Takes Q4 Loss of $303M; Bartz Keeps Eye on Silver Lining

In her first earning call for Yahoo, just-inaugurated CEO Carol Bartz touted the company's "wonderful energy" and vowed to directly address any viability issues Yahoo faces. She also denied any intention to sell Yahoo or any of its services, and did not indicate plans to reopen acquisition talks with Microsoft. "I would just make a plea that this is a fantastic Internet property and really doesn't deserve everybody trying to pick it and pull it apart," she is   [...]

More Ad Coverage, Looser Policies Beef Up GOOG Balance Sheet

December data collected by search engine intelligence firm AdGooroo found 4Q08 was the "strongest quarter on record" for Google and Microsoft Live Search. Both companies enjoyed a sharp rise in advertiser growth. The number of ads per keyword on Google also increased, with overall ad growth for the latter rising 58% from Q3. "The increase in active advertiser counts is surprising given the current environment of gloom and doom," the firm  [...]

NYTimes Ad Revenue Declines 20% from '07

Internet ad revenues on The New York Times' online properties fell 3.8% in November, compared to a 4.6% increase in October -- marking a whopping 20% decline from this time last year. The 3.8% slump represents the first monthly decline in online ad revenue that the company has reported to date, suggesting even the most aggress  [...]

A Few Find Fame -- and Money -- On YouTube

Monetizing YouTube has been a "top company priority" for Google, as one initiative after another has been introduced to bait advertisers in hopes of making back the $1.6 billion it shelled out for the company in 2006. But for some web video   [...]

With Oodle's Help, Facebook Moves in on craigslist Turf

Online classifieds ad vendor Oodle is taking the reins on Facebooks's "Marketplace" application, according to Oodle CEO Craig Donato. Donato feels Facebook users and advertisers will benefit from Oodle's capacity to serve as a "weirdo filter" -- that is, to stalwartly protect both sides from having to deal with unsavory advertisers or content providers. Oodle will also use Mar  [...]

In 2009, Hulu Ad Spend to Nip YouTube's Heels

In terms of ad revenue in '09, one-year-old Hulu might give YouTube a run for its money, MediaBuyerPlanner reports. Unlike the older video site, Hulu streams primarily professional content, including network TV shows, clips and films. If its ad revenue manages to surpass that of YouTube's, it could  [...]

One Billion Tweets Strong, Twitter Contemplates Charging for Use

Microblogging service Twitter may be brewing a pay-to-Tweet model for businesses using it to promote wares or connect with consumers. Twitter enables users to publish "microblogs" of up to 140 characters apiece. Last month it ranked among the fastest-growing social networks -- racking up 343% growth year over year. It received between $1 million and $5 million in VC funding   [...]

Quantcast Dishes Stats on MTV Sites, Tribes Ad Network

Viacom's MTV Networks hand-picked Quantcast to measure traffic on its online properties, including MTV.com, VH1.com, Nick.com, and ComedyCentral.com. Quantcast will use pixels and cookies to find the number of unique visitors, cookied visitors, and pageviews on each site. It will also provide aggregate user data for curious advertisers and measure traffic on MTV ad network Tribes, whose sites focus on m  [...]