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Industry Buzz & News: 5/05/10

Measurement & Analytics: Nielsen acquires video analytics firm GlanceGuide. Agencies: Ad agency commission and the rise of the media black market. AudienceScience   [...]

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.   [...]

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 10/20/09

Web 2.0 News and Trends: Start-up health sites are increasingly leveraging social networking and advertising trends.  Ford, NFL find limited success in   [...]

Subtitles Lend Staying Power to Online Video

Palo Alto-based PLYmedia, a company that specializes in enhancing online video, published the results of a trial study on the impact of adding subtitles and closed captions on viewing habits. PLYmedia's closed captioning app converts audio video into text video, opening up additional viewing opportunities for the hearing impaired. It is very popular with office workers who want to watch videos (silently) at their desks. When subtitles a  [...]

Play.com, Amazon UK Top Online Customer Satisfaction List in UK

The Top 30 UK Online Retail Satisfaction Index from ForeSee Results found a slight increase in overall customer satisfaction from Christmas 2007 to Christmas 2008 -- and went from 66 to 67 on the study's 100-point scale -- writes Retailer Daily. One-third of the t  [...]

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Texters Young, Culturally Diverse, Spendy Over 'Net

Adults in the US who use the text-messaging feature on their cell phone are 49% more likely than the average American to be between age 18-24, 14% more likely to be Hispanic and 24% more likely to be African American, according to (pdf) a survey from Scarborough Research, MarketingCharts   [...]

Mobile-Ad Viewers Top 100 Million in Q3

Largely driven by text-based ads, mobile advertising awareness grew 33% in nine months against a backdrop of six percent growth in cell phone usage, suggesting an increased allocation of advertising dollars to mobile formats through the first three quarters of the year,   [...]

Moms More Stressed, Concerned about Kids

An overwhelming majority of mothers in America (90%) saw the economy getting weaker even before the collapse on Wall Street, and more of them now (40%) feel stressed about their current family life than feel good about the way things are (33%), according to a study from the non-profit Marketing to Moms Coalition,   [...]

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ad:tech Knuckles Down, Cuts Miami Off Roster

ad:tech, which hosts about 11 digital marketing conferences per year worldwide, has decided to cease operating its Miami show. ad:tech Miami launched in 2007 and caters primarily to marketing and advertising professionals targeting the Hispanic and Latin-American communities. Previous attendees received an email this week stating, "due to current economic conditions, ad:tech has made the decision to cancel its Miami event in 2009." The letter was signe  [...]

1 in 5 Households Ill-Prepared for Digital TV; Houston Least of All

Some 9.6 million US TV households are still not ready for the February 2009 transition to all-digital broadcasting, and would be unable to receive TV programming if the switch occurred today, according to a research report fr  [...]

Mexicans Use Phones to Pay for Meals, Taxi Trips

Major banks in Mexico, including Citigroup Inc. and BBVA, are partnering with mobile operators Telefonica SA and Iusacell to launch a mobile charge service, reports Reuters. Mobile users will soon be able to link savings accounts to their phones, so payments can be made to restaurants or taxis, for example, via text message. The offering is targe  [...]

US Teen Mobile Market Nearly Saturated

The number of teen mobile subscribers in the US surpassed 16 million in 2007 -- up 12 percent from 2006 -- but growth is stagnating, according to a report from market research consultancy MultiMedia Intelligence (MMI), writes MarketingCharts. Despite this increase, wireless penetr  [...]

Spanish Broadcasting System Wages Media War Against PPM

MirRam Group partner Luis A. Miranda Jr. says the Spanish Broadcasting System (SBS) plans to educate the public about "the danger posed by the implementation of Arbitron's PPM," reports Radio Online. Early this year Arbitron dubbed the Portable People Meter (PPM) the "new ratings currency" for radio,   [...]

Top Online Ad Networks Led by AOL's Platform-A in March

Each of the top online ad network delivered ads to at least half the US internet audience in March - with leader Platform-A reaching 91 percent - according to comScore, which also notes the emergence of a series of audience-specific niche ad networks, MarketingCharts reports. Below, the March finding  [...]

Number of Social-Network Users in Latin America Doubles in '07

The number of social network users in five major Latin American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico) more than doubled from Jan. '07 to to Jan. '08 - it was up 103 percent - according to an Analytics 2.0 analysis, using comScore data (  [...]

TNS: US Ad Expenditures Up Just 0.2% in 2007

The US advertising market continued to sputter at the end of 2007, finishing the year with measured spending of $148.99 billion, up 0.2 percent from 2006, according to TNS media intelligence, MarketingCharts writes. F  [...]

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 3/20/08

Ad Networks and Analytics: A partnership with SpotXChange may enable YuMe to increase ad inventory and opportunities for publishers in its network. Federated Media, the ad network founded by John Battelle,   [...]

6 in 10 Use Non-Voice Mobile Apps, Cellphones Hardest Tech to Give up

Some 62 percent of adult Americans have either accessed the internet with a wireless connection away from home or work, or used a non-voice data application like a cell phone or personal digital assistant (PDA), according to a Pew Internet Project study (via MediaPost) --   [...]

Three in Ten US Mobile Users Recall Seeing Mobile Ads

More than three in ten mobile users - some 78 million US consumers - saw or heard advertising on their mobile phones in the fourth quarter of 2007, according to a study by Gfk/NOP Research conducted for mobile entertainment community Limbo, writes MarketingCharts.   [...]

TNS: 4.2% Growth in US Ad Spending in 2008, Internet to Pass Radio

Total US measured ad spend is projected to rise 4.2 percent in '08, with a gain of 3.6 percent in the first half of the year, followed by a 4.7 percent increase in the second half, according to the full-year forecast released Monday by TNS Media Intelligence, reports MarketingCharts.   [...]