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Jelli Offers Terrestrial Radio with Social Media Analytics, Ad Engagement

Social radio provider Jelli is claiming to have “reimagined the radio spot, making it more engaging and interactive.” Jelli promises a radio/social media mashup for advertisers, and now promises it can quantify those exposures with social media analytics. TechCrunch described Jelli  [...]

NBCUniversal Announces Social Gaming Network, Promises Advertisers 115 Million Fans

NBCUniversal yesterday announced what it calls an “arsenal of digital and Social TV opportunities” with the Universal Games Network (UGN). UGN will aggregate all of NBCU’s online, mobile and social gaming efforts around a single platform. The solution will allow fans to play games, engage and consume content, amass reward points and redeem them for real and vir  [...]

Top News: MS Backs Nook | The Anti-Groupon | WPP Lifts Forecast | Social Cola Wars | Hulu Less Free

Ad Technology: Meet the anti-Groupon Agencies: WPP Lifts Forecast Campaigns of Note: Flexjet   [...]

Just What Is A "NewFront?" And Should Brands Be Interested?

It would have been fun to see cranky interviewer Piers Morgan meeting Mashable Editor Adam Ostrow, or to see if Tom Hanks and a Yahoo! executive have anything in common. (They do.) This was Digital Content NewFronts, a two-week event in New York that wraps next week, and which brings together brands, marketers, distributors, and talent to explore (and sell) digital content and media opportunities. These are much like the TV upfronts, but instead the “networks” included AOL, Google/YouTube, H  [...]

AOL Video Platform Takes A Swing at TV With Original Content, Ad Opps

AOL yesterday effectively relaunched its AOL On platform of video offerings and curated video hub. The move consolidates several of AOL's video hubs under one umbrella, and offers seven new web-only shows.  AOL On offers premium video across 14 content channels including food, business, entertainment, style, tech, travel, health and others, reaching an audience of 57 millio  [...]

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Intrusive or Clever? Digital Ads Find Their Way Onto Photographs

Digital marketers have become adept at incorporating ads in online content of all kinds. One piece of web real estate left relatively alone has been the photograph. That will likely change with Vibrant Media's acquisition of Image Space Media. One of the goal's of this deal is to push this ad format, according to the Media Decoder blog.  "We believe that the user goes to the Web to be   [...]

Who Says Video Streaming is Subdued? Even Super Bowl Will Be Streamed Live

Even as consumers fling themselves into last minute shopping in preparation for the holidays (for the holiday season-to-date, nearly $32 billion has been spent online, marking a 15% increase versus the corresponding days last year, comScore has just reported), there is next year's exciting events to whcih to look forward. Namely the Super Bowl. This ye  [...]

Zynga Gives Lady Gaga Her Own Game

Social game-maker Zynga is giving musical artist Lady Gaga her own game to release tracks from her upcoming album 'Born This Way.' Called GagaVille, the game will lead players through various challenges that, once they complete, will reward them with exclusive tracks. The album is coming out on May 23 and the GagaVille promotion runs May 17 through May 26. While a number of brands have used the Zynga pla  [...]

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With An Eye on Underserved Female Gamers, Rally Marketing Group Acquires PassionFruit Games

Rally Marketing Group is acquiring PassionFruit Games, a developer of casual video games aimed at female gamers. The agency points to importance of female shoppers to its client base as one reason as well as the growing numbers of casual female gamers. Female fans make up 40% of all video game players, according to the Entertainm  [...]

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Apps Overshadow Online Sites for Thanksgiving Help - With One Old-School Exception

In case you missed the Google Doodle this week, the icon is featuring a typical American Thanksgiving meal with a link to six recipes from cookbook author and TV chef Ina Garten for the big day. In 2010, though, going online to find recipes seems almost quaint, given the number of apps available and their accompanying features such a  [...]

Is Kinect the Precursor to Next-gen Kinetic-based Ads?

Microsoft's Dennis Durkin raised an interesting ad concept for the company's newly launched - and wildly successful - Kinect game at an investment summit: the gaming device's camera could pass data to advertisers about its users, such as how they look, what they wear and even speak. Even more detailed information may be possible, such as the number of people are in a room when an ad is show and how they react to it. Or how engaged, exactly, are they with that game. (  [...]

Social Gaming - and Virtual Goods Sales - Get Huge Boost from Microsoft

Microsoft has given the social gaming space a huge boost with its introduction of a new gaming hub that connects its three major social gaming portals. The move blurs the line between casual and social gameplay, according Michael Wolf, senior marketing manager for Xbox Product Marketing - effectively allowing anyone who uses MSN Games, Bing Games and Windows Live Messenger to play the same games, see their fri  [...]

Hollywood Pushes Social Media Ad Concepts

The entertainment industry was among the first sectors to harness social media for commercial purposes. It continues to tweak its use of social media in promotional campaigns by trying out new platforms such as games or business models, such as online ticket sales from FarmVille. In the case of the latter, Paramount DreamWorks Animation’s MegaMind has partnered with the social game developer Zynga to promote the movie on Farmville - the game’s first film partner. For 24 hours this weeken  [...]

Tech News: Google Instant for mobile | Nielsen undercounts web traffic | Hulu Plus exits closed beta | 300,000 Apple apps?

Search: Google introduces Google Instant for mobile. How one company games Google News. Social Media: Google To Facebook: You can't import our user data without reciprocity  [...]

Top News: Samsung to run display ads on YouTube mobile | Google experiments with brand search | HTML5 test topped by Microsoft | BOKU

Ad Technologies: Samsung first to run display ads on YouTube mobile site. Search: Google showing related brands, stores & types in results. Mobile Marketing: Apple, Google are   [...]

Microsoft Eyes Better Movement Recognition Gaming Products

Microsoft is preparing a line of sophisticated movement recognition products – or at least readying for improved technology in this space. That, at least is the conclusion many are drawing from its acquisition of Canesta, which designs microchips that it says enable computers to see images in three dimensions.(via Reuters). The acquisition comes as Microsoft is getting ready to launch its   [...]

Top News: Rapleaf tracks users by name | Viewers don't mind ads in online video | Project Devil | Android Apps

Online Ad Technology: CW Says study dispels myth that viewers don't like ads in online videos. AOL plans to roll out Project Devil ads to non-AOL sites. Privacy: Rapleaf   [...]

Can Wunder-app FarmVille Drive Traffic to the iPad?

Zynga has released Farmville for Apple's iPad.  The free app has been customized to take advantage of the iPad’s larger screen and touch interface, letting players zoom in and out to view their farms, harvest crops, or drive tractors with the tap of a finger. Push notifications alert iPad users to their crops' status. Too Few Apps Being Downloaded The app comes to iTunes just as Nielsen ha  [...]

Americans Watch 31.2B Online Videos in March '10

More than 180 million US internet users watched 31.2 billion videos in March 2010, according to the comScore Video Metrix service. Google’s Reign Continues Once again, slightly more than four of every 10 online videos viewed in the US in March 2010 were viewed on Google Sites. Americans watched a  [...]