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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   [...]
Posted: Monday, April 30th 2012

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  [...]
Posted: Friday, April 27th 2012

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 10/22/09

Web 2.0 Trends: Internet advertising is just about the only bright spot in Q3 reports of two major newspaper publishers, Gannett Co. and McClatchy Co. The New York Times sets 7 digital priorities. Th  [...]
Posted: Thursday, October 22nd 2009

One-Hit Video Wonders May Win Entry into YouTube Partnership Program

Google property YouTube is extending its YouTube Partnership Program to increase the likelihood ordinary users, and not just so-called "cewebrities" (online celebrities), can profit from high traffic to their videos. Moving forward, proprietors of videos generating a plentitude of views may be offered invitations to monetize those videos in a revenue-sharing deal. Other factors include view count, compliance with YouTube's Terms of Service and whether or not the video has gone viral. Eligi  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, August 26th 2009

VSS Forecast: Comms Spending to Top $1 Trillion

Total communications spending will decline 1% in 2009 to $882.6 billion, but will grow 3.6% per year over the next five years to more than $1 trillion,  according to a report from private-equity firm Veronis Suhler Stevenson (VSS). This growth will make communications the third fastest-growing sector (behind mining and construction) of the US economy through 2013,   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, August 5th 2009

Hulu's Growth Fuels Rise in Video Streaming

In the past 30 days, 26% of online Americans have streamed a full-length TV show and 14% have streamed a full-length movie, according to recent data from Ipsos MediaCT's MOTION study, writes MarketingCharts.   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, August 5th 2009

AdSense for iPhone, Android Apps Goes Live Today

Today Google launches AdSense for Mobile Apps, which lets users develop programs for iPhone and Android, buttressed by text and image ads. Google began testing the program earlier this year on popular iPhone applications like Urbanspoon and Backgrounds. At the time, ads were text-based and featured one company, just below the browser bar. Clicking on an ad guided users to information about the advertiser; or, in  [...]
Posted: Thursday, June 25th 2009

iheartradio Boosts Clear Channel's Optimism Over '09 Ad Expenditure

Clear Channel launched an online media player at iheartradio.com, using Adobe Flash technology to provide a better user experience and more advertiser opportunities. The player serves as a single gateway to more than 350 streaming AM/FM broadcasts (more are being added weekly), the company's digital streaming channels, its entire library of original on-demand audio and video programming, and social media elements including on-air talent blogs and photos, MediaBuyerPlanner   [...]
Posted: Friday, June 12th 2009

Stardoll, Piczo to Merge Operations

Virtual worlds Piczo and Stardoll have announced plans to merge their international operations, in hopes of better appealing to advertisers. Stardoll operates as a virtual paper doll site for tween girls. Piczo positions itself as a friendly environment for young pop culture fans. Combined, the social networks serve about 20 million unique users; both focus heavily on forming strategic partnership  [...]
Posted: Monday, March 9th 2009

BrightKit Rebrands, Monetizes Microblogging

BrightKit, a Twitter marketing account management system that went live in November, has changed its name to HootSuite. In addition to services that enable marketers to both manage and track multiple Twitter accounts, it now enables them to monetize that activity on a small scale. ow.ly, a properietary ser  [...]
Posted: Monday, February 23rd 2009

Teen Tracking firm Alloy Snaps Up Sports Source TAKKLE

Teen media/tracking firm Alloy Media+Marketing has acquired TAKKLE.com, a high school sports/college recruitment site. TAKKLE launched in 2006 and immediately drew the interest of Sports Illustrated, which used the site to expand its high school outreach efforts. It enables high school athletes to build personal and team-based profiles, share photos and videos  [...]
Posted: Thursday, February 5th 2009

'Net Efforts Sweep the Super Bowl

Prevailing over claims that the economy would hit the Super Bowl hard, NBC reported a record $206 million in ad revenue from yesterday's game. For the full day, NBC's complete network division made $261 million, also a record, according to Reuters. Last year Super Bowl spots cost $2.7 million per 30 seconds; this year  [...]
Posted: Monday, February 2nd 2009

YouTube Broadens Click-to-Buy eCommerce Effort

Expanding on a program that enables video viewers to click on ads related to content they're watching, YouTube's "click-to-buy" ad program will now be available in Germany, Spain and the Netherlands. The program launched in October 2008 for the US and United Kingdom. It empowered music labels to capitalize on their content, as well as pirated material, by providing links where users can buy songs  [...]
Posted: Thursday, January 22nd 2009

Typical SocNetters Address 110 People/Week; Spend $101 Online/Month

With 40 million active users in the US, social networking has grown 93% since 2006 -- and is poised to play a vital role in the current economic downturn, according to a trend report from Netpop Research LLC. Crucially, Netpop also predicts a related increase in social media advertising opportunities, MarketingCharts   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, January 14th 2009

AOL Places Bets on Niche Online Publishing

With its ad business struggling and the merger with Yahoo only a wispy possibility, Time Warner's AOL has decided to focus on one of AOL's few strengths: online publishing. Specifically, it will take advantage of the popularity of its niche content sites, which range from branded destinations (e.g. AOL Music) to less obvious properties, like celebrity-focused TMZ, men's fashion hub StyleList.com, an  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, January 14th 2009

Verizon Taps Microsoft for Exclusive Search, Ad Deal

Yesterday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced the development of a coveted liaison with Verizon Wireless. The five-year contract makes Microsoft the default search provider to Verizon's sizable user base. It will also manage mobile advertising across the carrier's handheld units. Crucially, it gives Microsoft a foothold in an increasingly lucrative mobi  [...]
Posted: Thursday, January 8th 2009

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   [...]
Posted: Friday, December 12th 2008

Greystripe Debuts Flash Ad Units for iPhone

Mobile ad network Greystripe now offers clients the ability to push rich media ads -- including Flash videos and advergames -- on iPhone units. New formats include: GS.Impact, which lets brands extend existing online ad campaigns to mobile. Marketers may wield "all the creative power of Flash on an iPhone," a company representative boasted. GS.Tailgate enables users to create miniature branded games in Flash, then place them before, after  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, December 3rd 2008

Guitar Hero, James Bond, Battle.net Serve In-Game Adverts

In-game ad network Massive inked a multi-year liaison with video game publisher Activision and subsidiary Blizzard Entertainment. Massive will serve dynamic in-game ads across 18 of Activision's Xbox 360 and PC offerings, including Guitar Hero: World Tour and James Bond: Quantum of Solace. A similar agreement was formed between Massive and game publisher THQ   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, December 3rd 2008

Massive Inks In-Game Ad Deal with THQ

Massive, an in-game ad network owned by Microsoft, has signed a multi-year deal with THQ. The contract covers dynamic in-game advertising for a number of the latter publisher's titles, including the Saints Row franchise (a series sometimes compared to Grand Theft Auto). Other games have not been disclosed. Other popular games in THQ's catalog include Ultimate Fighting Championship, the World Wrestling Entertainment series and the Juiced suit  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, November 25th 2008