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Top News: Online Political Ads | Target Dumps Kindle | Hyperlocal Mobile Scale | LinkedIn Tops Conversions | Tumblr Ads | Amazon Web Shows

Business Buzz: 2012: Year of the Online Political Ad [INFOGRAPHIC] Business Strategies:  [...]

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YouTube Goes After Local News, Attempts to Sign Newspaper, TV Partners

YouTube has created a new feature called “News Near You” which uses the internet address of the visitor’s computer to determine the user’s location, and offers relevant local videos from within a 100-mile radius.The feature is just one element in YouTube’s push into news video. This summer, YouTube invited more than 25,000 news sources from Google News to become video suppliers,   [...]

Agency.com Takes iCrossing to Court for 'Employee Raiding'

Omnicom's Agency.com has filed suit against digital ad firm iCrossing, insinuating the latter poached a number of major executives and clients, reports the Wall Street Journal. $19.5 million in damages are sought. The suit alleges tortious interference, breach of contract and conspiring to misappropriate proprietary data and trade secrets. In specific it accuses iCrossing CEO Donald Scales, former Chief Exec  [...]

AT&T Staunchly Defends Ad Targeting

As mobile advertising picks up steam, AT&T sets a precedent by issuing a strong defense of tracking users' web-browsing behavior across its network, arguing it can "dramatically improve their experience," reports the New York Times. AT&T also emphasized the importance of doing so "the right way," meaning using of the "opt-in" method (requiring customers to affirmati  [...]

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Super Bowl Advertisers Fumble Search, Social Media; Gain Elsewhere

This year's Super Bowl marked the second most-watched TV show in US history, clocking 97.5 million watchers, reports the BBC News. Some of the biggest brands in the world vied to capitalize on buzz created by Super Bowl ads, but few maximized their multimillion-dollar investments  [...]

Pharma Marketers to Spend $2.2B in Online Ads in '11

Online advertising spending by the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry will reach US$ 975 million in 2007 - a gain of 19 percent over 2006, according to eMarketer, reports Hospital Buyer. The pharmaceutical category will account for 4.5 percent of the total US online ad spending in 2007, down from 4.  [...]

Multichannel Data Use Marketers' Greatest Challenge

Multichannel data utilization is marketers' greatest challenge, cited by almost 30 percent of respondents to a recent survey of marketers attending the Alterian Annual Summit, held in Chicago in August, reports MarketingCharts.   [...]

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Study: Americans Think Mobile TV & Web too Much

Americans are enthusiastic about new tech like mobile video and high-definition broadband but at the same time express trepidation about nonstop access to the Net, according to a new poll (via ZDNet). Sixty-four percent of respondents with children under 18 said they believe mobile TV in cars would be a useful way to keep kids entertained, but 70 percent still wouldn't subscrib  [...]

MillwardBrown: Video Ads Great for Brand Recall

Video ads within online TV programming is great for brand awareness but repetition is watering that awareness down, according to a new study from MillwardBrown, reports ClickZ. The study comes as more TV networks are putting their programming online and shows that advertising within those shows leads to higher brand recall. Participants had 82 percent brand recall with online viewing compared with 54 percent on TV. The   [...]

Internet Radio Hit Hard by New Rate Hikes

Internet radio just got a lot more expensive. The United States Copyright Royalty Board approved rate increases suggested by the recording industry that would make webcasters pay more for each song heard by each listener. The rates came after hikes were proposed by the RIAA-associated Sound Exchange, which represents major and some indie music labels, Wired reports (  [...]

YouTube Anti-Piracy Policy Perturbs Media Companies

YouTube's proposal to offer privacy measures only to distribution partners is drawing the ire of many media companies, which consider it a negotiating tactic that places them under duress, Reuters reports. YouTube says it plans to offer technology to help media companies identify copyrighted videos that are uploaded to the site, but only to potential l  [...]

Marketers Fumble Super Bowl Ad Replays, Aggregators on the Ball

Instead of going to the homepages for advertisers to re-watch the Super Bowl commercials, viewers went to aggregator sites such as YouTube, reports AdAge. Despite being some of the most popular videos on the internet in the days after the game, Super Bowl commercials were re-watched on sites other than those of the advertisers that created them. iFilm,   [...]

New NBC Chief Zucker Takes Swing at YouTube

Just after being officially announced as the new chief executive at NBC Universal, Jeff Zucker accused video-sharing site YouTube of failing to protect NBCU's copyrighted content, reports the Financial Times. Zucker, who has been with NBC for a number of years and was named CEO on Tuesday, sa  [...]

Akamai: Traffic Jumps to Super Bowl Advertisers' Sites

Traffic to Super Bowl advertisers' websites increased dramatically during and after the game, according to internet infrastructure provider Akamai, which released findings from its Net Usage Index for Advertising. Traffic to the sites, which averaged about 80,000 visitors per minute in the 2-3 weeks before the   [...]

Viacom Asks YouTube to Remove 100,000 Clips

YouTube said it would comply with Viacom's request on Friday to pull more than 100,000 clips, which have accounted for 1.2 billion or so video streams. Viacom said YouTube and parent company Google have not followed through on their promise to provide filtering tools that would let Viacom (and others know) when copyright-infringing vides have been uploaded, writes Broadcasting & Cable (  [...]

A Peek into the Online Marketing Year That Was

2006 was not Madison Ave's year of embracing the internet, but that didn't stop it from being interesting: GE came up with a solution for TiVo, a slew of virals broke out, and the PR world faced a brick wall after creating fake blogs, writes The New York Times. General Electric's One Second Theater  [...]

YouTube Moves, Censors CBS Clips' Comments

For CBS video clips, YouTube has placed the comments section on a page separate from the video and is also filtering comments left by viewers. The changes took place shortly after YouTube reached a content distribution deal with CBS, which likely required the changes, according to the New York Times. Advertisers have long worried about the type of content   [...]

NFL Wants User Content, but Bans Post-Game Vids

The Cinncinati Bengals have become the first NFL franchise to create a website for fans to submit their own videos. At the same time, the NFL is restricting local news sites from posting videos of postgame press conferences or locker room interviews online. The new Bengals video site, hosted by technology firm ViTrue, will be part of the Fan Zone section of the Bengals team website and was first announced to Bengals fans during last week's football game, MediaPost   [...]

Wal-Mart Shuts Down MySpace Clone

After just 10 weeks, Wal-Mart has pulled the plug on "The Hub," a social-networking site for teens that the nation's largest retailer had hoped would become a competitor for MySpace. When users try to access the The Hub, they are greeted with the message "Sorry, but the School Your Way promotion has ended," Forbes reports. Though unclear whether Wal-Mart orig  [...]