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

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Social Media: Facebook touts selling power of friendship. Facebook makes headway around the world. Rich Media: YouTube   [...]

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 11/16/09

Online Advertising: Google trademark policy worries holiday advertisers. Online Payments: More ways to avoid cash or plastic at checkout. Media Strategies: Comcast   [...]

Microsoft Earnings Cap Promising Week

Microsoft capped off a busy week on Friday with its pleasantly surprising quarterly earnings report. Quarterly revenues were $12.92 billion - a 14% decline from this point last year. Net income was $3.57 billion, or 40 cents per share. These results, though, were higher than Wall Street analysts had been projecting; specifically, those polled by Thomson Reuters expected the Redmond-based company to post a profit of   [...]

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  [...]

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Marketers Thwart TweetNothings, Move Toward ROI

Marketers are discovering more and more ways they might potentially leverage Twitter to make money, even as the microblogging site appears to be doing its best to ignore - and in some cases, outright discourage them. In a keynote presentation at the ongoing Web 2.0 Summit conference held in San Francisco, Twitter CEO Evan Williams was adamant that the site remains focused on improving its p  [...]

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:   [...]

Facebook Retires Beacon

“This is something we think is going to be a really good thing.” What was once heralded by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg as a unique advertising platform that would connect brands with users is now a footnote. As part of a class action lawsuit aimed at Blockbuster for releasing user information, Facebook is finally pulling the plug on the troubled ad platform. The lawsuit also requires   [...]

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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  [...]

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 8/12/09

Ad Networks and Analytics: Who's No. 1 in mobile advertising? AD network halo stories. Agencies and Marketing Execs: Euro RSCG Taps Marian Salzman for PR.   [...]

Publicis Buys Microsoft’s Razorfish For $530M

Publicis Groupe SA has reached a deal with Microsoft to purchase their digital agency Razorfish, more than two years after the software giant acquired the digital agency. The deal is reportedly worth $530 million in cash and 6.5 million Publicis Groupe treasury shares. Publicis will also receive favorable advertising deals across Microsoft’s ad and search networks for the next five years. For its part, Razorfish, a member of Publicis’ Groupe entity   [...]

Mixpo Offers Low Risk Online Video Ad Trials

Local broadcasters and cable operators who want to try out online video but don't have the budget can now try their hand at online advertising using online video advertising company Mixpo’s services to test their video platform with very little risk involved, writes Bizreport. Mixpo aspires to help local broadcasters and cable operators create and deliver a  [...]

OpenX Scores $10 Mil in Series C

OpenX has reported raising another $10 million in Series C funding, bringing the total investment in the open-source ad server to more than $30.8 million. Many investors from previous rounds pitched in again, including Accel Partners, Index Venture, Mangrove Capital, First Round Capital, and digital media head of News Corp Jon Miller, who is also chairman of Open  [...]

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  [...]

Jango Implements Pay-for-Play Online Radio Model

Music streaming service Jango, which is six million monthly listeners strong, launched a program that enables labels and artists to buy "plays" on its site. For as little as $30, Jango Airplay lets bands, for example, buy 1,000 plays on Jango. When artists buy a package, they have the option of choosing other artists upon alongside which their music may be recommended. Each song gives listeners the opportunity to buy the track on   [...]

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.   [...]

Havas Digital To Leverage Media6Degrees 'Social Graph'

Havas Digital is partnering with Media6Degrees, an ad firm that collects social media data, to improve advertising solutions for its clients. Media6° -- infused with $9M from US Venture Partners, Contour Venture Partners, Coriolis Ventures, among others -- uses social graph data to provide major brand marketers with "scalable, customized audiences." Havas w  [...]

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  [...]

MSFT's 'Gaze' Eyes Snap.com Territory

Aspiring to compete with technologies like Snap, which lets users preview content by mousing over hyperlinks, Microsoft is preparing an ad-infused offering called Gaze. Snap delivers "Snap Shots" of web destinations or content, using pop-ups that appear when users hover over hyperlinked text. Users can identify Snap-optimized links by the small Snap favicon perched   [...]

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  [...]