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EyeWonder's PageMorph 'Manipulates' Site Content

Yesterday EyeWonder debuted PageMorph, a homepage-takeover ad format that manipulates the page upon which it sites by apparently shrinking, crumpling, stretching or affecting a real-time screenshot of the content with other means. "Publishers are looking to create premium placements to sell to advertisers while also keeping ad clutter off their home pages," explained VP-Enterprise   [...]

39% of Moms Make 'Net Time Their Quiet Time

The number of tech-savvy mothers in the US who use social media has jumped 462% since 2006, while the number who use cell phones to go online has increased 348% during the same time period, according to a recent research study from BabyCenter, LLC. "The 21st Century Mom Report" revealed that, in addition to bigger trends   [...]

Patent Filings Divulge Ad Model for Kindle

Over the last 30 days, the US Patent Office has published several patents for Amazon that lend insight on the company's future plans for its Kindle book reader. One patent, filed in December 2006, will grant customers that purchase a print copy of a book the ability to access the electronic version as well. Two other patents go into detail about incorporating targeted advertising in on-demand content on Kindle. Under the terms of the patents, Amazon could inserts ads throughout its eboo  [...]

Ad Coalition Preps Behavioral Ad Guidelines for '10

In yet another hard-pressed effort to keep federal regulation at bay, a coalition of major media and marketing trade associations have issued self-regulatory principles for behavioral advertising (pdf). The principles, drafted by American Association of Advertising Agencies, Association of National Advertisers, Direct Marketing Association, Interactive Advertising Bureau and Council of Better Business Bureaus, prioritize privacy and dema  [...]

Google Beefs Up Property Listings on Maps Site

Hoping to rock the waves in the real estate listings arena, Google has expanded its own property listings, buttressing them with extra search functionality for locating property listings on Google Maps. A search for "seattle real estate," for example, still features listings of real estate agents and brokers on a map. But below the search box -- and a souped-up search tool -- is a just-added invitation to search current listings,   [...]

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Bigger Ads Not Necessarily Better

Yesterday the Online Publishers Association announced that 37 members, including The New York Times, Forbes, ESPN, CNN and MSNBC.com, are planning to start running the new, larger ad units the organization introduced last March. With brands like Bank of America and Mercedes-Benz that reach about 68% of the total US internet audience, the formats have a strong launchpad. The three ad units are named and sized as follows: The Fixed Panel (336×700) - remains in v  [...]

TV Ads Most Helpful; Web Banners Most Ignored

Over one-third of Americans (37%) say TV ads are most helpful to them in making a purchase decision, while nearly half say they ignore internet banner ads, according to (pdf) a poll from AdWeekMedia and Harris Interactive (  [...]

Google to Target Users by FICO Score

Google plans to experiment with targeting ads based on credit scores, offering users with high FICOs more expensive luxury goods and services than those with lower scores, writes Mashable. Google is launching the initiative in tandem with Compete, which has a database of about 2 million web users that agreed to provide info on their credit scores when they applied for a new credit   [...]

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How-To: Use Customized Socnets to Meet Brand Goals without Overspending

Although the potential benefits of social media marketing are huge, many marketers are afraid to take the leap. But to remain relevant in the digital world and survive the economic downturn, businesses would be prudent to leverage social media networks to enhance marketing campaigns and connect with consumers in a cost-effective manner. Now users eagerly embrace, if not expect, the ability to contribute to and even drive the conversation around a brand and its products. While this often happ  [...]

Twitter Hits Right Notes for Music Industry

Twitter users are more engaged with music - both online and offline - than non-tweeting counterparts. They also are more likely to spend money on downloaded music, according to research from The NPD Group. Findings from the firm's latest music acquisition study suggest Twitter, if approached appropriately by marketers, has the potential to spread the word about new music and  [...]

YouTube CTA Overlay Lets You Drive Users Elsewhere

Today YouTube releases the Call-to-Action Overlay, a semi-transparent pop-up that enables advertisers to link viewers to any site they wish. For example, a company supporting a charity can send users watching a certain video to their charity subsite. Prior to this inclusion, advertisers that wished to drive users off YouTube had to include a link in the summary on the right-hand side of the video. TechCrunch   [...]

Germans Take Ads in Exchange for Cheaper Mobile Service

Alcatel-Lucent has given German carrier E-Plus the tools to inserts advertisements onto mobile devices based on demographic information provided by a subsidiary of the carrier,   [...]

Display Ads Lift Spending & Brand Engagement

Online consumers exposed to display advertising are 50% more engaged with advertisers' brands and spend 10% more money online, according to a study commissioned by the Online Publishers Association (OPA) and conducted by comScore, Inc. OPA's "  [...]

Facebook's Hybrid Engagement Ads; Multi-Currency Support

In a bid to increase user interaction and drive new fans to Facebook Pages, Facebook released new versions of its Engagement Ads offering. The additions combine capabilities of ads that already exists. Advertisers can, for example, combine videos and polls in the same piece of creative -- as demonstrated at left. Ads can also be markedly larger than the classified-style ads that typically pepper the right-hand column of a profile page, and leaving more room for copy and interaction tools.   [...]

PubMatic Launches Real Time Ad Price Prediction Tool

A tool called Ad Price Prediction - released by online ad revenue optimization service PubMatic - could help publishers predict the cost of an ad unit in real time. The predictions (pdf) are based on real time API pricing and machined algorithms. The tool has apparently already created a 70% increase on ad inventory for ten major publishers who participated in a beta trial of the unit,  [...]

Burst Vets Transparency Commitment with NAI Allegiance

Ad representation firm Burst Media has joined the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI), a gathering of online ad giants dedicated to transparency and user disclosure in behavioral advertising. The NAI is composed of companies like Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL, and Fox Audience Network. Its objective is to act as a central body to police data use in the ad industry, as well as reward businesses that act responsibly. Late last year, the organization rel  [...]

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  [...]

Online & Email Newsletters Jump 475%

The number of online and email newsletters jumped from 1,053 to 6,055 over the last five years, an increase of 475%. Meanwhile, print-only newsletters decreased 43% from 7,395 to 4,180, and those in both print and electronic formats remained about the same (4,859 vs. 4,949), according to Mediafinder.com. The newsletter data reflects listings in the 2009 edition of the Oxbridge Directory of Newsle  [...]

SocNets Still Not Viable Commerce Platforms

Though online social networks continue to post dramatic growth, users still see them as as a way to communicate and interact with one another rather than a means for conducting e-commerce, according to the most recent Consumer Internet Barometer report from The Conf  [...]

Mediabrands, Microsoft Unveil Media Operations Management System

IPG's Mediabrands and Microsoft Advertising have created a system for managing media operations which the companies say will reinvent the way media is planned, purchased, measured, reported and optimized, MediaBuyerPlanner reports. The Media Operations Management System, or MOMS, automates the complexity of media buying, the companies   [...]

Social Networking Gives Online Ads A Break

One morning in January, hundreds of commuters at the Liverpool Street Station in London started dancing. The feat was aired during a break in the reality television show Celebrity Big Brother as an advertising stunt for wireless telephone network T-Mobile. The ad was shown only once on television, but word of it spread via email message, blogs and social networks, until it was watched more than 15 million times on YouTube.    [...]

2/3 of Households Play Computer or Video Games

68% of American households play computer or video games, a three-percent increase over 2008. This indicates growth of entertainment software across all demographics, according to a study from the Entertainment Software Association (ESA). Study findings, detailed in the ESA's "Essential Facts About the Computer and Video Game Industry 2009  [...]

Twitter to Share Shopping Tips, Add E-Commerce Angle

Todd Chaffee, a board investor for Twitter and general partner at Institutional Venture Partners, has suggested to The New York Times that the site may incorporate a means for advertisers to target customers by their desires in real-time -- then send direct messages proffering discounts and special offers. Conceptually, the microblogging service would wed e-commerce to the genero  [...]

Yahoo Develops Self-Serve Display Ad Product

In a bid to draw the business of small, brick-and-mortar companies, Yahoo launched a self-service platform called My Display Ads. "Display advertising isn't just for the big companies, anymore," the product description reads. "Yahoo! My Display Ads offers an easy, affordable way to create banner ads and run them across the Yahoo! network in a   [...]

Web Ads More Memorable in Context

Ads that run on websites with related content are 61% more likely to be recalled than ads running on sites with unrelated content, according to Condé Nast and McPheters & Company, which released additional data from an earlier study about ad effectiveness  [...]

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