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Yahoo Rushes To Market With Axis
Yahoo! announced its Axis browser yesterday, and promises a "new experience that re-imagines" the web browsing experience. At first glance, it appears to do that, and the company admits to putting the user experience ahead of ad revenue or the marketer experience. [...]
Posted: Friday, May 25th 2012
Marketo Introduces Integrated Social Marketing Automation
If customers spend little time interacting with branded social pages, the trick becomes to capture them where they spend the majority of their time; interacting with one another. Marketing automation provider Marketo claims to have solved that problem. In his keynote at Marketo Summit 2012, President and CEO Phil Fernandez announced that the company "is [...]
Posted: Thursday, May 24th 2012
Facebook Self Service | Lamborghini Shops PR | iOS/Publishing Non-Fit? | Oracle Goes Social | Yahoo's Axis
Ad Technology:
Sense Networks Releases New Predictive Mobile Ad Targeting Services
Facebook Premium Ads Get Self-Service AvailabilityÂ
Facebook 'plotting ad-tracking system' [...]
Posted: Thursday, May 24th 2012
Adap.tv Unveils App Platform To Meld TV, Video Ad Sales
In what it calls a "First-of-its kind offering built for brand advertising," Adap.tv today introduced its new App Center for video advertising, which the compan [...]
Posted: Wednesday, May 23rd 2012
WPP’s 24/7 Media and Microsoft Announce "Frictionless" Digital Ad Partnership
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Posted: Wednesday, May 23rd 2012
Microsoft Answers Advertisers' Questions About Windows 8
Microsoft has been conducting a press-and-demo tour promoting Windows 8 for agencies and key advertisers over the last few weeks, and it claims positive feedback. A few advertiser questions keep arising, and Microsoft's Rory Otterburn summarized them on Microsoft's blog.
Q: What type of ads and formats will Micr [...]
Posted: Tuesday, May 22nd 2012
Comcast Spotlight Forms Cross-Media Campaign Unit, Comcast Media 360
Cable giant Comcast is going cross-platform with a new business unit. Comcast Spotlight, the advertising sales division of Comcast, is launching Comcast Media 360 (CM 360) is a new business unit focused on helping marketers take advantage of rapidly developing cross-platform advertising opportunities. CM 360 will be led by Group Vice President Andrew Ward. Comcast Medi [...]
Posted: Tuesday, May 22nd 2012
Digimarc, House Beautiful Launch First "Pinterest-Enabled" Print Magazine
Digimarc Corporation today announced that House Beautiful, published by Hearst Magazines, is the world's first publication to enable readers to pin images directly from a magazine to their Pinterest boards. House Beautiful is using the new Print-to-Pin solution from Digimarc to enable this capability in the June issue, which is set to hit newsstands to [...]
Posted: Monday, May 21st 2012
Top News: Nestle Reassigns | Sam's Club Content | GM Drops Super Bowl | China Regulates Android | Yahoo Divests | Facebook Sputters
Agency News:
Nestle Reassigns Coffee-Mate, Looks at New Agency for Nesquik
Mediabrands Spinoff Network Will Be Called BPN
Business Strategies:
Sam's Club's Content Marketing [...]
Posted: Monday, May 21st 2012
HubSpot Launches App Version of Marketing Grader Tool
All-in-one marketing software company HubSpot has launched a dashboard web app based on its popular Marketing Grader tool. The idea is to "quickly answers marketer's burning questions at a glance," said the company in a statement. Did growth of inbound links take a nosedive? Does the competition suddenly have a lot more indexed pages? Has the last three months of marketing effort improved effectiveness? Are competitors accruing more Facebook fans faster [...]
Posted: Friday, May 18th 2012
Top News: FTC Privacy Scrutiny | Skechers Settles With FTC | Front-Lit Kindle | Facebook: Madison Ave. Skeptical | Pinterest's $100MM Funding
Ad Technology:
Microsoft Reminder: Upgrade to Adintelligence v.8 Before the End of May
Best Practices:
Response: Will We Really Grow Display By Incentivizing Low Bidd [...]
Posted: Thursday, May 17th 2012
Top News: GM Quits Facebook | Agencies After Accenture, Deloitte | Ebook Suit Forward | Mobile Shoppers Like Text
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Posted: Wednesday, May 16th 2012
Biz Analytics, Forecasting Giant SAS Launches Ad Delivery Solution For Publishers
Likely, the first question out of publishers mouths following this morning’s announcement from SAS was "Who?" But the short story is, a giant in business analytics and workflow management has entered the ad delivery field, through a strategic acquisition. And it has already signed some big-ticket customers for its SAS Intelligent Advertising for Publishers delivery solution.
SAS is a leader in business a [...]
Posted: Tuesday, May 15th 2012
Top News: HP Awards PC Business | AmEx Brand Innovation | Groupon Reports Profit | Millennial Media Doesn't | Google Ads Trump Facebook | Social Brand Blunders
Ad Technology:
Volvo Launches China's First RTB-based Advertising
DoubleClick co-founder targets publishers with content-meets-commerce service
Publishers [...]
Posted: Tuesday, May 15th 2012
Microsoft's Xbox LIVE Beats iPad In Video Viewing, And Has Ad Platform
Sure, you can watch digital TV on your iPad, but suppose you want to watch it in your living room? It seems that the xBox gaming console is the most popular non-computer device to watch streaming video, edging out the Apple iPad by 28.2% to 27.1%. Advantage, Microsoft, which owns the Xbox LIVE digital media delivery service.
AllThingsD’s Peter Kafka describ [...]
Posted: Monday, May 14th 2012
Top News: Yahoo Turmoil | Search Engine Rankings | Second Guessing Second Price | Amex Tests SoMe Commerce
Ad Technology:
Debunking Ad-Tech Myths
Agency News:
Little Caesars Taps BFG 9000 for National Creative
Brand Takes a Tweeting
Campai [...]
Posted: Monday, May 14th 2012
Top News: Target Shops Agencies | Experian Offloads | Gap's Digital Campaign | Cloud "Tipping Point?"
Agency News:
Target Out Talking to Media Agencies
Spark Wins Orbitz Media Account
Dell Moves Consumer Advertising to Y&R
Best Practices: [...]
Posted: Friday, May 11th 2012
The New Yellow Pages: "Local is Where We Play/Shop/Live"
The quaint old Yellow Pages have evolved into YP.com, and what may be North America’s largest local search, media and advertising company. YP Holdings LLC (“YPâ€) combines the assets of AT&T Advertising Solutions and AT&T Interactive. YP Holdings launched yesterday with the closing of a 53% controlling interest in the company by Cerberus Capital Management, L.P. (“Cerberus [...]
Posted: Thursday, May 10th 2012
Top News: E-Tail Spending Skyrockets | Google Defense | "Do Not Track" Looms | AOL Keeping Publications
Ad Technology:
Exponential Interactive Launches Appsnack, Global Mobile Advertising Solution For Brand Advertisers
Business Strategies:
Creating True Accountability for the Customer Experience
Campaig [...]
Posted: Thursday, May 10th 2012
More Marketers, Advertisers Trust And Conduct Media Audits
At the Association of National Advertisers’ annual Advertising Financial Management Conference yesterday, the Media Audit Council (MAC) presented results of a recent survey as part of the conference’s “Insights From Advertisers Who Have Embraced Media Audits†panel discussion. MAC had conducted the survey to better understand perceptions of marketing and procure [...]
Posted: Wednesday, May 9th 2012
Google, DudaMobile Offer A Five-Minute Web-To-Mobile Site Conversion
It has been a little over a month since Google partnered with DudaMobile, the do-it-yourself mobile website builder. The partners are offering a quick “test drive†to see what a converted website looks like in a mobile format, with a rating (1 to 5) of mobile friendliness. The companies on April 5th announced a joint effort to expand GoMo, a Google-led initiative to help businesses “Go Mobile.†[...]
Posted: Wednesday, May 9th 2012
Yahoo: Four Techniques For adCenter Optimization
Are search marketers leaving money on the table by putting clients' adCenter campaigns on "autopilot?" “It’s time for a reality check,†say the experts at Yahoo! Advertising Solutions. Guest Blogger Marc Poirier observes that search marketers have plenty of opportunities to boost impressions and pay-per-click (PPC) results. (Acquisio is a perform [...]
Posted: Wednesday, May 9th 2012
Top News: Advertise In Pauses | Google Invests in Content | Affluents Spend $224B | Yahoo Headhunter Quits | Agencies Need Digital Officers? | Ongo Paywall Folds | Tumblr Sued on Copyrights
Ad Technology:
Microsoft Find a Pro Directory: Getting Help with Your adCenter Campaigns
Agency News:
Organic Named Digital Agency of [...]
Posted: Wednesday, May 9th 2012
LinkedIn Sticks To Business, And That's Good For Marketers
The newly ad-friendly LinkedIn is poised to become “The strongest social media network for professionals,†according to analysts at Frost & Sullivan, and despite the buzz about young-turk competitors. LinkedIn last week further cemented its go-to position for professionals by acquiring professional content sharing platform SlideShare for $119 million in cash and stock.
LinkedIn shares have more than doubled since its initial public offering (IPA) in May 2011, and the network cl [...]
Posted: Tuesday, May 8th 2012
Brand Building: YouTube Wants (Increasingly Deserves) Your Marketing Bucks
"Play Means Business," enthuses YouTube. On Friday the company announced an updated Advertise on YouTube Brand Channel. "Think of it as a single destination for all of YouTube’s brand building resources," the company describ [...]
Posted: Monday, May 7th 2012


