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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
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
Marketers Use More Tools For Web Traffic (But Need To Use Them Well)
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Posted: Friday, May 11th 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
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
Top News: Y&R Falkland Flap | Best of CLIOs | MS E-Bookstore | Apple Gaming Dominates | NBC's Streaming Olympics
Campaigns of Note:
Ad Steps Into Falklands Dispute; Y&R Condemns Local Office's Work
CLIO Awards: Best of the 2012 Winners
How Beer Companies [...]
Posted: Monday, May 7th 2012
Jelli Offers Terrestrial Radio with Social Media Analytics, Ad Engagement
Social radio provider Jelli is claiming to have “reimagined the radio spot, making it more engaging and interactive.†Jelli promises a radio/social media mashup for advertisers, and now promises it can quantify those exposures with social media analytics.
TechCrunch described Jelli [...]
Posted: Thursday, May 3rd 2012
NBCUniversal Announces Social Gaming Network, Promises Advertisers 115 Million Fans
NBCUniversal yesterday announced what it calls an “arsenal of digital and Social TV opportunities†with the Universal Games Network (UGN). UGN will aggregate all of NBCU’s online, mobile and social gaming efforts around a single platform.
The solution will allow fans to play games, engage and consume content, amass reward points and redeem them for real and vir [...]
Posted: Wednesday, May 2nd 2012
Top News: MillerCoors Severs DraftFCB | Fuse DM, Video | "Twitter Pro?" | Weather.com SoMe Alerts | Spotify Arrives on iPad
Ad Technology:
Google Inside adSense Blog: Introducing Redesigned Payments Pages
Agencies:
MillerCoors Shakes Up Shops, Cuts Ties With DraftFCB
Business Strategies:
12 Reasons to [...]
Posted: Wednesday, May 2nd 2012
Streaming Entertainment Skyrockets, Authentication On The Rise
Some compelling evidence for the value of in-stream and preroll marketing. Streaming entertainment is strongly on the rise, according to DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group. As Hollywood Reporter describes, consumer spending on home entertainment rose in Q1 by 2.5% to $4.45 billion—largely due to the strength of streaming video.
Subscription streaming rose an est [...]
Posted: Monday, April 30th 2012
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
Nielsen: Spring Training, March Madness Took Over the Web
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Posted: Friday, April 27th 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
Top News: Chirpify Music Platform | Google Cloud Storage | Patents Boost Android | CrowdStar Quits Facebook
Business Buzz:
Chirpify launches digital music platform
Business Strategies:
P&G Leans on Digital in Corporate-Image Push
Corporations Must “Put on a Human Face†to [...]
Posted: Wednesday, April 25th 2012
AOL Video Platform Takes A Swing at TV With Original Content, Ad Opps
AOL yesterday effectively relaunched its AOL On platform of video offerings and curated video hub. The move consolidates several of AOL's video hubs under one umbrella, and offers seven new web-only shows.Â
AOL On offers premium video across 14 content channels including food, business, entertainment, style, tech, travel, health and others, reaching an audience of 57 millio [...]
Posted: Wednesday, April 25th 2012
Sunset for Company Blogs? Perhaps, But Blogs Still In Demand for Content
It is difficult to believe that anything worth saying can be said in 140 characters or less.
A USA Today story observes that a number of U.S. companies, Bank of America included, are abandoning the company blog, in favor of the “nimbler tools requiring less time and resources, such as Facebook, Tumblr and Twitter.â€
An interesting turn of events: As of 2008, blogging was seen as the [...]
Posted: Monday, April 23rd 2012
Top News: Publicis Q1 | FCC Requires Disclosure | MS Sunsets PCs? | Pepsi Dominates BuzzFeed
Ad Technologies and Vendors:
Publicis Posts 13% Hike in Q1 Revenue
Campaigns of Note:
Marketing Hotels as Places Full of Fun and Discovery
Legal/Regulatory:
FCC about to [...]
Posted: Friday, April 20th 2012
Spotify Pens Global Promotional Deal With Coca-Cola
It is official: Music-streaming service Spotify has signed a strategic partnership with Coca-Cola. Spotify will provide a brand app for the beverage giant inside the Spotify desktop app, alongside brand apps for AT&T, McDonelds, Intel and Reebok. In return, Coca-Cola will feature Spotify as the centerpiece of its "Year of Music" campaign in 2013.
The announcement broke on Ad Age, which repo [...]
Posted: Wednesday, April 18th 2012
Zynga Targets a Different Type of User with OMGPOP
There has been much speculation on the direction of Zynga since its IPO. Clearly it wants to carve out a separate identity from Facebook, but it is not willing to loosen the ties too much. However, its just-announced acquisition of OMGPOP, the maker of the wildly popular "Draw Something" shows that Zynga is not just interested in separating itself from Facebook—but that it also wants to attract a differ [...]
Posted: Friday, March 23rd 2012
Game-maker Bows to Power of Social Media
The ending to Mass Effect 3 left many gamers disgruntled--to the point that a petition to the Federal Trade Commission was filed complaining about how the game maker used deceptive advertising in its description of the game. Now its appears Electronic Arts and BioWare are about to cave—but probably not because they fear an inquiry from the FTC. Rather, it is the fury of their fan base they are seeking to appease, which has gaining momentum and a microphone via social media.
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Posted: Thursday, March 22nd 2012
Zynga Moves Further Away from Facebook
Zynga announced the imminent arrival of its own platform at Zynga.com with the apparent goal of gaining some independence from Facebook.
Still Ties To Facebook
The new platform, in beta and expected to roll out later this month, still maintains serio [...]
Posted: Friday, March 2nd 2012
Games Get Reward Ad Model from Zynga; Better Position on Facebook
Zynga is piloting a project on CityVille that lets players refill their energy bar by interacting with an advertising. Sponsors in the trial project, dubbed Reward Advertising, include Coca-Cola, MasterCard and the 20th Century Fox film 'What’s Your Number?', according to eConsultancy.
The ads run when a player is low on energy. They range from the offer to watch the film tr [...]
Posted: Friday, February 3rd 2012
Social Gaming on the Move
Brands will find more opportunities to target customers via games as social gaming moves beyond its place of origin - Facebook - and onto the mobile web as well. Both of these trends have been developing for some time, however they received a huge push in recent days from two separate developments.
Project Z
One, Zynga just announced it will launch an independent platform called Project Z. It will still maintain close ties with Facebook, it says, but it is [...]
Posted: Wednesday, October 12th 2011
Capital One Debuts in Three Top Zynga Games
Capital One will be appearing simultaneously in CityVille, FarmVille and The Pioneer Trail, starting this week - a first according to the companies. Players will be able to interact with the goat from Capital One's commercials, which is being introduced in both games as one the in-game incentives.
Increasingly brands are eying gaming as an [...]
Posted: Tuesday, September 20th 2011
Gaming May Be Next Online Ad Format for Fashion
Fashion - especially luxury fashion - came slowly to social media and related ad technologies. However as the industry [...]
Posted: Tuesday, August 30th 2011


