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B2B CEOs Cautious About, But Warming To, Social Media Marketing

B2B Magazine reports that business-to-business (b2b) marketers are increasingly leveraging social media, with the newly ad-friendly LinkedIn ahead by a length. The magazine reveals in its report "B2B Social Media Marketing: A Surge In Adoption" that when b2b marketers were asked to choose the one most important method that they use for their social outreach, LinkedIn was the clear leader at 30%, followed by Facebook   [...]
Posted: Friday, May 25th 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

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

The CW Creates Digital Studio, Announces Fall "Slate"

While the TV networks are feeling threatened by the online video draw, The CW (Home of "Gossip Girl," "Vampire Diaries" and "90210") has chosen to join the bandwagon. The CW has announced the creation of the CW Digital Studio (CWD), which it bills as an "all-new destination for fresh, original content created exclusively for the digital platform." Launching this fall, CWD wi  [...]
Posted: Monday, May 21st 2012

IAB Creates "Bar Exam" For Digital Ad Sales

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has established what it calls the first-ever educational standard for digital media sales forces. It believes that the "IAB Digital Media Sales Certification" fills the need for professional benchmarks in digital, on par with the legal world’s Bar Exam and Wall Street’s Series 7. That situation changes with today’s announcemen  [...]
Posted: Friday, May 18th 2012

Local Ad Dollars Go Mobile And Online: Who Buys Them, In What Formats?

Local ad spending will experience a compound annual growth of 2.6% through 2016, but online and mobile will lead the way with double-digit growth, compared to TV, radio and print. And technology and retail will lead that growth, with local search leading the formats. That according to BIA/Kelsey's Media Ad View reports, which projects that local ad revenues   [...]
Posted: Thursday, May 17th 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

New Bing Premieres With Special Guest Star: Facebook

“Introducing the New Bing: Spend Less Time Searching, More Time Doing,” Microsoft cheerfully described in its Bing blog yesterday. The company unveiled a major update to the Bing search engine, which it promises will “fundamentally [transform] the way users search the Web, [helping] users act quickly by taking advantage of the Web’s ev  [...]
Posted: Friday, May 11th 2012

Facebook App Center: 900 Million Potential Critics

More work for marketers and app developers. Facebook yesterday announced the App Center, “a new place for people to find social apps.” While Facebook promises the center will give developers an outlet to grow their apps, it has a strong ratings element to it; meaning the 900-million-person Facebook community will police and rate the apps, and the App Center will remove the ones rated substandard.  [...]
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

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

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

Email Marketing: Mobile Will Overtake Web-Based Email This Summer

It will be a quiet shift, but a huge one. In June of this year, predicts the email deliverability firm Return Path, more people will read email on mobile devices than on webmail or desktop clients. To marketers, this means a lot of work, describes DMNews.   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, May 2nd 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

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

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

Research: Do We Need A "Pay-per-Hover" Ad Model?

Perhaps “cost per hover” or “pay-per-hover” will become new metrics. comScore and Pretarget, the intent targeting company, have released results of an online advertising study which found that ad viewability and hover time are more strongly correlated with conversions (defined as purchases and requests for information) than clicks or total impressions. It will  [...]
Posted: Thursday, April 26th 2012

Microsoft Research: Target Young Men Online, But Know Their (Changing) Habits

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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.  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

Google Offers TV-Like Viewable Impressions, Ratings Technology

Google joins the list of online ad venue that is “chasing TV ad dollars” (as AllThingsD describes it). Just like streaming video giant Hulu announced yesterday (April 17), Google introduced technologies to enable campaign reporting based on viewable impressions and Gross Rating Points or GRPs, a TV metric. Compared to digital metrics, GRPs are crude, but they are “still the preferred currency  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, April 18th 2012

Viacom: Tablet Owners Love Their Devices, Prefer Them for TV Viewing

Viacom, parent of such younger-skewing properties as MTV and Comedy Central, are certainly invested in knowing who’s watching what, and where. The company has issued a report revealing that tablet devices are the leading second-screen alternative to television for viewing full-length episodes of TV shows. The report details some insights about consumer behavior and attitudes around the tablet user-experience as well, which ar  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, April 17th 2012

Hulu "Grows Up" As a TV Rival, Guarantees 100% Ad Completion

The streaming service Hulu will hold a TV-style upfront on Thursday, reports the New York Times; and it is expected to announce it has reached two million paid subscribers of its $8/month Hulu Plus service. If true, then Hulu has gained 0.5 million in Q1 2012. Hulu is a joint venture of NBCUniversal, Fox Entertainment Group and Disne  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, April 17th 2012

Closing Bell: Google stats | Yammer bounty | LightSquared

Mobile Computing: Google CEO: 'Great devices' with Motorola. Business Strategies: The cold hard stats from Google CEO Larry Page's manifesto. Yammer's $25K Yahoo bounty finds first   [...]
Posted: Thursday, April 5th 2012

Top News: F-commerce | Google's digital glasses | E-reading's rise

Ecommerce: Facebook e-commerce: the next big thing? Signs of What's to Come: Google takes wraps off Web-based digital glasses. Security: Biggest Ap  [...]
Posted: Thursday, April 5th 2012

Closing Bell: Google+ surpassing predictions | Project Glass | Yahoo layoffs

Social Media: Google CEO Page: social networking service surpassing predictions. Signs of What's to Come: Google’s Project Glass   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, April 4th 2012