Glam Media has always impressed me with their cutting edge ideas for content aggregation and ad sales. This is their new marketing widget platform for advertisers. They're partnering with a long list of widget tech providers. Here's an example of it's customization: if VentureBeat wanted to offer a widget of its full news stories to the New York Times, we could do so using one widget. VentureBeat could then use a second widget to offer its news content in a different way (perhaps just the first two paragraphs) to three or four other top publishers.
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AD-Men on Mad-Men
Great article discussing the way Mad Men is promoting itself to Ad-Men. It is also written by an Ad-Men.
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How American Youth Will Screw Viacom | Epicenter from Wired.com
Insight into what the future may hold for us. Viacom, will definitely switch to Online advertising, but I think for the youth demo you are going to see campaigns start online with video and print being based off the online campaign sooner then I thought.
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Brands Embrace Online Video, But Play It Safe
While more advertising dollars are going into online video advertising, budgets for developing the creative are all over the place. Also campaigns are all over the place.
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Veoh Launches New BT System
It combines video consumption, searching, browsing and community activity data from Veoh’s 28 million plus viewers so that marketers can send branded ads and content to viewers across a variety of lifestyle and interest categories.
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Gamasutra - Massive In-Game Ad Network Gets Third-Party Validation
Interesting Development for in game ads this will soon be a very big area of the market I am sure.
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Google Lets AdWords Users Buy TV Ads
Starting price is $100. They're also funding the initial wave of ads with up to a $2,000 rebate. Definitely a sign of things to come, as they're also building out a creative resources market place.
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Study links cross-platform marketing to brand affinity among web users
A must read for anyone in online marketing. One particular quote: "A key finding from the study is that "multiplatform engagement is oversimplified. We tend to clump online into a single platform, and what we learned from the study is that there are so many ways to engage online now.""
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Twitter Traffic on the Rise
Twitter now accounts for 0.0016 percent of all US internet visits, its actual amount of traffic is much greater. Internet visits comprise only a portion of Twitters total traffic, as you can use it through third party desktop applications like Twhirl or third-party web applications like Friendfeed. The company has also seen significant growth abroad, including Japan, and Hitwise doesn’t measure international traffic.
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Kevin Rose: How Diggnation Makes Money from Ads
Quote: "The key takeaway? Advertising is about the product and the content. Get that right, and you’ll be all good, when it comes to advertising. This is typically easier when you’re already a trusted source or name, and even MacPherson noted he had filmmaking experience that lent to the ability for him to better create content. But you get the point. Do what you love, and advertisers will love you."
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