Friday, March 02, 2007

SeeSaw offers digital billboard management tool

Marketers interested in using digital billboards - those signs outside of malls, on taxis, in major metropolitan areas or near the entrances of big-box stores - may get some help in managing their campaigns from a new provider. SeeSaw Networks is launching an advertising tool that will allow the purchase of ads and management of digital campaigns from one location. >>

Friday, March 02, 2007

Dada.net offers "Friend$" benefits

In an effort to monetize the thousands of blogs, social networking site Dada.net is partnering with Google to offer social networkers a way to make some cash from their blogs. >>

Friday, March 02, 2007

Advertisers can use new website for online ad production

A new website gives advertisers the chance to brief online video ad developers for considerably less than the cost of a production agency. >>

Friday, March 02, 2007

eBay expands its social circle

eBay has been doing a lot of social networking in recent months, in a bid to involve more teens in its auction site. >>

Friday, March 02, 2007

Google releases more click fraud data

Google has announced more information about just how much click fraud goes on throughout its network. >>

Thursday, March 01, 2007

Search, display to lead online ads past $60B

With strong growth in online display ads and paid search advertising, investment bank Jefferies & Co. is predicting that online advertising will surpass $60 billion by 2010. Last year, Jefferies & Co. predicted the online ad spend would reach only $54 billion by 2010. >>

Thursday, March 01, 2007

SQAD Inc. to launch online ad campaign cost-forecasting tool

A new database will enable online marketing professionals to better forecast media-plan costs. >>

Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Hispanic advertising to outpace general advertising

The Hispanic population has quickly grown to be the largest minority population in the United States, and as such the advertising market for the group is wide open. According to a recent study, advertising growth within the Hispanic population will outpace the general market by 2010. >>

Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Online TV viewers show sponsors the love

Viewers of online television shows aren't impatiently waiting for those sponsorships ads to end. According to a new study, sponsors have a stronger tie with online TV viewers than traditional TV viewers. >>

Wednesday, February 28, 2007

"Mommy Blogs" take viewers away from morning television

Women are turning off morning television programming and logging on to blogs. >>

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

TV stations not excited about Google's auctioning tool

Don't expect television stations to begin jumping for joy when Google's television ad auctioning tool becomes available. According to reports, executives are not thrilled that Google is encroaching on their area of expertise. >>

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Report: Online ad spend will slow down this year

Most forecasts are expecting another huge gain for online advertising in 2007 as more consumers go online for news, information and great buys. eMarketer, while still in the middle of the forecasts, doesn't agree with that trend and is forecasting an overall advertising slowdown this year. >>

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

MilkPEP introduces world's first branded emoticon

The world’s first branded emoticon has made its debut in the online lexicon in an attempt to connect with teen audiences. >>

Monday, February 26, 2007

Study: More consumers connecting wirelessly

A new study indicates that more than 30% of Internet users are connecting wirelessly. That is an increase of about 22% from two years ago, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project. >>

Friday, February 23, 2007

Marchex upgrades to offer conversion tracking

Metrics to track pageviews and traffic patterns within a website are a good way to gauge how well a new advertising campaign is working. Marchex is taking this type of tracking one step further by offering advertisers conversion tracking. >>