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Report: AOL To Slash Ad Sales Staff in Half

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March 13th 2008
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ADOTAS – AOL’s online advertising sales force may be in for yet another dose of drama. A brief recap of recent activity: following the AOL-Time Warner merger in 2001, seven people have helmed the post as head of advertising sales. The latest victim, er president, of ad network group Platform-A, is [...] more...

Is AOL Next on the Block?

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March 12th 2008
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ADOTAS — Time Warner’s chief executive, Jeff Bewkes, is pursuing merging AOL with another company, according to reports. The company has put all of its eggs in its advertising basket, spending more than $1 billion on acquisitions and playing a game of musical chairs with its ad chiefs. (Lynda Clarizio is [...] more...

Agency.com Snags Ogilvy Director

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March 12th 2008
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ADOTAS — Agency.com, Omnicom Inc.’s digital arm, has announced the appointment of Jeremy Daly as director of planning. Daly will lead Agency.com’s New York office in developing new interactive strategies. Daly will report to Riccardo Zane, president of Agency.com. Most recently, Daly was a partner and marketing director at Ogilvy New [...] more...

Jivox Hopes to Do for Video What Google’s AdWords Did for Display

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March 10th 2008
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ADOTAS — Online advertising may be having a moment: according to a study by Burst Media last month, only about half of online video viewers tune out after seeing an instream ad. Self-service online video advertising platform Jivox plans to capitalize on the burgeoning market by offering smaller, mom-and-pop advertisers [...] more...

AdReady Puts New Funding to Use By Poaching Two Bigwigs

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March 10th 2008
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ADOTAS – The company that hopes to democratize display advertising – by making it possible for anyone to build a campaign in “minutes” – has snagged two executives from sprawling search and software behemoths. AdReady plucked an AOL and a Microsoft Corp. exec to spearhead revenue-spiking and strategy initiatives, the [...] more...

Speak2Me Launches Interactive Ad Platform in China

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March 6th 2008
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ADOTAS — Speak2Me Inc., is making its online educational and contextual advertising service available in China. The country’s 210 million Internet users will be able to access Speak2Me’s conversational English lessons for the first time. “Since being acquired by Lingo Media in October 2007, we have consistently achieved our Speak2Me development [...] more...

Web advertisers get site-specific

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March 6th 2008
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Chicago Tribune

What happens to the $21 billion online advertising industry during a recession? No one knows, because the business is too young to have a track record. Already, there are indications that some of the Web’s biggest sites are feeling the same spending pinch that has started to impact traditional media properties like [...] more...

AdBrite Extends Reach – Second Only to Google

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March 5th 2008
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ADOTAS — Online advertising marketplace AdBrite announced today that more than 50,000 Web sites are active in its network – making it second only to Google among ad providers in number of sites. AdBrite has subtly shifted its focus recently, putting larger sites in its crosshairs. “We’ve expanded from our roots [...] more...

Facebook Goes Fishing at Google for Online Ad Guru

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March 5th 2008
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ADOTAS — Sheryl Sandberg, prepare to be poked. Facebook announced that Sandberg will join the social networking site as COO starting March 24. Mark Zuckerberg has not conceded the throne: he will remain CEO of Facebook, the company said. Sandberg was poached from Google, where she served as VP for global online [...] more...

Report: Microsoft Says Google Is Only Ad-Platform Competitor

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March 3rd 2008
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ADOTAS — Microsoft Inc., said its only rival – when it comes to advertising platforms – is Google, Advertising Age reports from the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s Annual Meeting in Phoenix, Ariz. Brian McAndrews, Microsoft senior VP-advertiser and publisher solutions told AdAge that search giants AOL and Yahoo don’t even come close: [...] more...


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Goodmail: Video-in-Email the Next GoldmineADOTAS EXCLUSIVE — Email marketing can be both effective and controversial. As a marketer, this is a great opportunity to [...] more...

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