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Quick Hits: Carrier IQ Skirts Privacy Controversy, An Infographic on Going Viral, The Value of Counting Clicks

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December 13th 2011
Author
Brian LaRue

ADOTAS - Carrier IQ, the company that monitors mobile data — and it’s controversial just how personal that data might be — on over 100 million mobile devices worldwide was in hot water over reports that circulated yesterday suggesting it was turning over  users’ data to the FBI (information from Carrier [...] more...

Quick Hits: China Shuts Down 206 Microblogs, AOL Merges Three Pairs of Patch Sites

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December 9th 2011
Author
Brian LaRue

According to Chinese state media, authorities there have shut down 206 microblogs, citing pornographic or “vulgar” content. More than half of the microblogs came from Weibo, a service comparable to Twitter that even limits each post to 140 Chinese characters. Reuters reports that Chinese state agency Xinhua News Agency and the State [...] more...

Yahoo!, Microsoft and AOL Join Forces

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November 11th 2011
Author
Sarah Novotny

ADOTAS – Yahoo!, Microsoft and AOL are teaming up to create what the companies hope will be a  strong competitor in the online advertising department. The three companies have announced an agreement that will allow ad networks operated by Yahoo!, Microsoft and AOL to offer each other’s premium non-reserved online [...] more...

Quick Hits: AdReady Employs Collective Insights, Turn Adds Video Capabilities

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November 3rd 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – At its partner summit today, DSP AdReady introduced Collective Insights, aimed at improving the effectiveness of smaller-budgeted client campaigns that don’t have the spend to ramp up an exchange’s optimization algorithm. Instead, Collective Insights aggregates insight from numerous small campaigns as well as dynamic third-party data to assemble a solid buy [...] more...

Quick Hits: RTB Will Hit $6 Billion in Global Spend in 2015

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October 13th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – According to a new report by IDC and PubMatic prepared in advance of the latter’s Fourth Annual Ad Revenue Conference, global spending through real-time bidding is forecast to hit $6 billion by 2015 — $5 billion of that will be from the U.S., a 71% growth over current spend as [...] more...

Quick Hits: Yahoo Revamps Video Hub, Shows Off New Series

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October 4th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – In the wake of portal rival AOL’s online video upfront with 15 new web series (one with Heidi Klum, one produced by Jennifer Lopez), Yahoo! unveiled eight new web series as part of the rollout of its revamped video hub, which will be a central resource for videos across [...] more...

CliffsNotes and Heidi Klum Featured in AOL’s Online Video Upfront

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October 3rd 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – As a literary guy, I don’t have a high regard for CliffsNotes, but I have to admit they got me out of a couple scrapes back in college when I was hitting the wacky tobacky a bit too hard. In particular, they saved me from suffering through the [...] more...

Yahoo!-AOL-Microsoft: Little Collaboration Necessary

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September 26th 2011
Author
Russell Glass

ADOTAS – There’s lots of buzz in the industry about the Yahoo, Microsoft and AOL collaboration recently announced. By all accounts, this is an effort to catch up to and compete with the Google display advertising juggernaut. When I first heard the announcement, I was dubious. Like tying the [...] more...

Is Facebook The Second Internet?

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September 23rd 2011
Author
DM Confidential

DM CONFIDENTIAL – The digital space moves so fast, that a notion of a set release schedule has become a foreign concept. It’s not like cars where you have not only different models, but each model has a model year. This suite of products offers the manufacturers a great chance [...] more...

Quick Hits: AOL Adds e-Commerce App to Ad Units and More

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September 21st 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Through its Pictela branch, AOL has introduced the “window shopper” e-commerce app for its premium format units, allowing ad viewers to “try it on,” so to speak. And what happens in the digital window stays in the digital window, as data from the user’s e-commerce experience is not collected [...] more...



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