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WWN Has a Stopwatch on Ad Visibility

Written on
March 12th 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Considering how much time people spend online, why our brand dollars still heading to the boob tube? Because there aren’t effective tools to measure an online viewing experience like the ones for television programming, says Pierre de Grandmaison, founder of World Web Network (WWN), which recently opened an [...] more...

Liquidus Offers Traditional Branding With Video Inventory

Written on
March 10th 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Minimalism has no place in interactive advertising — the more features the merrier. However, one should never stray too far from the classics. Hence why Liquidus has upgraded its inventory-displaying rich media banners to feature custom branded messages, tossing a little tradition in with innovation. Integrated into the [...] more...

Tribal Fusion Demands Your Full Engagement

Written on
December 23rd 2009
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – I’ve definitely felt the LED screen tear at my corneas when my nose is nearly touching it because I’m trying to watch a teeny-tiny video — hey man, I really wanted to see those “Matrix” previews way back when. But watch a minuscule video ad the same way [...] more...

Quick hits: Pay for content? Never!

Written on
October 28th 2009
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Bad news for print publishers crossing their fingers that pay plans for online content will save the industry — only 16.5% of respondents to a survey by Ipsos Mendelsohn and PHD said they might shell out to read a paper or magazine on the Internet. More than [...] more...

Screen Digest: online advertising landscape worsening

Written on
April 9th 2009
Author
Edward Barrera

ADOTAS — No surprise here, Screen Digest has revised its 2009-2010 forecasts downward for online advertising in the US. Whilst online advertising in the US grew by 10 per cent overall last year, fourth quarter trading suffered a dramatic slowdown which leads Screen Digest to anticipate a five per cent fall [...] more...

ValueClick Media launches ActiveAds

Written on
March 23rd 2009
Author
Edward Barrera

ADOTAS – ValueClick Media has unveiled a new advertising unit that enables advertisers to tailor banner ad creative for each consumer. ActiveAds allows marketers to display customized messages in ad creative without the need to develop and manage multiple creative units. Banner ads are dynamically assembled to present a more relevant version [...] more...

New New York Times (huge) ads

Written on
March 20th 2009
Author
Edward Barrera

ADOTAS — Standards for ad units, such as putting banner ads at the top, are changing as we noted before. The Online Publishers A ssociation  have partnered with some publishers to try out new ad units. The standard: The Fixed Panel (recommended dimension is 336 wide x 860 tall), which looks naturally [...] more...

Small business advertising in play

Written on
March 18th 2009
Author
Edward Barrera

ADOTAS — Mainstreet businesses spent more than $6.7 billion in locally generated, locally targeted interactive advertising in 2008 – more than half of the U.S. total. In addition, while the smaller merchants spent less than $300 each on Web site support last year, Borrell Associates in its “Main Street Goes Interactive” [...] more...

Verticals find ad dollars

Written on
March 5th 2009
Author
Daniel Osborne

ADOTAS EXLCUSIVE — As advertising dollars continue to shrink many media sites are looking for ways to enhance their current offerings and create additional ad opportunities. Just as traditional ad buys began to erode in the early part of last year, interactive advertising has been hit particularly hard in the last [...] more...

Pixsy’s Premium Feed’ signs up with Cooliris and Ego TV

Written on
January 22nd 2009
Author
Edward Barrera

ADOTAS – Pixsy, a media search platform that powers private label video and image search engines, announced a new video monetization platform and the integration into publishers Cooliris and Ego TV. The new Pixsy Premium Feed is the largest collection of licensed and syndicated video content with embedded monetization of prerolls [...] more...



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