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Super Bowl XLIV: Pass It to the Crowd

Written on
January 29th 2010
Author
Tony Hoskins

ADOTAS – Things are changing with Super Bowl TV advertising. In the last few years we’ve seen big name players like Doritos and Pepsi refocus their efforts to leverage a different kind of consumer — a consumer excited to be engaged and empowered; a consumer with access to a ready [...] more...

Building Trust through Blogs

Written on
August 20th 2009
Author
Daniel Assouline

ADOTAS — One of the most powerful ways to gain customer trust is to position yourself as an industry leader. What’s the best way to do this? Give away your best tips and proactively address customer problems before they happen. Sounds crazy? From your perspective, it may seem as though you [...] more...

Is the government coming for you?

Written on
June 28th 2009
Author
DM Confidential

DM CONFIDENTIAL — Given the marketing tactics that currently drive so much of the volume in the performance marketing space, articles headlining with “FTC Looks to Regulate Blogger Credibility” or “FTC Change in Endorsement and Testimonial Policy” should make any in our space’s heart palpitate a little faster and sit [...] more...

BlogHer raises $7 million

Written on
May 13th 2009
Author
Edward Barrera

ADOTAS — The female-centric blog network secured $7 Million in a third round. According to AllThingsD, Azure Capital, joined by existing investors Venrock and Peacock Equity, an NBC Universal fund, were part of the round. CEO Lisa Stone said the money will go toward improving tools offered to its 2,500 bloggers [...] more...

Sponsored blog posts sad reality

Written on
March 5th 2009
Author
Edward Barrera

ADOTAS — What is a blogger’s credibility worth? One difference I find between the newspaper world and online is the idea that it is OK for bloggers to get money from the companies they write or may write about. It’s true that there have been print reporters caught taking money. But look what [...] more...

PR and Blogs

Written on
December 18th 2008
Author
Edward Barrera

 ADOTAS — I’m not going to rehash all of what has been going on at Techcrunch and elsewhere about public relation folks and bloggers. Everything that should be said has been said. We don’t have nearly the problem others have, but we still get a lot of press releases. Some [...] more...

CBS Launches Local Ad Network

Written on
March 17th 2008
Author
Sarah Novotny

ADOTAS – CBS today announced that it is launching its own ad network that will ultimately be a partnership between the company’s local television stations, local bloggers and social media Web sites. The stations are syndicating local news widgets to blogs and hyper-local sites; the widgets will feature the top local [...] more...

IDG Makes Ad Network For Bloggers

Written on
March 5th 2008
Author
Sarah Novotny

ADOTAS – Independant publishers who have an interest in growing their revenue and increasing their traffic, but have limited resources have been given an alternative today. The IDG TechNetwork represents publishers to well-known technology marketers who trust IDG to place advertisements in appropriate sites. In return, publishers receive a share [...] more...

Super Bowl Ads’ Success Measured Online

Written on
January 29th 2008
Author
Sarah Novotny

With the Super Bowl coming up on Sunday, the buzz in the advertising world is growing louder and louder. The price of a thirty second spot is $2.7 million and with the writer’s strike, other advertising opportunities have grown slim which makes Sunday even more of a “high-rollers” game in [...] more...

Casual Blogs Are Making More Dough

Written on
December 26th 2007
Author
Sarah Novotny

Casual blogging is becoming more and more lucrative with many only attracting a few thousand readers a day, but making a few thousand dollars a month. The increase has come from various programs such as Google AdSense, which allow sites to take advantage of word specific advertising as well as [...] more...



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