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WWN Has a Stopwatch on Ad Visibility

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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...

Display, but Nothing Else, Hops on YouTube Mobile Site

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March 11th 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Google has officially opened the gate to display advertising on the  home, search and browsing pages of the YouTube mobile website, but other advertising channels on the online site remain fenced-off from mobile. Similar to YouTube’s homepage, advertisers buy all the inventory on the mobile site daily. As traffic [...] 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...

The Basics of Brand Protection

Written on
March 10th 2010
Author
Sacha Carton

ADOTAS – You can’t help but notice the rapidly increasing number of brand protection vendors, but why do we need these companies? We didn’t have them before so why do we need them now? Writing on behalf of the pioneer in this space (we delivered the first brand-safe network impressions [...] more...

Agencies: Working Hard or Hardly Working?

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March 9th 2010
Author
Mark Kahn

ADOTAS – A recent meeting with a large agency’s digital planning team left me wondering who is doing the real work these days: agencies or ad networks? I was there to talk about our solution for making sense of an increasingly crowded and complicated digital space. Today’s media planners and [...] more...

AdJuggler Soups Up Its Software

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March 5th 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Spring is in the air (despite the occasional flurries here in NYC), so in anticipation of the new season AdJuggler is rolling out the latest upgrades for its publisher solutions software (APS), targeted to fast-growth publishers with niche audiences and large domestic and international portals, and its network [...] more...

Quick Hits: Geoscape Goes Freemium, Gupshup Opens AppShup

Written on
March 5th 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Geoscape has released the FREEmium edition (I see what you did there!) of the Geoscape Intelligence System (GIS), which will provide marketers with frequently updated consumer info such as socio-demographic, economic and spending data via an intuitive browser interface. GIS is powered by Geoscape resources such as the [...] more...

The Switch Is Always On With Contendo

Written on
March 4th 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – One Christmas morning I discovered the answer to that modern mystery, “Why are there locks on the doors of a 7-11?” Before my family’s yearly sojourn to Louisville, Ky., (Go Cards!) for unwrapping presents, we stopped by the convenience store to pick up some snacks for the flight [...] more...

Pumping Media With Netpulse’s Gym Platform

Written on
March 2nd 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – While most gyms have ESPN or some other sports network blaring on that one TV in the corner, I admit to Netpulse CEO Bryan Arp that I tend to sneakily change the station to a “Law & Order” rerun while getting in my 30 minutes on the treadmill. He [...] more...

Centro Relieves Media Planner Woes With Transis

Written on
March 1st 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – The slide starts off innocently enough with a Playmobil-esque character surrounded by white space. Pretend this is a media buyer, says Shawn Riegsecker, president and founder of local media buyer Centro. Assume she has to reach out and send RFPs to 15 different publishers — 15 smaller Playmobil characters [...] more...



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