Viacom Accuses Google; Testing Digital Millennium Copyright Act
Viacom has accused Google of turning a blind eye to illegal video clips on its YouTube site in a bid to attract viewers, according to a Reuters report published yesterday. The report details court documents released by the two companies earlier in the week. Google countered that Viacom managers continued [...] more...
Google and China Continue High Risk Chess Game
ADOTAS – Chinese firms selling advertising space on Google’s search pages have demanded clarity about the search giant’s plans in China, as speculation increases over Google’s future in the world’s largest Internet market, according to a Reuters report. “We see a constant stream of information but cannot predict the future, we [...] more...
Yahoo! Wants to Get More Personal
Recently, Yahoo!’s CEO Carol Bartz spoke about the importance of creating a more personal experience for Yahoo! users, one that would tailor the search experience to their interests. She hopes they’ll access their social media through the Yahoo! site as well, with tweets and Facebook postings being viewed on users’ Yahoo! [...] more...
Display, but Nothing Else, Hops on YouTube Mobile Site
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...
EXCLUSIVE: ‘There Is No Ad’ — StumbleUpon Revamps Ad System
ADOTAS – Don’t call it a social networking site, CEO and co-founder Garrett Camp says about categorizing StumbleUpon in the social mediascape. He prefers either “social or content discovery” network. Marc Leibowitz, VP of business development and marketing and a Google AdWords vet, chimes in: “We consider StumbleUpon more complementary to [...] more...
Mobile Apps Go Native With Appcelerator’s Titanium Upgrade
ADOTAS – I grew up in Washington, DC, and moved to New York City in my swingin’ 20s, trading one tourist hotspot for another. Years spent passing large, bumbling groups of visitors, all wearing the same neon color t-shirts as well as tacky hats and sunglasses (sometimes they even ride [...] more...
Google Offers National Click-to-Call in Mobile Search Ads
ADOTAS – I was a little miffed when mom and pop got rid of the rotary phone (Am I dating myself here? I also remember life without cable TV.) and brought home a fancy-pansty touch-tone model. I took a strange pleasure in watching the dial roll back and forth and [...] more...
Apple Smacks HTC to Strike Google
ADOTAS – Apple whipped out its patent portfolio and said HTC was in violation of 20 of them suckers. A suit was filed not only with the U.S. District Court in Delaware, but also the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) — an interesting wrinkle as the ITC doesn’t reward damages [...] more...
Google Found Guilty, Italian-Style
ADOTAS – The European Union sure does love getting in a tizzy about online privacy — especially when it concerns the goings-on of a certain search behemoth — but the Italian court system just upped the ante with a criminal conviction. A judge in Milan found former Google executives David [...] more...
Twitter Deal Boosts Yahoo!’s Social Hub
ADOTAS – Although Google Buzz is getting all the negative hubbub lately, it seems Yahoo! has created a similar social hub based on its open strategy and partnerships, such as the integration of Facebook Connect in December. In its latest inclusive move, Yahoo! has expanded its partnership with Twitter using [...] more...
-
Loading ...
Latest News
- Hulu’s Bringing Its “A” Game But… March 19th 2010 ADOTAS – Hulu’s sales team is actively subverting the ad [...] more »
- Yelp! A class-action suit? March 19th 2010 ADOTAS – One of three civil suits against Yelp filed [...] more »
- Viacom Accuses Google; Testing Digital Millennium Copyright Act March 19th 2010 Viacom has accused Google of turning a blind eye to [...] more »
- Google to Leave China April 10th? March 19th 2010 ADOTAS – According to the China Business News, Google Inc [...] more »
- [x+1] Creates The Smartest Tagging System Around March 18th 2010 ADOTAS – Today, if you happen to be at the [...] more »
- IAB’s Video Standards Tackled By ADTECH March 18th 2010 ADOTAS – ADTECH, a part of AOL Advertising and an [...] more »
- Google Search and Mobile and….TV? Oh My! March 18th 2010 ADOTAS – Google wants to dominate your screens…. Not just [...] more »
Features
- Growing Pains March 19th 2010
- For Better or For Worse? March 18th 2010
- Yahoo! Wants to Get More Personal March 17th 2010
- Creative Considerations for the iPad March 16th 2010
- Amazon Leaves Colorado Affiliates Out in the Cold March 12th 2010
Spotlight
AdBidCentral’s CEO, Vivek Veeraraghavan Talks Openly*What was the inspiration to start AdBidCentral? The conditions that inspired AdBidCentral came from a variety of factors in my personal [...] more...
Reader Favorites
Classifieds
- Sr Director, Marketing Services
- Senior Web Analyst
- Account Director
- Director of Analytics
- Manager, Business and Trade Media Relations
Recent Comments
- Jedd Gould: I think you miss the point. Publications have to charge because the content most are
- Gavin Dunaway: They're similar, but Ning is more a competitor to Facebook and MySpace while StumbleUpon considers
- Steve Feldman: Does StumbleUpon compete with and does essentially what Ning networks does?
- Bulent: I wonder how many of the clients would accept a media plan, that would -as
