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HuffPost Intrigue: Balis Out, Arianna Next?

Written on
April 29th 2013
Author
Mike Daly

ADOTAS — A week ago today, we ran a Q&A I did with Janet Balis (pictured), publisher of the Huffington Post. The story came about when an in-house publicist pitched it to me in November. Balis was set to speak at ad:tech New York, but our respective schedules didn’t allow [...] more...

HuffPost Publisher Janet Balis: Balancing Premium Content, Ad Tech, and Network-Driven Strategies

Written on
April 22nd 2013
Author
Mike Daly

ADOTAS — In early February, when AOL announced its first revenue growth in 8 years, its Huffington Post Media Group figured prominently in the discussion. No surprise there, since the group “is responsible for creating marketing strategies for AOL’s blue-chip advertising clients such as Coke and General Motors,” according to [...] more...

AFAIK: Tapad, PJ Loughran, Pandora, Microsoft, Lotame, AdMonsters, MyPod Studios

Written on
March 21st 2013
Author
Mike Daly

ADOTAS –Tapad, a leading provider of unified cross-device advertising solutions, today announced the closing of its Series B rounds of funding for $6.5 million, following a record 2012 fiscal year with a 604% year-over-year growth rate. Publicly traded venture capital fund Firsthand Technology Value Fund, Inc. joined the company’s impressive roster of [...] more...

HuffPost Launches New Social Commenting System: Conversations

Written on
January 22nd 2013
Author
Mike Daly

For years, the folks at The Huffington Post have been training its commenting system, aka Julia, to deal with the kinds of comments that users are likely to type and automating the way their human moderators interact with Julia. Now, Julia will group comments into Conversations that can be shared (unique [...] more...

The AOL On Network Launches Its Connected TV App on Xbox LIVE

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December 18th 2012
Author
AdotasWire

NEW YORK  (December 18, 2012) – The AOL On Network today announced that its app is now available for download on Xbox 360®, giving 40 million Xbox LIVE® subscribers access to a wide selection of rich, high-definition videos. AOL On recently launched an updated version of its connected TV app [...] more...

The Weather Channel Names Neil Katz as VP/Editor-in-Chief of Digital

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October 25th 2012
Author
AdotasWire

ATLANTA (October 24, 2012) – The Weather Channel (TWC) today announced that Neil Katz is joining the company as vice president/editor-in-chief of The Weather Channel digital properties, which include weather.com and its category leading lineup of smartphone and tablet applications. In this newly created role, Katz willown editorial direction of [...] more...

AOL Display Revenue Back From the Dead

Written on
August 9th 2011
Author
Bryn Durgin

ADOTAS – AOL posted advertising gains for the first time since 2008, according to its Q2 2011 earnings report released this morning. Still, the increases are not enough to bring the “You’ve Got Mail!” company back to life. Sure, compared with last year’s loss of a little over $1 billion in [...] more...

Five Ways to a Killer Content Marketing Strategy

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June 9th 2011
Author
Blue Phoenix Media

BLUE PHOENIX - It’s the same thing but we all refer to it by different names. The New York Times calls it journalism and marketers call it content. But everyone agrees: It’s a very important piece of the revenue stream. And with more people attempting to create “content” (“journalism”/”blog posts”/”things to sell advertising [...] more...

It’s Reorg Season in Portal Land

Written on
March 10th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

Both AOL and Yahoo are shuffling the deck chairs — I mean, reorganizing, but the former is issuing the pink slips while the latter is hiring and promoting within its ad sales department. As we noted last week, part of AOL CEO Tim Armstrong’s plan to “make magic” as its new [...] more...

Outside.in Recruited for AOL Local Duty

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March 4th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Even before AOL acquired Huffington Post for $315 million, the portal’s new content svengali Arianna Huffington admitted to a fascination with the future of hyper-local content — during the merger announcement, she highlighted her interest in Patch, AOL’s network of local news blogs. Perhaps as a present to celebrate [...] more...



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An Interview with Jasper Mullarney, VP of Direct Response Advertising, AdknowledgeADOTAS — Industry Veteran Jasper Mullarney is Vice President of Direct Response for Adknowledge, the fourth-largest digital marketplace behind only [...] more...

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