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Quick Hits: Hulu and Univision Become Amigos, Yahoo! Saying Sayonara to Y! Japan

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October 10th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – ¡Que grande! Hulu and Univision signed a multi-year content agreement that will bring all sorts of Spanish-launguage content (telenovelas, comedies, variety shows) from Univision’s network of networks to Hulu and Hulu Plus. When content appears later this year, it will include current prime-time programming. So who among you advertisers were interested [...] more...

Quick Hits: Yahoo Revamps Video Hub, Shows Off New Series

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October 4th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – In the wake of portal rival AOL’s online video upfront with 15 new web series (one with Heidi Klum, one produced by Jennifer Lopez), Yahoo! unveiled eight new web series as part of the rollout of its revamped video hub, which will be a central resource for videos across [...] more...

Hulu Gives Users Gong Power With Ad Swap

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October 3rd 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – You know what would make Hulu’s new Ad Swap product perfect? A gong. Because there’s something about Hulu’s latest consumer-facing video ad service that reminds me of NBC’s infamous amateur talent show. Say I’m trying to watch the latest episode of FX’s “Archer”, but before I can get to the so-wrong-it’s-right animated [...] more...

What’s Outside Facebook Is Inside Now

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September 27th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – You guys are never going to believe this, but Facebook wants you to share more. Here I thought CEO Mark Zuckerberg was going to come on stage last week at f8, shake his head dramatically and say, “Users, we’ve got too much of your personal information already — [...] more...

More Technical Details in KISSmetrics’ eTag Saga

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August 19th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – It looks like what appears on screen when a cat runs across the keyboard: VAR KMCID=’Z9iGGN1n1-zeVqbgzrlKkl39hiY’; if(typeof(_kmil) == ‘function’)_kmil(); That’s the contents of the global identifier variable KMCID set when a user hit any site using KISSmetrics’ tracking technology (such as Hulu or Spotify) before July 29 and the third-party [...] more...

Suit Filed Against KISSmetrics and Pubs Over ETag Tracking

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August 5th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – History repeats itself — back in summer 2009 when privacy researcher Ashkan Soltani and friends put out a damning report about online tracking practices with Adobe Flash cookies (aka local shared objects) that undermined user privacy controls through the use of respawning HTTP cookies, class action lawsuits were [...] more...

Hulu Caught Respawning Cookies as ETags Enter Tracking Fray

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August 1st 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – UPDATED Aug. 2, 5 p.m. EST — Ashkan Soltani informed us that his team found the KISSmetrics code, i.kissmetrics.com/i.js, that allowed Hulu to respawn cookies via ETags on more than 400. A new front has opened up in the tracking cookie battle. A follow-up report from the same researchers (including [...] more...

FreeWheel Broadcasts the Power of Mid-Roll

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May 31st 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

>ADOTAS – As my roommate and I caught the last few episodes of “The Event” (guilty pleasure, but it got a lot better toward the end; still haven’t seen the finale, so SHHHH!) on Hulu, we remembered the days when the online video service served only one video ad during [...] more...

Video Uniques Down But Viewing Time Up

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January 24th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Images of slack-jawed Americans staring at 13-inch laptops perched precariously on their potbellies are running through my head this morning. comScore’s just-released online video viewing numbers for December claim that 172 million U.S. internet users — or 84.6% — watched an average of 14.6 hours of online each [...] more...

2011: The Year Video Explodes

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January 5th 2011
Author
Erick Hachenburg

ADOTAS – With online advertising revenues at record highs, $6.4 billion recorded in Q3 2010 according to the IAB and all eyes on online video as the key growth driver for the sector throughout 2011, the future looks bright as we prepare for the New Year. So what’s in store? Here [...] more...



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