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Quick Hits: Top Brands Move into Google+, Unruly’s “Viral Spiral,” comScore/Neilsen Deal Good for Advertisers?

Written on
December 22nd 2011
Author
Brian LaRue

ADOTAS – According to a report issued by BrightEdge, 77 of the world’s top 100 brands have Google+ pages now, up from 61 a month ago. These top brands now have about 148,000 Google+ followers, cumulatively. Starbucks ”nearly quadrupled” its Google+ followers just in the last month, the report says, and [...] more...

It’s a Social Web, and Nielsen’s Just Monitoring It

Written on
September 13th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – All right, kids — sit down and shut up because class is in session. Seems Nielsen has dumped a megaload of Internet consumption information in its third-quarter 2011 update of “State of the Media: The Social Media Report,” and it’s up to Professor Dunaway over here to disseminate the data [...] more...

Prior to Online GRP Launch, Nielsen Acquires Marketing Analytics

Written on
August 9th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – The summer of consolidation continues! Nielsen has acquired Marketing Analytics, which specializes in… Marketing anayltics, of the online variety — in particular, marketing mix modeling, technology that will be indelibly useful to Nielsen as it launches its television-style online analytics product. Nielsen gains 52 employees with the deal along with software [...] more...

Android Is the Mobile OS of the U.S. Masses

Written on
July 29th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Sigh, I remember when Android was a just a tiny blip on the smartphone scene, while RIM’s Blackberry dominated the landscape… November 2009 seems like a lifetime ago. According to the latest data from Nielsen, Google’s Android operating system is now running on 39% of all the smartphones in [...] more...

Quick Hits: Smartphones Overtake Feature Phones in Sales

Written on
July 1st 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS - Nielsen reports that 55%of U.S. consumers that bought a phone in the last three months bought a smartphone, meaning that the souped-up mobile devices are being purchased more than their less-fancy feature-phone cousins Kantar Media has broken into Europe with analytics offering Compete. According to Horace Dediu at Asymco, the average iOS [...] more...

Beyond Clicks: Nailing Down Ad Effectiveness

Written on
February 4th 2011
Author
Ariel Geifman

ADOTAS – For the past decade, advertising was measured by reach, frequency and Gross Rating Points (GRP). However, when online advertising came about, it had a distinct advantage — measuring users’ reaction to the ad that was presented to them. This is how the click was born, and became synonymous with [...] more...

Wunderground Redesign Woos Advertisers

Written on
February 3rd 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Early spring, the groundhog proclaimed, and we New Yorkers snorted as we slipped and slided our way through an ice storm. People in Chicago were too snowed-in to comment. Groundhog Day also marked the launch of the redesigned Wunderground (short for Weather Underground) site, the self-proclaimed David facing The Weather [...] more...

Internet Video Viewers Not Switching Off the TV

Written on
November 16th 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – When TV-show streaming service Hulu first appeared in 2007, the fear from television advertisers was that faithful viewers would turn off their sets and start watching all their favorite programs online. Although online video and TV program viewing is higher than ever, the mass shunning of the boob [...] more...

Yahoo and Nielsen Concoct a ‘Smarter Mix’

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November 9th 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Fragmented media consumption makes a unified message all the more important for branding campaigns. However, allocating spend to various mediums requires marketers to go back to their Economics 101 textbooks and read up on diminishing returns. As Yahoo and Nielsen extrapolate in their new “Cross-Platform Optimization” study, “At a [...] more...

Android Popularity Keeps Rising, Nielsen Says

Written on
October 5th 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Sixty percent of Titanium app developers surveyed by Appcelerator and IDC last month think Android has a better long-term outlook than iOS. Nielsen’s latest smartphone data only bolsters that belief, as new smartphone buyers in the U.S. are flocking to Google’s mobile OS. According to the company’s latest findings, [...] more...



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