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Unruly Media Scores $25 Million in Funding, Ices Google Chrome Black Eye

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January 4th 2012
Author
Brian LaRue

ADOTAS – London-based video social video advertising platform Unruly Media announced this morning it had secured $25 million in funding, following the closing of a Series A round. Investors in what Unruly says is the biggest investment round ever for a private social video company include Amadeus Capital Partners, Van [...] more...

Case Study: Use of Special Visual Effects in Video Ads

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December 30th 2011
Author
Brian LaRue

ADOTAS – Special effects in a video are often eye-catching, but to what degree do they actually encourage a positive association with a brand when they’re used in an ad? A recent study by GenArts says it’s enough of a degree for advertisers to take note. Working with MarketTools, GenArts [...] more...

U.S. Survey Sees Video Ad Growth Skyrocketing

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November 25th 2011
Author
Sarah Novotny

ADOTAS – In their second “Video State of the Industry Survey,” Adap.tv and Digiday found that brand advertisers who have bought online video ads in the U.S. this year are planning to increase their 2012 budgets by 47 percent. For brands that didn’t purchase any video ads in 2011, 84 [...] more...

Korrelate Teams With TidalTV To Take On The Automotive Industry

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November 23rd 2011
Author
Sarah Novotny

ADOTAS – Korrelate, provider of the first census-based, privacy-sensitive link between digital marketing efforts and purchases, announced a partnership today with TidalTV, giving the video advertising platform and solutions provider access to Korrelate’s O2O (online to offline) solution. This solution is meant to help advertisers supplement click-throughs and other COA metrics [...] more...

BrightRoll Gains $30M Paycheck

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November 16th 2011
Author
Sarah Novotny

ADOTAS – Video advertising company BrightRoll has announced it has closed $30 million in financing. Trident Capital led the equity financing, and Trident Senior Managing Director Evangelos Simoudis will be joining the BrightRoll board. Existing investors True Ventures, Scale Venture Partners and Adams Street Partners all participated, as did Comerica [...] more...

Video Ads for Pandora’s Radio Star

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September 17th 2009
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS — Further venturing into the visual arena, audio-centric site Pandora.com, which builds radio playlists for specific users based on preferences, will feature video campaigns for NBC and Electronic Arts. Through 30-second spots, user-initiated extended video trailers and branded radio stations, NBC will be highlighting its new hospital drama “Mercy” while [...] more...

Klickable takes online video deeper

Written on
July 17th 2009
Author
Edward Barrera

ADOTAS — The race to conquer the video revenue problem has started to heat up. Emerging companies, like Clikthrough, which just secured $1 million in Series A funding, are coming up with interactive experiences to entice users to drill down into content. One of the companies is Klickable, a New York-based [...] more...

YouTube Excedrin Challenge

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December 24th 2008
Author
Edward Barrera

ADOTAS — With healthcare seeming to be a top priority in Obama’s incoming administration, pharmacutical companies and health providers need a way to engage with more people. Heaving regulation and concerns over privacy has stymied the effort online, though I know advertising agencies and companies are searching for the right campaigns. [...] more...

Hyper-Local CitySquares Fastest-Growing Search Site

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August 21st 2008
Author
Kathleen

ADOTAS – The hyper-local search site, CitySquares.com, has become the fastest-growing search site, Quantcast reports. It’s also the premiere hyper-local search site in New England, New York City and eastern New York State. Currently, the site has more than 500,000 users and hope to reach 1 million by September. Since expanding [...] more...

The Future of Display Ad Measurement

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August 6th 2008
Author
Mike Sprouse

ADOTAS EXCLUSIVE — The topic of online display advertising effectiveness has been covered in many forums, including the AlwaysOn Global 250 and Stanford Summit which our company attended last week. A hot topic of our own presentation, as well as many of the discussion groups and panels, was what display [...] more...



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