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Display, but Nothing Else, Hops on YouTube Mobile Site

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March 11th 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

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...

Liquidus Offers Traditional Branding With Video Inventory

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March 10th 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Minimalism has no place in interactive advertising — the more features the merrier. However, one should never stray too far from the classics. Hence why Liquidus has upgraded its inventory-displaying rich media banners to feature custom branded messages, tossing a little tradition in with innovation. Integrated into the [...] more...

Yeah, but Can the iPad Make Me Money?

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March 4th 2010
Author
Timothy Hawthorne

ADOTAS – Driven by the hype in the technical press, I visited Apple’s website and checked out the iPad video. Like all of Apple’s geek candy, the iPad looks great–sleek and slick. It demos as completely intuitive, with barely a learning curve needed. The $499 price point seems a tad steep [...] more...

Viacom Yanks ‘Colbert’ and ‘Daily Show’ From Hulu

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March 3rd 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Now you see it, now you don’t: Viacom is yanking “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart,” “The Colbert Report” and other Comedy Central programs from Internet TV resource Hulu after contract negotiations fell through. Viacom will still stream full-length episodes of the popular satirical shows on their respective [...] more...

Rhythm NewMedia Serves a Vid While Your App Loads

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March 1st 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – I can feel the seconds of my life ticking away as my favorite app loads. I can’t help thinking, I could be watching an advertisement right now… A video ad! Fortunately mobile video ad network Rhythm NewMedia has me covered through its new monetization and advertising SDK for iPhone [...] more...

Google Found Guilty, Italian-Style

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February 24th 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

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...

Got Funds? YuMe Scores $25 million

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February 18th 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – YuMe has a new admirer in Menlo Ventures, which led a round of funding that stuffed $25 million into the video ad tech company’s pockets. Existing investors Accel Partners, BV Capital, DAG Ventures and Khosla Ventures joined in the cash-raising and Menlo Managing Director will join YuMe’s board [...] more...

Scaling Your Video Marketing Efforts

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February 18th 2010
Author
Kirk Davis

ADOTAS – Online video has been perhaps the hottest growth category in the advertising industry over the past two years. eMarketer estimates that spending on online video advertising will grow to $4.6 billion by 2013, representing a more than sevenfold increase from the $587 million spent in 2008. Many web retailers [...] more...

Panache Unclogs Video Ad Flow

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February 17th 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Diversity is normally hailed as a positive achievement, but not in the online video space. If anything, said Panache president Steve Robinson, it’s turned the space into a nightmare of inefficiency, with video ad fulfillment costing anywhere from 25% to 40% of video ad sales. Hence Panache has [...] more...

Adap.tv Opens an In-Stream Bazaar

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February 17th 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Adap.tv has cut the ribbon on its video advertising marketplace, allowing marketers, ad agencies, publishers and ad networks to buy and sell in-stream video ads more efficiently through its onesource platform. By establishing advertisers and publishers on a shared technology platform, adap.tv bypasses the difficulties presented by a plethora [...] more...



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