Industry Buzz & Snippets: 04/21/09 – MarketingVOX April 21, 2009
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Ad Networks and Analytics:
- DogTime Media — a network devoted to pet owners and the $43.5 billion annual pet market — has blossomed to 350 publishers and 349 pet bloggers: 13.7 million unique visitors in March. That’s 43% growth from January 2009’s 9.6 million.
- AdJuggler now offers on-demand pricing with no contracts. The firm claims this “pay as you go” structure has never before been implemented for online ad serving.
- Spring Partners launched Springpad in beta — a publishers channel that connects newspaper publications to online readers by helping them erect niche hosted by Springpad.
- BlueTie launched Adventive this week. It helps publishers deliver online ads that “feel” like features, stimulating engagement. See Slideshare presentation.
- Publishers Clearing House launched an ad network composed of its own web properties. In total it draws about five million monthly uniques and 90 million page views. It also launched a b2b site: pchonlinenetwork.com.
Biz Buzz:
- Google Labs launched a new feature called News Timeline, which “organizes information chronologically by presenting results from Google News and other data sources on a zoomable, graphical timeline.” Users can drag the timeline through days, weeks, months, years or decades to explore a given query.
- At the IAB Digital Video conference this week, Publicis execs shared thoughts on the Pool — an ad model designed in tandem with online video providers. No specifics were given, but the killer app is expected to launch in 2010 — and blow pre-roll out of the water.
Campaigns of Note:
- Voila: the final culmination of Google’s YouTube Symphony Orchestra effort. The orchestra, which features 90 musicians culled from all over the world, includes a Spanish guitarist, a Dutch harpist and a Lithuanian birbyne player.
Overseas:
- TNS Media Intelligence’s Adex reports that in February 2009, online display ads drew 16.2% of all ad spend in France, up 1.7% from ‘08 — making online display advertising third in terms of ad spend. The first two were TV and press, which took 61% of ad budgets.
Publishing:
- The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has released fresh digital video advertising guidelines.
Search:
- Healthline is incorporating semantic search tools into its website.
- Search Engine Journal published a cheat sheet for Yahoo and Google Search.
Social Networks:
- The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Neural Interface Technology Research & Optimization Lab is experimenting with using mere thoughts to send “tweets,” or Twitter messages. Results are disturbingly encouraging.
- Twitter launched sign in with Twitter, which lets users connect their accounts to third-party services — much like Facebook Connect and Google Friend Connect.
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MarketingVox Industry Buzz & Snippets: 04/09/09 April 9, 2009
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Good for whom?
Ad Networks and Analytics:
- Wedding Mapper launched an auction-based ad platform.
Agencies and Marketing Execs:
- Neil Edwards joins Cellufun as CEO.
- Former Yahoo exec Jeff McCombs joins ad firm Tumri as CFO.
- Mark Ellis of AOL’s Platform-A is now EVP-Sales.
- Bob Pearson of Dell has joined the Blog Council as President.
Biz Buzz:
- UK-based behavioral ad firm Phorm is contemplating an incentives program that will make users more receptive to behavioral targeting.
- Open Text, a digital media firm based in Toronto, purchased Vizible, which pushes multimedia content across a number of display devices (mobile phones, PDAs, web browsers).
Legal, Government and Regulation:
- Taiwanese firm Elan Microelectronics is suing Apple for copyright infringement of two of its touch screen patents. The suit was filed in the US District Court in San Francisco; Elan has not expressed what remedial action it wants from the iPod/Macbook giant.
Publishing:
- Top gobbledygook phrases used in ‘08 — and how to avoid them.
Search:
- Google has added color filtering to Image Search. This feature lets users get their image search results in a specific color.
- Advanced ROI Measurement Tactics: the Keyword Assist angle.
Social Networks:
- Yahoo launched Sideline, an Adobe Air desktop app for monitoring Twitter.
- Facebook now boasts 200 million users — of which the United States now only comprises 30% (from 70% once upon a time). What’s more, half that number logs on every day, Facebook said.
- Elf Island, a virtual world that revolves around doing good deeds through games, launched today.
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Industry Buzz & Snippets: 02/05/09 February 5, 2009
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Ad Networks and Analytics:
- Mobile web ad platform Mojiva reports it’s served over one billion ads in its first eight months of operation.
- Email/marketing firm ExactTarget is partnering with ShareThis to develop a marketing solution for social media platforms. More elaborate details were not revealed.
Agencies and Marketing Execs:
- Platform-A’s Lynda Clarizio has exited stage left at AOL. She will be replaced by ex-Yahoo Gregory Coleman — the third person to fill this role in 17 months.
- Barbara Tejada, formerly of Crispin Porter + Bogusky, joins EVB as creative manager.
- Jonathan Lister, ex-SVP of AOL Europe, is now managing director of Google Canada.
- Draft FCB has been chosen to manage Starbucks’ direct marketing and CRM duties, including its loyalty card business.
- Burst Media added ex-Wachovia CMO Jim Garrity to its board of directors.
Biz Buzz:
- CPL firm Pontiflex has been chosen by the Environmental Defense Fund and the US Fund for UNICEF to conduct their online lead-generation advertising.
- Microlending firm Kiva launched an API.
Campaigns of Note:
- Microsoft is launching original programming for its Zune portable media player. The first such “show” will be Cinemash, a comedy series co-produced by Mean magazine.
Legal, Government and Regulation:
- Warner Music is filing suit against Songbeat, a desktop app for “discovering” and playing music from online.
Mobile:
- Mobile app firm GetJar has launched an Ads program for its developer community. The format is pay-per-performance: developers can display contextual ads as mobile applications are used.
Music:
- Meet Gigulate a site that weds music news, blogs and gig listings. It is currently in beta, with invites available here.
New and Improved:
- Media artist Patrick Bolvin experiments with YouTube as a potential gaming platform.
Publishing:
- Layoffs have hit the previously-impenetrable Bloomberg LP. The company, which has never conducted layoffs before, will cut 100 from its TV and radio arms.
Search:
- Video search engine blinks is relaunching its search platform with audio meta-data tagging, among other bells and whistles.
Social Networks:
- Social entertainment firm Slide is partnering with content production company Katalyst Media (the lovechild of Ashtun Kutcher and Jason Goldberg). Under the partnership, Slide will exclusively distribute KatalystHQ, a web series about life at Katalyst Media, across its Facebook FunSpace app.
- Social network hi5 has launched a casual games section, dubbed hi5 Games.
- Google launched Latitude, an add-on social network service that could enable marketers to peg users’ real-time locations via mobile, then target them with local deals.
- 140 Characters nostalgically describes how Twitter was born, all of three years ago.
User Experience:
- President Obama outfares Tom Hanks as the nation’s most influential celebrity.
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Industry Buzz & Snippets: 12/18/08 December 19, 2008
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Ad Networks and Analytics:
- Ad platform Panache is delivering its billionth in-video ad this month. Ad insertions rose 850% from 2007, Panache said, due to an increase in major networks and entertainment firms moving premium content to the ‘net.
- Hawaii.com has joined the Travel Ad Network. It serves 3 million unique visitors per month. A “most popular deals” section, and online newsletter keep advertisers sated.
- AOL’s Platform-A has expanded to Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden — broadening its reach to 160 million online users in Europe.
Agencies and Marketing Execs:
- OrangeSoda was tapped by Re/Max of New Jersey for SEO.
- Founder Reid Hoffman is reprising his CEO role at LinkedIn. (He departed in early 2007.) Dan Nye, whom he now replaces, will leave the company in January.
- Jerome Patterson joins Acorn Systems as Chief Marketing Officer.
Biz Buzz:
- Steve Jobs will not be keynoting next month’s Macworld speech. He’s keynoted the annual event for over a decade. The news sent the tech industry into stock-volatile speculations about his health.
Mobile:
- Apple’s been asked to end its exclusive carrier relationship with Orange SA in France. The liaison was thought to be a “serious and immediate threat” to competition in the mobile and telecom sector. Other carriers expect to be able to sell the phone in the near future.
- Motorola is freezing pension plans and cutting executive pay.
- 18% of households have cell phones, no landlines.
Music:
- Major record labels, including EMI, Universal and Warner, are finally beginning to beef up their online presence and reach out to music downloaders (as opposed to just letting third-parties, like iTunes, vend their wares).
- iTunes continues to outpace Amazon’s less-expensive MP3 music store.
Publishing:
- The Oakland Press has launched The Oakland Press Institute for Citizen Journalism.
Search:
- John Battelle asks online readers whether they trust Google.
- 10 SEO bookmarklets to analyze page links and images.
Social Networks:
- Posted items on Facebook now feature a navigation bar “layered on top of the page you arrive on.”
- New York’s Pod Hotel has launched PodCulture, a private social network for guests.
User Experience:
- Bush-bashing goes viral.
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Industry Buzz & Snippets: 12/11/08 December 11, 2008
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Ad Networks and Analytics:
- This week marked the formal launch of Kiwibox, an ad network targeted to teens. It includes 21 teen-oriented sites, spanning 8.6 million unique users per month.
- Social network/online publishing connector Tumblr has closed $4.5 million in a Series B round led by Union Square Ventures and Spark Capital. The two VCs also led Tumblr’s Series A, which totaled $775,000.
Agencies and Marketing Execs:
- WPP Group’s JWT made David Eastman its worldwide digital director.
- Ann Hailey joins web-based retailer Gilt Group as CFO.
- Revenue Science adds Jeff Valente, sales manager, to its New York office.
- Ad firm Cactus makes Michael Martelon its COO.
- Dipchand “Deep” Nishar, who helped launch Google’s mobile business, joins LinkedIn in January as VP-Product Strategy.
Campaigns of Note:
- Traffic last weekend was up 130% for Burger King’s latest campaign, WhopperVirgins.com. Conceived by Crispin Porter + Bogusky, the objective is to travel the world in search of people that have never tried a Whopper, then document their experiences.
- Google has launched the Abuse and Safety Center, a destination that teaches parents and children how to stay safe on YouTube. It was introduced at the Family Online Safety Institute conference in DC today.
Legal, Government and Regulation:
- A report by the Center for Strategic & International Studies contemplates whether the White House — even Obama’s White House — has jurisdiction to oversee cyber security.
Mobile:
- Amobee launched its Handset Application Programming Interface (HAPI) for iPhone and Google Android-based handsets. HAPI helps developers integrate advertising into their mobile applications.
- 14 new firms — AKM Semiconductor, ARM, ASUSTeK Computer, Atheros Communications, Borqs, Ericsson, Garmin International, Huawei Technologies, Omron Software, Softbank Mobile, Sony Ericsson, Teleca, Toshiba, and the world’s largest mobile operator, Vodafone — are joining Google Android’s Open Handset Alliance.
- Three firms — MediaCom London, Eyeblaster and T-Mobile — are testing buy-side, third-party ad management technologies for mobile.
Music:
- RedAntenna lets independent musicians start their own e-commerce stores, which can then be embedded onto websites or blogs. Artists may keep “93 cents of every dollar spent,” the company — which is still in beta — claims.
Search:
- Anand Rajarman and Venky Harinarayan, two Stanford U PhD students to whom Sergey Brin offered to sell Google for $1 million in 1998, have launched their own search engine, Kosmix. It is backed by Time Warner.
- Google SearchWiki — which lets users customize their search results — is incorporating an off switch, according to Google’s Marissa Mayer. When SearchWiki launched, bloggers were vocal in their desire to disable the feature, which previously could not be switched off once on. Mayer also reiterated that SearchWiki may ultimately assist in ranking ordinary search results — giving Google a human editing component, at least in part.
- Google’s year-end Zeitgeist report finds many Canadians still run searches for generic terms — “google,” “facebook” and “lyrics,” for example.
Social Networks:
- Facebook is now available in 30 languages. It also opened a France location, the better to cater to its six million active users there.
- Muxlim.com has launched Muxlim Pal, a Muslim virtual world, in open beta.
- Rumor has it Facebook may buy Loopt, a mobile technology that lets users locate friends in real-time.
- In just three months, The New York Times’ TimesPeople network has swelled to 100,000 users.
User Experience:
- It’s a gender-wide self-esteem crisis: a Synovate survey of male beauty finds less than half of men think they’re sexy. Of them, Greek men feel sexiest, Italians are rated best looking, and Australians are the least concerned about their appearances.
- Google is incorporating a task management feature into Gmail — which already features customizable themes, and video, audio and text chat.
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MarketingVox Industry Buzz & Snippets: 12/04/08 December 5, 2008
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Ad Networks and Analytics:
- Online contextual display ad firm LucidMedia secured $8.8 million in its third funding round, including converted debt. Leading investors included Lake Street Capital, RLI Partners and Melton Investments.
Agencies and Marketing Execs:
- Silicon Alley Insider claims ex-AOL exec Jonathan Miller, who clearly covets Yahoo, is the latter’s first choice to succeed Jerry Yang.
- Ex-Yahoo techie Qi Lu is expected to be appointed Microsoft’s digital head.
Biz Buzz:
- Digital media firm GoFish Corp. secured $22.5 million in financing, led by Panorama Capital, Rustic Canyon Partners and Rembrandt Venture Partners.
- Hallmark is partnering with Joost TV, a free service that lets users watch TV from their computers after downloading its desktop software. Joost viewers will now have access to The Hallmark Channel and the Hallmark Movie Channel. Hallmark is optimistic that the deal will avail its brand to more, and more digitally-minded, advertisers.
- Online printing firm Mimeo — thought by some to be a “Kinko’s killer” — is expanding from Memphis to Newark, New Jersey. Mimeo achieved 18% year-over-year growth as of September. Last year, Goldman Sachs led a financing round infusing it with $25 million.
Campaigns of Note:
- This two-minute teaser is for Coco, a silent film about the life of Coco Chanel. Directed by Carl Lagerfield, the full production debuts on the Chanel website on December 5th. It accompanies Lagerfield’s Paris-Moscow collection.
- Ask.com’s current campaign, featuring quirky, off-putting inquisitors hanging limply on the bodies of ordinary citizens, is not helping the flagging brand improve its image.
Mobile:
- Apple’s current list of top iPhone applications is a treasure trove of opportunity for enterprising marketers: customers will pay plenty for games and entertainment; and free apps run the thematic gamut.
- The Electronic Frontier Foundation is petitioning to the US Copyright Office to broaden a rule allowing users to “unlock” carrier-specific mobile units without violating the DMCA’s anti-circumvention provision. (The law prohibits owners from penetrating codes that control access to copyrighted material — in this case, the material that prevents a phone from use outside a certain carrier’s jurisdiction.)
Publishing:
- Having concluded that “automated news doesn’t quite work,” news aggregating site Techmeme incorporated human editors into its mix.
Search:
- Google’s incorporated a search box, and HD embed, into YouTube videos.
- iCrossing is partnering with Beijing Gridsom Technology Co., a search engine marketing service, to broaden its range to the Asian market.
Social Networks:
- Rumor has it Facebook may auction shares of its news feed off to advertisers.
- The New York Times explores why Twitter really turned Facebook down.
- Giant Realm, which targets men aged 18-34, launched a free social media platform for online publishers. “The goal is to transform the communities being migrated onto the Giant Realm Platform into lively social destinations,” MediaPost writes. There is no cost to participants; advertisers are encouraged to explore the offering.
- Total Prestige, a social networking site for millionaires, is receiving a private cash infusion of at least $1 million. The river of financing comes from Frank DeRose of Furrata Capital.
- Oodle-powered classifieds may be incorporated into the Facebook mix.
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Industry Buzz & Snippets: 11/11/08 – MarketingVOX November 11, 2008
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Bob Isherwood
pursues rebirth
Ad Networks and Analytics:
- Dapper launched MashupAds, a means to build customizable display ads on the fly.
- Terra launched EZTargetMedia, a Latin audience-oriented ad network for the US and Latin America. The company expects to hit about 30 billion impressions in its first year.
Agencies and Marketing Execs:
- After 22 years in office, Bob Isherwood is stepping down from his role as global CD at Saatchi & Saatchi, expressing the desire to have “more than one life in my lifetime.”
- Denver-based Cactus hired Tara Childers, Account Executive, and Charity Czerwinski, Account Coordinator.
- Startup Aptera hired Marques McCammon, CMO.
- Robin Domeniconi, former Time Inc. President, is now Head of Domestic Ad Sales at Microsoft.
Biz Buzz:
- George P. Johnson, an event marketing firm, just purchased web design and marketing company Juxt Interactive. In a separate transaction, it also absorbed MobilePromote.
- MGM is launching two YouTube channels: Impact, featuring action movies like The Magnificent Seven; and another channel, aimed at women viewers, which will air feature films like Moonstruck.
Campaigns of Note:
- Online, Obama’s campaign drew nearly a billion video views, according to divinity Metrics. Men were responsible for most audience impressions.
Legal, Government and Regulation:
- A federal judge has ruled against the Bush administration regarding 225 missing White House emails lost between now and 2003.
- Despite assertions that its data collection process is anonymized, NebuAd faces yet another lawsuit alleging its behavioral ad platform violates user privacy.
- China is taking steps to formally classify internet addiction as a clinical disorder.
Mobile:
- The BlackBerry Partners Fund passed $3.2 million to buzzd, a location-based city guide combining professional and user reviews; $5.5 million to Digby, an online shopping platform for mobile; and $8 million to WorldMate, travel software for business users.
- One in five US voters have cell phones and no landlines.
- T-Mobile is using AOL’s Platform-A to conduct a major two-day campaign for its Google Android handset. The campaign was dubbed the T-Mobile Billion Block, thus named because it aspires to hit over a billion ad impressions.
- In Q3, iPhone’s 3G eclipsed Motorola’s RAZR as the most popular mobile unit in the US.
New and Improved:
- Microsoft integrated Photosynth, a technology that enables users to upload photos, into Live Maps.
Publishing:
- The Financial Times launched its redesigned website. It now sports community features like discussion forums and blogs; better integration between market data and news; and expanded coverage of topics like macroeconomics, tech and energy.
- It’s the $65,000 question: who’s making money online?
- If, for some reason, you’re a fan of sites that aren’t written in your native language, Google Reader now translates subscriptions.
Social Networks:
- Facebook purportedly raked in $467,000 from the Obama campaign — $370,000 of which was spent in September alone. The Obama camp spent a total of $8 million in online efforts.
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Industry Buzz & Snippets: 11/11/08 – MarketingVOX
Industry Buzz & Snippets: 10/31/08 October 31, 2008
Posted by Mark Blei in : Uncategorized , add a commentAd Networks and Analytics:
- Contextual analysis and content matching firm Inform Technologies laid off 20 employees. 59% of its employee base, or 29 employees, will be retained.
Agencies and Marketing Execs:
- Publicis has managed to remain solvent in a time when other agencies and companies have begun to flounder. Organic revenue rose nearly 4% in Q3.
Biz Buzz:
- JetBlue partnered with IdeaCast to offer advertising on in-flight seatback video screens.
- Google joins Yahoo and Microsoft in providing OpenID. But the move looks hasty; John Battelle admonishes speculators to prepare for war.
Gaming:
- Despite progress with its in-game advertising model (even Obama’s using it), Electronic Arts (EA) lowered its profit forecast for this year — and also plans to cut 6% of its workforce. Many jobs will move overseas.
- MTV Networks inked a licensing agreement that may enable it to bring Beatles tracks to Rock Band.
Legal, Government and Regulation:
- Google won the legal right to digitize out-of-print versions of books, as well as provide previews to in-print books. In partnership with publishers and authors, it is also preparing a means by which everyone can profit from the deal: when users run a search for something found in a book, they can preview the page and possibly purchase the work. View the settlement agreement.
Mobile:
- Publishing house Simon & Schuster is availing 500 of its classic titles — including Nancy Drew and Hemingway books — for download on mobile phones.
- Motorola announced plans to cut 3000 jobs — 5% of its workforce — and delay the planned spinoff of its mobile unit.
- BMW — yes, the car maker — plans to launch a discount mobile phone service.
Overseas:
- Hard times for behavioral advertising are far from over. British ISP Orange has just denounced Phorm, arguing the “privacy issue” it presented “was too strong.” “It is our policy to be clear and transparent on how [customer] data can be used, without compromising privacy,” a spokesperson said.
Search:
- Google may unveil a SearchWiki, which currently enables select users to manipulate the order of their search results.
- Rumor has it Google and Yahoo may just abandon their sponsored search ad deal.
- Bloomberg observes Yahoo’s gaining search share.
Social Networks:
- Facebook — the warm, pulpy foundation upon which other people’s fortunes are made — purportedly helped register over 50,000 voters.
- PeopleJar, a social network targeted to self-promoters from all walks of life, proffers a new way to connect with friends: via search.
User Experience:
- This year’s Presidential election may be the most-polled election in history — leading to the creation of more data aggregating websites.
- Speaking of elections, November 4 of this year may also be the most closely-watched and recorded voting period ever.
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Industry Buzz & Snippets: – MarketingVOX October 15, 2008
Posted by Mark Blei in : Uncategorized , add a commentAd Networks and Analytics:
- Attentio, an online conversation “monitoring” company, is launching “Brand Maps” in November. The service, which will appear in the Attentio Brand Dashboard, plots tracked data to provide a snapshot of your brand’s “conversational universe.”
Agencies and Marketing Execs:
- Mark Caline, formerly Global Media Chief at Ford, is now Director of Global Media at Kimberly-Clark.
- Omniture purchased Mercado’s assets for $6.5 million.
- Ex-Marketing VP Jim Gustke of Intuit is now VP of Marketing at Jivox, an online video ad service.
- TBA Global added Dr. Richard Luker, Chief Strategy Officer, to its Chicago Office. Luker created ESPN Sports Poll.
- Mary Maloney joins Persystent as CMO.
- Levitra passed Euro RSCG as lead creative agency on its $70 million ad account.
- General Motors consolidated its CRM programs under Campbell-Ewald and Mullen, both owned by Interpublic Group.
- AtomicOnline appointed Betty Tran to Director of Interactive Marketing. The latter, who worked at ADD Marketing, is thought to be a “viral expert.”
- David Woodrow joins Gather.com as SVP of Sales/Partner Services.
Legal, Government and Regulation:
- Vodka brand Absolut is suing Absolute Radio — formerly Virgin Radio — for trademark infringement.
- Facebook is facing a trademark battle against Aaron Greenspan, author of Authoritas. The latter claims to be among the original founders of the popular social networking site.
- Google lost two copyright lawsuits in Germany regarding displayed photo and art in search engine previews.
Mobile:
- Google is creating iPhone-specific options for advertisers.
- Brides.com is using mobile technology to stream footage of bridal fashion shows to brides-to-be.
Overseas:
- Rambler Media — which outsourced its search engine work, and sold contextual ad service Begun, to Google — launched a large-scale outdoor and TV ad campaign. Its goal is to become the top online destination in Russia within a year’s time.
Search:
- Google Webmaster Tools now provide source data for broken links.
- Here are three ways to customize Google search in Firefox.
- Microsoft Research quietly launched U Rank, an experimental search site that enables users to move results around, share with friends and comment on listings.
Social Networks:
- Instant messaging site Meebo has added new partners for its syndicated IM service: FanPop, GlobalGrind, OrangeShark and Zorpia are among them. The site now reaches over 70 million users worldwide — about 7.6 percent of the total ‘net population, Meebo claims.
User Experience:
- 10 million Europeans may suffer permanent hearing loss for listening to their music players more than five hours a week at high-volume settings.
- A spam attack across Virgin’s email service cut thousands of virgin customers away from their email access — for over four days.
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Industry Buzz & Snippets: 10/7/08 – MarketingVOX October 8, 2008
Posted by Mark Blei in : Uncategorized , add a commentAd Networks and Analytics:
- In the style of AdWords, Social Actions Blog created a blog widget that reflects text ads exclusively for social causes.
- Ad network Jellycloud calls it quits after eight years and two name changes.
- Tech blog network GigaOmniMedia — parent company of GigaOM — raised $4.5 million in a round led by Alloy Ventures.
Agencies and Marketing Execs:
- mUrgent Email Marketing adds Anthony Miller, GM of small business sales.
- The Lithuanian Development Agency chose Saffron Brand Consultants to improve the country’s image.
- Valeh Valiki left his Director-US Sales position at Yahoo for SVP-Sales and Strategy at MySpace.
Biz Buzz:
- Diller gets up-close and personal about his decision to fracture InterActive Corp.
Gaming:
- Casual gaming firm Oberon Media closed a $20 million round of funding led by Infinity I-China Fund, which has taken an interest in the gaming field.
Legal, Government and Regulation:
- Verizon lost its patent infringement case against Cox VoIP.
Mobile:
- Forbes believes iPhone e-reader Stanza may pose a threat to Amazon’s Kindle.
Publishing:
- The New York Times reflects on brands pursuing social media fixes to static site offerings.
Search:
- Diagnose your site with Google Advanced Search.
- Google Webmaster Central is hosting Link Week, a series of blog posts all about links.
- Small-time search engine Accoona is dead. No tears were shed.
Social Networks:
- Facebook’s doing some reshuffling pending the loss of some executives. The social network promoted Christopher Cox from director, human resources to product director. It also made Mike Schroepfer VP of Engineering.
- InterActive Corp. launched Green.com, a virtual world with an eco-friendly theme, in beta.
User Experience:
- Second Life is becoming a hotbed of increased professional use — including networking, researching, conducting real-life business and running virtual ones — according to a survey of 11,000 Second Life users by the Social Research Foundation.
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