Search marketers spent 307% more of their budgets on smartphone ads and 231% on tablets to date in Q4 2012, compared with the prior year, according to IgnitionOne. ...Read the whole story
Digitas plans to leverage Skyword's content marketing platform, which helps brands publish content. It offers The SkywordPlatform as part of its recently announced BrandLIVE, a dedicated team and technology to curate and co-create content with partners. ...Read the whole story
A Microsoft Bing holiday campaign debuts on TV Thursday and calls out Google for recent changes to its Google Shopping service on its search engine. It charges that Google Shopping is nothing more than a list of targeted ads that unsuspecting customers assume are search results. ...Read the whole story
Giving Outbrain access to a larger swath of the U.S. Hispanic market, Univision Interactive has agreed to expand its partnership with the recommendation engine. ...Read the whole story
LinkedIn on Wednesday announced a new API (application programming interface) program for its advertising platform to help B2B marketers develop customized campaigns and have more control over their ad efforts. ...Read the whole story
A group that aims to set standards to implement a do-not-track mechanism has tapped privacy expert Peter Swire to forge a consensus between privacy advocates, computer scientists and industry representatives. ...Read the whole story
In what represents a minor coup for Time Inc., the publisher has poached J.R. McCabe from Meredith Corp. to run a new digital video unit. McCabe will be responsible for boosting the volume and quality of digital video products across the company's digital properties. ...Read the whole story
Advertising and media analyst Brian Wieser has downgraded his stock recommendation for WPP from a buy rating to hold, while doing the opposite for rival Omnicom, which he has upgraded to buy. Wieser, who is senior research analyst at Pivotal Research, said he was maintaining a buy rating on the Interpublic Group. ...Read the whole story
Device use and multi-screen behaviors are not easily predicted merely by demographics. Situation, income and even marital status have an impact on when, where and how we pick up that portable screen. ...Read the whole story
After exposing Internet users to millions of irrelevant ads since the mid-'90s, the industry has created a new disease called banner blindness. We have to ... ...More
For both the 18-34 and 35-54 year-olds, Talk remains the No. 1 function of the mobile phone. ...More
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