Online Media Daily Editions for May 2015
Online Media Daily - Friday, May 29, 2015
Snapchat Raises $573M, Eyes IPO
Useful Vs. Creepy: The Jury Is Still Out
Cereal Giant General Mills Puts $800 Million Media Assignment In Review
Facebook 'Likes' And Pinterest Photos Can Be Endorsements, FTC Says
Time Inc. Rolls Out 'Paid Content,' EW.com First To Make Transition From Totally Free
U.S. Publisher Coalitions Get Scale With Their Titles
Marketron Begins Selling 'Programmatic' Radio Ads
Toby Southgate Elevated To Worldwide CEO At WPP's Brand Union
Online Marketplaces Align Google, Yelp, Bagedo IB
Google Jumps Into Virtual Reality
HBO Opens To Android
Online Media Daily - Thursday, May 28, 2015
Twitter Debuts Audience Insights To Aid Advertisers
Once More Into The Brief, Don Draper
Rentrak Promotes Rubik, Analytics Platform For Advertisers
Programmatic TV Budgets To Rise From 4% To 17% By 2019
Is The Novelty Of Programmatic Wearing Off?
Global Pay TV Forecasts Drop In North America, But Digital Cable Grows
AppLift Acquires Mobile DSP Bidstalk
The Apple Not-So-Smart Watch: Do I Own It, Or Does It Own Me?
Google Delivers On Need To Track Mobile Metrics, Performance
Kinetic, GroupM To Buy Controlling Stake In Poster Conseil
Google Releases Ad Targeting AdMob Tools
Kellogg's Ranked Most Reputable U.S. Consumer Company
Minnesota Court Nixes 'Criminal Defamation' Law
Google Confirms Buy Button On Product Shopping Ads
Shazam Expands Into Visual Recognition
Online Media Daily - Wednesday, May 27, 2015
CBS Might Partner With Apple For Internet TV Deal
Swish! Vox Media Buying Re/Code
Marked Increase In Connected-TV Internet Homes
Nielsen Scoops Up Neuromarketing Research Firm Innerscope
Data-Driven Marketing On An Upswing, But Marketers Wary
'San Diego UT' Lays Off One-Quarter Of Workforce
Twitter Isn't Flipboard's Only Admirer
AT&T Seeks Immediate Appeal In Throttling Battle
Oculus Rift Buys Real-Time 3D Mapping Start-up
Data-Driven Spending Grows Despite Tempered Expectations
Omnicom Shareholders Vote To Change Board Leadership Structure
Facebook Teams With Publishers, Focuses On Food
Bing Images Adds 'How Old' Feature
Yahoo Must Face Privacy Class-Action For Scanning Emails
Social Media Linked to Binge Drinking
Get This Crap Off My Phone: We Are Screwing Up The Mobile Experience
Online Media Daily - Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Charter Buys Time Warner Cable, Consolidates Its Cable Power
Time Inc. Acquires FanSided, Expands Sports Coverage
Israeli Startup Develops Foolproof Ad Addressability, Uses Your Actual Address
Charter-Time Warner Deal Threatens Web Video, Advocates Warn
WPP Promotes Tamara Ingram To Chief Client Team Officer
eBay Reinvents Search: Launches Promoted Listings, Cost-Per-Sale Model
Users Score Meerkat, Periscope Highly For Social Events
Deutsch Taps Deverson, Gets Some Ogilvy Intel Inside
Snapchat Courting Big Ad Dollars
Instagram Sending Out "Highlight" Emails
Ive Named Apple's First Chief Design Officer
Most People Don't Understand 'AdChoices' Icon
Financial Sector To Up Digital Budgets To $10 Billion Annually By 2019
Online Media Daily - Friday, May 22, 2015
Just In Time For The Holiday: J&J, Sony, VW Launch Media Reviews
Unsolicited Advice To The Graduate
TV Benefits From Online Video Ads
Sharethrough Taps Nudge For Audience Attention Metrics
Twitter Investor Sacco Preps Critique
Lotame Eyes APAC Marketers, Adds Eyeota Data To Platform
Ex-Nexage CEO Cormier Joins Millennial Media As COO
Charter Communications May Have Exposed Subscribers' Personal Information
Brit + Co. Raises $23M
Bing Building Massive App Index
Delaying Net Neutrality Rules Threatens 'Edge Economy,' FCC Says
Making Good Mobile Investments
Online Media Daily - Thursday, May 21, 2015
'Letterman' Ends On A High Note, Nabs Nearly 14M Viewers
Mozilla To Let Advertisers Target Firefox Users Based On Browsing History
Google Adds Buy Button For YouTube TrueView Ads
'USA Today' May Scrap Daily Print Edition
Cross-Platform Ad Campaigns Add Millions To Audience Reach
Magnetic Acquires MyBuys, Raises $25 Million Equity Round
Clarabridge Buys Engagor, Enhances Engagement, Data Skills
Omnicom's Annalect Named 'Smart Data Agency Of The Year'
Sizmek Partners With Retailigence For Real-Time Data On Brick-And-Mortar Inventory
Mobile Payment Method Has 2 Sides
Google Renames Webmaster Tools
FCC Warns Broadband Providers To Follow 'Core Tenets' Of Privacy Protections
Predictions: What Facebook's Foray into Publishing Means for Advertisers
Facebook Buys Tugboat Yards, Eyeing Small Publishers
This McCann Mad Man Says Computers Have Destroyed Creativity
Online Media Daily - Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Twitter, Google Strike Deal That Drives Leads, Reads
Piracy Web Sites Net $209M From Digital Ads
Programmatic Ad Spend Booms, Fueled By Retail
Global TV Rises, Asia-Pacific To See Biggest Boost
BASF Is The Latest Multinational Firm To Hold A Global Media Review
Lycos Puts Search, Ad Patents On The Block: Will Roll Out 'Hard Goods' Soon
AdRoll Updates Bidding Algorithm, Claims Viewability Jumps 37%
Buyers Share How Much They Are Spending In Programmatic - Whatever 'Programmatic' Means
See Hear: Spotify Will Be Video Player Too
PayPal Dinged $25 Million For Duping Consumers
Most People Doubt Web Companies Will Keep Data Private
Why Would Publishers Send Traffic to Their Competitors?
Twitter Bows New Google Partnership, Search Interface
Online Media Daily - Tuesday, May 19, 2015
21st Century Fox Kicks Off $1 Billion-Plus Global Media Review
CenturyLink Gets Partial Win In Latest Round Against Comcast
Pinterest Ramps Up Advertising Efforts
'Malware Score' Comes To Pixalate's RTB Seller Index; OpenX Tops Google
Turn Adds DoubleVerify's Pre-Bid Data To Platform
Measuring Link Between TV And Social Media
Real-Time TV Analytics Firm iSpot.tv Raises $22M
BMW Puts Its $150 Million-Plus U.S. Media Assignment Into Review
Lifetime's 'Marilyn Monroe' Campaign Targets NYC Subway Riders With New OOH Technology
Sales Coming Up Roses For The Home Depot
Pinterest Co-Founder Reveals Secret Behind Great Products
Facebook Facing Chorus Of Critics Over Internet.org
Twitter Officially Launches New Search Feature
Online Media Daily - Monday, May 18, 2015
It's Not TV, It's VAB: Trade Bureau Drops Cable, Television Too
Baidu Invests 'Millions' In Content Ad Platform Taboola
Google Reportedly Rolling Out Buy Button
New Platforms, Including BrightRoll, Plug Into Placed For In-Store Measurement
Early Twitter Buzz Deems 'Queen,' 'Legends' TV Successes
Samih Fadli Becomes Razorfish Global's First Chief Intelligence Officer
Gasoline To Hit Lowest Prices In Six Years This Summer
The Top Five SEO Challenges And How To Fix Them
Battle Of The Ages: The Digital vs.Traditional Media Debate
Google Prevails In Battle Over 'Innocence Of Muslims'
What CPG Brands Can Learn From The Launch Of The Apple Watch
Online Media Daily - Friday, May 15, 2015
Brand Networks Buys Shift For $50M, Launches Measurement Tool
AOL: A Legacy Of Most-Hated
Democratic Senators Urge FCC To Preserve Tough Text-Spam Rules
Google's Self-Driving Cars Hit Mountain View Roads This Summer
Comcast Revamps Set-Top Data As NBCU Audience Platform
M&A Media Deals, Dollar Value Dips In Q1 2015
Mobile Advertising Growth Steadies
P&G Launches North America Media Agency Review
Study Finds Half of Consumers Think Organic Labeling Is An Excuse To Charge More
Is Facebook's "Instant Articles" Bad News For Twitter?
Twitter Now Tries To Push Ad 'Binges'
Will European Mobile Networks Ban Advertising?
Israeli Start-Ups Were Key To AOL's Appeal To Verizon
GM Invests $1 Billion To Speed Product Development
'Mobile Viewability' Picks Up Steam Following MRC's Interim Guidance
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