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Nielsen is enlarging its social media TV-centric data beyond Twitter to include Facebook -- now called Nielsen Social Content Ratings. It will include social media authorship, including posts and
tweets, … Read the full story by Wayne Friedman
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Yahoo on Wednesday announced the availability of programmatic native advertising on the BrightRoll Exchange, meaning advertisers and publishers can now bid on native mobile inventory. The BrightRoll
Exchange is integrated … Read the full story by Tobi Elkin
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Stepping up its mobile and social game, Spotify just bought Cord Project and Soundwave. Soundwave should help Spotify to improve its overall consumer experience, including new and improved social
features. Read the full story by Gavin O'Malley

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YouTube cracked the door a little wider Wednesday, making its Real-Time Ads tool available to an increasing number of brands. The ad unit will allow more advertisers to become part … Read the full story by Laurie Sullivan

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Starbucks and Spotify teamed up to launch a Shazam-like experience within their brick-and-mortar stores. Those customers with the Starbucks mobile app will be able to discover music playing in the … Read the full story by Ben Frederick

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AOL plans to take a minority equity stake in Taboola that will allow the two companies to collaborate on challenges that publishers face daily. Engineers from the two companies will … Read the full story by Laurie Sullivan

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Magzter, a digital magazine newsstand, announced yesterday the launch of its version 6.0. The new version curates articles rather than full magazines, pulling content from a magazine and automatically
optimizing … Read the full story by Sara Guaglione

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Parisian start-up Reelevant recently launched a real-time email intelligence platform aimed at diminishing batch and blast campaigns. Read the full story by Jess Nelson
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Advertisers looking for higher quality mobile inventory shifted spending into mobile private marketplaces (PMPs) during Black Friday and Cyber Monday. They increased weekly monetized impression volume
by 45% from the … Read the full story by Ben Frederick
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A new study by researchers at the University of Oxford suggests that social media - despite its apparent efficiency in enabling us to communicate with large groups of people - … Read the full story by Erik Sass