Branding strategies have become as diverse as coffee drinks at Starbucks. Those new to the coffeehouse menu can stand at the counter for what seems like an hour debating on … Read the whole story
Internet ad revenue rose 24.1% to $7.7 billion in Q2 2011, contributing to the 23% uptick to $14.9 billion in the first half of … Read the whole story
YouTube will launch Google AdWords for video in beta on Wednesday. The tool aims to simplify online video ad campaigns and allow advertisers to … Read the whole story
A new social media/TV network --- in partnership with TV reality producer Mark Burnett -- will do just that. One of Burnett's companies -- … Read the whole story
Even as Madison Avenue's big "back-office" media buying and paying processors Donovan Data Systems and MediaBank were finalizing details of their surprising plans to … Read the whole story
We should have taken it as a sign of things to come. The panel I was moderating at OMMA Global, with the highly provocative … Read the whole story
For the last three years I've listened to the debate about whether Facebook will be around and still dominant in 10 years. If you'd … Read the whole story
Facebook had a big week last week -- potentially the biggest of its seven year existence. At the F8 Developer Conference on Thursday, a … Read the whole story
By all accounts we are well into the social media era: Facebook has 750 million-odd members around the world, including around 155 million in … Read the whole story
Coke is set to make an amateur dancer the star of an upcoming global campaign for Coke Zero. The open casting call includes uploading … Read the whole story
Optimizing campaigns against flawed metrics has prompted a few companies in the ad industry to design recommendation dashboards, based on combining data from search, … Read the whole story
Google has launched a real-time analytics tool that identifies the number of visitors to a specific page on a Web site. The new tool … Read the whole story