- New Social Nets for Your Brain
The Social Graf, Erik Sass - Monday, October 20, 2014
There's some good news for all those people who complain that soci ...
- Thismoment Raises $17M Earmarked For Product Development
Social Media & Marketing Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Social-marketing start-up Thismoment just closed a Series D funding round worth $17 ...
- Social Learning Network Brainly Secures $9M
Around the Net In Social Media & Marketing, Gavin O'Malley - Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Brainly -- a Polish start-up that built a “social learning network” f ...
- Interest in Ello Craters
The Social Graf, Erik Sass - Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Well, that didn't take long. The new social media hotness, Ello, ...
- Google Planning Big "Virtual Reality" Bet
Around the Net In Media, Gavin O'Malley - Tuesday, October 14, 2014
Google is reportedly ready to lead a $500 million funding round ...
- BSkyB Invests In Video Start-Up Pluto.tv
Around the Net in Video, P.J. Bednarski - Monday, October 13, 2014
The U.K. pay TV giant has invested $500,000 into online video start- ...
- Product Hunt Gets $6.1M To Hunt For More Products
Around the Net In Media, Gavin O'Malley - Wednesday, October 8, 2014
Product Hunt, an online community for the gadget obsessed, just raised $6 ...
- Tech World Excesses Reaching Pre-Bubble Proportions
Around the Net in Mobile, Gavin O'Malley - Tuesday, October 7, 2014
Without using the B-word, The Wall Street Journal is accusing the te ...
- Jeter, Athletes Start A Web Site For Players' 'Unfiltered' Voices
MediaDailyNews, P.J. Bednarski - Wednesday, October 1, 2014
Derek Jeter, not known as the most quotable guy on the fie ...
- Where Sharks Are Swimming, Expect Blood
Online Spin, Cory Treffiletti - Wednesday, October 1, 2014
Wow. Where did the time go!! It's already October, and Q4 ...
- MyCoop, a Social Network for Building Tenants
The Social Graf, Erik Sass - Wednesday, October 1, 2014
Every week seems to bring a new social network -- or tw ...
- Ad Industry Vets Launch Music Content Company
MAD, Larissa Faw - Friday, September 26, 2014
Peter Gannon and Jessica Dierauer are launching Able Baker, a new mus ...
- WPP Launches China E-Commerce Venture With Alibaba Alum
MAD, Steve McClellan - Wednesday, September 24, 2014
The new company will be led by its principal investors -- C ...
- Media Vets Start 'BRaVe' Advisory Firm
MediaDailyNews, Mark Walsh - Tuesday, September 23, 2014
A trio of media and marketing veterans has formed a new fi ...
- Google Gives Early-Stage Startups Cloud Credit
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, September 12, 2014
Google announced a program Friday that gives $100,000 cloud credit to startup ...
- Yet Another College-Based Social App: Friendsy
The Social Graf, Erik Sass - Wednesday, September 10, 2014
College campuses are hormonal hotbeds for social media, and collegiate entrepreneurs ke ...
- Yahoo Buys Image-Based Advertising Start-up, Luminate
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Monday, September 8, 2014
Yahoo has acquired Luminate, a start-up that focuses on advertising on t ...
- Mobile Ad Start-up xAd Takes Fresh $50M
Around the Net in Mobile, Gavin O'Malley - Thursday, September 4, 2014
Mobile ad start-up xAd just raised $50 million to rapidly expand i ...
- AOL Brand Head Susan Lyne Tackles New Female-Focused VC Fund
MediaDailyNews, Gavin O'Malley - Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Less than a year and a half after her arrival, AOL ...
- Upworthy Making Money Despite Traffic Slump
Around the Net in Video, Gavin O'Malley - Monday, August 25, 2014
Traffic to Upworthy continues to slump, but the viral video-sharing start-up ...
- Copywriter to Go One Month Subsisting Only on Food Found in the Agency
Mediapsssst, Richard Whitman - Tuesday, August 19, 2014
This is awesome. And very scary! So there's a guy named S ...
- This Week Ad Industry Interns Had A Party...And Pimped Dogs on Tinder
Mediapsssst, Richard Whitman - Thursday, August 7, 2014
Looks like Wednesday night was the time to be an intern ...
- John Oliver Skewers Native Advertising...And Offers A Hilarious Solution
Mediapsssst, Richard Whitman - Tuesday, August 5, 2014
You have to see this! Once again, HBO's John Oliver has go ...
- Pinterest Buys Content Organizer Icebergs
Social Media & Marketing Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Thursday, July 31, 2014
Putting its recent $200 million capital raise to use, Pinterest just boug ...
- SocialQueue Helps Pharma Companies Engage via Social
The Social Graf, Erik Sass - Wednesday, July 30, 2014
Most marketers agree that social media is the place to be f ...
- Immigrant Creates Company To Monetize Content
Around the Net In OMD Europe, Tanya Gazdik - Thursday, July 24, 2014
It’s not just the U.S. that benefits when immigrants with skills a ...
- Speed-Dating Is The Tinder Of Innovation
Online Spin, Joseph Jaffe - Tuesday, July 22, 2014
For some reason, the industry has embraced an ephemeral speed-dating approach th ...
- This Quiz Will Determine An Ad Agency's IQ
Mediapsssst, Richard Whitman - Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Agencies beware! Marketers rejoice! Appropriately named IQ Agency is out with ...
- Ad Veteran Launches Baltimore-Based Agency
MAD, Larissa Faw - Monday, July 14, 2014
Therese Hessler, most recently the Vice President of Media at The Leffl ...
- Start-up Secret Raises $25M, Debuts 'Secret Collections'
Social Media & Marketing Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Monday, July 14, 2014
Fighting for survival in a saturated social messaging space, Secret just rais ...