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Will YouTube Swim in Publicis’ ‘Pool’?

Jul 12, 2010 6:20 AM

Several of the Web’s  biggest publishers will meet this Thursday at Starcom MediaVest Group’s offices in Chicago, with the top item on the agenda being the second wave of The Pool, the agency’s ambitious media research project.

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Foursquare Frenzy

Jul 12, 2010 6:05 AM

Agencies are hopeful the digital world’s new belle of the ball will build tools to help them use the service in deeper ways.

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Foursquare Frenzy

Jul 11, 2010 6:05 AM

Agencies are hopeful the digital world’s new belle of the ball will build tools to help them use the service in deeper ways.

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$5 Mil. Fund for YouTube Content Creators

Jul 8, 2010 7:23 PM

Google hopes to goose the quality of independent content on YouTube with a grant program that will award $5 million in grants to participants.

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Mobile Phone Use by Kids and Teens on Rise

Jul 6, 2010 11:00 PM

In the 11-to-14 age group, media-phone ownership increased from 36 percent in 2004 to 69 percent last year.

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World Cup Kicks MobiTV to New Heights

Jul 6, 2010 9:16 PM

The World Cup is pushing mobile video to new heights, with MobiTV streaming 88 million minutes.

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CBS, MediaMind ‘Extend’ Video

Jul 6, 2010 4:07 AM

The new treatment allows users to view video ads in as large a screen as they’d like.

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CBS, MediaMind Join for Video Extender

Jul 6, 2010 4:07 AM

One of the problems with Web video is that there is only so much video ad inventory online, so many publishers shove video spots into traditional display ads.

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Council to Counter Web ‘Content Mills’?

Jul 6, 2010 3:28 AM

It’s not just job-threatened journalists who are worried about the rise of low-cost content generators like Demand Media and Associated Content.

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Condé Expands Duties of Digital Guru Dadich

Jul 2, 2010 5:18 AM

Scott Dadich, who spearheaded the development of Wired’s iPad edition, is assuming a bigger role at Condé Nast.

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Condé Expands Duties of Digital Guru

Jul 2, 2010 5:18 AM

Scott Dadich, who spearheaded the development of Wired’s iPad edition, is assuming a bigger role at Condé Nast.

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Hulu Launches Ad-Supported Subscription Service

Jun 30, 2010 4:37 AM

Hulu has launched a preview of Hulu Plus, its long-rumored ad-supported subscription service, which offers expanded content like past seasons of Glee and House. It adds a new revenue source for the online video joint venture of NBC Universal, News Corp. and Walt Disney. The service will work on PCs and Macs, Apple’s iPad and iPhone and select new Samsung Blu-ray players, Blu-ray home theater systems and TVs. It will also come to the PlayStation 3 soon.

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Web to Become Top U.K. Ad Outlet

Jun 30, 2010 3:59 AM

Internet advertising spending will pass print and TV outlays this year, making online the top ad medium in the U.K.

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Mapquest Charts a New Course

Jun 29, 2010 12:24 AM

Mapquest today unveils an easier-to-use, redesigned site and revamped logo as part of the AOL-owned brand’s efforts to stay competitive in an increasingly crowded space. Visitors can opt into the new site via a call-out atop the current home page, or by typing new.mapquest.com in their Web browsers. For the next few weeks, Mapquest—which had 49.1 million unique U.S. visitors in May, per comScore—is allowing users to switch back and forth between the two sites while it evaluates their feedback.

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Seventeen.com Leans on Social for Relaunch

Jun 28, 2010 10:44 PM

Hearst’s Seventeen has relaunched its Web site with a massive social networking push.

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Google Changes China Tactics

Jun 28, 2010 8:33 PM

Google will stop redirecting users of its China search engine to its Hong Kong site after officials threatened to pull its Internet operating license.

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White House Backs FCC’s Wireless Spectrum Stance

Jun 28, 2010 6:45 AM

The White House is throwing its support behind the Federal Communications Commission’s proposal to reclaim 500 MHz of federal and commercial spectrum to stimulate mobile and fixed broadband.

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ScanScout Boosts Transparency

Jun 24, 2010 6:00 AM

The company says it will now be fully transparent upfront with its advertisers about what sites their campaigns will appear on.

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On Issues of Trust, Social Media Brands Lag Behind

Jun 22, 2010 6:31 AM

Apple, Google and Microsoft are trusted about equally by consumers, according to a Zogby Interactive poll this month, while Twitter and Facebook lag far behind in that respect. Forty-nine percent of respondents said they trust Apple “completely” or “a lot,” matching the number who said the same about Microsoft and Google. Apple’s “trust a little” or “not at all” total (36 percent) was lower than that of Microsoft and Google (both 46 percent), with a higher “not sure” tally for Apple making up the difference.

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On iTunes, Sex Doesn’t Sell?

Jun 21, 2010 6:10 AM

After a winter purge in which it rid its iTunes store of apps with sexual or other material deemed racy, is Apple lightening up?

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The Bestsellers

From iTunes and YouTube to Facebook and Kindle, the most popular content on the web, free and paid.

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1. The Hunger Games
2. Catching Fire (The Second Book of…
3. Mockingjay (The Final Book of The…
4. Kill Shot (Mitch Rapp)
5. Not Comin' Home to You
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