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WiFi Usage Growing Rapidly in US and UK According to AdMob November 2008 Metrics Report

» by Otilia Otlacan December 30th, 2008 at 10:15 am » Comments (1)

Worldwide iPhone Requests Grew 52 Percent From October to November SAN MATEO, Calif. & LONDON - AdMob, the world's largest mobile advertising marketplace, highlighted growing WiFi usage in the US and the UK in its November 2008 Mobile Metrics Report. Worldwide iPhone requests grew 52 percent month over month to 359 million in November, giving the iPhone 6.3 percent of total requests. In the US the iPhone is now the #1 device with 9.9 percent of requests. The iPhone has by far the most WiFi usage, with 42 percent of US requests coming in over WiFi instead of a mobile operator network. ...more »

MIVA Direct Launches ALOT Desktop Beta

» by Otilia Otlacan December 30th, 2008 at 9:45 am » Comments (0)

New Widget Delivery Platform Extends the Reach of MIVA’s Expanding ALOT Brand NEW YORK - MIVA Direct, Inc., the toolbar, homepage and content division of digital media and advertising company, MIVA, Inc. (NASDAQ:MIVA), announced the beta release of ALOT Desktop, a free software application that enables users to display widgets directly on their computer desktops without having a browser window open. Through the new product, users can choose from a range of different ALOT widgets that they can customize and then add to their desktops. These widgets include an online radio player, news headlines, weather and celebrity gossip. It is intended that ...more »

AOL Sites Reach 22 Months of Consecutive Year-Over-Year Growth in November

» by Otilia Otlacan December 30th, 2008 at 9:15 am » Comments (0)

Content Sites Saw Double-Digit Advertiser Growth; AOL Launched More Than 20 New Sites in 2008 NEW YORK- AOL’s programming sites continued to see strong growth in November, extending year-over-year growth in unique visitors to 22 consecutive months, according to the November 2008 comScore Media Metrix report. The announcement culminates a year of aggressive expansion and investment in AOL’s programming group, which included the launch in 2008 of more than 20 new sites in key areas such as finance, entertainment, women’s lifestyle and men’s interests. Unique visitors to AOL’s programming content sites grew 3% year-over-year to 54 million in November. In addition, page ...more »

AOL’s New Homepage Delivers Strong Branding and Performance for Platform-A Advertisers

» by Otilia Otlacan December 29th, 2008 at 10:07 am » Comments (0)

Click-through rate increases 30% since the AOL.com relaunch; November total unique visitors and average daily visitors up 13%, and total minutes online grew by 29%; all figures signal higher advertiser returns moving into 2009 NEW YORK - AOL’s Platform-A announced that the new AOL.com homepage is delivering advertisers record performance on their homepage advertising and is also driving increased consumer reach and engagement. Since the homepage redesign was launched in September 2008, advertising click-through rates on the primary 300 x 250 ad banner rose 30%, according to internal metrics, a double-digit increase that shows consumers are increasingly clicking on AOL.com homepage ...more »

the Rubicon Project Celebrates Its Web Publisher Customers’ Massive Growth in 2008

» by Otilia Otlacan December 26th, 2008 at 12:18 pm » Comments (0)

November 2008 Publisher Revenue Grew 11x Over January 2008 LOS ANGELES - the Rubicon Project, an advertising technology company focused on global Ad Network Optimization, extends a thank you to its customers and partners for making 2008 a record-breaking year. the Rubicon Project’s approach to ad network optimization is generating millions of dollars each month in new revenue for the 13,000 sites it serves. Customers include top names from the Comscore 500, many of which are running tens to hundreds of individual sites with the Rubicon Project to make more money from their ad space while protecting their brands and saving ...more »

Hill Holliday Includes Lotame’s Time Spent Technology in Online Ad Campaign for Liberty Mutual’s “Responsibility Project”

» by Otilia Otlacan December 24th, 2008 at 9:15 am » Comments (0)

Results of Time Spent Test will Indicate Optimal Ad Exposure NEW YORK - Lotame, a platform enabling targeted advertising to customizable audiences through social media, announced today that Hill Holliday has selected Lotame to deliver a component of Liberty Mutual’s “Responsibility: What’s Your Policy” corporate branding campaign. During the campaign, Liberty Mutual will conduct a study of the results provided by Lotame’s Time Spent technology, designed to measure the length of exposure that provides the greatest impact for Liberty Mutual’s Responsibility Project messaging (www.ResponsibilityProject.com). In order to accurately measure the impact of the time spent with the ad, Lotame’s Exposure Tracker technology ...more »

Research Shows Mobile Game Ads Drive High Response for Jeep in Campaign on Greystripe Network

» by Otilia Otlacan December 23rd, 2008 at 9:35 pm » Comments (0)

Greystripe’s GS.Engagement Ads Increase Brand Awareness for Jeep From 9.7% to 20.5% SAN FRANCISCO - Greystripe, the leading rich media advertising platform for mobile, has come out with their third brand lift study in one year, detailing some excellent results for Jeep as an advertiser in their network. The GS.Engagement campaign, which ran from March to April of 2008, saw a 10.8% increase in unaided brand awareness and 14.6% increase in online ad awareness, two figures both comparatively larger than the current InsightNorms mobile averages of 6.6% and 13.8%, respectively. Jeep partnered with Greystripe to increase awareness and purchase consideration for the ...more »

Placecast Identifies the Top Digital Advertising Trends in 2009

» by Otilia Otlacan December 23rd, 2008 at 9:31 pm » Comments (1)

New Ways to Improve and Measure Ad Performance, Heightened Privacy Concerns and Online Video Are Trends to Watch SAN FRANCISCO - 1020 Placecast, the first online advertising solution to target highly sought-after audiences using location-based information across the Web, mobile, Wi-Fi networks and email, announced interactive advertising trends to watch in 2009. Trends to watch include better metrics to understand effectiveness, increased concerns about user privacy and mainstream video adoption by online advertisers. Looking back, 2008 marked a turning point in online advertising. Despite the slowing of growth in overall advertising spending, online has finally achieved its place at the table in ...more »

ReplaceAds debuts as the third largest Advertising Network in the October comScore/Arbitron Online Radio Ratings

» by Otilia Otlacan December 22nd, 2008 at 1:00 pm » Comments (0)

Nearly 1.8 million people listened to ReplaceAds Network during an average week in October NEW YORK - ReplaceAds announced that it debuted as the third largest online radio advertising network in the October comScore/Arbitron Online Radio Ratings. According to comScore/Arbitron, nearly 1.8 million different people (1,770,500) age twelve and older listened for five or more minutes to stations affiliated with the ReplaceAds Advertising Network Monday-Sunday 6A-Midnight during an average week in October. The ReplaceAds Network includes more than 3,500 broadcasting stations, and includes music, sports, news, talk and special Interest broadcasts. ReplaceAds works with advertisers to develop Internet advertising campaigns that ...more »

Burst Media Study Reveals the Perils of Ad Clutter

» by Otilia Otlacan December 19th, 2008 at 9:15 am » Comments (0)

More than 75% of Respondents Pay less Attention to Ads on “Cluttered Sites” BURLINGTON, Mass. - Burst Media (www.BurstMedia.com) released the results from a survey on the topic of ad clutter. The survey was administered to over 4,000 web users with the purpose of better understanding how ad clutter impacts a web users’ Internet experience, as well as its impact on the perception of advertisers who place ads on cluttered sites. Overwhelmingly, the findings reveal that websites cluttered with advertisements do a disservice to the publisher, the advertiser and the visitor. According to the survey results, ad clutter not only annoys the ...more »