Provides complete online video advertising solutions with reach and quality of a portal combined with the scale and efficiency of a network

SANTA MONICA, Calif. – Adconion Media Group (www.adconion.com), the largest independent global audience and content network, introduced the Joost Video Network, a complete suite of online video advertising products and services. The Joost Video Network will provide agencies and brand marketers with global in-banner and in-stream video advertising capabilities, including pre-, mid- and post-roll video advertisements, with expert targeting and scale.
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New TV Perspectives Series Explores Video Delivery Ecosystem

MARLBORO, Mass. – Mercury Media, the largest privately-owned, full service direct response media agency in the country, released the first installment of TV Perspectives, a series of white papers authored by Michael Goodman, Senior Director, Research and Analytics for Mercury Media and former Director, Consumer Research at Yankee Group. The series will explore innovations in cross-platform advertising with a focus on direct response television.
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PALO ALTO, Calif. & PHILADELPHIA – Auditude, a leading video advertising management and monetization platform, announced that it has partnered with Comcast Interactive Media (CIM) to manage and serve CIM’s video advertising across its websites including Fancast, Fancast XFINITY TV and Comcast.net. The first implementation, which is now live, includes Fancast and Fancast XFINITY TV, with Comcast.net to follow. Auditude’s platform serves as the foundation to manage and integrate video advertising between CIM sites and its content partners.
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Online Media Network Embraces VAST, Accelerates Brand Advertiser Online Video Adoption, and Establishes True Video Guarantee™

SAN MATEO, Calif. – Brand.net, the leading network provider of online media solutions for the world’s largest brand advertisers and media agencies, announced the launch of its Video advertising solution with a campaign for Unilever’s I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter!® Brand.net’s video solution leverages VAST 2.0, the IAB’s newly released online video pre-roll advertising standard, to extend the company’s market-leading web-wide Branding capabilities across its growing network of high-quality video content.
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Transaction Will Allow AOL to Integrate StudioNow’s Video Creation and Distribution Platform into Seed.com

StudioNow Will Continue to Develop Existing Business

NEW YORK – AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL) announced that it has acquired StudioNow Inc., the premier online platform for quality video creation and distribution. The acquisition will allow AOL to integrate a fully functional video creation platform into its newly-launched content management system, Seed.com. StudioNow will also continue to develop its existing business as a provider of online video creation, management, storage and syndication services to commercial companies.
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – The world of advertising is changing dramatically with shifts in consumer behavior and growing online and pay TV video-on-demand (VOD) services, reports In-Stat (http://www.in-stat.com). These shifts among others are creating a growing market for advanced video advertising, which In-Stat projects will approach $5 billion by 2013.
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Partnership will provide enhanced video, photo and audio capabilities within the Mzinga OmniSocial platform

BURLINGTON, Mass. – Mzinga (http://www.mzinga.com/), the leader in social software, services, and analytics for business, announced a partnership with Kaltura, developer of the first open source online video platform. Through the partnership agreement, Kaltura’s full enterprise video solution has been integrated within Mzinga’s OmniSocial social software platform.
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