Posts Tagged With: digital media

blinkx Founder and CEO Named One of Digital Media Wire’s “25 Executives To Watch In Digital Entertainment”

» by Otilia Otlacan January 7th, 2009 at 11:37 am » Comments (0)

Digital Media Wire Recognizes blinkx CEO Suranga Chandratillake as Executive to Watch in the Digital Media and Entertainment Industry SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. – January 6, 2008 – blinkx, the world’s largest and most advanced video search engine, today announced that CEO and Founder Suranga Chandratillake has been selected as one of Digital Media Wire’s “25 Executives to Watch in Digital Entertainment.” The annual list recognizes 25 of the most innovative, creative and forward-thinking executives in the digital media and entertainment industry. Honorees are selected by the editorial and executive team at Digital Media Wire and represent companies that are shaping the industry. ...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 »

Dynamic Ad Leader Teracent Corporation Accelerates Growth by Naming Internet & Yahoo! Veteran Chip Hall as SVP Sales & Marketing

» by Otilia Otlacan December 30th, 2008 at 9:00 am » Comments (2)

15-Year Internet Media & Technology Executive Joins Deep Veteran Team SAN MATEO, Calif. - Teracent Corporation, the leading Dynamic Ad Platform, announced Chip Hall as its Senior Vice President of Sales & Marketing. Mr. Hall had previously been with Yahoo! Inc. in various executive roles, including managing the company’s Global Strategic Partnerships team. His experience includes co-founding Release Software, the first Internet software distribution company, in 1995 after successfully promoting early Internet companies such as Yahoo! and Verisign as a public relations executive. Mr. Hall also sold dynamic e-commerce systems to the Fortune 500 while at Organic Online and later ran ...more »

In these “Interesting Times” ABI Research Forecasts What ISN’T Going to Happen in 2009

» by Otilia Otlacan December 23rd, 2008 at 11:44 am » Comments (0)

NEW YORK - For the fourth consecutive year, ABI Research puts a different twist on the traditional December activity of surveying the year just past and speculating about what the new one will bring, with a white paper titled "What’s Isn’t Going to Happen in 2009." The paper is available for free download from the company's website. Given the global recession, lots of things won't happen in 2009, of course. So ABI Research's analysts focused on several of the company's core areas of expertise, including mobile marketing and mobile banking, near-field communication, digital media, IPTV, transportation, navigation and location based services, ...more »

AOL’s Platform-A to Deliver Two-Day, Billion Impression Ad Campaign for T-Mobile

» by Otilia Otlacan November 21st, 2008 at 9:00 am » Comments (0)

First-of-Its-Kind Ad Buy Leverages Platform-A’s Unmatched Reach NEW YORK - AOL’s Platform-A announced that it launched, in partnership with T-Mobile USA, an unprecedented billion-impression Web advertising campaign across Platform-A during a two-day period on November 10 – 11. The first-of-its-kind advertising buy underscores Platform-A’s ability to reach more U.S. online consumers – more than 90% -- than any other online advertising business. Platform-A includes AOL’s owned-and-operated sites, along with the thousands of sites in the Advertising.com third-party network. Platform-A and T-Mobile collaborated to create the “T-Mobile Billion Block,” the most-expansive two-day ad buy in Platform-A history and will spotlight the T-Mobile G1 ...more »

MIVA Obtains Credit Facility for up to $10 Million

» by Otilia Otlacan November 17th, 2008 at 9:30 am » Comments (0)

Credit Line Expected to Support Expansion of ALOT Brand and Roll-Out of New MIVA Media Ad Platform NEW YORK - MIVA, Inc., (NASDAQ:MIVA), a digital advertising and media company, announced that it has entered into a credit facility for up to $10 million provided by Bridge Bank N.A., a subsidiary of Bridge Capital Holdings (NASDAQ: BBNK). America’s Growth Capital (AGC), a leading investment bank serving emerging growth companies, acted as financial advisor and sole placement agent for MIVA. The line of credit is expected to support the growth of MIVA’s expanding ALOT toolbar and homepage brand, the roll-out of the company’s new ...more »

Gotuit Publishes White Paper: The Currency of Internet Video

» by Otilia Otlacan November 7th, 2008 at 9:00 am » Comments (0)

www.gotuit.com - Gotuit Jean Sanidas, 781-970-5500 press@gotuit.com Gotuit, a leading provider of video optimization technologies, today announced that it is making available its latest white paper, "The Currency of Internet Video: The Importance of Quality Metadata in Monetizing Internet Video". A must read for any digital media executive, the paper analyzes the crucial role of metadata in unleashing the full value of video libraries. To be most successful, video publishers must focus on the quality of their metadata, just as they do on the quality of their video and audio. Topics covered in the white paper include: - The relationships between metadata ...more »

New Razorfish Research Consumers Increasingly Using Social Media to Make Buying Decisions

» by Otilia Otlacan October 29th, 2008 at 1:30 pm » Comments (0)

Four out of 10 consumers have made a purchase based on advertising they saw on a social media site, and 76 percent welcome advertising on social networks, according to a report published earlier by Razorfish (www.razorfish.com), one of the industry's largest digital marketing agencies. FEED: The Razorfish Consumer Experience Report can be found at http://feed.razorfish.com. FEED documents the results of a 2008 survey that Razorfish conducted of more than 1,000 connected consumers (a coveted group who spend money online and have access to broadband). According to the Razorfish Digital Consumer Behavior Study, connected consumers are adopting social media and web 2.0 ...more »

Ad Ops Daily Briefs: October 27 2008

» by Otilia Otlacan October 27th, 2008 at 11:24 pm » Comments (0)

- Hale 200 Index of Global Economic Entities Provides Unique Look at the Global Economy of the 21st Century America's national leaders, corporate decision-makers and individual voters can awaken to the realities of the new global economy and how the implications affect the national economic security of the nation and upcoming Presidential election with the release of Patric Hale’s It’s the Economy! (Stupid). According to Dr. Roger Nelson, Emeritus, former Assistant Dean and Chairman Department of Management, The David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah, "Hale's book is an 'absolute must have' for every concerned citizen. It's a one-stop, exhaustive ...more »

Avenue A | Razorfish Shortens Name to Razorfish

» by Otilia Otlacan October 20th, 2008 at 11:43 am » Comments (0)

Avenue A | Razorfish announced today that the agency has shortened its name to Razorfish and launched its new website -- www.razorfish.com. 'For four years we have operated as a single agency with integrated capabilities in the global marketplace, and we don't need two names anymore,' Razorfish CEO Clark Kokich said. 'Although both Avenue A and Razorfish are excellent choices as standalone brands, the Razorfish name enjoys stronger brand equity around the world.' The Avenue A | Razorfish name was the result of a 2004 merger between Avenue A, one of the first companies to plan and buy digital media, and Razorfish, ...more »