MIDEM 2010

PARIS – For the first time, 17 international experts from music, brands and advertising have defined 10 ‘Commandments’ designed to optimize partnerships between the three sectors.
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490 million annual viewers across 150 leading malls empowered to activate music videos from all four majors on HD LCD-TV screens using their mobile phones like remote controls; platform provides advertisers with engaged national audiences and greater measurability of marketing impact and ROI

CHICAGO – Akoo International Inc. announced the national launch of the most advanced interactive entertainment and advertising platform in the digital out-of-home marketplace. The “Akoo” network combines premium video entertainment – including music videos from all four major labels: Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group, and EMI – with a proprietary platform that engages viewers to activate content on HD LCD-TV screens using their mobile phones like remote controls.
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Marketing Body with 47,000 Members to Focus on Email Marketing and Its Enhancing Segmentation Capabilities

BOSTON & BRISTOL, United Kingdom – The Chartered Institute of Marketing, the world’s leading organization for professional marketers, has selected the smartMARKETER eChannel marketing software tool from smartFOCUS DIGITAL to streamline campaigns and enhance communication and engagement for the thousands of recipients of The Chartered Institute of Marketing email campaigns.
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U.S. advertisers can now benefit from only true semantic ad network available

NEW YORK – ad pepper media, the international online advertising network, announced the expansion to the U.S. of the iSense™ Network, the only ad network offering true semantic placement of display media across more than 3,000 content categories. With its award-winning technology and linguistic approach to online advertising, iSense solves the prolific problem of misplaced or out of context online display ads.

iSense Network combines ad pepper’s 10 years of ad network best practice with proprietary cutting edge technology. Underpinning iSense is a patented technology that provides real-time semantic analysis of web pages to identify their true meanings and serve relevant display ads. The result of 11 years of research and development by Professor David Crystal, one of the world’s leading linguists, iSense leverages an extensive semantic ontology in order to derive the subject matter of a page with unprecedented accuracy. Unlike other so-called semantic technologies that use a mathematical approach, iSense benefits from a deeper analysis of each and every word on a page. As a result, publishers profit from targeted ad monetization opportunities on every webpage, while advertisers benefit from more precise ad placement that eliminates wasted impressions whilst increasing contextual relevance and ROI.
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