Industry Collaborates on Mobile Advertising Campaign to Increase Awareness of American Red Cross Text Message Relief Campaign

NEW YORK CITY – -Mobile advertising industry leaders have joined forces to help the relief efforts for those impacted by the earthquake in Haiti in the largest mobile fund-raising effort. AdMob, Eyeblaster, Jumptap, Microsoft Advertising, Millennial Media, Ringleader Digital and other networks were approached by mGive-Mobile Accord to develop the mobile advertising campaign designed to broaden the reach of the American Red Cross Haiti relief efforts via the organization’s text messaging mobile campaign.
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Eyeblaster data reveals video advertising outperforms next to editorial content, while lagging in social environments

New York, New York — Eyeblaster, the leading independent provider of integrated digital advertising solutions, announced its latest video findings, indicating that online video advertising outperforms next to email and editorial content such as news, finance, sports, music , but lags in social networks and gaming environments.
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Global competition recognizes best campaigns of the year in cross channel and digital advertising

New York, New York – During the first night of ad:tech, Eyeblaster honored the winners of the 2009 Eyeblaster Awards. Now, in its 8th year, more than 75 campaigns from at least 15 markets globally were in the running for this year’s competition. The campaigns represented the best in digital advertising which crossed channels, borders, and formats, including long form video, homepage takeovers, and social media integration.

The North America People’s Choice Award and the North America Judge’s Award went to Creative Agency Bridge Worldwide and Media Agency Starcom for the Pringles Can Hands campaign. This campaign ran in multiple markets worldwide.
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Popular voting determines the best cross-channel campaigns at the 8th Annual Eyeblaster Awards

New York, New York – Today, Eyeblaster celebrates the best digital campaigns of 2009 and its 10th birthday as it kicks off voting for the 8th Annual Eyeblaster Awards. The polls are officially now open to the digital media industry at large, so cast your vote for the People’s Choice Award here. This year’s awards feature new ways brands effectively connect with consumers across multiple channels in a variety of formats via Twitter, UGC, homepage takeovers, in-stream video and cross channel synergy.
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NEW YORK – Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue.

Online Video Advertising Networks 2007 – 2010: Emerging and Surging

This report analyzes video inventory and gross media spend in both up-and-coming and established avail verticals, including in-banner, remnant/3rd party pre-roll, video overlays, video search and podcasting.

Each video advertising network vertical is thoroughly analyzed by total inventory (exclusive, non-exclusive, monthly and annually), business models, sell-out percentages, CPMs for each avail format, gross ad billings and total revenues by network.

In-banner video networks led by Eyewonder, Pointroll, Eyeblaster and Google’s DoubleClick are inventory, media spend and revenue generating juggernauts of the video advertising group, combining for over $1.5 billion in 2008 gross billings (video units only), forecast at $1.8 billion in ’09.

3rd party video networks representing premium pre-roll inventory aligned with major branded content include BBE, Brightroll, Tremor Media, YuMe Networks, Internet Broadcasting and Worldnow are forecast to contribute another $223 million to gross media spend during 2009, over 24% of all pre-roll media buys across an extremely competitive and rapidly-evolving sales landscape.

Overlay network inventory reached 19.8 billion total units in 2008, forecast to increase 70% in 2009. Participation revenue flowing back to networks like VideoEgg, Adapt.TV and ScanScout is expected to climb 100% in aggregate.

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Online Video Advertising Networks 2007 – 2010: Emerging and Surging

New platform boosts digital media efficiency by 30%

New York, New York —Doner announced a strategic partnership with Eyeblaster for its digital campaign management in a bid to more effectively harness the micro-targeting potential of digital media for its clients. The move coincides with the launch of MediaMind, the first agency-based solution built from the ground up. Eyeblaster unveiled MediaMind on Sept. 21 at OMMA Global in New York.
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Partnership Provides Enhanced Cross Channel Delivery and Stronger Accountability for Clients

NEW YORK – MediaCom announced a partnership with Eyeblaster, the leading independent provider of integrated digital advertising solutions, to streamline its campaign management and reporting capabilities. Working with MediaCom, Eyeblaster will provide 3rd party ad serving support for Lifeline, Mediacom’s proprietary campaign management solution, to ensure the delivery of digital advertising inventory across channels, and bring better accountability and scalability to integrated campaigns.
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A new study from TNS and Eyeblaster, an independent 3rd party ad server reveals cross channel campaigns constitute almost one quarter of total campaigns showing a major move to integrate cross channel performance data – across TV, outdoor, mobile, print and online.

The survey polled 400 senior marketing executives across the globe citing that marketers are indeed looking for cross channel data and reporting. Evidence also points out that marketers expect total digital market spending to grow by 30% over the next two years with a third of the market experiencing growth over 50%. Highlights include:
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