New Arbitron audience measurement research finds that Akoo delivers advertisers 64.5 million monthly engaged viewers, of which 13.4 million watch Akoo programming and advertising for 30 minutes or longer, 14.8 million watch for 15-29 minutes, and 36.3 million watch for up to 14 minutes per visit
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Platform-A Offers Canadian Advertisers and Agencies a Full Suite of Marketing Solutions Powered by the Web’s Most Advanced Advertising Technologies

TORONTO – AOL announced the launch of Platform-A in Canada, offering advertisers access to one of the largest online advertising networks with the most comprehensive suite of marketing solutions and the Web’s best ad technologies. With this launch, Platform-A clients in Canada (http://www.platform-a.ca) now have a single point of contact to purchase and manage activity across Platform-A’s multiple digital marketing channels, improving the strategic impact of online campaigns.

Platform-A Canada aligns AOL’s existing Canadian advertising operations including: Advertising.com, one of Canada’s leading ad networks; and the AOL Canada media network, which includes AOL-owned properties and a number of third-party sites such as Canadian Driver, a leading online automotive magazine. This combination positions Platform-A’s ad network as the leader in Canada with an audience of 22.5 million unique visitors per month, reaching more than 93% of the online audience in Canada.*
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- AMA Houston Presents: Why Personality Matters: Social Media Marketing
Houston AMA’s November 12 luncheon focuses on “Why Personality Matters: The untold secret of marketing in the social network era”. Rohit Bhargava, SVP of Ogilvy & Mather and founding member of the international agency’s pioneering Digital Influence group, will take you inside some of the lessons from his new book: Personality Not Included.
The luncheon will be held at the Junior League of Houston, 1811 Briar Oaks Lane, on November 12 at 11:30 a.m. Register online at www.regonline.com/ogilvy by Monday, November 10 at 5 p.m.

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Top Ad Network Helps Advertisers Reach the Right Customers at Each Stage of the Purchase Cycle

NEW YORK – 24/7 Real Media, Inc., the leading global digital marketing company, introduced its Lifecycle Media Management model, a unique approach to help online advertisers maximize the value of 24/7 Real Media’s leading media network and extensive targeting capabilities.

Marketers have long used the customer lifecycle, or purchase funnel, in order to understand and segment customers and position advertising accordingly. 24/7 Real Media incorporates this approach to provide strategic guidance on which online ad targeting methods are most effective to reach and engage customers as they move through the four Lifecycle phases: awareness, preference, purchase and loyalty.
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TouchTunes Enhances Strategic Growth; Acquires Barfly Interactive Networks

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today marks the launch of a new media network designed to reach audiences with engaging advertising and entertainment content. Through its acquisition of Barfly Interactive Networks, a rapidly growing in-bar advertising and media company, TouchTunes Corporation, the largest out-of-home interactive entertainment network, will augment its expansive system of digital jukeboxes with prominent screens in bars across the United States. Barfly will bring new content from some of the most influential brands in the world, adding to TouchTunes’ robust digital music, advertising and games offering.
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NEW YORK – July 21, 2008 – 24/7 Real Media, Inc., the leading global digital marketing company, today announced an agreement with Realogy Corporation, a global provider of real estate and relocation services, to provide advertisement management for Realogy’s participating network of residential real estate Web sites. The network includes premier brands in the real estate industry including CENTURY 21, Coldwell Banker, ERA, and OpenHouse.com, among others.

Realogy is now able to serve targeted ads and online displays to valuable home buying and selling audiences, and enable each participating site to view measurable analytics around the success of campaigns. The advanced targeting capabilities of 24/7 Real Media will enable advertising agencies and advertisers to reach specific targets among Realogy’s over 5 million monthly unique users for the first time.

“We chose 24/7 to deliver this new advertising capability for our Web sites because of its proven experience and targeting capabilities,” said Cathy Hoag, Realogy vice president of marketing. “This partnership combines our leading online real estate destination sites, with 24/7’s reach and digital marketing expertise, to provide advertisers and agencies with a powerful marketing vehicle.”

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NEW YORK – April 28, 2008 – 24/7 Real Media, Inc., the leading global digital marketing company, today announced that it is the first media network to deploy psychographic targeting through a partnership with Mindset Media, LLC. The new Mindset Buys™ will enable brand advertisers to target consumers with specific personality traits that drive buyer behavior and brand affinity across a broad range of consumer goods and services.
Brand advertisers have long known that consumers’ states of mind can determine what they buy and what brands they choose, but advertisers have lacked an efficient way to target mass audiences of people with the right psychographics.

Now advertisers can make Mindset Buys on 20 different elements of personality, including creativity, assertiveness, self-esteem, and spontaneity. Each Mindset Buy on 24/7 Real Media can reach millions of U.S. consumers with the same personality trait, on a completely anonymous basis. The 24/7 network reaches 150 million unique viewers each month, across more than 1,500 sites globally.

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New Widget Platform Allows Media Owners to Distribute Content of Any Type to Spread and Elevate Brand Quality Among In-Network Publishers

SAN BRUNO, CA, March 25, 2008 – Adify, the premier technology and media company focused on vertical online advertising, today announced Adify Widget Share. The content syndication platform enables media creators to elevate the brand quality of in-network sites by securely syndicating exclusive content of any type (RSS, video, Flash games, etc.) via widgets within an editorially selected community of publishers. Through a new, highly configurable widget distribution and tracking platform, Adify Network Builders will be able to increase the quantity and quality of content viewed across sister sites, thereby visually branding their network to increase reader loyalty and engagement.

Adify Widget Share transforms online networks from simple advertising vehicles into communities with captive audiences. By providing access to exclusive content and publicizing the most recent updates across the entire network, widgets drive more traffic across all network sites. As a result, media owners can generate higher advertising rates through increased page views and traffic, and better targeting based on valuable information about their sites’ readership interests. Different from viral widgets, only publishers whose content is on-target and reviewed by the editorial team of Adify’s Network Builders can access and showcase these widgets.
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