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There's a Message to Marketers in Facebook's IPO Slide
The stock market's subdued reaction to Facebook's IPO suggests doubts over the value of social engagement.
How Brands Should Evaluate Startups
Marketers are overwhelmed, but focusing on these criteria will help you see the forest for the trees when evaluating startups and new technologies.
The Huffington Post Wants to Help Brands Create Their Own Content Sites
"It would allow a brand to be a publisher," one agency executive said, "and the HuffPo engine would power it so you would get all the social savvy that comes with the Huffington Post."
A Week After CEO's Ouster, Everyone Has an Opinion on Yahoo
Scott Thompson "was a terrible CEO for Yahoo," venture capitalist Fred Wilson said at TechCrunch Disrupt.
Facebook Investors Are 'ZUCKERS!' (Says Murdoch Tabloid)
It's a schadenfreude moment for Rupert Murdoch, who snatched up MySpace for what then looked like a bargain, $580 million, and sold it for $35 million.
WPP's Group M Taps Buddy Media for Facebook Ads
Advertising on Facebook has gotten a bad rap of late, but Group M, the media-buying unit of ad giant WPP, is licensing technology to make it easier for clients to spend money there.
House Beautiful Lets Readers Post to Pinterest From Print
House Beautiful is letting users post photos from its print edition directly to Pinterest using smartphone apps, the latest effort by a magazine to make print more interactive.
Are Consumers Ready for Mobile Grocery Shopping?
More mobile apps are popping up as tools for shoppers to find manufacturer deals and make lists as they trawl the supermarket aisles.
Google+ a Ghost Town as Brands Decamp for Pinterest
While the broad consensus among digital marketers is that Google+ is an empty city where the masses go to set up a profile but then seldom return, Google is continuing to double down on the investment.
To Deliver For Wall Street, Facebook Must Convince Madison Avenue
The social network went public with huge buzz, but it's closing stock price and GM's statement that it was pulling its ads, raised a question for investors and for advertisers: Just what should they expect from Facebook?
TV's Upfront Pitch: Our Shows Offer Best Social-Media Traction
In nearly every upfront presentation, the TV networks took pains to stress their expertise in connecting advertisers to consumers, not only with splashy TV programs but also via social media.
Facebook's $38 IPO at End of First Day of Trading Worth ... $38
Facebook hovered near the initial public offering price in its trading debut, following a record IPO.
Top 10 Twitter Trends of the Week: 'Little Monsters' Multiply and Pop Grips the Chart
Pop stars command the five largest followings on Twitter, so a pop-heavy list of trends should be no surprise this week -- or any week.
Olympics Campaigns Go Big on the Viral Video Chart
The summer Olympics have hit the Viral Video Chart in a big way this week, in videos from some of the largest global marketers, according to data provided by Visible Measures.
Ford Combats 'Brand Blindness' in Web Video Spots
A slightly surreal spot for Ford in which no brand name appears has apparently mesmerized a ton of viewers, who've propelled the ad to the top of the Viral Video chart.
T-Mobile Doubles Down on 'Carly' Web Videos
The T-Mobile video debuting its pitchgirl's harder-edge makeover has hung out toward the bottom of the Viral Video chart but is No. 1 this week.
Would You Buy Your Next Flat-Screen From Ikea?
A demo video for an unreleased TV landed on the Viral Chart this week with 1.3 million views.
Doing It Wrong: 11 Boring Things GM Posted on Facebook
GM's Facebook page is a sterling example of a company that wants to broadcast instead of listen, ignore instead of engage.
GM Doesn't Have a Facebook Problem, It Has a Brand Loyalty Problem
Rather than focus on selling cars on Facebook, the brand should have looked at how to connect with its best advocates to influence purchase behavior across the social graph.
How Walmart Is Localizing Its Stores With Facebook
A social-local strategy lets retailers capitalize on consumer use of new media, at the store level.
Why Facebook Isn't Screwed When It Comes to Auto Marketing
The real questions we should be asking ourselves, before we blame Facebook for GM's marketing effectiveness, are were they doing it right and were they measuring it right?
Social Sharing Data Vampires: They Vant to Suck Your Data
With social sharing tools, publishers are bleeding themselves dry, giving up the very customer data that hold the promise of their continued relevance
Will Facebook be an Internet Behemoth in 10 Years?
Facebook will need to fight a constant battle if it wants to maintain its dominant position amid ever-shifting consumer preferences and changing technologies.
Six Things You Need to Know About Real-Time Bidding
Real-time bidding campaigns perform well when executed correctly. But many assumptions about RTB 1.0 are incorrect. An integrated approach is essential.
Hey Publishers, Time to Increase Your Video Ad Load
Traditional TV found a model that works, but online publishers refuse to fully replicate the TV ad load model in their long-form content.
Ross Levinsohn Lays Out His Vision for Yahoo (Before He Became CEO)
Want to know what Mr. Levinsohn thinks Yahoo should become? He explained it pretty well, in November.
Few Publishers Are Straddling the Content Continental Divide
Ten thousand miles (and nearly 19 hours' flight time) is a long way to travel to have an epiphany about the mercurial nature of digital media, but that's exactly how it went down.
As Video Goes Mainstream, TV, Digital Agency Execs Fight Over Who Owns It
TV and digital buyers within media agencies are changing their relationship status from "in a relationship" to "married." Let's hope they don't change it to "divorced" by the end of the upfronts.
Think Web Video Can Challenge Upfronts and TV? Fuhgeddaboudit!
Google, Microsoft and AOL are hoping that their web video offerings and NewFront presentations will help them extract a healthy slice of the TV industry's upfront money this year. Not happening. Here's why.
Digital Pros Answer Web Video's Big Questions
Keith Richman, Beth Le Manach, Brian Bedol and Jim Louderback weigh in on the performance -- and prospect -- of web video.
What the Web Could Learn From Dawn of TV
The single-sponsor model takes a lot of the risk out of the equation for content producers, but it also intrinsically limits the upside, as TV found decades ago.
Reporter's Notebook: Booze, Celebs, New Content at 'Digital Upfront'
Highlights from this year's digital upfronts as witnessed from the Ad Age staff.
'Like' the Brand? Loyal3 Wants You to Own the Company
The idea behind startup Loyal3 is as simple as it is disruptive: provide a technology platform for brands to sell their own shares (actually $10 fractions of shares) to consumers on Facebook.
David Karp: Tumblr Wants to Empower Advertising Creativity
At Ad Age Digital 2012, Mr. Karp unveiled "Radar," an ad unit coming to the blog network in May.
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Yahoo Taps Mollie Spilman as New Chief Marketing Officer
Yahoo interim CEO Ross Levinsohn reorganized the management team of the struggling web portal after taking the helm earlier this week, naming Mollie Spilman as chief marketing officer.
Full ArticleFoursquare Hires Former iAd Exec as Revenue Chief
A darling of the New York startup scene starts to get serious about building a business out of its 20 million users.
Full ArticleFacebook IPO Eclipses Google, GM
Facebook Inc. gained as much as 18% in its trading debut, following a record initial public offering that made it more costly than almost every company in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index.
Full ArticleAmazon to Sell Ads on Kindle Fire Welcome Screen -- If You Have $600K
The Kindle Fire is Amazon.com's best-selling product, the company said in its first-quarter-earnings release. And it's being treated that way by the Amazon ad sales team.
Full ArticleBrands on Facebook: Advertising Is Optional
One in five clicks in the U.S. happens on Facebook, and most brands maintain a presence there and carefully cultivate their fan base. But do they need to advertise as well?
Full ArticleTurner Takes Stake in Funny or Die, Will Manage Site's Ad Sales
Funny or Die CEO Dick Glover said the site has done well but still doesn't have big enough reach.
Full ArticleSiri, Why Don't You Speak Spanish?
With the voice-activated assistant its big selling point, the iPhone 4S has flown off the shelves, despite putting off the U.S. ethnic group most gaga for smartphones: Hispanics.
Full ArticleIntel Launches Employee-Curated Digital Magazine
It looks like Flipboard, aggregates and posts like Reddit, and presents news like Newsmap. Intel iQ, launching today, is the tech giant's latest content-marketing experiment.
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