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New Tool Shows TV Advertisers What Their Competitors Are Paying

New Tool Shows TV Advertisers What Their Competitors Are Paying

Free tool from startup Simulmedia hoping to bring more rigor to the data around TV advertising.

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Facebook Hires U.K. Agency Head Nicola Mendelsohn As Europe VP

Facebook Hires U.K. Agency Head Nicola Mendelsohn As Europe VP

Leading U.K. agency exec Nicola Mendelsohn is joining Facebook as VP for Europe, Middle East, Africa and Russia.

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How Mobile Game Candy Crush Saga Became a TV Advertiser

How Mobile Game Candy Crush Saga Became a TV Advertiser

King becomes first mobile-game developer to run a solo TV effort in U.S. to promote a game.

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Samsung's New Galaxy S4 Ad Strategy Is Same as the Old Strategy: Hammer Apple

Samsung's New Galaxy S4 Ad Strategy Is Same as the Old Strategy: Hammer Apple

Now the smartphone leader, many predicted Samsung would shift away from its focus on Apple for the Galaxy S4. They were wrong!

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NewFronts Drew Crowds, But Will Anyone Remember the Shows?

NewFronts Drew Crowds, But Will Anyone Remember the Shows?

The ad world got the digital upfronts it wanted -- and unveiled more than 100 shows -- but will they make that big of a difference?

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The Truth About Reddit

The Truth About Reddit

Five things everyone should know about social-news site Reddit.

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This Week in Twitter: Jason Collins to #HappyGreysonDay

This Week in Twitter: Jason Collins to #HappyGreysonDay

Music's most famous one-year-old, Blue Ivy Carter, also managed to trend this week -- for no better reason than having famous parents.

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What's Zynga Doing at the NewFronts Anyway?

What's Zynga Doing at the NewFronts Anyway?

The gaming company is the latest to try making the case that it deserves video ad dollars -- in its case, on mobile.

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New York Is Magazine of the Year at National Magazine Awards

New York Is Magazine of the Year at National Magazine Awards

"Martha would be here... But she's on a date," Martha Stewart Living Editor-in-Chief Pilar Guzman joked as she accepted an award.

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Digitas Unveils Tool to Find YouTube Stars Before They're Stars

Digitas Unveils Tool to Find YouTube Stars Before They're Stars

Brands have been working with YouTube stars for years, but what if you could identify a not-yet star before they got big?

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Instagram's New Feature Lets Brands 'Tag' Consumers in Photo Stream

Instagram's New Feature Lets Brands 'Tag' Consumers in Photo Stream

While there's still no advertising on Instagram, the feature offers marketers new tricks to vie for users' attention.

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Lowe's Embraces Six-Second Vine Videos for Spring Campaign

Lowe's Embraces Six-Second Vine Videos for Spring Campaign

Plenty of marketers are experimenting with Vine, but few have found ways to truly add value to the 6-second video platform for consumers. Lowe's may be on its way to cracking the code.

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Conde Nast Intros 30 Web Series, Promises to Pay to Promote Them

Conde Nast Intros 30 Web Series, Promises to Pay to Promote Them

The publisher said it wil match production dollars with promotion and marketing. New series include "Angry Nerd" and "Single Life."

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YouTube Stops Pretending It's TV, Turns to Home-Grown Talent

YouTube Stops Pretending It's TV, Turns to Home-Grown Talent

YouTube used its 'Brandcast' as an opportunity to show off homegrown talent such as Kid President and laud viral videos like the "Harlem Shake."

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Facebook: 30% of Our Revenue Now Comes from Mobile Ads

Facebook: 30% of Our Revenue Now Comes from Mobile Ads

Facebook's delay in launching mobile ads was once considered an existential threat to the company, but the tables have turned.

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A-B InBev's Latest Music Move Includes a Concert in Every State

A-B InBev's Latest Music Move Includes a Concert in Every State

The event will be staged everywhere from Anchorage, Alaska to Albuquerque, N.M., and feature acts including Kendrick Lamar, Sublime with Rome, Alex Clare and the Flaming Lips.

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Dreamworks Animation Acquires YouTube Network AwesomenessTV

Dreamworks Animation Acquires YouTube Network AwesomenessTV

AwesomenessTV, one of YouTube's more successful content investments, becomes the first to be acquired by big media.

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Creative Artists Agency Doesn't Sell Ads, Hosts a NewFront Anyway

Creative Artists Agency Doesn't Sell Ads, Hosts a NewFront Anyway

The Hollywood talent agency came to New York to pitch ad buyers on shows from its stars. Sarah Jessica Parker's "City.Ballet" is coming to AOL.

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Mobile App 'Placed' Tracks People As They Shop In Exchange For Deals

Mobile App 'Placed' Tracks People As They Shop In Exchange For Deals

Mobile app Placed captures data on the physical locations of people hundreds of times each day.

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AOL Fishes Where TV Dollars Are: Mediaocean

AOL Fishes Where TV Dollars Are: Mediaocean

AOL is pitching ad buyers on a slate of shows and an easier way to shift TV dollars its way.

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