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Jonah Bloom and Scott Donaton on the Future of Branded Content

Jonah Bloom and Scott Donaton on the Future of Branded Content

Just what is the future for branded content? At Ad Age's ME: Media Evolved Conference in New York last week former Ad Age Editors Jonah Bloom and Scott Donaton discussed their views of the space.

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Slide Show: Meet the Winners of the 2011 Media Vanguard Awards (Part 2)

Slide Show: Meet the Winners of the 2011 Media Vanguard Awards (Part 2)

See the editors, publishers, broadcasters and marketers who won Ad Age's Media Vanguard Awards for creating next-generation media. They accepted their trophies at Media Evolved.

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Slide Show: Meet the Winners of the 2011 Media Vanguard Awards (Part 1)

Slide Show: Meet the Winners of the 2011 Media Vanguard Awards (Part 1)

See the editors, publishers, broadcasters and marketers who won Ad Age's Media Vanguard Awards for creating next-generation media.

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Facebook Looks for More Apps in Partnership With Media Brands

Facebook Looks for More Apps in Partnership With Media Brands

Speaking at Ad Age's Media Evolved conference in New York today, Facebook's manager in charge of strategic media partnerships, Andy Mitchell, told the audience The Guardian's Facebook app had a million installs in the first month and Yahoo News reported 2 million installs as of Nov. 2.

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Gawker's Nick Denton Hints at Product to Rid Sites of Boring Commenters

Gawker's Nick Denton Hints at Product to Rid Sites of Boring Commenters

At Ad Age's Media Evolved conference, Nick Denton said the problem isn't internet trolls but boring people who simply don't contribute anything of value to the discussion.

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PepsiCo Is Looking at Startups as Potential Partners, Not Experiments

PepsiCo Is Looking at Startups as Potential Partners, Not Experiments

If you're a startup, sorry, but PepsiCo is not your monetization strategy. Your partner? Sure. Your adviser? Absolutely. Shiv Singh, the global head of digital for PepsiCo Beverages, delivered that message loud and clear during Ad Age's Media Evolved conference in New York.

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Glenn Beck to Marketers: Don't Fear the Fallout

Glenn Beck to Marketers: Don't Fear the Fallout

Conservative commentator and media entrepreneur Glenn Beck has advice for both content providers and advertisers: the former needs to give viewers more control over content, and the latter needs to believe in their brands enough to pitch to anyone without fear of political fallout.

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Dermablend's 'Zombie Boy' Viral Shows Big-Budget L'Oreal Can Think Small

The 'Zombie Boy' viral video campaign for one of L'Oreal's smallest brands shows the company can also go the low-budget route to generate awareness.

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Flipboard's Josh Quittner: Advertisers Need to Step Up Their Game to Work With Us

Flipboard's Josh Quittner: Advertisers Need to Step Up Their Game to Work With Us

Josh Quittner spent 26 years working for traditional publications. Now as editorial director of Flipboard, the iPad app that curates content from user's social feeds into a digital magazine-style experience, Mr. Quittner is adamant about not losing the beauty of print advertising in the transition to digital.

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Conde Nast Becomes Latest Publisher to Unveil Private Ad Exchange

The exchange is the latest in a trend that's seeing similar private offerings pop up across the digital media landscape.

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The 2011 Media Vanguard Awards

The 2011 Media Vanguard Awards

We were dazzled by the wide range of innovative submissions, and we're delighted to share the winners with you here. The Creators Project (shown) wins Marketer-as-Media Spotlight honors.

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Media Vanguard Awards: Broadcast to Digital

Media Vanguard Awards: Broadcast to Digital

USA Network's "Burn Notice" digital graphic novel won an MVA in the Broadcast to Digital category, along with "Late Night With David Letterman," MTV and others.

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Media Vanguard Awards: Marketer-as-Media Spotlight

Media Vanguard Awards: Marketer-as-Media Spotlight

The Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas won an MVA in the Marketer-as-Media category, along with The Studio at Conde Nast, Fab.com and others.

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Media Vanguard Awards: Print to Digital

Media Vanguard Awards: Print to Digital

Spin, Time, Wired, The New York Times and others won Print-to-Digital MVAs this year. And don't forget Martha Stewart's egg-dyeing app.

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Media Vanguard Awards: Digital Natives

Media Vanguard Awards: Digital Natives

GetGlue's entertainment check-in service earned MVA honors in the Digital Native category, along with Slate, Longreads and others.

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