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PC get's annoyed at his new "PC NewsWire"...
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Solve the flip tile puzzle and avoid being crushed by the "Banner of Doom".
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Crossing Over: 'Daily Show,' 'Colbert' Stream On Hulu

In a move likely to anger cable operators, Hulu.com will begin streaming full episodes of Comedy Central's calling cards. "The Daily Show" and "Colbert Report" will now be available on the site, which is dedicated to bringing the TV to the Internet, where it has a slew of shows available on-demand.

The move comes only days after Glenn Britt, the chief of Time Warner Cable, the nation's second-largest MSO, suggested that networks' continued aggressiveness at making shows available free on the Web is not something his company (or the cable industry) fully endorses.

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David Goetzl, mediapost.com

IAB Strikes Back At Empire State

The Interactive Advertising Bureau is stepping up its campaign against a pending New York law that would regulate online advertising.

In its latest move, the organization announced a new, discounted membership of $500 a year for online publishers with less than $1 million in revenue, in hopes of spurring more small companies to join.

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Wendy Davis, mediapost.com

Best Practices In Short-Form Video Advertising

The new guidelines for online video ads published by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) are an important foundation that those of us in both the online video and advertising industries can build upon as we seek to turn the viral video phenomena into a powerful marketing vehicle. But these standards are only a first--and relatively small--step in the right direction towards our shared success.

That shared success will come from shifting loyalty from the traditional standard bearer of brand advertising--television--to the new kid on the block--online video and social media. It will depend on our mutual ability to create content and campaigns designed for the short-form video environment and an interactive medium. In order to realize this opportunity, marketers must first embrace the power of online video; and second, we need to get serious about creating and implementing best practices for maximizing advertising effectiveness.

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Microsoft Launches Mobile Display Ads

Microsoft on Tuesday began letting advertisers display banner ads to mobile users of Windows Live Messenger and Windows Live Hotmail, following other companies already supporting mobile banner ads.

Mobile users in France, Spain, the U.K. and the U.S. will see the banner ads when using the Microsoft services.

Google made a similar announcement in April, inviting AdWords advertisers to display banner ads instead of only text on mobile phones. Yahoo, AdMob and Third Screen, which is now owned by AOL, are among other companies that also display banner ads on mobile phones

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Google Launches Medical-Records App

Google Health launched today in what could portend a far more personal, digital future for health-related data. Read on...

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PointRoll's Beanie Awards

The Beanie Award is aptly named for PointRoll's signature product FatBoy, who wears a propeller beanie cap. Selected from over 800 campaigns each month, Beanie Award winners are part of an elite group and represent the most outstanding use of rich media technology through exceptional design, use of functionality or superlative campaign metrics. Less than one percent of all PointRoll campaigns are recognized with a Beanie Award. Each winner receives a special award and an authentic PointRoll propeller beanie hat. And the winners are...

Outstanding creative design and metrics: Sears
Outstanding/innovative use of features: Versus
Innovative use of features: Fox Home
Dynamic XML weather feed.Outstanding/innovative use of features: Trane
Outstanding creative design: Campbell's
Outstanding metrics: Hooters

Cross-Platform Ad Strategies: The Good, The Bad And The Unmeasured

In the fragmented media landscape, cross-platform campaigns have become one of the go-to strategies in an advertiser's arsenal--particularly when it comes to reaching the 18-34 demographic. But as panelists at Digital Hollywood noted on Tuesday, those plans--including branded entertainment deals, in- and around-game ads, and mobile video promotions--still suffer from a lack of standardized performance metrics and clear return on investment.
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Google Launches Mobile Banner Ads

Google joined a handful of other companies by announcing that it is delivering mobile banner ads.

Companies that use Google's AdWords to advertise online now have the option of displaying a banner ad on cell phones instead of simple text. Google includes a text line under each banner identifying it as an advertisement. Clicking on the ad opens a mobile Web page for the advertisement.

A number of other companies already display banner ads on mobile Web pages. Yahoo, AdMob and Third Screen, which is now owned by AOL, are among companies that display banner ads for advertisers. Microsoft displays banner ads on some of its mobile Web pages, such as MSNBC and other MSN mobile Web pages. Read on...

Dapper's "MashupAds"

MashupAds are dynamic display ads that change when your content changes. The ad takes content from a publisher's HTML site and mashes it up with content from an advertiser's site, creating an ad relevant to the user's browsing experience. Read more.

Eyeblaster And Dapper Mash It Up Code Free

Coca Cola Creates a new Facebook App

We’ve seen some pretty interesting advertising campaigns that utilize Facebook’s platform for integrated applications, such as Bob Dylan’s. Most of them have been pretty cool, even in their blatant attempts to get users to spread a brand’s name around to their friends. Coca-Cola’s latest, however, seems like it could be fun.
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"Tickers" on Web Video

I came across this company called Videoegg. They create ads within flash video, similar to PointRoll's "Tickerboy". I think Videoegg's is a little cooler though. Here's a demo vid of how it works...

2 Cool Brands Collaborate

There was Nike and Apple, and now there's Diesel and Adidas. Still not sure about this relationship though...
Check it out at: diesel.adidas.com

ZOZO - Artist iGoogle Museum

To optimize the interaction between users and the Internet, Google created iGoogle function not long ago, a virtual homepage which permits users to customize. Add onto that idea, Japanese virtual shopping network, ZOZO, launched the Artist iGoogle Museum function. Simulating an art gallery, the virtual experience allows people to view and download iGoogle banners from 9 creative entities, such as design firm Airside, the creative director of Hysteric Glamour Nobuhiko Kitamura, Hanpanda creator, artist Noda Nagi, A Bathing Ape (BAPE)’s own Nigo, and more… Each design comes with 4 different version, which iGoogle cycle thorough them determine by the time of day. More

Cool HP site

The contest maybe over but, if you're still keen on creating your first animated movie,
here's your chance...

AT&T Pushes Back Mobile TV Debut To May

A YEAR AFTER VERIZON WIRELESS'S similar launch, AT&T has set May 2008 as the date when it will debut mobile TV using Qualcomm's MediaFlo service.

AT&T plans to deliver full-length programming from networks including CBS Mobile, Fox Mobile, Comedy Central, ESPN Mobile TV, and MTV. The service will debut on two new handsets, the LG Vu and the Samsung Access. It will also add a pair of exclusive channels yet to be named. More

Bad To Worse: Newspaper Revenues Down 7.9% in 2007, Online Growth Slows

TOTAL NEWSPAPER REVENUES TUMBLED TO $45.37 billion in 2007--down 7.9% compared to 2006, according to a year-end summary released by the Newspaper Association of America. Within the total revenue figure, online revenue grew 18.8%, to $3.16 billion--but failed to offset a much larger drop in print revenues, down 9.4% to $42.2 billion.

The 2007 figures confirm that the revenue decline at newspapers accelerated from 2006 to 2007. In 2006, total revenues declined a more modest 0.32%, as well as from quarter to quarter within 2007. Over the course of last year, the slide turned into a free fall with a 4.8% drop in the first quarter, followed by 8.6% in the second, 7.4% in the third, and 10.3% in the fourth. More

Maybe Advertising In Social Media Should Be An Oxymoron

I’m still mulling a social networking panel I saw last week at Ogilvy’s Verge Summit in New York. So, rather than keep mulling it within the limited confines of my brain, I’ve decided to share what I heard on that panel with the Social Media Insider community — people who, I’ve noticed, comment on just about everything, and intelligently, too. More