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What it doesThere are Twitter apps and services that are unwarranted, or rather, they merited a certain development and no more. The prototypical case: URL shorteners. A different case, and one which is starting to be headed (Read More)
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What it doesSponAds is a brand new advertising marketplace/network. It lets users buy or sell advertisements for a flat monthly rate, and it stands as: A) an effective way for you to monetize any unsold ad space within your w (Read More)
Mashable!:
We heard rumblings that IZEA’s Sponsored Tweets was about to debut back in June. Today, IZEA’s platform launched, and it is what we all expected: a pay per tweet service.Sponsored Tweets, now live, is like a seasoned Twitter (Read More)
mediabistro.com: AgencySpy:
Times have been tough for Friendster, once the social networking figurehead that now like hair metal bands is finding its biggest audiences in places like Indonesia and Malaysia. Despite flagging business, the site, which com (Read More)
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What it doesThe monetization of online videos is always a complicated issue. Always will be, for the mere reason that advertising in such a context is invasive by definition. This company aims to bring some new ideas and alte (Read More)
TechCrunch:
A couple of weeks ago IAC Chairman and CEO Barry Diller was telling the elite crowd at the Allen & Co. Sun Valley conference that he was “pessimistic about Twitter’s prospects for making money.” A couple of weeks later and he (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Ning , a startup that lets users create their own social networks, has raised $15 million in fifth round of venture funding. The news was first reported in BoomTown, and a Ning spokeswoman confirmed the story.The round, whic (Read More)
Sramana Mitra on Strategy:
Offerpal is an advertising platform that monetizes social media by awarding users virtual currency in exchange for completing ad offers. Founders Anu Shukla and Mitch Liu combined their experience in online personalization, c (Read More)
paidContent.org:
—Hasbro and Discovery (NSDQ: DISAB) Communications: Margaret Loesch will be the president and CEO of the yet-to-be-named children’s network these two companies have joined to create. Loesch comes from The Hatchery, and before (Read More)
Valleywag:
How will Twitter ramp its revenue from nothing to $21 million a month in less than two years, as its managers forecast? Maybe by simply monitoring what you tweet about, and then targeting ads at you.Saul Hansell of the New Yo (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
How fickle are kids these days? Just when all the grown ups started figuring out Facebook, college and high school users have declined in absolute number by 20% and 15% respectively in a mere six months, according to estimat (Read More)
The Guardian:
Condé Nast International appoints former Skype and Yahoo exec to run digital media division – minus CondéNet brandingMagazine publisher Condé Nast International today appointed former Skype and Yahoo executive James Bilefield (Read More)
GigaOM:
They say it takes money to make money, but it you want to be in the top 100 apps in the Apple App Store, it’s gonna take you $1,875 per day to buy enough ads, according to a report out today from AdWhirl. The company, which o (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Yahoo (YHOO) will close its video ad network Maven Networks just 17 months after acquiring the startup for a rumored price a $160 million, reports TechCrunch.A TechCrunch source "who works for a large media company" says Yaho (Read More)
TechSheep:
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:Yahoo Kills Maven: From Acquisition To Deadpool In 17 Months (Updated) — At the beginning of last year, Yahoo made a fairly large acquisition with the purchase of online video distribution and ad (Read More)
Blogrunner:
At the beginning of last year, Yahoo made a fairly large acquisition with the purchase of online video distribution and advertising platform provider Maven Networks. (Read More)
TechCrunch:
At the beginning of last year, Yahoo made a fairly large acquisition with the purchase of online video distribution and advertising platform provider Maven Networks. Under the terms of the agreement, which we reported as a ru (Read More)
BBC:
If you thought the people behind the Pirate Bay were going to keep a low profile after losing that epic court battle over copyright, think again. Their latest venture is called Video Bay, and after a period of reasonably priv (Read More)
VentureBeat:
As we’ve reported, the big boys are jumping into the smart grid space just in time for the stimulus funds to rain from the sky. Google introduced its home energy management system PowerMeter in February; Intel has been hard a (Read More)
Search Engine Watch Blog:
In April, Digg pulled out of its advertising contract with Microsoft. There was speculation at the time that Digg would launch its own advertising platform. This week the social bookmarking site announced that rumor will inde (Read More)