GigaOM:
Vdopia, a profitable iPhone advertising platform, has raised $4 million in Series A funding from Nexus Venture Partners. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company, which only launched in the U.S. in March, claims it’s seeing 4 perc (Read More)
Mashable!:
This series is supported by Grasshopper, the Virtual Phone System designed for entrepreneurs. Learn more about Grasshopper at Grasshopper.com.Whether your company is just starting out, just starting to turn a profit or alread (Read More)
Mashable!:
Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin has just made a surprise appearance at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. He discussed Twitter, advertising, Bing, and answered audience questions.Here are some of the highlights:On Tim Armstron (Read More)
mediabistro.com: AgencySpy:
Most Google Ads consist of simple keyword based text copy that is so simple in nature today's copywriters must loathe their existence and probably goad one another with insults like this: "if you don't get this project (Read More)
TechCrunch:
[Sweden] First they found a way to make music streaming legal and free, now they’re trying to bring more TV content online through an advertising platform. I’m talking about Swedish entrepreneurs of course. This week Swedish (Read More)
TechCrunch:
LA-based Sometrics has secured a Series B round of venture capital, led by Walt Disney Company-affiliated Steamboat Ventures and joined by previous investors The Mail Room Fund and Greycroft Partners. In total, $4 million was (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Glam, the fast growing content and ad network for women, has hired away Josh Jacobs, a top advertising executive from Yahoo.The move is significant because Jacobs was Yahoo’s top executive for online display advertising. Yaho (Read More)
The Next Web:
We have received several reports that there’s an advert circulating Facebook’s advertising platform promoting a teeth whitening service called “Dazzle White Teeth“. You are then taken to the site and as with most ecommerce si (Read More)
Financial Times:
Social networking site is setting up a partnership with Nielsen, the market research company, in an effort further to legitimise itself as a mainstream advertising platform. (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Facebook announced a partnership with Nielsen this morning on a new social media ad reporting product called “Brand Lift.” This will use opt-in polls to measure the impact of ad campaigns run on Facebook.This is not a major (Read More)
MarketingVOX - The Voice of Online Marketing:
“This is something we think is going to be a really good thing.”
What was once heralded by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg as a unique advertising platform that would connect brands with users is now a... (Read More)
Mashable!:
Foursquare is the mobile social game that you play by checking in at various locales while out and about. The location-based application has managed to strip the fat out of other location-aware mobile ideas, find just the rig (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Facebook Connect is continuing its march across multiple mobile platforms as the company endeavors to make itself the primary identification system for the web.The company announced Facebook Connect for the mobile web today a (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Struq, an exciting start-up about which I’ve written before elsewhere, just launched its online advertising platform, promising hyper-targeted ads based on prior behavior but without, or so it claims, the privacy violations a (Read More)
KillerStartups.com - all:
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)
KillerStartups.com - all:
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)
KillerStartups.com - all:
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)