Twitter releases new ad targeting tools: Interest, platform, fans, and gender

Twitter announced new self-service ad tools today with much finer-grained targeting controls that will allow small advertisers to craft ad campaigns to exactly the audience they want.

A thousand mobile app publishers stampede to Flurry’s AppSpot ad platform

Advertisers are using Flurry's analytics to target ads at the right mobile consumers.

New Facebook ad tech will let advertisers match your Facebook with their customer database

Facebook is working on new ad technology that will allow businesses you already buy from, but are not connected with on Facebook, match your email address and your Facebook identity.

By merging their customer records and your Facebook information, companies will be able to market to you better on Facebook ... because they'll know much more about you.

Twitter improves tweet targeting options to help advertisers reach specific audiences

Twitter has taken the most obvious next step in its quest to become an attractive destination for advertisers: It’s just released targeted tweets, the latest enhancement to its Promoted Tweets ad product that lets brands pay to place tweets in …

Advertising to predictable old men just got easier: Twitter brings ads to BlackBerry

If your company’s target audience is average, middle-aged men who don’t like change (e.g. Hank from King of the Hill), then Twitter just did you a huge favor.

The microblogging social network announced today it is extending the ability …

Social ad startup 33Across buys Tynt, taps into the power of copy and paste

Like a match made in social data heaven, social ad targeting startup 33Across announced today that it has snapped up Tynt Multimedia, a company that helps publishers track reader engagement through the age old technique of copy and paste.

Combined …

Ultimate team-up: Federated Media and Automattic partnership brings ads to WordPress.com

Leading digital advertising company Federated Media and WordPress developer Automattic forged a strategic partnership today that allows for greater interaction between advertisers and audiences from over 24 million blogs hosted by WordPress.com.

The partnership, which was announced during the Web …

Ad monitoring service DoubleVerify raises another $33M in quest to be “next DoubleClick”

Online ad verification startup DoubleVerify on Tuesday announced it has raised a cool $33 million in a third found of funding.

Companies like DoubleVerify and competitors like AdSafe and AdXpose serve an important role in the increasingly crowded — and …