AdMob Q&A: “As eyeballs shift to mobile, advertising dollars follow”
Mobile ad network AdMob expects to serve its 100 billionth ad today, which averages out to 14 of ‘em for every one of us on the planet. Mobile phones now outnumber PCs worldwide by 4 billion to 1.5 billion, according to the United Nations.
The mobile… Continue Reading
Roundup: Ad market reset, Windows 7 pricing, Pogue’s voicemail crusade continues
Online advertising stops its nose-dive — Second-quarter global ad revenues, at $7.864 billion, were down 3.4 percent from a year ago. But admit it: After the past year, a 3.4 percent drop almost feels like growth. Is this a “reset” of base level from which the… Continue Reading
Microsoft, Yahoo may finally embrace with search, advertising deal
Update: Such a deal has just been announced.
Yahoo and Microsoft are close to a search and advertising deal that would finally bring them together in a fight against Google’s dominance, according to the Wall Street Journal. Yahoo would use Microsoft’s Bing search engine for its… Continue Reading
Google’s share of ad spending: 2.66 percent
A set of charts by Search Engine Land contributing editor Greg Sterling show that while Google seems like a gigantic corporation, its revenue isn’t that big, even for a tech company. To boil down Sterling’s article: Google’s revenue is one-fifth that of IBM, Verizon or… Continue Reading
DoubleVerify launches realtime ad verification system
DoubleVerify, a company that tracks the proper placement of online ads, officially launched what the company calls a “real-time” verification service today following a preliminary test period. The company will compete with Collective Networks and Mpire, among others.
The New York company has not identified its… Continue Reading
LiveMarkets launches ad chat
LiveMarkets launched a service yesterday that lets Web site visitors click on an advertisement and immediately IM chat with a salesperson from the advertiser.
While other startups offer ways of managing the buyer-seller relationship online, LiveMarkets keeps the chat live on the page, right on top… Continue Reading
Google extends into TV, signs deal with Dish Network
Google will announce tomorrow (Tuesday) a deal to deliver ads to Dish Network, the nation’s second largest satellite TV company, the Wall Street Journal is reporting.
This confirms rumors of such a deal we first mentioned at VentureBeat three weeks ago. The deal is significant… Continue Reading
BritePic — photography may never be the same
Advertising start-up AdBrite has launched an elegant way to put ads on digital photos, a potentially revolutionary way for photographers to make money.
The feature, called BritePic, was released five days ago, and 144,000 pictures have already been uploaded to AdBrite’s system to claim it,… Continue Reading
SeeSaw Networks raises $10M for advertising in places like train stations
SeeSaw Networks, a San Francisco start-up developing a way to place advertisements on outside monitors — whether it be screens in bars or restaurants, or monitors in elevators or train stations, has raised $10 million in venture capital.
Funding comes from Silicon Valley venture firm Sutter… Continue Reading