MarketingVOX: Microsoft announced Wednesday that it will become the exclusive provider of display and contextual advertising on Digg, reports CNN Money.
Digg is a user-generated news recommendation service that serves over 17 million visitors a month. The three-year commitment between itself and M…
Archive for July, 2007
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Digg Finds Ad-Serving Sugar Daddy in Software Giant
Podcaster Loses Right to Cybersquat thesimpsonsmovie.com
MarketingVOX: A New York-based podcaster using the name of The Simpsons Movie to attract fans lost the right to operate the website.
According to The Globe and Mail, the United Nations’ patent agency, WIPO, ruled that the squatter must cede control of the thesimpsonsmovie.com to Twentieth Century …
Heavy.com Content Invades Television
MarketingVOX: Heavy.com signed a deal to supply its original content to Alliance cable channels such as Showcase Diva and IFC.
According to Ingram 2.0, material from the online entertainment site geared toward males aged 18-34 will be run as a segment on existing shows or as interstials between pr…
Coffee Wars Brewing
Consumers and investors alike know the power of the humble little coffee bean. Coffee has always been a popular beverage choice in this country, and the demand for premium and specialty coffees has spurred tremendous volume growth in the past two decades. No business capitalized on the hot coffee…
The Best Web Sites Are Useful and Ugly
Functionality and usefulness are far more important to the success of your Web site than how nice and elegant it looks.
The first time I saw the Grand Canyon was a truly memorable experience. The depth, distance and hazy rainbow of colors were like nothing I had ever seen before. The great Colorad…
Professional Service Firms and Social Networking: Part 5 of 6
Here’s Part Five of my six-part conversation about professional services firms and social networking, with Microengagement’s Tim Gilchrist and Steve Fisher.
Lowe: In many professions, there is almost a procurement mentality, where potential clients issue RFPs and firms respond. Will social networ…
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
XM CEO Steps Down
MediaBuyerPlanner: Hugh Panero, president and CEO of XM Satellite Radio, is stepping down next month, writes Radio Ink.
When the proposed deal between XM and Sirius was first announced, it was said that Panero would remain at his post until the deal closed, at which time Sirius CEO Mel Karmazin wo…
ProLink Adds Golf Course in Surprise
MediaBuyerPlanner: ProLink Solutions has added another golf course to its network – Coyote Lakes Golf Club in Surprise, Arizona.
Coyote Lakes now features the ProLink Solutions GPS system, which allows advertisers to participate in a rewards card program with which golfers can respond to ads on th…
Vibe Media Group Folds ‘Vixen’
MediaBuyerPlanner: Vibe Media Group is folding the female counterpart to Vibe magazine, Vibe Vixen. The August/September issue will be its last as a regularly published title.
Beginning in the fourth quarter, Vibe Vixen will be published as a special issue focusing on urban culture themes, though …
Nokia Acquires Media-Sharing Platform Twango
MediaBuyerPlanner: Twango , a service that combines online storage with social networking, has just been acquired by Nokia.
Read/WriteWeb posts a helpful chart that shows how device-friendly Twango is, MarketingVOX writes.
Twango’s ability to play nicely with other devices is apparently what attra…
