YouTube to Block Music Videos From Smaller Labels
Google’s YouTube is poised to start blocking music videos from independent labels that haven’t agreed to be part of a planned subscription service. About 5%...
Category: Interactive marketing
Adobe Turns to Humor for First Network TV Ad in Over 10 Years
In a scene many marketers likely find familiar, a company recently went into a craze trying to establish itself on a new social platform, only...
Nissan Times Spanish-Language Effort to World Cup Kickoff
Nissan North America kicked off a Spanish-language ad campaign today to capitalize on twin opportunities: global mania for the World Cup soccer championship, and Nissan’s...
Facebook Poaches PayPal President to Head Up Mobile Messaging
Facebook has just poached PayPal’s president, David Marcus, to be its VP-messaging products, a new role at the company. The hiring of a seasoned mobile-payments...
Maybelline Puts Lipstick On YouTube Network StyleHaul
For many YouTube networks, traditional ads alone aren’t cutting it. That’s why so many are using their stable of stars to reel in branded content...
McDonald’s Sets Up Shop in Silicon Valley
McDonald’s is setting up shop in the tech community epicenter of Silicon Valley. The company’s new outpost, on San Francisco’s Market Street, is the brainchild...
ISP Rankings: Why Google Loves Comcast and Netflix Prefers Cablevision
Google has put broadband companies on notice. If you stream YouTube videos poorly, we will call you out. YouTube’s parent company has created a tool...
Facebook Seeks Patent for Tech to Let Kids on Its Network (Legally)
Facebook restricts users to those over the age of 13, but anyone who’s talked to a tween lately knows how effective that is. But now...
Amazon ‘Not Optimistic’ It Will Resume Selling Hachette Books Normally Soon
Amazon.com said it is “not optimistic” that a dispute with publisher Hachette Book Group will be resolved soon and added that it is acting “on...
Video: How Upworthy Wages War for Reader Attention
“We think of the world as a war for attention that gets tougher and tougher each day,” Upworthy co-founder Peter Koechley told Internet Week New...
Self-Regulatory Body: Widget-Makers Must Also Follow Native-Ad Disclosure Rules
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Will Baquet’s ‘Teddy Bear’ Style Extend to The New York Times Ad Department?
On Wednesday, the same day that Jill Abramson was removed as the top editor at The New York Times, the paper’s ad sales chief, Meredith...
McCain Attacks Google and Yahoo in Hearing on Malicious Online Ads
Sen. John McCain took aim at Google and Yahoo this morning during a Senate hearing on malicious online advertising, stating the companies “have a responsibility...
BuzzFeed President Jon Steinberg Leaving the Company
BuzzFeed President and Chief Operating Officer Jon Steinberg is leaving his position after four years at the fast-growing website. He will move into an advisory...
Internet Week is Coming and So Is Aereo, Netflix, Yahoo and Buzzfeed
Is there an industry more impacted by tech than media? We think no, and that’s why on May 19, Day 1 of Internet Week New...
Alibaba Has an Ad Business to Challenge Google, Amazon
If U.S. media sellers are worried about competing with Amazon’s burgeoning advertising business, wait until they run up against the e-commerce giant’s Chinese equivalent. Chinese...
