The future of TV: five innovations to look out for
Dynamic second screen ads Social TV has been a big success. 40% of tweets at UK peak time are referencing television. BSkyB recently revealed it’ll...
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Facebook’s Ad Business Is Firing On All Cylinders, but Mum’s the Word on Teens
Facebook had plenty of good news to share from last quarter, like the fact that mobile now accounts for 53% of its ad revenue. But...
Rebooted Digg Begins to Gain Traction
Internet publishing brands rarely come back to life. Once you’re at the top and fall off, there’s no getting that magic back. Ask Friendster. Betaworks...
Chipotle Hits Hulu With Debut of Satirical Series ‘Farmed and Dangerous’
Chipotle is back with a new branded-content push, but this time it’s going all-out with a series to launch on Hulu. “Farmed and Dangerous” is...
Yahoo Apologizes For Funny Gmail Tweet, Earns Internet’s Scorn
Oh, Yahoo. The lumbering Silicon Valley giant can’t seem to get out of its way. This afternoon, after Gmail experienced worldwide outages for a brief...
Microsoft, Machinima ‘Native’ Ad YouTube Blunder Risks FTC Ire
Native advertising can be a murky — and if not done right, illegal — business. Just ask Microsoft. Microsoft recently signed a sponsored content deal...
An undetermined number of brilliant things we’ve seen on the internet this week
‘Him’ Spike Jonze’s latest film Her features the disturbingly mustachioed Joaquin Phoenix falling in love with a Siri-style operating system voiced by Scarlett Johansson. Prepare...
SocialCode Taps Agency Vet Colin Sutton to Lead Client Strategy
SocialCode, a Facebook and Twitter ads partner, has hired an agency executive to head up client services in a bid to forge deeper relationships with...
Publishers to Ezra Klein: Good Luck! You’ll Need it!
Ezra Klein, the wunderkind behind the popular Washington Post policy blog Wonkblog, will be leaving the D.C. daily at the end of this week to...
What is net neutrality and how does its latest setback affect marketers?
The ruling Verizon successfully argued that the FCC’s anti-blocking and anti-discrimination rules (see further down this article for a full description of the FCC rules)...
YouTube Courts Sundance For Indie Filmmakers, Advertisers
Advertisers aren’t wild about user-generated content, so YouTube is making a big push at this year’s Sundance Film Festival to court indie filmmakers whose TV-ready...
Goodyear to Ice Cube: Jan. 20 Will Be a Good Day
Mark your calendars. It’s looking like Monday, January 20, will be a good day after all. A crowdfunded campaign known as the ‘Good Day Blimp’...
Wearable Tech Theater of the Absurd: Cadbury Jacket Lights Up When You Eat Chocolate
Cadbury has created an interactive jacket that responds and lights up as the wearer eats chocolate as part of its ongoing “Joyville” themed campaign. London...
Top 20 Super Bowl ads of all time
Super Bowl Monday recorded the most amount of shares over the weekend: 3.3m. This is nine times bigger than Super Bowl Sunday itself. The percentage...
The Chicago Cubs Strike Out With A New Mascot The Internet Hates
Only a team as perpetually down on its luck as the Chicago Cubs could see a well-intentioned rebranding so horribly backfire. Earlier this week, the...
Netflix’s Next Ambitious Original Series: Marco Polo, by the Weinstein Co.
Netflix, the largest subscription streaming service, reached an agreement to carry an original TV series about the explorer Marco Polo from Weinstein Co., the independent...
