Twitter Snaps Up SnappyTV In Bid For (More) Social TV
Twitter has seemingly renewed its commitment to the second screen, revealing plans Thursday to acquire live video clipping and distribution platform SnappyTV. “Our goal is...
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#sowhoknew: CannesYe West
As expected, on day three of the Cannes Lions the irrepressible Kanye (CannesYe ?) West stole the show. In truth it was a sprawling, often...
‘Employee of the future’: Bridging media’s church-state divide
As The New York Times’ Innovation report recently highlighted, the changing realities of the industry demands that publishers rethink the church-state divide. But a new breed...
As Deep Linking Proliferates, Standards Begin To Emerge
Deep-linking technology, which routes users to a specific page rather than a main landing page, is quickly gaining traction in the mobile app landscape. But...
Facebook, Twitter Ads Partner Unified Acquires Awe.sm
Unified, a company that helps brands with social ad buys, has acquired social analytics startup Awe.sm for an undisclosed sum, the companies announced Thursday. Unified...
Twitter Disappoints in Q1 Earnings Despite Strong Advertising Growth
Shares of Twitter tumbled toward record lows following yesterday’s publication of Q1 2014 earnings. On Tuesday, Twitter reported net losses have grown by $100 million...
Twitter’s MoPub Rolls Out Native Ads To All Publishers, Includes Direct Sold Inventory
Four months after first introducing support for native advertising, Twitter’s mobile exchange MoPub is pitching the solution to all publishers. Consisting of an native ads...
There’s a push to make photoshopped models in ads illegal
In 2011, British member of parliament Jo Swinson ordered Lancôme to take down London billboard ads featuring Photoshopped images of famous women — Julia Roberts...
Weibo Shares Surge On First Day of Trading
Weibo Corp., the Chinese microblogging service owned by Sina Corp., surged 19% in its first day of trading after pricing its initial public offering at...
Twitter Embraces App Install Ads
Twitter, as rumored, is developing an ad product specifically designed for app installs. On Thursday, Twitter acknowledged the existence of the mobile app promotion suite,...
Why do journalists hate new journalism startups?
A flurry of journalists have been launching news sites lately, each with a formidable amount of hype, but rather than applaud this as a golden...
SnappyTV Releases Social Playback Of TV Clips, Fox Sports Hopes To Capitalize
Online video, especially online video embedded in social networks, is essentially a free-for-all. There are few rules or best practices and brands and vendors are...
Twitter Exec: Seize the Moment with Digital Marketing
Adam Bain, the CFO of Twitter, recently said that marketing is “all about owning the moment.” While Bain was discussing the viability of Twitter as...
Jonah Peretti & Co. Get Owned: Watch the ‘Wolf of BuzzFeed’ Spoof Trailer
Our Clip of the Week is the “official trailer” for a movie that doesn’t exist — but that we kind of wish did. “The Wolf...
Goooooaaal! Pelé’s new soccer app shoots and scores
For every soccer fan who has ever wanted to follow in Pelé’s nimble footsteps, here’s your chance. The iconic forward, still looking spry and wily at...
Rubicon Project hits NYSE; Wall St appears positive on ad tech
Another ad tech IPO was put to test on Wall Street when The Rubicon Project rang the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)...
