
Here are a few of the top stories in which eMarketer data and analysis were featured this week:
7/7: WSJ.com – Apple Adds Flexibility to IAds
Apple is offering Madison Avenue more flexibility in getting in on its iAd mobile advertising service. The Cupertino, Calif., company has begun pitching ad buying firms on making large upfront iAd spending commitments that they can parcel out to their advertiser clients in smaller chunks. Read more.
7/7: Beet.TV – Online Video’s Troubling Ad Equation: Less Transparancy Means Lower Cost
In making online video buying decisions, marketers face the choice of spending more for video when they know where their ads are placed versus paying less when their ads are matched with videos through exchanges and video ad networks, says Vipin Mayar, Global Director of Performance Analytics for McCann Worldwide in this interview with Beet.TV. Read more.
7/7: NYPost.com – Games, tweet, games
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo isn’t playing around any more. The tweet chief, who recently landed in Sun Valley, is looking beyond advertising to boost Twitter’s business prospects. Read more.
7/7: Bloomberg.com – Apple’s IAd Mobile-Ad Service Said to Cut Prices as Clients Turn to Rivals
Apple Inc. (AAPL)’s iAd mobile-advertising business has cut rates by as much as 70 percent as some marquee clients are using rival services, two people with knowledge of the matter said, signaling the company is struggling to parlay its technology leadership into success in the ad industry. Read more.
7/6: Mashable.com – Why Daily Deal Sites Are Here to Stay [OPINION]
If something is too good to be true, then it probably is. But once in a generation, an idea (or in this case, a business model) comes along that is so disruptive that the old the adage is proven wrong. Read more.
7/6: Guardian – Facebook gets even more face-to-face thanks to Skype partnership
Facebook users will be able to make free video calls to their friends through the site after the social networking giant announced a partnership with the web telephony service Skype. Read more.
7/6: ClickZ.com – Buying and Placing Online Display Ads
According to the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), Q1 2011 set an all-time record in Internet advertising with $7.3 billion in revenues, a 23 percent year-over-year increase. Read more.
7/6: Bloomberg.com – Facebook Ad Rates Hold as Inventory Rises, Easing Price Concerns
Facebook Inc., the biggest social network, said advertising rates have held up even after it added new ways for marketers to promote products, allaying concern that prices would decline as inventory surged. Read more.
7/6: Wall Street Journal – Twitter Seeks $7 Billion Valuation
Even as Internet companies such as Zynga Inc. and Groupon Inc. file to go public, Twitter Inc. is taking a different route: It is continuing to tap private investors. Read more.
7/5: GigaOm.com – Is Twitter helping to inflate the tech bubble?
A little over six months after the company raised a gigantic round of financing that valued it at close to $4 billion, Twitter is in negotiations to close other massive round, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. Read more.
7/5: Forbes.com – Online Ad Spending Jumps, Led By Video and Facebook
This year will be the best in recent memory for online advertising, which a new report from eMarketer predicts will grow more than 20%, to $31.3 billion. Search ads mostly from Google, of course, will continue to lead the way, with $14.4 billion of the total take in 2011. Read more.
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