LivingSocial is a relatively new social shopping company for local neighborhoods. Tim O’Shaughnessy, CEO and co-founder LivingSocial says “With this investment we’ll bring LivingSocial to tens of millions of new members around the world and introduce innovative ways to connect our members to merchants.”
It was about a month ago when I wanted to listen to a song. I don’t remember which song, but I distinctly remember the preview (in truth, I remember being startled that YouTube had commercials to begin with—when did that happen?)
In-context video is coming. Get your campaigns ready.
Facebook may be The Next Big Thing, but it isn’t going to be the biggest anytime soon. When it comes to online advertising revenue, Google is still the biggest game in town, and it’s growing every year.
Thinking about running an online video ad campaign can be daunting, especially if you’ve already maxed out your resources on creating television and print ads. Blip.tv is taking the load off advertisers, producing their Web video ads for them.
Children’s Japan Earthquake Tsunami Children in Emergency fund and other causes. Through playing Zynga games, including Café World, CityVille, FrontierVille, FarmVille, Words With Friends, Vampire Wars, YoVille and Zynga Poker, more than 250 million players had the opportunity to donate 100% of the purchase price of exclusive virtual items to the fundraising efforts. Via Credits, Facebook donated money generated through the purchases to support the initiative.
Today, I found out that the warning is not true, it’s just a rumor, so don’t believe it. If you read the fine print on lines 7B and 7C of Facebook’s advertising guidelines, you will read that advertisers cannot use user data (including photos) in their ads without prior consent either from Facebook or the user.
With the advent of Internet advertising options like Groupon, Foursquare, LivingSocial.com and even Craigslist, the traditional revenue system no longer works. Since newspapers are experiencing the competitive crunch, decisions like getting involved with social shopping seems natural.
Google has updated their search algorithm so that ‘content farms’ and sites with duplicated content get less hits. Internet users trying to find better info are happy, but there are many sites that feel they were unfairly targeted.
Yes, each free is film, which includes a preroll, spot ads and banner ads. The service is extremely user-friendly. Popcornflix allows users to share the film by posting a link to Facebook or Twitter.
