The financial meltdown is having a big impact on online image based advertising revenues. According to a study by the Neilsen group, financial services companies are hurting and cutting down on ad spending.
Compares to the first 2 quarters of 2007, financial services companies have spent 27% less in the first two quarters in 2008, a [...]
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Online advertising hit by wall street crisis
Amazon’s IMDB now lets you watch free movies!
Amazon’s IMDB has launched free online videos including popular TV shows and hollywood movies. Over 6,000 full-length feature films and TV episodes can now be watched free on IMDb.com.
The announcement also introduces an easy to upload service for folks who own rights for TV shows and videos using Amazon’s withoutabox service. Withoutabox is a division [...]
Online Ads company Clickable raises $14.5 mil
Clickable (www.Clickable.com ), the online search advertising company today announced completion of its Series B round of investment. The $14.5 million financing was led by Founders Fund, with additional backing from existing investors Union Square Ventures and FirstMark Capital.
The funding amounts to a total of $22.5 million in capital, raised over the past 12 [...]
Internet Video platfrom Mogulus get $10 mil from Gannett
Internet video platform, Mogulus has received minority investment from Gannett, a leading international news and information company. In the United States, the company publishes 85 daily newspapers, including USA TODAY, and nearly 900 non-daily publications.
The $10 million investment extends and expands on Gannett’s three-month-old commercial agreement with Mogulus to provide broadcasting services on the company’s [...]
ContextWeb:the ADSDAQ company raises $26 million in series D
ContextWeb, Inc., the contextual advertising company and operator of the ADSDAQ Exchange, today announced that it has closed a $26 million Series D round of funding.
“We had tremendous interest in the company and received numerous good financing proposals,” says Anand Subramanian, CEO of ContextWeb, Inc. “We chose Investor Growth Capital as our partners to lead [...]
Google acquires Begun - Russian Context Ads Service
Google announced today that it has signed an agreement to acquire ZAO Begun (”Begun”), a leading Russian context advertising service, for $140 million. The acquisition of Begun will give advertisers access to a broader network of sites to advertise on, and publishers will benefit from a wider set of adverts to run on their sites.
Google [...]
Kaltura - YouTube meets Wiki, Enabling Social Element to Online Video
Dubbed as “YouTube” meets “Wiki”, Kaltura’s open source platform enables any site to integrate advanced interactive rich–media functionality. The platform aggregates content across its member sites into a repository of sharable and reusable rich-media content. This has the potential for new syndication opportunities, and access to third-party web services – such as DVD burning, professional [...]
July 8th, 2008 | rp | Comments | ContinuedInternet advertising grows in Q1 2008
Internet advertising impressions grew by 14.7% in the first quarter of 2008 when compared to the same period in 2007. Sponsored search link advertising and rich media led drove overall growth. This is good news for Google, the online search industry leader which leads the competition in sponsored search. Yahoo is a distant second with [...]
June 21st, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued
Google opens content network to 3rd parties
In a press release today, search giant Google today announced that is it opening it’s content network to approved third parties. Google will now be able to accept advertising tags from third parties giving advertisers the choice of working with approved agencies. Publishers benefit from this with more ad inventory in Google’s content network relevant [...]
May 19th, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued
