Google Mobile Ads senior product manager Surojit Chatterjee just posted details on the Google Mobile Ads blog about a new set of ad formats. They're listed below, but it's worth pointing out that many of them are local in nature.…
I just got finished watching KPCB’s Mary Meeker give her semi-annual data dump at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. As always, it was quite comprehensive and quite good.
And as in the past, much of it focused on mobile connectivity, device sales and the overall marketplace disruption we’re seeing come out of the mobile sector.
“We’re in the middle of one of those once in every 10-20 year shifts,” she said. “Mobile connectivity is at the center of that, and mobile devices just nearly outshipped PCs.”
Being somewhere between a few of my own presentations, I’ll give a few highlights and save the rest for later. Indeed, these slides will be a key part of lots of presentations you’ll see in the coming months.
Below are a selection of the mobile slides (only about 10 of the 70 total slides she showed). Most of them are after the break, to save room. And the entire presentation is available on Scribd.
A new partnership between Clear Channel and LivingSocial is seeking to leverage the power of on-air personalities on 500 Clear Channel radio stations. The personalities will rap about the deals in unscripted segments. It would be interesting to know what…
Yesterday, we alluded to some of the developer partnerships eBay announced for its new X.commerce platform. They were paraded out in greater detail following John Donahoe's keynote, representing the first big functionality injections to the platform. As background, X.commerce is…
We’ve long known that coupons provide real traction for SMB advertising. Nothing beats a customer walking through the door with a coupon in hand. But a lot of SMB website publishers haven’t really focused on them. DataSphere, on the other…
Yellow Pages publisher The Berry Co., announced today that John S. Fischer, currently the company's general counsel and secretary, will be appointed as the company's interim president and CEO. The news comes on the heels of the company's energence from…
As deals verticalize, we’re intrigued by opportunities for B2B plays. MarketSharing is offering deals tailored for SMBs (office cleaning discounts, office copier repair, etc.). Now, Cardinal Health, a Fortune 20 company, has launched a pilot with Local Offer Network to…
I'm at eBay's X.commerce developer conference where CEO John Donahoe kicked things off by introducing what X.commerce is and what it hopes to become. Just like eBay opened up PayPal last year for third-party developers to integrate payments into their…
TargusInfo, a major direct marketing tools provider and the parent company of Localeze, a "Big 3" provider of business listings, will be acquired by NeuStar for $650 million in cash. The deal enhances NeuStar's positioning as a leader in authentication…
For the next few days I'll be at eBay's X.commerce Innovate Developer Conference in San Francisco, where we'll see lots of announcements that bring together its platform. X.commerce is meant to give retailers of all sizes better tools to conduct…
Facebook advertising and integrated marketing concepts seem to be top of mind for 200+ reps of midsize agencies gathered in Scottsdale, Arizona, at BOLO 2011: Be On The Lookout. It is my second year in a row speaking here—certainly, one…
BIA/Kelsey will offer a view into two of our key forecasts at the upcoming ILM Asia conference, Oct. 25-26 at The Regent Singapore. The first will be the freshly updated global Yellow Pages forecast, which will be summarized in…
In an ongoing effort to provide more multimedia here, we're unearthing and packaging up lots of past conference video. This is also a good exercise as we gear up for our flagship ILM West conference coming up in December. Below…
Google, Facebook, American Express, Groupon and others are all working on electronic wallet concepts that can help store and process deals along with other promotions and event tickets. At least one deals vendor, however, is banking that it will take…
We’ve just announced ILM West, our big December show, which takes place in San Francisco Dec. 12-14. Can we beat last year’s record attendance of 675+? We like our chances. The timing couldn’t be better. So much progress has been…
I was never into the black turtlenecks and the cult that grew around him. But if he wasn't inspirational, then nobody is. Pushing the envelope on tech...coming back from being fired....the way he handled his sickness. It isn’t well-remembered, of…
I recently got a question from a colleague. The answer relates closely to the "Mobile Starting Line" panel we had at the recent DMS conference, and other market happenings. See the thread below. As blogs are increasingly becoming a place…
EMarketer is out with its latest mobile forecast revision, projecting U.S. mobile ad revenues to grow from $743 million last year to $4.4 billion in 2015. This is right in line with the forecast we released in February, especially in…
Following our earlier coverage of today's Apple announcements, you can watch Apple's promo video for the iPhone4S and iOS5 by clicking below.
ILM Asia has added two exciting speakers to its lineup. Adrian Tan, COO of Groupon Singapore, will join our special Deals Forum on day 2 of ILM Asia. Meanwhile, Michelle Sherwood, exec VP of strategic marketing at the Australian directory giant Sensis,…