Jason Angelides, OneTwoSee's COO and cofounder, told us this second-screen start-up positions itself as a B2B play designed to augment and enhance the first-screen experience by adding social, data and interactivity. Angelides and CEO Chris Reynolds left Nokia/Navtaq last summer…
Gillian Heltai, comScore's senior director, presented new search data showing that while local search is still growing, its trajectory is slowing down. She broke search into online and mobile. Year over year, online search grew 9 percent online to 19.3…
Infogroup's president/CEO, Clare Hart, was the kick-off headliner at DMS ’11 and shared her vision of the SMB space as it relates to the rapid transformation in small businesses' use of new tools and features in online commerce. Hart argues…
SocialGuide CEO Sean Casey briefed us today on recent accomplishments and upcoming milestones for his company that focuses on social media activity around television programming running on 170 U.S. networks. The basic idea for users is that in addition to…
TVplus CEO and Founder Ajay Shah argues that in spite of connected TVs, cross-platform video and "TV Everywhere" types of viewing options for connecting to video, it will be the "second screen" that will drive the social revolution that links…
"Social is the new black," asserted Ben Silverman, CEO, Electus, to Billy Bush of "Access Hollywood" in a lunchtime interview at yesterday's Social TV Summit at the Belair Country Club. The point is it goes with everything. Well, almost. Later…
Research recently reported in Scientific American shows that work by Gregory Berns of Emory University supports the conclusion that magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans of brain activity while listening to music produce data that can predict subsequent sales. In particular,…
At this week's Advertising Research Foundation annual Audience Measurement 6.0 conference, BIA/Kelsey presented a new research study on the cross-platform video User Experience ("UX") it conducted for the Council for Research Excellence. BIA/Kelsey reviewed well over 100 industry and academic…
No, this post is not about a server crash in the cloud nor about a tragic plane crash with Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens aboard. This is about a fast-breaking social trend that's crossing the workplace/personal barrier and…
Radio Ink's "Radio Tech Summit" runs through today at Microsoft's Executive Conference Center in Mountain View, California. Media UK's James Cridland was the kick-off keynoter and asserted that "radio is not dead...but it must compete on content not platform." Cridland,…
Brightroll, an online video network, released its third annual survey of agencies and their buying habits and attitudes. Brightroll reported that online video is included as a component in 27 percent of agency RFPs. Media buyers predict the largest overall spending…
BIA/Kelsey moderated a panel on "the Out-of-Home User Experience" (click on image for link to streaming video) at MediaPost's Digital Out-of-Home Forum (DOOH) in New York. DOOH is the third-fastest growing ad medium after mobile and online video. Paul Lindstrom,…
Brian Costello, GM and VP, Digital Media and The RedPlum Network, Valassis Communications; Jere Doyle, founder, president and CEO, Prospectiv; and James Green, chief marketing officer, Travidia took on the topic of "Deal Universe: The Big Picture for Coupons and…
Lawrence Coburn, CEO and cofounder, DoubleDutch; Walt Doyle, president and CEO, Where; Ted Morgan, CEO and founder, Skyhook; and Annette Tonti, CEO, Mofuse took the stage for a CEO mobile panel to share their views of market trends and opportunities. The steep trajectory…
David Weinberger, author and senior researcher, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University, kicked off ILM East 2011 with an opening keynote focusing on use of social media by local businesses to pursue conversations, engagement and customer acquisition. Weinberger…
Speaking at the Credit Suisse Global Media & Communications Convergence Conference held in Miami, Florida, this week, Ted Cohen (Tag Strategic), Harry DeMott (Raptor Capital Management) and Eyal Goldwerger (TargetSpot) all agreed with Cohen's assertion that localization, personalization and recommendation…
Greg Gittrich, VP, digital media, and editor-in-chief, NBC Local Integrated Media, told ILM:10 attendees that with strong corporate support, NBC has extended a consistent voice and high-value content across platforms in a manner that develops a franchise in local markets.…
The big money in local looks to be in mobile, if ILM:10 panelists Kara Nortman, senior VP of publishing, CityGrid Media, and Dev Khare, VP, Venrock, have it right. Nortman said that mobile is consuming most of CityGrid's attention right…
Will the iPhone soon be able to not only receive FM and HD Radio stations but also provide an electronic program guide? Apple Insider reported on a patent filing (“Digital Radio Tagging Using an RF Tuner Accessory") this week. The filing…
What will it take to get a local television station-based mobile DTV service off the ground and running? Leading broadcast groups and networks may just be putting together the alchemy that will breathe life into the monster. Broadcasters across the…
