Atom Feed from Searchles Fri Jul 25 18:00:56 -0400 2008 en-us diane_court Thu Jul 24 12:10:42 -0400 2008 It's official. Sen. Barack Obama's campaign will be among the TV sponsors of NBC Universal's Olympics coverage. In the first significant network-TV buy of any presidential candidate in at least 16 years, the Obama campaign has taken a $5 million package of Olympics spots that includes network TV as well as cable ads. ndhawan Thu Jul 24 09:57:35 -0400 2008 nifty Tue Jul 22 08:48:47 -0400 2008 TOONDRA animation studio provide cretive flash cartoons animation production. Studio have many international animation awards. www.toondra.ru Kimberley McKee Mon Jul 21 13:57:55 -0400 2008 Television's "Mad Men" returns for its second season Sunday. The Emmy-nominated drama is set at an early 1960s Madison Avenue advertising firm. We assembled real-life Washington-area ad executives, photographed them in period costume and asked them just how close the show is -- and was -- to reality. Kimberley McKee Mon Jul 21 09:41:14 -0400 2008 I got in an interesting conversation earlier this week while at a dinner with Sarah Lacy and a number of active D.C. technology participants. At one point in the conversation we began discussing the concept of “ad supported” businesses. If you hang out in the internet entrepreneur circles, you can’t talk to five people without one of them telling you about their hot new business which will of course be advertising supported. 747btrfly Wed Jul 16 20:02:08 -0400 2008 FTP: "Both Callahan and Drummond took their shots at Microsoft. Callahan flatly stated that dismembering Yahoo would be bad for competition. Drummond suggested that Microsoft's strategy had nothing to do with competition and everything to do with weakening Yahoo. He painted Redmond's resistance to the deal as arising out of nothing more than its fixation with his own company and suggested that Microsoft's continued monopoly in the desktop OS arena left it in a position where it could inhibit future development of the Internet as a platform. " ~~~~ This could get real serious. driftabit Tue Jul 15 18:39:55 -0400 2008 With the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics less than a month away, NBC Universal is close to earning a gold medal of its own. raana41 Mon Jul 14 17:53:05 -0400 2008 walkertr Mon Jul 14 16:53:33 -0400 2008 Veoh Network has launched a beta version of its new behavioral targeting system that allows marketers to match video and display ads with audiences based on their viewing habits. The technology draws on data collected about users’ video watching, searching and browsing. The system groups users into the following categories: action-minded, auto enthusiasts, digital youth, family-focused, information seekers, pop culturalists, socially conscious, sci fi and anime fans, and upwardly mobile.