Online Media Daily Issues for January 2008

Online Media Daily - Thursday, Jan. 31, 2008
CBS Mobile Chief: Wireless Industry Is Overwhelming Consumers by Mark Walsh
New MySpace COO Says 2008 'Critical' In Evolution Of Internet by Gavin O'Malley
Adify: Is Your Ad Network IAB Certified? by Tameka Kee
1-800-FREE411 Sells Out 2008 Sponsorship Inventory by Tameka Kee
FTC Settles Another 'Free' Merchandise Complaint by Wendy Davis
ComScore: Google and Facebook Big Winners in 2007 by Tanya Irwin
MEC Promotes Three To Managing Partner by Joe Mandese
AT&T, Yahoo Agree On Ad Revenue Share Plan by Laurie Sullivan
WPP Acquires Majority Stake In Indian Events And Content Firm
Hitwise Gets New Director of Research
Study: Mobile Bankers Should Target Low-Income Consumers
Vibrant Taps Wall Street's Garcia To Head Strategy, Research
ZoogaTV Offers Real-Time Video
Publishers Clearing House Hires Coremetrics For Web Analytics
For Super Bowl Advertisers, Three Simple Steps To Score Online On Game Day Commentary by Joshua Stylman
Online Media Daily - Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2008
Court Dismisses Suit Claiming Omnicom Defrauded Internet Investors by Joe Mandese
Yahoo Plans To Lay Off 1,000 Workers; Earnings Beat Analysts' Projections by Mark Walsh
U2 Manager McGuinness Calls On ISPs To Control Piracy by Wendy Davis
WPP's Maerov: Acquiring Schematic Was Vital To Winning Dell, AT&T by Tameka Kee
Microsoft Partners With The Wall Street Journal by Gavin O'Malley
NY Legislature Considers Law Aimed At Keeping Sex Offenders Off Social Networking Sites by Wendy Davis
BrandIntel Study Reveals Some Surprise Winners by Karl Greenberg
NBC Announces Mobile Web Sites For 2008
5th Finger Shifts Focus To U.S. Market
Endemol, Metacafe Target 'Buzzed' Partygoers with Online Game Show
EU Court Protects Privacy Of File-Sharing Suspect
WebCollage Expands Into Europe
Microsoft Exec Gannholm Named Engineering VP At PopCap Games
Halstead Teams With 'New York' To Beef Up Real Estate Listings
Guideposts Names Charles-Pierre Head Of Digital Media
What Ad Exchanges Add To The Online Media Buying Process Commentary by Ryan
Online Media Daily - Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2008
Aegis Has Sights Level On Another Digital Acquisition, Wants To Buy i-Level by Joe Mandese
OMD Puts Digital At 'Strategic Core' In Reorganization by Gavin O'Malley
Tempered Growth In Search Expected As Market Matures by Tameka Kee
Cell Phones Will Morph Into Wallets By 2012 by Mark Walsh
TruEffect Behavioral Targeting Still Has Flaws by Wendy Davis
'Irreverent' VidiGreet Plans Post-Valentine's Day E-Card Launch by Gavin O'Malley
Current Needs Currency, UGC Company Files For IPO
Former Google AdSense Leader Gokul Rajaram Joins Tumri Board
Presidential Candidates Offered Online Forum
Break Launches Men's Ad Network
Mobile Entertainment Forum Issues Guidelines
Adzilla Adds Gabriner As CEO
Harte-Hankes Acquires Mason Zimbler
Looksmart Names West President And CEO
Tremor Media and Digitalsmiths Corp. Partner
Van de Paal Joins Spotzer Media Group
CityVoter And ExerciseTV Launch Online Contest To Find Best Personal Trainers
IAC Snags A Chunk Of The HealthCentral Network
Beating Online Ad Clutter Commentary by Ken Mallon
Online Media Daily - Monday, Jan. 28, 2008
OMD Integrates Digital, Traditional Media, Taps Hagedorn As East Coast Director by Joe Mandese
Nielsen Commercializes Social Network, Will Use HeyNielsen.com As Super Ad Focus Group by Joe Mandese
GroupM: Online, TV To Fuel '08 Ad Spending Growth by Joe Mandese
Qtrax Launches With 25 Million+ Tracks by Mark Walsh
Study: Most Business Travelers Don't Need Wi-Fi On Planes by Tameka Kee
American Greetings Connects With Gen Y Via Kiwee.com by Gavin O'Malley
EdebitPay Settles With FTC Over Wrongful Debiting Charges by Wendy Davis
AdMob East To Focus On Expanding Mobile Brand Advertising by Mark Walsh
MySpace, BBC, Enter Into Agreement
Undertone Networks Beefs Up Publisher Services, Snags Weather.com VP
Innovyx Adds Bar Code Functionality To 'Dialogue 1to1' Email Marketing Platform
Baidu: Still The King Of Search In China
OgilvyOne Lands Sears Digital and Direct Account
Red Door Interactive Hires Dougherty
Agency Darwinism in the Web 2.0 Age Commentary by Andrew
Online Media Daily - Friday, Jan. 25, 2008
Microsoft Earnings Exceed Forecasts by Gavin O'Malley
GSI Commerce Aims To Expand Internet Marketing Via Acquisition by Mark Walsh
Warner Bros. Sues Music Search Engine SeeqPod For Copyright Infringement by Wendy Davis
DirectoryM Relaunches Local Ad Platform After Company Buyback by Tameka Kee
Starcom Mobile Study Reveals Consumer Demand for Customized Messaging by Tanya Irwin
Yahoo BT Exec Heads To SocialMedia Networks
WSJ.com Free? Murdoch Says Forget About It
IGA Worldwide Eyes Asian In-Game Ad Market, Snags More Series B Funding
USA Today Acquires Action Sports Destination BNQT.com
Bruce Haymes To Lead Nielsen Digital Media Manager
Adchemy Receives $19 Million In Venture Funding
YouTube Expands Mobile Presence
Borders Names 360i Interactive AOR
ADSDAQ Hits New Audience Milestone
NHL.com Offers Access To All-Star Game Events
Wunderman Acquires Asian Interactive Shop
CGM And The Jihadists Commentary by George Simpson
Online Media Daily - Thursday, Jan. 24, 2008
Future Of TV Ad Market: A Lot Like Online's -- Ad Networks, Behavioral Targeting, Etc. by Joe Mandese
CBS Asks: Where Does Last.fm Grow From Here? by Gavin O'Malley
Media Buyers Bristle At Networks' Premium Rates For Online Video Advertising by Mark Walsh
Attention Span Media Debuts 'Dorm Life' Webisode Series by Tameka Kee
MPAA Admits Stats Inflated As Congress Considers Copyright Protection Bill by Wendy Davis
EMI Music's Partnership with SendMe Expands Mobile Company's Offerings by Tanya Irwin
Silverpop Taps Lyris' McDonald, Will Head Industry Relations
Former FCC Chairs Join Task Force Calling For New Digital Kids Initiative
MySpace Promotes Berman To New Role of Marketing EVP
CSTV.com Partners With USA Today
Global Mobile Entertainment Market To Top $64 Billion by 2012
Inform Technologies Gets $15 Million Cash Injection from Spark Capital
Mobile Ad Network Ad Infuse Raises $12 Million In Financing
Q Interactive Names Henderson Chief Analytics Officer
Using Search and Display To Build Branding Commentary by Sarah Pate
Online Media Daily - Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2008
Publicis Keeps Friends Close, Frenemies Even Closer, Unveils Google 'Collaboration' by Joe Mandese
Politicos Spend Big On Traditional Media; Crumbs For Web by Mark Walsh
SMG Chief Digital Officer: 'Change Is In The Air' by Tameka Kee
Musical Digital Media Directors: Omnicom's Finnegan Jumps To Sales Side, Nardone Returns To Online Media by Joe Mandese
Quattro Wireless Debuts Self-Serve Mobile Publishing And Ad Platform by Mark Walsh
Survey: In-Stream Ads Are Intrusive by Gavin O'Malley
Complaint Against Ask.com Alleges Deception Regarding AskEraser by Wendy Davis
Former DoubleClick Execs Form Startup by Gavin O'Malley
Facebook Under Scrutiny In The U.K. Over Data Retention Policies by Wendy Davis
Digitas Health Bolsters Creative Team, Taps Mills And Nolan
Boingo Wireless Partners With Ji-Wire
Rosenberg Takes Helm At Expanding PV Media Group
Vehix Names Camp COO
Marketers Say Email Performs Better Than Search and Display
Johar Joins JumpTap as CMO
AT&T's Yellowpages.com Taps TurnHere for Video Profiles
ID Media and SBTV.com Launch New Broadband Buying Model
Are You Investing to Grow Your Human Capital? Commentary by Doug Weaver
Online Media Daily - Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2008
Study: Social Networking Results Difficult To Track by Mark Walsh
Hocus Focus: Japan's Dentsu Launches Internet Ad Venture With China's Hua Kuang by Joe Mandese
Scientologists Threaten Gawker Media With Legal Action Over Cruise Video by Wendy Davis
Tumri Adds CEO To Focus On Taking Technology To Market by Gavin O'Malley
SEMDirector Snags $16 Million In Financing, Rebrands As Covario by Tameka Kee
Alacra Launches Finance-Focused Ad Network, PCAN by Tameka Kee
BET Pulls Controversial Section From Web Site by David Goetzl
Cuts Expected At Yahoo, Hundreds To Be Let Go
Carmichael Lynch Taps Organic's Kim, Will Lead Digital Strategy
Retail Sites Dominate Canadian Internet Traffic in December
Apple Is Most Searched-For Stock, Google Not Far Behind
Marketers Say Email Performs Better Than Search And Display
Venture Capitalists Increase Spending 12% On Internet Companies In '07
Quantcast Raises $20M In Venture Financing
PennySaver is now PennySaverUSA.com
Five Trends To Watch In Online Video Advertising Commentary by Jayant Kadambi
Online Media Daily - Monday, Jan. 21, 2008
Report: WPP's Sorrell Makes A New Run, Bids To Acquire Canada's Nurun by Joe Mandese
EU Continues To Scrutinize Google-DoubleClick Deal by Wendy Davis
Study: Internet Ads Will More Than Double By 2011 by Mark Walsh
OfficeMax Out Elfs Itself: A Case Study In Viral Marketing by Tanya Irwin
Social Network Marketing Affected By New Technologies by Gavin O'Malley
Marketers Make Friends With Savvy Online Consumers by Kelly Shermach
Time Warner To Test HBO On Broadband
IncrediMail Becomes More Credible, Is Reinstated By Google
Nielsen: Google Grabs 56% Of Search Queries In December
Ad Age Taps Tribal DDB As 'Global Agency Network'
Veoh Adds New Members To Exec Management Team
BlackPlanet A Hit Among Social Networks
Clickable Hires Preston Green as Vice President of Customer Experience
Avatarlabs Adds Three New Execs
Want To Protect Kids On MySpace? IP Addresses Are The Answer Commentary by David Honig
Online Media Daily - Friday, Jan. 18, 2008
Time Warner To Test Pay-Per-Download Plan by Wendy Davis
Yahoo, T-Mobile Join Forces In Britain by Mark Walsh
Google Still Has Uphill Climb In Growing Chinese Market by Tanya Irwin
Acxiom's New Chief Plans To Focus On Mobile by Tameka Kee
YouTube Continues To Grow Video Share by Gavin O'Malley
Google Organizes Dot.Org, Outlines Philanthropic Plans
Google Checkout Available For Political Contributions
Yahoo Will Support OpenID Login System
AdBrite Snags Spot As Fourth-Largest Ad Network
Omniture Closes On Visual Sciences, Implements 'Welcome Program'
Virgin Mobile Promotes Stohrer To CMO
Hachette Filipacchi Media Names Anderman SVP Digital Media
Chattanooga Tops U.S. Cities for Podcast Download Request Growth
SinglePoint Partners with Tapioca Mobile
My Name Is George, And I Am A Media Addict Commentary by George Simpson