Streaming Ads Driving Users Away From Content
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While marketers have always found a way to get themselves in front of a largely captive audience, advertising on streaming videos is presenting some particular challenges.
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Blog: Large Webcasters and the music industry are butting heads over a compromise to heightened fees that would require Net radio operators to implement anti-streamripping technology.
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How would you feel about your ISP selling ads on your site and scarfing up your visitors' data without your permission? Network World's Scott Bradner suggests we nip the NebuAd concept in the bud, fast.
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Security experts warn of banner ads with a bad attitude--and a link to malicious code. Also: Phishers, be gone.
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One of internet users' most common misconceptions is that obnoxious advertising doesn't work. In reality, it works all too well, generating very nice returns for purveyors of spam and pop-ups at the expense of the rest of us. By Adam L. Penenberg.
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Ads served to search query results based on category rather than keywords.
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The big media companies aren't looking at just the Web for new viewers and more advertising revenue. Increasingly, they are turning to mobile devices, and with mixed results.
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Lycos Europe released a screen saver that would pepper spam sites with requests for pages, in an effort to burden their bandwidth.  Now it's disabled, but in very fixable ways...
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Most sites are ignoring a new Firefox add-in that can block Web ads. The Daily Kos, however, is asking users of the product to buy subscriptions.
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A new advertising platform attracts a major radio network. What will the experiment tell us?
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Just as people currently use newsreaders to read syndicated text from blogs and news sites, a few hackers are creating applications that let users view syndicated video feeds. Think of it as TiVocasting. By Daniel Terdiman.
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I saw an ad in yesterday's NY Times that offered the complete New Yorker magazine archive, including all the cartoons and ads, going back to 1920-something for a bit more than the hard disk would cost. The ad was from J&R, the company that makes the product is Pexagon. $149. Sounds like there might be DRM. I asked for something like this from the music business. A hundred gigs of popular music for $500, all pre-installed on the disk without DRM.  Someone at the New Yorker had this idea too? It's a good one. Bulk content for collector types. Another source of revenue. I want to run my own personal radio station, so having every song of a certain genre or from a certain period makes the diff.
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The core business of Internet search engines is being threatened by the evolution of new generation of content providers. The search engines like Google or Yahoo make money by indexing the web sites all over
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NEW YORK It&#39;ll come as no surprise to even the most casual industry observer that many marketers are shifting more of their ad dollars online. And perhaps even less surprising is that there are significant obstacles preventing an even greater flow of dollars to the Web.
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US iPlayer in the works Just as the BBC is slashing jobs at home, its commercial tentacle is ramping up efforts to squeeze money from its programming and web content abroad.â¦
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Yahoo Publisher Network has updated the ad blocking function which lets publishers block advertising from certain domains within the YPN ads on their sites.  More from the YPN Blog: As suggested by its name, Ad Blocking allows you to block ads from a given domain or multiple domains that you don&#8217;t want to appear on your [...]
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bulk messages clogging instant-messaging accounts. AOL and its Anti-Spam Alliance partners -- EarthLink, Microsoft, and Yahoo