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Feb

7

2012

Prepare for Facebook Ads on Your Smartphone and Tablet

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by Ed Caggiani
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After filing for an initial public offering (IPO) earlier this month, Facebook is looking to generate more revenue from its mobile audience, which comprises nearly half of their traffic. According to the Financial Times, Facebook plans to start displaying ads in their mobile app and the mobile version of their web site by early March. [...]

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Feb

1

2012

Google Presents Letter To Congress Addressing Questions Of Its New Privacy Policy

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by Roy Alugbue
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You remember how Google recently announced it would consolidate its privacy policies into one policy, right? In case you’ve forgotten, this change will reflect all the information you search for, all the emails that are sent in Gmail, all the videos you watch or subscribe to in YouTube, places you’ve looked up on Google Maps or even posts and [...]

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Nov

11

2011

Black Friday at Best Buy – More Like Tablet Blowout Friday

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by Stacy Bruce
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Today on the internets, various sites took it upon themselves and outed the newspaper ads that everybody likes to study on Thanksgiving, the day before the madness begins. By the looks of Best Buy’s Black Friday ad apparently they are trying to blow out some Android tablets by reducing them to killer prices. You can [...]

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Aug

9

2011

Virgin Mobile vs. T-Mobile in Ad Campaign (Video)

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by Harold Williams
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Phandroid posted a video that Sprint has launched going after T-Mobile. My first reaction was to bash Virgin Mobile for a video like this. It reminds me of the Apple vs PC commercials we have all seen a million times or politician videos where one is bashing the other in childish ways. It just seems old [...]

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Apr

27

2011

TapJoy’s Policy Changes Encourage Appia to Introduce “Pay Per Download” Ad Structure

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by Michael Murphy
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TapJoy — an advertising company that works with mobile developers to place ads in their apps — has been making some policy changes lately. No longer can apps allow the downloading of other apps within the TapJoy network in lieu of making in-app purchases, which is something that TapJoy has promoted as being one of [...]

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Apr

16

2011

Google now allows you to opt out of ad targeting via the Android Market

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by Dustin Karnes
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Are you a huge privacy aficionado? Sure you are – and that’s precisely why this latest news will excite you. Google is now, after an update to the Android Market, allowing you to opt-out of the targeted AdMob advertising system. While we’re personally not huge on clicking on AdMob ads in the first place, it’s [...]

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Dec

17

2010

Why Rovio Angry Birds is Failing at the Mobile Ad Game

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by Jesse Bauer
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When it was announced that Rovio was venturing into a new advertising area by allowing video ads to display during Angry Birds gameplay, I thought that was a little over the top, as did MANY other Android Angry Birds fans. As it was, ads appeared at the bottom of the screen already, and can cause [...]

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Nov

20

2010

Google’s Android catches Apple’s iOS For Mobile Ad Impressions

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by Jesse Bauer
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Apple may be a little worried by this latest report which shows that Google’s Android has actually caught up to Apple’s iOS in ad network impressions on Millennial Media, the largest US smartphone ad platform. This is an attractive mark for developers who are looking to put apps out on different platforms, as we know [...]

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Jul

29

2010

Google rolls out display-based mobile display ads

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by Dustin Karnes
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You want to know about the local sub shop down the street? Well, Google does, and they’re using their advertising platform to get you to wolf down that hoagie. Google has now released mobile ads that will utilize your location to display relevant results. The ads will show as a small ad on the top [...]

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