Internet Marketing Feeds
Despite Recession, SpotMixer Parent Gets New Funding
Execs & Accounts: Epsilon, ClickSquared, Revenue Science
The New "You"
Social Media: Moving Into Programming
Four Guidelines for Behavioral Marketing Newbies
Three SEM Tips for Big Media Sites
JP Morgan: Performance Marketing Steady as Brands Recoil in '09
Quentin George Named Chief Digital Officer at Mediabrands
Chicago Sun-Times Forges Alliance With Monster
NewsGator Launches Ad Platform
NewsGator Technologies has launched a new ad platform for its publisher clients. Along with a host of partners, the AdBurner platform enables display ads, pre-roll video and overlays, widget ads, and iPhone ads. NewsGator contends that publishers need better ways to package and sell inventory. According to the release, "In addition to managing ad units inserted into products that NewsGator provides to publishers, the process integration extends to unrelated online ad inventory."
Newsgators partners are blog network Technorati, inventory optimization firm Admeld, widget outfit Gigya, iPhone ad network Medialets, and video ad network Tremor Media.
Average Search CPC Data by Category for November 2008
Execs & Accounts: Razorfish, Studiocom, Brickfish
Atlanta's Definition 6 Joins Digital Agency Layoff Club
Google Grabbed Most of Obama's $16 Million in 2008
Online Media Stats That Make Me Feel Great About '09!
Low Investment Interactions: The Next Tiny Huge Thing
Four Predictions for 2009
Time for Analytics to Come in From the Cold
It's 2009. Please Retire the Holiday Copy
A friendly reminder to AT&T and the rest of you yuletide slackers.
Twitter Accounts Hacked: Obama, Britney and Fox News Affected
A number of big name Twitter accounts were hacked this morning, a day after Twitter users were targeted in a large-scale phishing attack.
In all, 33 accounts were briefly commandeered by a person or persons who got their hands on editing tools used by Twitter's support team. Among the victims were some of the best-known Twitterers, including Barack Obama, CNN's Rick Sanchez and Britney Spears. The Obama hijackers, who had control of the Prez-Elect's account for just a few minutes, took the opportunity to post an affiliate link to a page with a survey and promotion. With several others, the hackers' intent was merely malicious. I've borrowed the below screen grabs from Brent Csutoras.
According to Twitter the hacked accounts were unrelated to a phishing attack that happened over the weekend. That incident was a straightforward scam that used e-mails presenting themselves as Twitter direct messages to get users to divulge password information.
