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YouTube Brings More Ads to Your Phone, Next to Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga

in Media on January 12, 2011 at 2:00 pm PT

YouTube Steps Cautiously Into Mobile Ads

in Media on March 10, 2010 at 11:39 am PT

Another sign that Google is serious about wringing more money out of YouTube: It is adding ads to the video’s mobile site. Another sign that mobile ads are still in their infancy: Google isn’t using its favorite video ad format on the YouTube ads.

Speaking of the Microsoft-Google Game of Internet Risk, Bing Adds More Square Kilometers in Maps

in News on March 5, 2010 at 10:53 am PT

In one of the more interesting battlefields of the multi-front war between Google and Microsoft, Bing Maps today added what it calls its “largest imagery update to date, adding 6.7 million square kilometers of new imagery.” The ongoing innovations to online mapping by both Google and Microsoft has been a boon to consumers, who are getting increasingly cool and substantive looks at our world.

Microsoft Demos Live Fish-Tossing in Bing Maps at TED

in News on February 11, 2010 at 3:55 pm PT

Debuting a series of eye-candy features in its ongoing oneupmanship with Google in the increasingly competitive mapping arena, Bing Maps architect Blaise Aguera y Arcas unveiled a new series of enhancements to its spatial search offerings, some of which are available today. Coolest ones: Indoor panoramas to move mapping inside and real-time video overlays to maps, which Microsoft illustrated by tossing fish and bench-pressing crabs during its demo today at the TED conference.

YouTube’s Newest Ads: Ones You Don’t Have to Watch

in Media on November 11, 2009 at 10:52 am PT

The newest twist in Google’s quest to wring more more money out of YouTube: Ads you don’t have to look at. That’s a refreshing change of pace, no?
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Viacom Says It Has Cracked the Web Ad Riddle, Using Lots of Web Ads

in Media on July 16, 2009 at 8:59 am PT

Web video publishers are desperately trying to figure out how to make money selling ads against their clips, but Viacom’s MTV Networks says it has figured it out: Use lots of ads in each clip!
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