Tagged: Advertising & News
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Viral videos of the week: Spock vs Spock treadmill dancing, and a Mother’s Day tribute News
12.05.2013 We take a look at some of the most-viewed and most-shared videos on the web. This week features old Spock taking on new Spock, a treadmill dance to rival OK GO, Charles Ramsey... -
ASAI upholds complaint against Eircom over ‘misleading’ broadband ads News
02.05.2013 The complaints committee of the Advertising Standards Authority of Ireland (ASAI) has upheld a complaint made by a consumer against Eircom over its next-generation broadband... -
Car rental giant Alamo appoints Dublin-based Quantcast for real-time advertising push News
02.05.2013 Global car rental company Alamo has tasked the Dublin-based digital advertising player Quantcast to launch its real-time online advertising campaign as part of a wider marketing...Categories: Web, Mobility, Media, Marketing, Internet, Digital Media, Digital Marketing, Digital Business -
Facebook revenues up 38pc to US$1.46bn – now has 751m active mobile users News
01.05.2013 Social networking giant Facebook reported Q1 revenues of US$1.46bn, out of which it garnered a profit of US$219m, up 7pc year-on-year. Significantly, the company revealed it now... -
Viral videos of the week: men’s ‘real beauty’, an experiment in space, and an oddball cat News
21.04.2013 We take a look at some of the most-viewed and most-shared videos on the web. This week features an experiment performed by astronaut Chris Hadfield, Harrison Ford’s refusal to... -
Digital ad spend in Ireland exceeds €150m – up 12.3pc year-on-year News
19.04.2013 As ad spend in traditional media continues to fall by 6.2pc, digital advertising in Ireland has increased by 12.3pc to surpass €150m for the first time, according to the...Categories: Consumer Tech, Digital Business, Digital Marketing, Digital Media, Marketing, Media, Mobile, Mobility, Multimedia, Phones, Wireless Communications -
Twitter unveils new keyword feature for advertisers to target users News
18.04.2013 Twitter has unleashed a new feature called keyword targeting that will give advertisers the ability to show users ads based on the content of their tweets. -
Yahoo! reports 36pc profit increase while revenue slides 7pc News
17.04.2013 Lower operating costs helped buoy internet giant Yahoo!’s first-quarter profit up 36pc to US$390m from the same period last year, while its revenue for the quarter dipped 7pc to... -
Twitter for Business gets a new look to attract advertisers News
02.04.2013 Twitter announced the relaunch of its online resource for businesses using the social network yesterday (and no, it’s not an April fool’s joke). -
Twitter to hit nearly US$1bn in ad revenues in 2014 - report News
27.03.2013 Microblogging site Twitter’s advertising revenues will more than double this year to nearly US$583m and next year they’ll hit almost US$1bn, eMarketer predicts in a new report. -
Microsoft pulls no punches in new Windows Phone ads, targets Samsung users News
20.03.2013 It’s hard to escape Microsoft’s marketing lately as it blitzes us with Windows 8 and Windows Phone ads trying to convert users over to the new operating systems. In its latest... -
The technology business week: tech M&A activity to increase this year, Facebook buys Atlas from Microsoft News
04.03.2013 A digest of the top business technology news stories from the past week. -
Irish start-up targets mobile operators with location-based marketing platform News
27.02.2013 iMobMedia is a new Irish start-up that has come up with a platform with the aim of enabling mobile operators to target consumers with offers based on user preference, profile... -
The technology business week: Dell goes private, Kerry firm Fexco signs e-payments deal with Sofort News
11.02.2013 A digest of the top business technology news stories from the past week. -
Yahoo! signs ‘non-exclusive’ ad deal with Google News
07.02.2013 Yahoo! has announced an advertising deal with Google that will see ads from the search giant appearing on some of Yahoo!’s websites. The deal comes just seven months after... -
Viral videos of the week – 03/02/2013 News
03.02.2013 We take a look at some of the most-viewed and most-shared videos on the web. This week features a can of mixed nuts in space, Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs, a very determined... -
iOS 6.1 rolls out with wider LTE support and enhanced privacy controls News
29.01.2013 Yesterday evening, Apple began rolling out the first update to its latest operating system, which has so far reached almost 300m devices just five months since it was released....Categories: Operating Systems, Mobile -
Mobile advertising revenue to hit US$11.4bn in 2013 – Gartner News
18.01.2013 Gartner’s latest report takes a look at the mobile advertising market worldwide and forecasts a growth of 400pc in revenue in the period from 2011 to 2016, creating new... -
Instagram reveals it has 90m monthly active users News
18.01.2013 Despite changes in its terms of use that had resulted in many users closing their accounts, photo-sharing app Instagram has said it is seeing growth, reporting more than 90m... -
Apple opts not to fix Do Not Disturb bug, advises users to wait it out News
03.01.2013 An iOS 6 bug discovered on New Year’s Day that keeps users’ Do Not Disturb function switched on even after it was scheduled to switch off will not be fixed by Apple, but will...