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YouTube Launches Brand Protection Feature Enter YouTube’s latest feature, “target excludes,” launching as part of the site’s Video Targeting Tool, which gives advertisers the choice to exclude as few as one video they don’t want their product associated with as well as specific genres and channels. The feature addresses the most often-criticized aspect of YouTube: You [ READ MORE ]
Google Tries to Push TV Efforts in DirecTV Partnership Satellite broadcaster DirecTV said today it had formed a partnership with Google that would allow the search giant to sell national satellite inventory on second-tier outlets including Bloomberg, Fox Business, Centric, Fuel, G4, Current, Ovation, Fit, Sleuth, Chiller and TV Guide through the Google TV Ads system [ READ MORE ]
Big Ad Investment Follows Online Sports Viewership By Gavin O’Malley From the Super Bowl to the Winter Olympics, watching sports online has become a key component of fans’ viewing experiences, according to a new sports and technology study from the Consumer Electronics Association. This year, nearly one in five — 18% — of consumers planning to follow live [ READ MORE ]
Oreo, Ritz Drive NASCAR Sponsorship Synergies By Karlene Lukovitz Kraft Foods’ Oreo and Ritz brands are pushing the pedal to the mat to maximize consumer and retailer benefits from their NASCAR sponsorships — most recently via a sweepstakes to win a trip to a NASCAR race in the fall, take driving lessons in a real race car [ READ MORE ]
Visa Connects With Olympics Congratulations By Karl Greenberg Taking a page from its 2008 playbook, Visa is updating its “Go World” campaign with ready-made pieces to congratulate the company’s sponsored athletes when they win a medal. “We know through research that the way consumers connect to the games is through the athletes and their stories,” Jennifer Bazante, head [ READ MORE ]
Olympics Sponsors Benefit, As Do Competitors By Aaron Baar A few sponsors of the ongoing Winter Olympics are getting a boost (at least in terms of goodwill) out of their sponsorship … and so are their competitors. According to a survey from market research firm Chadwick Martin Bailey in Boston, followers of the Winter Olympics correctly identified [ READ MORE ]
Kraft: Cadbury-Merger Savings To Support Marketing By Karlene Lukovitz Kraft Foods expects to realize annual pre-tax cost savings of at least $675 million by the end of 2012, some of which will be used to further increase advertising and consumer spending as a percentage of revenue, chairman/CEO Irene Rosenfeld reported during the company’s Q4/year-end fiscal 2009 earnings [ READ MORE ]
Multitaskers: More Viewers Watched Super Bowl, Surfed Net By Wayne Friedman Concerning the NFL big game this year, the Nielsen Company says there was a slight improvement in multitasking activity of those using the Internet while watching the Super Bowl. About 14% of those who watched the Super Bowl could be found on the Internet. This is up [ READ MORE ]
Sprite Launches First Integrated Global Campaign By Karlene Lukovitz Coca-Cola is accelerating its push to make Sprite the soda of choice among the younger crowd both here and abroad, with the brand’s first integrated global campaign. The campaign — dubbed “The Spark” in reference to the brand’s 2009-updated logo — features hip-hop musician Drake and includes multiple TV [ READ MORE ]
Rebranding: ESPN360 Becomes ESPN3 In April By David Goetzl The online live sports hub, ESPN360.com, will be rebranded ESPN3.com in April. ESPN3 will be available in 50 million homes, free to subscribers of broadband providers that have agreed to pay ESPN a TV-style fee to offer it. ESPN has not used Web lexicon recently in referring to ESPN360 [ READ MORE ]