Monday, January 26, 2009
The POOL - Network of advertisers
Many advertisers, brands, and content portals have been complaining for years of a lack of standards for the placement/packaging of advertising for content, on-line, and any other digital platform that presents an opportunity or landscape to have content/information delivered to an audience.
The "Pool" as it is called, brings standards to a collection of media "pooled together" for media buyers & agencies to choose from for added vaclinet value.
Starcom MediaVest Group and Vivaki , both led by Curt Hecht of Vivaki, will spearhead thr group and industry standards for online/digital ad-buys.
Starcom's advertising clients, that include Allstate, Applebee’s, Capital One and Nestle Purina, will be paired with content partners Broadband Enterprises, CBS Interactive, Discovery Communications, Hulu.com, Microsoft Advertising, Platform A and Yahoo!, to name a few, with the sole goal of streamlining and organizing the structure for digital ad-buys.
This is both strong and good news for content owners and creators who could possibly recieve a better accounting and higher ROI for their contemt, and on-line portals, who would recieve top dollar for their digita real estate.
If done right it could be win-win for all involved "POOL" parties, but if the standards are not managed effectively, it could creat more confusion and hysteria to an already, at times, confused space.
Lets hope for the win-win.
Friday, January 9, 2009
Is Mobile TV finally hit the U.S. - Let's wait to see numbers on market penetration first!
This week brought a huge announcement from a group of major TV stations at the annual CES in
One of the major companies, LG, said it will offer up to five new products, all that will be capable of getting the standard Mobile DTV signals.
Currently in Asian countries where mobile TV has been active in consumers lives for awhile, the business model revolves from premium paid services to a'la carte and many offering of advertising sponsored content.
With the announcement yesterday it seems a like a solid way to introduce mobile TV, through advertising and sponsored programming, but then other issues come into play that sometimes people do not spend enough time on. The environment for mobile in
All n all, yesterday announcement was extremely positive, now we just need to change more of our habits, have better devices, and get ready to welcome one of the next best revenue generators in digital media, Mobile TV and all of the options of interactivity that comes with it.