Digital Marketing News for July 20, 2012 - Facebook gets an earful from agencies

MAJOR COMPANIES

FB gets an earful from 40 agencies

Mayer tells Y! board that company needs more engineers
Evidence says iPhone holding its own against Android

Google beats the street on earnings

FB testing interesting sponsored results feature

YT seems to have a good business model finally

START UPS

Kayak has priced its IPO above the expected range

AGENCIES AND BRANDS

Viacom and DirecTV reach agreement

RESEARCH

Data based targeting has exploded in the US

SCUTTLE

Mayer's first email to Y! employees – it's a good one

Digital Marketing News for July 19, 2012 - Say Media lands $27Mil for growth

MAJOR COMPANIES

Bad earnings at Nokia

Good quarter for Verizon                  

$550Mil spent on WIN phone marketing so far – without a lot to show for it

Yahoo board believes Mayer can make it more competitive with FB, Google

START UPS

Say Media gets $27Mil

$5Mil in funding for Save for Later app Pocket

AGENCIES AND BRANDS

Forrester issues report concluding digital agencies need to become "value mediators"

Group M takes its ad growth forecast down to 5.1%

Dish, Group M in national addressable TV trials

RESEARCH

Mobile search to hit $15B in 2017

Digital Marketing News for July 18, 2012 - Yahoo profits beat expectations

MAJOR COMPANIES

Yahoo profits beat the street

MSFT showcases improvements to Office 365

Comprehensive new social analytics offering from Salesforce Radian6

Slow growth for WIN phone

START UPS

AppDirect gets $8.5Mil, opens its marketplace

Read about Nodeable – cloud based big data tool

AGENCIES AND BRANDS
Check out VW's hands free banner ad

Miller SAB consolidates with MEC in Europe

Coke Zero in creative review

Macy's taking Shopkick national

Telemundo, iVillage partner to target Hispanics

RESEARCH

eM: Social media usage among marketers has plateaued

SCUTTLE

Marissa Mayer's two contrasting reputations

Digital Marketing News for 7/17/2012

MAJOR COMPANIES

Marissa Mayer is the new CEO at Yahoo

START UPS

Mom focused flash sale site Totsy 18.5Mil

Read about Virool, a way to get more video views

Autodesk acquires SocialCam for $60Mil

File sharing service Egnyte lands $16Mil from Google Ventures

Mobile rewards network Kiip lands $11Mil

Hootsuite expanding internationally

Check out "LinkedIn for Creatives" Behance

RESEARCH

Online sales down quarter over quarter in Q2

SCUTTLE

Marissa Mayer is pregnant

Digital Marketing news for July 16 2012 - Social TV Explodes

MAJOR COMPANIES

MSFT and NBC part ways, renamed MSNBC = NBCNews.com

Nexus 7 sales strong so far

NOKIA slashes price of Lumia 900

Amazon working on a bigger Kindle Fire to compete with iPad

AGENCIES AND BRANDS

Advertisers troubled by media rebates to agencies

Sign of the times: Clorox intros CPG line aimed exclusively at US Hispanics

American Media names first digital chief

PHD lands Farmers Insurance media Account

RESEARCH

Social TV explodes – 350 Mil posts and check ins so far this year