• Yahoo’s Interclick Play Is a Head-Scratcher

    Yahoo announced on Tuesday that it had acquired the ad network Interclick for $275 million. The company says it’s for data-targeting tech and a salesforce upgrade. But it’s hard to understand why this deal makes sense on any level.


  • White Sox Spur Web Video

    Season, a new venture formerly owned by the Chicago White Sox, has begun selling advertisers ad inventory alongside sports highlights on over 250 media websites. As part of a partnership with the U.K.-based Perform, Season is able to offer brands access to over 70 million users as well as content from the majority of top sports leagues.


  • The Video Pricing Schism

    Online video will continue to be the story of the haves and the have-nots. The haves, aka premium content providers, will continue to enjoy high pricing. The rest of the market won’t.


  • Why App Stores Suck For Marketers

    Marketers shouldn’t celebrate the advent of app stores. Their closed nature makes tracking success difficult and moves the Web in the wrong direction toward closed ecosystems.


  • Reading List: Google Tries Social — Again

    Google+ is the latest in a long line of “Facebook killers.” Maybe by copying Facebook’s look and feel Google will succeed this time around, or Google+ will join the ranks of Orkut, Wave, Latitude, Buzz and other Google social fumbles. Plus: MySpace fire sale, Zynga’s blockbuster IPO, and WSJ gets award for privacy series.