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Will a Lack of A-List Advertisers Kill the 'Glenn Beck' Show?
9:00AM 3/22/2011
Glenn Beck's show still has higher ratings than all of its 5 p.m. cable competitors put together, but it has been losing viewers at an alarming rate. And it's got fewer -- and less prestigious -- advertisers than "The Situation Room" or "Hardball with Chris Matthews." Will Fox pull the plug?
ComScore: More Advertising Coming to Online Videos
7:30PM 1/24/2011
Technology, Media, Google , Yahoo
Research firm ComScore projects that spending on online-video advertising will more than triple between 2010 and 2015. But that doesn't mean you'll necessarily see more commercials per video. Spending will continue to lag behind the huge growth in online videos, according to ComScore.
Cat Fight: Arm & Hammer Sues Clorox Over Kitty Litter Commercial
10:45PM 1/05/2011
Church & Dwight, the maker of Arm & Hammer's Super Scoop, is suing Clorox for a commercial in which a cat refuses to use its litter box.
Nielsen Report: Many DVR Viewers Play the Commercials
8:00PM 12/21/2010
Here's a nice surprise for television advertisers: Digital video recorders are actually increasing, not decreasing, the number of viewers who are watching the commercials. Nearly half of the DVR owners in the critical 18- to 49-year-old age group watch the commercials, which boosts ratings, Nielsen says.
Soon, the Internet won't be the only medium to offer advertisers the ability to closely target specific types of customers. Starting in August or September, DirecTV plans to launch a new personalized advertising service for television. Can it bring the scope of TV to highly targeted ads?
Why Jon Stewart Matters More Than Keith Olbermann
3:00PM 11/02/2010
At least in part due to comments made by Jon Stewart at this weekend's Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann announced he was suspending his show's well-known "Worst Person in the World" segment indefinitely.
How to stop companies like Rapleaf from selling your personal info
1:00PM 10/22/2010
Again Facebook is in the news for a privacy breach, but this time the culprits were top-ranked apps, including Farmville, Texas HoldEm Poker and Frontierville, which leaked Facebook users' personal IDs to advertisers. Personal IDs can be linked to a wealth of other information -- including name,...
Massucci's Take: Facebook's New Privacy Policy Amounts to Piracy
11:23AM 12/22/2009
This month, Facebook made a sneaky change to its privacy settings, and the new policy is generating a fierce backlash. The social network's default privacy setting now allows anyone to see a user's personal information. While users are permitted to change those settings, through an option to limit...
There's no doubt that Snuggies are a hot product; you can even get one for your dog these days. Snuggies are so popular that they've inspired another company to roll out a whole new set of blankets with arms; most notably the new NFL themed knockoff Snuggie that lets you concentrate on cheering...
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