Reuters have introduced a search engine powered by Viewdle that enables the user to search though film footage for people. Within the results it shows you how many videos have been identified featuring the person you’re interested in, date of the video, the context, overall length and time the person is on screen for. The […]
Yahoo Partner With Bebo to Sell Display Ads
Bebo has signed a deal to partner with Yahoo! selling advertising for the social network. It will also integrate Yahoo! Answers within its platform and develop a Bebo-branded browser toolbar. Yahoo! Says it will sell the “majority” of Bebo’s display advertising in the UK and Ireland, which has a reach of around 11.6m users in […]
Google Earth Flight Simulator
Google Earth Integrates Flight Simulator Google have included what is known as an “Easter egg” (a “hidden” facility in the application) within Google earth. The flight simulator can be accessed by getting a download of the latest version of Google earth and then holding down the “ctrl” “alt” and “a” key simultaneously. It is not […]
Ooyala – Contextual video advertising has arrived
Some ex Google bods have taken contextual video to the next level. A number of companies are wrestling with how to “monetise” video content. Google video are inserting supposedly unobtrusive ads within youtube content for instance. Nothing has of yet been truly pull adevrtising as well as contextual until now. Calif.-based company Ooyala has developed […]
Yahoo Change Ranking System
Hi, With the launch of Yahoo Panama there is a upcoming change to sponsored search ranking system for Yahoo. The week commencing July 23rd, 2007, Yahoo are introducing a new ranking model in the UK that considers an ad’s quality and bid amount. Instead of just bid amount, both bid amount and ad quality will […]
Uploading new accounts to Yahoo Panama without losing the will to live…
Hello, As you may or may not know uploading a new account into Yahoo Panama through the “Import Campaigns” function is a bit of a nightmare. I downloaded an account in CSV from editor today, altered it to make it Yahoo Panama friendly and then uploaded to Panama successfully! You can also upload your Google […]
Microsoft adCenter Upgrade
Loads of new features, read on the adCenter Blog post: URL – http://adcenterblog.spaces.live.com § Editing your keywords in bulk and previewing ads § Creating multiple account performance reports and new information on misspelled keywords § Importing campaigns from other search advertising programs The Microsoft adCenter Team importing campaigns from other search advertising programs sounds good… […]
OsCommerce Error: insert into customers_info (customers_info_id, customers_info_number_of_logons, customers_info_date_account_created) values (‘0’, ‘0’, now())
Stumbled accross this nasty little error on a client’s installation of OsCommerce. The problem occurs when a new user is signing up, so this can be a real show stopper and cost sales! Anyway thankfully I quickly found the solution and the fix is pretty quick and simple catalog/includes/functions/database.php. Find the line relating to tep_db_insert_id […]
Google Adwords Search Query Performance
Hi All, Just to let you know that there is a new report within Google that gives you visibility on all search queries that have resulted in a click. Its called Search Query Performance and its in the reports section. I have already noticed that a phrase where we aren’t bidding on any component, is […]