May 7th, 2013 by Music Ally

Experts – many of them working in or for online-video companies – have predicting an imminent drain of advertising spending from TV to online video.

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April 23rd, 2013 by Music Ally

Twitter has taken a big step forward in its advertising business, signing a deal with Publicis' Starcom MediaVest Group worth "hundreds of millions of dollars over several years" according to the Financial...

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March 5th, 2013 by Stuart Dredge

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As the world's largest streaming music service, YouTube's ability to make money from ads is being scrutinised increasingly intensely by music rightsholders. Watch for the ripples from All Things Digital's...

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February 26th, 2013 by Music Ally

Choose your own preroll ad in youtube

YouTube has been pleased at the success of its option allowing users to skip pre-roll ads after a few seconds, with advertisers only paying when they don't.

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February 19th, 2013 by Music Ally

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The latest Facebook-fuelled kerfuffle on the tech blogs was spawned by on-stage comments by VP of business and marketing relationships David Fischer at the Stanford Future of Media conference this week.

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February 7th, 2013 by Music Ally

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Google has announced some new features for its AdWords advertising system: 'enhanced campaigns'. We think they're pretty significant.

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February 6th, 2013 by Music Ally

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Facebook is trying a new form of ad-targeting in the US called Lookalike Audiences, which could be useful for any music artist with a decent mailing list.

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January 30th, 2013 by Music Ally

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Momentum is gathering behind increased scrutiny of which brands are advertising on pirate sites, and which ad networks they're using to do it.

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January 18th, 2013 by Music Ally

Tech industry analyst Gartner has published its latest forecasts for mobile advertising spend – a topic of considerable interest to many music rightholders keen to explore more ad-supported music models.

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