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Gigya hires display ad vet to top spot shortly after securing $11 million funding round.

The traditional demographic definition of "youth" is no longer applicable in today's society, and marketers should target consumers based upon their engagement and participation in youth culture...

The Federal Anti-monopoly Service (FAS), a Russian watchdog agency, blocked Google from executing its planned transaction of Russian ad platform ZAO Begun. Digital ad players are increasingly...

The average click-fraud rate for Q3 2008 held steady overall at 16%, but a 10% rise in botnet activity - and a 28% overall click-fraud rate from botnets - is potentially undermining ad-industry...

With help from MusicNation, video streaming site Babelgum drew 205 participants to its first online music video competition. Tasked with creating their own music videos, 40 semifinalists will...

More than 50% of online youth (age 13-24) turn to the internet for health and wellness information and seeking resources that are accurate, safe and anonymous, according to a study (pdf) from Ypulse,...

Newspaper websites each month attracted, on average, more than 68.3 million unique visitors (41.4% of all internet users), during the third quarter of 2008 - a record number, and a 15.8% increase...

News Int'l Shifts Sales Team; Rapp Grabs Agency.com's Marsh; HMDG and Vizeum Get Condé Gig

Crispy gamer hopes to overcome claims of bias in reviews by simply barring game industry advertisers.

Targets mobile ads to users of the device.