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“Talking at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival, Vint Cerf – one of the handful of researchers who helped build the internet in the 1970s – said that the television industry would change rapidly as it approached its “iPod moment”.
The British Guardian newspaper has more details
From the London Times
“YouTube will introduce advertising into video clips today for the first time as the world’s most popular video- sharing website tries to justify its $1.65 billion (£832 million) purchase price.
“Twenty seconds after a clip begins, a transparent advert appears in the bottom fifth of the video for a further 15 seconds. Clicking on the image overlay plays the advert, but if ignored it simply disappears.
Google has announced new functionality for Google Maps – Emdedded maps, which allows blogs and websites to embed the funcionality of Google Maps by simply copying a snippet of html in the same way YouTube does for videos.
The Silicon Alley insider is reporting
US advertising revenue at 4 big online media companies–Google, Yahoo, AOL, and MSN- grew by $1.3 billion in Q2, or 42%.
While
US advertising revenue at 15 big television, newspaper, magazine, radio, and outdoor companies (Time Warner, Viacom, CBS, News Corp., CBS Radio, Citadel, Disney, Entercom, Clear Channel, Clear Channel Outdoor, Time Inc., New York Times Company, McClatchy, Dow Jones, and Gannett) shrank by $280 million in Q2, or 3%.
Spending in internet advertising will reach $61.98 billion, and will surpass newspapers to become the nation’s leading ad medium in 2011, projects private equity firm Veronis Suhler Stevenson in its 21st Communications Industry Forecast released today.
“Amazon Flexible Payments Service (Amazon FPS) is the first payments service designed from the ground up specifically for developers. The set of web services APIs allows the movement of money between any two entities, humans or computers. It is built on top of Amazon’s reliable and scalable payment infrastructure.
Interbrand.com has published its annual ranking of the 100 best global brands. Coca-Cola retains the No. 1 spot and Google outpaces the pack for the second straight year.
At its annual meeting Microsoft announced its acquisition of AdECN, a stock market for buyers and sellers of web advertising.
CNN has brief details – (terms not disclosed)
The BBC is reporting Google has purchased Postini for $625m. “The search engine giant said the deal would allow it to provide more companies with web-based services similar to its Google Apps package.
“Postini sells encryption and archiving software to more than 35,000 businesses and 10m users across the globe.
GPM Group 