San Francisco Music Fest to Fuel CrowdFire Experiment

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — This weekend, as thousands of people gather and five dozen bands perform over three straight days at the Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, tech and media entrepreneur John Battelle hopes to create a different kind of performance, a mash-up of the thousands of camera-phone pictures, hand-held digital-video recordings, blog posts and Twitter "tweets" generated at the event.
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NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The big question mark around Quantcast is how it's going to make money off of its system of granular, census-level web-audience measurement — and it's stolen a top Yahoo executive to help answer that. Todd Teresi is joining the web-measurement start-up as chief revenue officer. Mr. Teresi, most recently the head of Yahoo's network business, was at the portal for almost 10 years and previously led corporate development and global operations.
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NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Consumer satisfaction among search engines and portals surged this year — and for that the industry can thank Google. The tech company surged ahead 10.3% in consumer satisfaction from last year.
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Sphere: Related ContentFear of Preroll Ads Eases
LONDON (AdAge.com) — The perils of preroll appear to have been vastly overstated, according to research by Jupiter, which suggests audience loss as a direct result of prerolls could be as little as 5%. The figure comes as the research firm releases a major European report about online video and in-stream video advertising.
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Sphere: Related ContentWhy CPG Brands Better Buy Paid Search

BATAVIA, Ohio (AdAge.com) — Package-goods and fast-food marketers: Ignore paid-search advertising at your own peril. That seems to be the message of new research by Publicis Groupe's MediaVest and Yahoo that finds search ads have a huge impact on brand awareness, perception and purchase intent — even among consumers who never click on them.
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Sphere: Related Content‘Sports Illustrated’ Sells Ads Via Online Auction

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Sports Illustrated has begun using online auctions to sell some of its print, digital and event-marketing inventory. It's one of the most striking attempts yet to harness new media for a traditional publisher's gain, particularly among magazines where publishers have feared undermining their sales teams.
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Sphere: Related ContentUh-oh, Where Did Those Newspaper Web Ads Go?
CHICAGO (AdAge.com) — File this under "It can always get worse." Amid the constant stream of circulation declines, vanishing ads and staff reductions that have afflicted print newspapers, some major publishers are seeing online-revenue declines for the first time.
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Sphere: Related ContentCan This Sci-Fi Series Boldly Go Where No Other Has Gone?

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Could an ambitious new sci-fi series be the future of online TV? NBC certainly hopes so. Aug. 18 will mark the premiere of NBC Universal Digital Studio's first original web series, "Gemini Division," perhaps the most significant original programming ever developed by a broadcast network specifically for the web.
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Sphere: Related ContentGSI Interactive Hires New Creative Director

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Dorian Sweet has joined GSI Commerce as VP-executive creative director of GSI Interactive, the digital marketing and design arm of GSI's interactive marketing services division.
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Sphere: Related ContentAd Networks Appear to Drive Down CPMs
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — There's a conflict simmering between web publishers and online ad networks — and a recent study by the Interactive Advertising Bureau and Bain & Co. may exacerbate it. The research, released today, finds a link between the amount of inventory publishers release to ad networks and the price those publishers can charge when selling their own inventory directly.
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If the consumer voice is so important these days, why are brand feedback, or "contact us," forms so get-out-of-my-face unfriendly? Welcome to the "conversational divide."
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Sphere: Related ContentR/GA Expands Into Branding Biz, Taking on Traditional Players

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — As more brands connect to consumers digitally, can traditional branding practices keep up? R/GA Brand Design will attempt to fill the gap between theory and practice of creating a brand in Web 2.0.
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Sphere: Related ContentDitching the Manila Folder

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Considering how many people use myriad online and offline travel services to book various bits of a trip, resulting in separate e-mail confirmations, TripIt's ability to store, organize and share trip details can be valuable.
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Sphere: Related ContentAll Those Applications, and Phone Users Just Want to Talk

You might be surprised what online Americans do — or don't — want to do on their phones.
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Sphere: Related ContentTime Warner’s Back to Its Roots: Content
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Time Warner has yet to shed the carcass of its disastrous merger with AOL. But as that prospect nears, the company appears to be hunkering down into the business it began with: creating great, commercially valuable content.
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