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YuMe, the operating system for TV 2.0, today announced a first for the video advertising industry: the YuMe Placement Quality Index (PQI), a proprietary algorithm that monitors and identifies the optimal placement of video ads on digital properties. In this age of site list parity, media buyers need a better way to evaluate expected performance for their campaigns. Not all impressions are created equal, and the PQI ensures that campaigns deliver the best possible performance and maximum impression value to align with brand marketing objectives.

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) today released an update to “Video Player Ad-Serving Interface Definition” (VPAID) for public comment. An advanced communication protocol between video players and ad units, VPAID was initially released in 2009, offering cross-platform support for rich in-stream video ads. Extending and enhancing those original specifications, VPAID v2.0 provides in-stream video ad designers even greater interactive capabilities and support for improved reporting.

Local Corporation (NASDAQ: LOCM), a leading online local media company, announced that its Rovion Ad Management Platform (RAMP) now includes the ability to add real-time polling results to any rich media advertisement, just in time for the 2012 election ad campaign season.

SocialVibe, a digital advertising technology company, announced new milestones that further establish the company as the leader in the engagement advertising market. To date, the company has powered more than 500 opt-in engagement campaigns for more than 200 of the world’s leading brands including Toyota, Pepsi, GE and Disney. SocialVibe delivered advertisers more than 1.7 billion seconds of consumers’ active attention in 2011 by leveraging its unique engagement advertising technology platform and its network of premium publisher sites.

140 Proof, the leading social ad platform for Twitter and Facebook, launched a new in-app social video ad unit that enables brands to increase social engagement around videos and better capture the positive buzz surrounding their video campaigns. This is the first time advertisers will be able to serve video content to consumers within their favorite social apps.

LiveIntent, the platform for buying and selling email ad inventory exactly like display, today announced it has launched LiveCertified, an alliance program for email service providers (ESP) and other email marketing ecosystem partners. The program is designed to help ESPs and data partners stay up to date on the latest email ad serving and revenue generation technology available through LiveIntent. It also ensuresthat mutual clients are able to implement LiveIntent LiveTags with ease, making real-time advertising in email a turnkey and profitable solution for LiveCertified partners and their clients.

Sharethrough has recently announced the hiring of Hanz Kurdi as senior director of publisher strategy and operations. Hanz will play an integral part in Sharethrough’s push this year to develop more native advertising inventory on media sites: placements that look and feel like the site’s actual content.