Digital Intelligence

The American Advertising Federation (AAF) Tenth District has announced that Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung Mobile), the No. 1 mobile phone provider in the U.S. 1, and its agencies have been selected as the 2012 Innovation and Leadership in Advertising (ILA) Award recipient for outstanding work in advertising. The award recognizes Samsung and its agencies for their commitment to producing ground-breaking and inventive advertising programs.

Vizu Corporation, an online ad technology company that enables advertisers and publishers to measure and optimize Brand Lift in real-time, today announced the availability of a series of case studies developed to evaluate the effectiveness of different approaches to social media advertising. In recent weeks, the company has partnered with 33Across, BuzzFeed, BlogHer, and others to benchmark the effectiveness of brand advertising using social media tactics ranging from blogging to leveraging the social graph, from marketers such as Jones New York, GE, and Mary Kay Inc.

LongTail Video (www.longtailvideo.com), the leading provider of affordable, self-serve video solutions for web publishers, unveiled its latest State of HTML5 Video report, showing continued growth in HTML5 support and playback across the browser market, while highlighting other trends and issues in both mobile and desktop browsers.

The IAB Internet Advertising Revenue Report for the full-year 2011 reveals that revenues soared to a landmark high of $31 billion. That milestone represents a 22 percent increase over 2010’s full-year number, which itself had been a record-breaker at $26 billion. The report, released by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and prepared by PwC U.S., also unveils that fourth quarter revenues for 2011 hit a best-ever at $9 billion, marking a 15 percent increase over the third quarter 2011, which came in at $7.8 billion, and a 20 percent growth year-over-year in comparison to 2010’s $7.4 billion.

Nielsen, a leading global provider of information and insights into what consumers watch and buy, and AdSafe Media, a leading source of brand protection and ad viewability data, announced an agreement to integrate AdSafe’s ad safety ratings, contextual analysis and viewability measurement into Nielsen Online Campaign Ratings.

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comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its Q1 2012 U.S. retail e-commerce sales estimates, showing that online retail spending reached $44.3 billion for the quarter, up 17 percent versus year ago. This represents the tenth consecutive quarter of positive year-over-year growth and sixth consecutive quarter of double-digit growth.

A nationwide Scarborough research survey found that Business Frequent Flyers are 83 percent more likely than all American adults to be the first to try or buy new products and services. This custom study was commissioned by Clear Channel Airports (CCA) and conducted by consumer market research firm Scarborough. The survey results highlight the value to advertisers of targeting frequent travellers while they are in transit in airports.