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Is Thursday Night Still Working for the Weekend? Ad Age Survey Predicts Sunday Still Has the Most Ad Viewership, but Another Night May Prove to Be the New No. 2

By Brian SteinbergAdvertising Age Thursday night — long a ratings smorgasbord and one of the best ways to reach consumers thinking about their weekends — may be yesterday’s news. A survey of ad buyers’ predictions of broadcast shows’ commercial ratings…

Hulu: Soon To Be Obsolete?

Two excellent pieces today. Our first story asks "Hulu: Soon to be Obsolete?" Then we have an item about Facebook on track to becoming the online site that will be No.1 in online display ads, overtaking Yahoo. By Brian SteinbergAdvertising…

Report Says Facebook Will Be No. 1 in Online Display Ads This Year, Overtaking Yahoo

Social Network’s $2.19 Billion Puts It at Top of the Digital Heap, Leaping Google, Yahoo — but It’s Still a Bit Player When Compared to TV By Edmund LeeAdvertisng Age Facebook doesn’t really have to try to become the biggest…

Move Over, Revlon, There’s a New Player in Town–‘Young & Restless’ Faux Jabot Brand Is Now Reality

By Brian SteinbergAdvertising Age Jabot Cosmetics has been a bustling concern for years, even though the average person has been unable to sample its wares or buy any of its products. That’s changing, however, as Jabot (rhymes with "merlot"), a…

38th Annual Daytime Entertainment Emmy Awards: Complete List of Winners

OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES The Bold and the Beautiful CBSExecutive ProducerBradley P. Bell Supervising ProducerRhonda Friedman Senior ProducerRonald L. Weaver Coordinating Producer Adam Dusevoir ProducersEdward Scott Cynthia J. Popp Casey Kasprzyk OUTSTANDING GAME/AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION SHOW Jeopardy!(Syndicated)Executive Producer/WriterHarry Friedman Supervising Producer/WriterGary Johnson…

Social Media Is a Venue, Not a Strategy: Kutcher and Sheen Have Identical Social ‘Strategy,’ But Only One Is Winning

Antony YoungSpecial to Advertising Age Barely a day goes past when social media doesn’t grab a headline. Marketers eager to join the social-media surge have been challenging their agencies to rethink how they communicate their brands in this more participative…

Mobile TV Advertising to Reach $1.4 Billion by 2015, PricewaterhouseCoopers Projects; Tablets and Smartphones to Fuel Digital Growth for Newspapers and TV

By Nat IvesAdvertising Age Magazines may be the media sector most visibly jumping into tablet computers like the iPad, but tablets will affect other major media as well. Tablets are poised to help U.S. newspapers increase paid digital circulation to…

Are Advertisers In Love With TV Again? 2011 Upfront Totals $8.8 Billion to $9.3 Billion, but Doesn’t Beat 2004 Benchmark

By Brian SteinbergAdvertising Age Big TV is heading back to a better position — but it’s not quite there yet. The nation’s five broadcast networks have just secured ad commitments totaling between $8.8 billion and $9.3 billion in this year’s…

List of Parks in New York City That Have and Will Be Getting Free Wi-Fi Service, as of June 10, 2011

Information from The New York Times City Room blog: The 13 parks that already have wi-fi are: Brooklyn: Brooklyn Bridge Park, Classon Playground, Columbus Park. Manhattan: Bowling Green, British Memorial Garden, Bryant Park, City Hall Park, Jackson Square Park, Madison…

Official List of 2011 Winners for the Inaugural PromaxBDA Local Awards, As Announced at the PromaxBDA Station Summit in Las Vegas, June 9, 2011

Congratulations to All of Our Winners! We are pleased to announce the winners for the most outstanding promotion, marketing and design work in local broadcast! The excitement for the competition was phenomenal as was the energy at the awards show…