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• Twitter's Stone: No Sale But IPO, Alternatives Are Possible

  PaidContent - 2009-11-23

  Twitter’s generous investors—the latest round was $100 million—may be pleased to hear that “2010 is really going to be the revenue year” for the high-profile startup. Or so Biz Stone, one of three cofounders, told reporters at Oxford University Monday, the latest stop on a talky tour of the...

  Tags: Advertisement, Twitter Inc., IPO, Financial Planning, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Advertising, Money, Social Media, Companies, Twitter, Countries, Europe, UK, Staci D. Kramer

• Inside Word: In Defense Of Ads In Twitter

  PaidContent - 2009-11-06

  The Inside Word is a weekly feature that looks at compelling industry debates and discussions unfolding on the blogs of employees at digital-media companies.Blogger: Mark SusterPosition: Partner, GRP PartnersBlog name: Both Sides Of The Table, which features startup adviceBackstory: No one knows what percentage of Tweeters if any would...

  Tags: Advertisement, Microsoft Word, Twitter Inc., Advertising, Features, Inside Word, Social Media, Nanopublishing, Companies, Twitter, Joseph Tartakoff

• Ad.ly Gets $500,000 For In-Stream Twitter Ads

  PaidContent - 2009-10-20

  Ad.ly, a one-month-old ad network that matches popular Tweeters with advertisers, has raised $500,000 in seed funding from VC firm GRP Partners. Twitter users who sign up agree to send one Tweet from an advertiser every other day for seven days. They can set the price for the sponsored...

  Tags: Advertisement, Twitter Inc., Ad.ly, Advertising, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Companies, Twitter, Joseph Tartakoff

• Google's Increasing Integration With Twitter

  BNET - 2009-07-20

  One thing quite clear from that cache of internal Twitter documents leaked to TechCrunch last week is that the micro-blogging service has been holding ongoing talks with Google about the ways the two companies might work more closely together. It's also evident that Google is taking its...

  Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Google AdWords, Twitter, Integration, David Weir

• Is Twitter Rolling Out a New Ad System?

  BNET - 2009-07-16

  Federal law requires all bloggers to write about Twitter at least once a month, so here is my compliance-mandated offering for July: Twitter is testing a new revenue system that could involve selling targeted advertising. by Jim Edwards

  Tags: Advertisement, Twitter, Operational Accounting, Finance, Jim Edwards

• Do Facebook and Twitter Ad Network Make Sense?

  BNET - 2009-04-22

  According to Silicon Alley Insider, Facebook is looking at possibly building an online ad network based on Facebook Connect, though not for at least the next six months. And there's suspicion that Twitter could do the same. But then, how much good will it do them? In...

  Tags: Revenue, Web, Facebook, Advertisement, Network, Online Advertising, Twitter, Operational Accounting, Finance, Erik Sherman

• Google's First Quarter 2009 Earnings Call, the Cliff Notes

  BNET - 2009-04-17

  You've probably already read the headlines about Google's first quarter, in which the company reported revenue was up by a measly for Google six percent compared to the first quarter of last year and down by three percent unusual for Google compared to the fourth quarter. But you probably haven't...

  Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Google AdSense, Earnings, Twitter, Tool, Advertiser, Productivity, Catharine P. Taylor

• Microsoft paying for ads on Twitter

  Strategy Eye - 2009-03-24

  Twitter is acting on promises to monetise corporate clients by signing a sponsorship deal with Microsoft. The micro-blogging platform will receive an undisclosed sum to give its stamp of approval to Microsoft’s new tweet aggregator, ExecTweets. Twitter will also display ads for the Microsoft-branded site in the Twitter sidebar...

  Tags: Advertisement, Microsoft Corp., Twitter, ExecTweets, Federated Media, George Mitton

• Media Roundup: U.S. Sees Internet Traffic Record Traffic, Google Ends Print Ad Program, and More

  BNET - 2009-01-21

  In Today's Media Roundup: U.S. sees Internet traffic record traffic, Google kills print ads, Twitter passes Digg in traffic, WB cutting 800 employees and Clear Channel cuts nine percent. by Sean Blanda

  Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Media, Traffic, Radio, Clear Channel Communications Inc., Twitter, Internet, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Sean Blanda

• Pepsi Apologizes on Twitter for "Suicide" Ad by BBDO

  BNET - 2008-12-05

  PepsiCo has apologized via a Twitter message for an ad for Pepsi Max which features a "calorie" creature attempting to commit suicide. The ad, from BBDO Dusseldorf, features a blue, bean-shaped character simultaneously shooting himself in the head, with a noose round his neck, and poison in his other hand....

  Tags: Advertisement, PepsiCo, Suicide, Twitter, Jim Edwards