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Learning from the viral success of the interactive Facebook horror video, Take This Lollipop, "We worked with BLT & Associates, BLTA -  they were the creative technology group that built it," Dwyer explained. "We worked internally on footage and our social agency Edelman, made certain elements like the newsletter and buttons and some tools that were in it," she added. BLT has also worked on Dateline Chatline and A&E's Coma. Starz didn't just take a trailer and throw a few interactive elements into it. They put tons of resources into developing and producing the experience. Dwyer shared the following details with us to explain how it works.

Fab 3.0 on mobile will show recent and popular activity from the people you know. The homescreen will feature algorithmically derived featured products based on real-time activity from Fab members and your network of friends across a few social networks.

What Matters to the Junkweb? There are probably 3 key ways one might engage the Junkweb for your own betterment: Make interesting graphics worth sharing. Make it easy to share them. Evoke an emotion. That last one is tricky. But when you do it right, it works quite well. People share emotions in the Junkweb. Oh, and I predict that the tech will adapt to better support this kind of web. It's mobile. It's fast. It's something that will fairly quickly stand a chance of replacing the Smartweb.

me the musical -- pretty catchy animated musical video powered by the content on your timeline. Telling a story from the day you were born through to today, highlighting various global hits, technology feats like the start of the internet and so on, as they little characters walk down your timeline

The social media marketing vendor tracked campaigns for 276 clients in the last quarter and reported Facebook's new mobile ads are already outperforming desktop ads in click-through rates and CPMs by 14 times. Mobile newsfeed ads garnered a 1.14 percent CTR on average. Facebook is banking on the success of mobile ads as well, earning $9.86 for every thousand mobile ads served. That's 13 times more than it receives for desktop ads.

Mogreet launched the AdStitch mobile advertising service Tuesday, combining high-quality video ads with mobile messaging to help brands easily recoup return on investments. Cox Media Group's Oakland, Calif. television station, KTVU, has been testing a morning weather alert to subscribers along with an ad in the MMS message on mobile phones. The ad in the message typically ranges from five to 15 seconds, but more advertisers want to create shorter clips. The best-performing ad units are shorter, according to Mogreet CEO James Citron. "An automaker knows showing a five- or a 15-second video of a car performs better than 20 characters in text, banner or display ad," Citron said. He believes MMS is the only way publishers can reach 95% of Americans with mobile video.

Almost three-quarters (74%) of smartphone users are what the Pew terms "connected viewers," compared to just 27% of feature phone owners. The most common reason that people turned to their phones while watching TV was to occupy themselves during ad breaks, with 38% doing so. Among other activities people did in the prior 30 days: *23% used their phone to exchange text messages with someone else who was watching the same program in a different location *22% used their phone to check whether something they heard on television was true or not *20% used their phone to visit a site that was mentioned on television *11% used their phone to see what other people were saying online about a program they were watching, and 11% posted their own comments online about a program they were watching  *6% used their phone to vote for a reality show contestant

AppFlood comes with 1,000 install credits, meaning that when people see your ad on another app, up to a thousand of them can download your app at no cost to you.  You can purchase more credits when you run out. At the same time, other developers' ads will appear on your app so that you can earn credits for referring downloads as well.

Last but certainly not least, Facebook's recently released News Feed targeting options are delivering significantly better CTR. Mobile ads received CTRs 14 times that of desktop ads, on average. The desktop category, which includes News Feed ads and the ads on the right-hand side, saw the lowest CTR at 0.083 percent. The mobile News Feed, by contract, saw an average CTR of 1.140 percent. How does this compare with Twitter? The smaller social network saw an average CTR of 0.266 percent. This would indicate Facebook's mobile ad CTR is four times that of Twitter's. That's impressive. Other highlights from the report include: Sponsored Stories continue to perform better than standard Facebook Ads: Analysis of 13.8 billion impressions in the first and second quarters of 2012 shows Sponsored Story ads receiving 53 percent higher CTR than standard ads. Cost per fan also saw major improvements with 39 percent savings.

"It's Even Pin-Worthy On fan sites for the books the Audis are mentiOned, and Pinterest pages dedicated to "50 Shades" have pinned images of the cars. The Edgewater Hotel in Seattle, One of the cities where much of the books take place, even created a promotiOn to bait cOnsumers inspired by the books that includes waterfrOnt accommodatiOns, champagne and a demo drive of an Audi through a partnership with a local car dealership. While that sort of attentiOn's been great for the brand, the real potential lies in the possibility of Audi being written into the forthcoming film versiOn of "50 Shades of Grey." A couple years ago, Volvo milked its tie-in with the tween vampire saga "Twilight", creating a viral-video campaign by EuroRSCG and promotiOnal giveaways."

The advert, which will have a two-week trial, will use a high-definition camera to scan hundreds of thousands of passers-by. It will guess their gender based on the distance between their eyes, the width of their nose, length of the jawline and shape of their cheekbones. With a built-in computer, touchscreen and sound, it will be 90 per cent accurate, its designers say. "We're not giving men and boys the choice to see the full ad on this occasion - so they get a glimpse of what it's like to have basic choices taken away," said Marie Staunton, Plan UK's chief executive.

Barnes & Noble is reportedly releasing a Nook Tablet with less storage space-and, presumably, a lower price-on Wednesday - analysts expect it to be priced at $199 to compete with the Kindle Fire. (The Nook with more storage is currently $249).

Gimme the Gig's focus is on the redesigned 2012 Ford Focus Ford will record the winning bands on the spot and upload the tracks to iTunes using the Focus's in-car wifi feature, chevy teamed up with band Ok Go -- Chevy Sonic is used to make the music: OK Go's members drive a specially equipped Sonic through a track lined with musical instruments and other sound-generating objects. Devices attached to the outside of the car play the instruments and devices along the route, resulting in sounds that make up the song.

According to a rate card distributed to ad agencies, two hot verticals -- music and pop culture -- were $62 million apiece for one-year sponsorships, a package of sports channels was $40 million, an autos package was $16 million and a mom's interest package $10 million. YouTube has since subdivided the verticals into smaller packages in categories such as "Celebrity News," "Music and Film" or "Geeks, Gadgets and Games," which cost $10 million to $20 million to sponsor. YouTube also lets advertisers exclusively sponsor a single channel for anywhere from $2 million to $4 million on an annual basis.

In fact, interactive video ads that ran on Christmas Day 2011 resulted in engagement rates six times higher than Cyber Monday, according to Web video start-up Jivox. This coincided with serious growth in online Christmas Day sales, which IBM found jumped 16.4% year-over-year.

This means that users of StumbleUpon's Android app can take advantage of Android Beam to share any content they discover on the app to other NFC-enabled devices running ICS. The app will also feature the Android Action Bar, allowing users to explore the Web via the Android navigation interface.

If you want to know why companies are so hot on social networking, consider this: Ticketmaster recently began asking customers to post their purchases on Facebook. Since then, the company says, it has made $5.30 in additional ticket sales each time someone has done so. That value increases to $8 when the customer also posts the location of the seats using Ticketmaster's seating chart.

According to the company, EverShare provides everything an online retailer needs to take full advantage of frictionless sharing on both Facebook and the ecommerce site . Features include: The ability to initiate and manage the perpetual flow of user content from the ecommerce site to Facebook; Privacy controls for the consumer; A social merchandising page much like Pinterest and Fab.com/feed that displays trending products based on what shoppers are saying about them; An activity stream that incentivizes more social sharing activities among shoppers.

New PR firms focus on turning brands into media producers to generate earned media without relying on the media industry for coverage.

campaign called "sole seekers" in celebration of neiman marcus 20th anniversary. submit photos of christian louboutin shoes they own or see at neiman marcus stores via instagram or twitter - entries will also be shown on neiman marcus fb page and their blog nmdaily. one winner will be selected randomly to win a pair of shoes.