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Microsoft's Xbox One Is Its Own Second Screen Brings together live TV, Internet, gaming, original content

Microsoft hopes the new Xbox One—its first console in eight years—will become a hub for entertainment. In addition to live TV, the device will offer exclusive media content, including a…

May 22, 2013, 11:24 AM EDT

WPP Created One Big Digital Shop From 8 Smaller Ones This is Possible

WPP Group, like most rival holding companies, is perfectly willing to acquire a big digital player like AKQA. But with Possible, WPP’s roll up of smaller digital shops, the parent…

May 20, 2013, 10:27 PM EDT

Modest Buzz for NewFront Content Based on Social Sharing Data Some interest in Ricky Gervais, Comedians in Cars, lots more for Arrested Development

var unruly = window.unruly || {}; unruly.buzzBoxConfig = { publisherId: 169581, width: 652, height: 367, theme: 'light', chart: 'AdWeek_New_Fronts_Content', interval: 'all_time' }; Are people buzzing about all those Web video series rolled out during the NewFronts? It's hard to…

May 17, 2013, 11:08 AM EDT

Microsoft Hammers Google in Leaked Parody of a Chrome Ad 'Chrome has you commercialized'

Microsoft takes a break from perfecting its blue screen of death to ape Google's ad style—abundant white space, bouncing Chrome ball, Beethoven's Fifth on the soundtrack—in this anti-Google video that…

May 17, 2013, 9:19 AM EDT

Microsoft Agrees to Host Ads in YouTube App Google gives company May 22 deadline

After drawing Google's ire, Microsoft has agreed to include ads in its Windows Phone YouTube app, CNET reported. Google sent Microsoft a cease-and-desist letter earlier this week, demanding the software company…

May 16, 2013, 11:58 AM EDT

Carve Watermelons and Master Butt Ping Pong at Windows Training Camp Were Microsoft ads really for 'Asian markets only'? Doubtful.

Gape in awe at these impressive "Windows 8 Training Camp" videos that dramatize product benefits through the goofiest of competitions. In "Makeup," three women have 10 seconds to apply cosmetics,…

May 13, 2013, 10:10 AM EDT

IAB Fires Back With an Open Letter to Digital Buyers CEO Rothenberg calls for agencies to address fragmentation issues

For a digital industry, these guys sure love their letters. In response to yesterday's open letter to the Web video ad seller community from a cadre of top digital buyers, IAB…

May 9, 2013, 6:31 PM EDT

Microsoft Would Reportedly Pay $1 Billion for Nook's Digital Assets Company plans to discontinue its Android tablets

Microsoft is willing to pay $1 billion for Nook Media's digital assets, Tech Crunch reported, citing internal company documents. Since the story broke early today, Barnes & Noble shares jumped 18…

May 9, 2013, 1:58 PM EDT

Digital Buyers Implore Ad Sellers to Get Their Act Together Joint letter from multiple agencies calls for better promotion, metrics, real hits

Last week the online ad industry was abuzz over the Digital Content NewFronts. For the most part, buyers raved about the improved quality of the video content peddled by the…

May 8, 2013, 5:27 PM EDT

Here's Our Scorecard for the 2013 NewFronts Bigger stars, sleeker venues, longer lines

The stars were bigger, the venues sleeker, the lines longer. Close to 20 companies from Yahoo to Blip hosted NewFronts last week, earning generally strong reviews. "If last year was…

May 5, 2013, 11:08 PM EDT

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