Pluck Social Media Platform

PluckPluck isn’t a new company they have been around since 2003 offering publishers social media functions to plug into their sites.

It’s interesting now to look at the uptake of their services and see how well brands/publishers have done since taking on their offering.

Clients like USA Today, Guardian Unlimited, Hearst Corporation and Fox continue to invest in their product and take on new options which would suggest good levels of success with their offering.

A leader in social media software solutions, Pluck helps transform how publishers, retailers and major brands engage their audiences and customers to discover, create and distribute content online. Providing the technologies for content generation, syndication and social networking, Pluck helps its customers more easily consume and leverage the new open content model that has emerged as the cornerstone of interactivity online.”

Pluck.com

Pluck work with over 200 sites in the USA and is now looking to target the UK for further expansion. They are well funded having been bought out by Demand Media for a reported $75m in March.

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Adap.tv Video Advertising Platform

Adap.TVIf you have a large amount of embedded video players and want to unlock their full potential to generate revenue then they need to be positioned in as flexible a platform as possible so that when any network wants to run an adverts across an inventory of videos then no extensive modification required to the embed code throughout the content providers network of sites.

Adap.tv OneSource leverages the collective wisdom of all advertising sources, including all major ad networks, for the benefit of its customers and provides them with a simple and seamless experience to get the most out of their online video inventory.”

Amir Ashkenazi, chief executive officer and co-founder of Adap.tv

I have encountered problems when wanting to implement new advertising platforms/formats but them being in a situation where additional development and man hours altering hard coded video players is required.

Adap.tv’s Universal Online Video Advertising Platform looks to be a development which could solve the problems associated with different ad networks and media buyers preferring different advert formats. It will be interesting to see the take up of their offering as it sounds really good

Here is an interesting little interview with Sean Behr, Vice President, Sales at adap.tv.

Video Egg – Ad Frames

video-egg-fad.jpgVideo Egg’s Ad Frames looks like another very exciting product that is based around gaining an active engagement from a user.

Loads more is going to happen around accountability in online advertising, the whole publishing industry need to be ready for it and reactive to the issue.

The “trust gap” in online advertising mentioned by the gentleman in the Ad Frames video is also going to be an be an increasingly big issue for online advertisers and media buyers, they are going to grab hold of this sort of information and start demanding more from publishers.

To watch the Ad Frames promo video read more.

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