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Tom Wheeler Fires Back at Cable Lobby Says Cable Box Fees are Too HighAs cable industry lobbyists criticize a Federal Communications Commission plan to inject competition into the settop box market FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler today said company complaints are offbase via Ars Technica Itamp8217s Time to Unlock the SetTop Box Market via Recodeamp160Broadcast TV Spectrum Auction Comcast Seen In Disney OutThe deadline for broadcasters to file as participants in March auction was Jan 12 the FCC has not said how many local TV stations out of roughly 2000 eligible nationwide filed via Investoramp8217s Business Dailyamp160Adblocking Almost as Popular On Mobile Devices as DesktopsMore than 40 of those surveyed by GlobalWebIndex said they were interested in blocking ads on their mobiles in the future via The Guardian Internet advertising industry chief Adblock Plus is an amp8220unethical immoral mendacious coven of techie wannabesamp8221 via Business InsiderThis Startup Wants to End Adblock39s quotRaping and Pillagingquot of Online Publishers via Fast Companyamp160Facebook Q4 Ad Spend More Than Doubled YearOverYearTotal ad spend was up 128 percent in the fourth quarter of 2015 compared with the yearago period and up 469 percent versus the third quarter of 2015 via AdWeek Facebook New 136 Price Target Brian Wieser Pivotal Research Facebook Says Video Is Huge 100MillionHoursPerDay Huge via Recode Facebook Takes On Periscope by Giving Live Streaming to All US iPhoners via TechCrunch The World39s Biggest Advertising Company Spent a Whopping 4 Billion with Google Last Year amp8212 and 1 Billion with Facebook via Business Insideramp160Gawker39s Nick Denton Facebook Dominance is Better Than amp8220Convolutedamp8221 Ad Tech amp8220I see this being a battle between Facebook and ad tech amp8230 Who can supply the most relevant ads in a way that doesnamp8217t degrade the user experienceamp8221 via Digiday BMO Capital Marketsamp8217 Dan Salmon on Ad Technology and 2016 Trends Surprisingly the Online Advertising Industry39s Future May Lie in Offering More Privacy Not Less via Physorg Attention Advertisers Sometimes Technology Isn39t the Answeramp160Facebook Alphabet Shine as amp8220Programmaticamp8221 Eats Ad Biz Says Morgan Stanleyamp8220In all we see programmatic display growing to 69 of the global display market by 2020 driving 94 of incremental online display ad spend from 20152020amp8221 via Barrons Triad Retail Media on Programmatic Ad Automation amp8211 Impacts for 2016amp160Spotify Ready to Introduce Video ProductLineup of traditional and digital content providers that included ESPN Comedy Central the BBC Vice Media and Maker Studios will soon be added to popular music app via WSJ Spotify Is Said to Be Seeking 500 Million in New Funds via New York Timesamp160How Vice Is Trying To Reinvent the TV Ad ModelWith the debut of Viceland its jointventure with AE Networks next month Vice is offering advertisers less commercial clutter along with custom content and pod takeovers via AdAgeamp160MediaCom Wins Big in Sony Global Media ReviewAdweek reports the agency has won all Sonyamp8217s PlayStation business from Carat and OMD has retained Sony Mobile globally and won the company39s electronics account via AdWeekamp160Sinclair Broadcast Group Strikes 350 Million Deal for Tennis ChannelDeal helps fulfill Sinclairamp8217s stated goal of expanding beyond its core broadcast TV station business into cable channels with the potential for larger national distribution and appeal to advertisers via Varietyamp160SheKnows Media Taps 22 Million in Credit to Spend on Tech AcquisitionsFunds to be invested in technology platform Momentum and used for acquisitions of companies focused on empowering women via AdExchangeramp160National Cinemedia Hopes to Crack Spot Ad Sales Market in Alliance with StrataComcastowned ad software firm Strata will now offer national advertisers theater inventory as well as opportunities in cable broadcast newspaper radio and outdoor media via Deadlineamp160AOL Expands its amp8220Oneamp8221 Platform to Include Tools That Help Publishers Sell to AdvertisersCalled amp8220One by AOL Publishersamp8221 it consolidates the companyamp8217s portfolio of services into a single package that provides audience engagement analytics content distribution and revenue management via VentureBeatamp160Rubicon Project Launches Programmatic TV Partnership with AdMoreRubicon Projectamp8217s Orders Platform will enable marketers to reach linearTV audiences in more than 100 million Nielsenmonitored homes nationwide via Rubicon Projectamp160Nielsen Makes Digital Ad Ratings Available in Google DoubleClickAfter successfully completing a beta run Digital Ad Ratings have now become available in the US Canada France Germany Italy the UK Australia and Brazil and DoubleClick for Publishers in the US via MediaPostamp160Mobiquity Networks and Screenvision to Bring Beacons to 300 Theater ComplexesThe movie theaterbased advertising data and consumerengagement beacon networks will work both independently and in conjunction with Mobiquity Networksamp8217 retail mallbased beacon network via Film Journalamp160iHeartRadio Now Has 80 Million Registered UsersFigure doesnamp8217t account for the listeners who tune in to iHeartRadioamp8217s live radio stations without the need to register via Business Wire iHeartResearch Radha Subramanyam on Media Metrics and Mentoringamp160Bill Gates sells Corbis to Getty via Chinese ConsortiumCorbis sells image division to Chinese consortium Visual China Group VCG and Getty strikes an exclusive deal with VCG to license all of Corbisamp8217 images anywhere in the world except China via British Journal of Photographyamp160People on the MoveUSA Today part of Gannett Co Inc announced that Michael Kuntz will be joining as Senior Vice President of Digital Revenue reporting to Chief Revenue Officer Kevin Gentzel Kuntz will focus on digital sales operations and programmatic to grow the networkamp8217s multiplatform advertising solutions via Business WireNielsen appointed Matt O39Grady as Chief Executive Officer of ROI measurement company Nielsen Catalina Solutions NCS reporting to the NCS board of directorsamp160 Nielsen assumed majority ownership of NCS a joint venture with Catalina in 2015 via PR NewswireUnivision has appointed Alejandro Nieto Molina as Senior Vice President and General Manager for its radio division a new post that will see him overseeing strategy and content efforts for the companyamp8217s radio operations via BillboardVideo PicksThe Instagram Effect Facebook Cashes In on Mobile AdsDavid Fischer Facebook39s Vice President of Business and Marketing discusses the company39s fourthquarter growth via BloombergScott Cunningham IAB and Scott Meyer Ghostery on Advertising ExperiencesScott Cunningham Senior Vice President Technology and Ad Operations IAB and General Manager of the IAB Technology Lab and Scott Meyer CEO and CoFounder Ghostery discuss advertising experiences and putting users first at the 2016 IAB Annual Leadership Meeting via YouTubeIABImage at top courtesy of Corbis The opinions and points of view expressed in this commentary are exclusively the views of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of MediaVillageMyersBizNet management or associated bloggers

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