She looks at the rise of the social video ad from 2006 to 2012 and notes that videos from the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2010 Vancouver WinterOlympics didn’t break any records. Unruly Media, the leading social video platform, unveiled an...
If you sell beach balls you don’t need as high of budgets in the winter, but you do need to raise them once that first 90 degree day hits. The Olympics are interesting because so many athletes spend their entire lives playing and practicing for one...
Previously, Norway hosted the championships in 1930, 1952 (WinterOlympics), 1966, and 1982. Visitors to Google Norway today saw a new Google Doodle that celebrates the start of the 2011 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships.
WinterOlympics Though the majority of Yahoo's top searches were for entertainment and celebrities, the BP oil spill was the top search for 2010. Just as it topped AOL's news search category, the Gulf disaster dominated online searches on Yahoo.
The social network also was the top place to go to discuss all thing WinterOlympics. You could see this coming a mile away. Hitwise is reporting a major milestone reached by Facebook. They were the most visited site in the U.S.last week, topping...
This time, we're fueling the flame of the search wars by looking at results for the 2010 WinterOlympics. Tell us your favorite search engine for Olympic information. Recently we took screenshots and compared search results on Oscar nominations and...
Nielsen has released data demonstrating the simultaneous TV/Internet habits during the WinterOlympics. Vancouver 2010 has people tuning into the tube and updating their networks at the same time. So far, Facebook takes the cake.
Major sporting events always turn up the heat on search competition and the 2010 WinterOlympics are no different. Compared to the 2006 Torino WinterOlympics, searches are nearly doubled this go around.
The other day I reported on how Google and Bing are competing for attention when it comes to querying the WinterOlympics, which begin TODAY in Vancouver, British Columbia. is providing a Shortcut to info on WinterOlympics events and athletes.
But what hurts Internet access to the WinterOlympics the most isn't a lack of effort on Google or Bing's part. Bing is fueling the search at NBCOlympics, thanks to Microsoft's partnership with NBC, the exclusive provider of broadcast coverage in...
With that, Bing is offering up new search features to make it super-easy for you to find WinterOlympics-related info. They're harnessing the power of this awesome feature for the WinterOlympics. Here's what you get when you search simply for...
With the WinterOlympics and the World Cup both being held this year, they're hoping for big ad numbers to come in. After all, that aforementioned 600% came the summer of the 2008 Olympics. Sohu reported its Q4 2009 earnings this morning and the...
The Google Boulder office has been working hard on developing models of venues for the upcoming WinterOlympics in Vancouver this February. Now, you get to see the fruits of their labor. Previously, only 8 out of the 9 venues were released.
The winterOlympics are next month in Vancouver, British Columbia. Another event that displays similar solidarity offers a more positive experience: the Olympics. Bing Maps has updated their imagery of Port-Au-Prince, Haiti to reflect current...
Vancouver - home to the 2010 WinterOlympics. Bing has released new imagery on maps. The new release features high-resolution imagery - 15-30 centimeter - for the US, Canada and the UK. One of the biggest imagery updates?
Graphical Ads/Promos On Google is about the Google home page but worth
mentioning, covering how the Google search results pages got video clips to
help NBC promote its coverage of the WinterOlympics.
When I was in Vermont earlier this year, I was watching the WinterOlympics on Canadian television that came over the border. I skipped the entire iPod from outer space thing last month because it was clearly a hoax.
The Google Blog also links to Google Maps Mania Blog's WinterOlympics Google Maps Mashups with some cool uses of the Google Maps API and the Olympics. The Google blog announced yesterday, in the spirit of the Olympics, they have "updated Google...
According to Adverblog, (via a link on InsideGoogle) Fiat and Google have partnered to offer this contest (web site in both English and Italian which also celebrates Italy and the WinterOlympics that begin in Italy next week.