BLiNQ in the News

11/9/2012 – Ad Age - Facebook’s Incredible Potential as an Offline Retail Tool

8/27/2012 – iMediaConnection – 4 reasons Facebook ads flop

8/24/2012 - PRWeb – Gannett’s Acquisition of BLiNQ Media Highlights Importance of Local Online Marketing

8/21/2012 – AdWeek – Why Gannett BLiNQ-ed

8/21/2012 – Ad Age – Gannett Closes Deal for Social Marketing Firm BLiNQ Media

8/21/2012 – USA Today – Gannett buys social-media ad company BLiNQ Media

7/27/2012 – TechCrunch – Buddy Media, Nanigans, BLiNQ Build on Facebook’s
New Ads APIs, Could Show Wall Street The Money

7/27/2012 – Mashable- Facebook’s Not the Only One Struggling With Mobile Advertising

7/20/2012 – Ad Age Digital-Facebook’s New Metrics Are Changing the Game for Marketers

7/12/2012 – Ad Age Digital-Facebook Starts Automating Home-Page Ad Buying

7/10/2012 – Ad Age Digital-What If Teens Prefer Twitter to Facebook?

7/5/2012 – Ad Age Digital-Untangling the Implications of Facebook’s New Ad Exchange

7/3/2012 – iMediaConnection-3 Ways to Use Facebook for “Back to School” Marketing 

06/20/2012 - Mashable-Why Enterprise Social Media Firms Are Being Gobbled Up

06/13/2012 – Ad Age Digital-Facebook to Launch Real-Time Bidding for ‘Marketplace’ Ads

05/17/2012 -Ad Age Digital- GM Doesn’t Have a Facebook Problem, It Has a Brand Loyalty                        Problem 

05/16/2012 -Mediapost- When Data Gathering Gets Creepy

05/16/2012 -AdWeek-Industry Reacts to GM’s Decision to Pull Facebook Ads

05/15/2012 -Mediapost- The Linguistics of Behavioral Advertising

05/15/2012 -Chinwag-The World’s Biggest Focus Group and How to Work It

05/14/2012 - iMediaConnection-6 Cheap Tricks for Better Social Media Marketing

04/24/2012 - Ad Age Digital-How You Can Take Advantage of Facebook’s Ad Cycle

04/19/2012 - AllFacebook-BLiNQ CEO Extols Facebook Marketing Program

04/05/2012 – Ad Age Digital-How to Beat Walmart On Facebook

03/12/2012 – iMediaConnection-Why Facebook is abandoning “likes” for Sponsored Stories

03/07/2012 – Atlanta Business Chronicle- Invest Atlanta CEO to ring NASDAQ bell 

02/29/2012 - Looktothestars.org-Nicole Kidman and Simon Cowell Support Breast Cancer                         Care 

02/24/2012 - Financial Times- Partnership Status Brings Start-up Funding for Ex-Staff

02/21/2012 - The Telegraph UK- Breast Cancer Care and The Haven-two charities working                       to “Support the women behind the cancer”

01/31/2012- New Media Knowledge UK- Connecting the Data Dots on Facebook and Beyond

01/31/2012- iMediaConnection UK- Turning WOM into Sales

01/30/2012- Ad Age Digital- How Facebook’s ‘Frictionless Sharing’ Can Create Better Ads                        on Facebook

01/16/2012- A 3-Step Guide to Planning Social Ad Campaigns

12/20/2011-  Ad Age Digital Facebook to Start Placing Ads in User News Feeds in January

12/5/2011-  UTalkMarketing.com-Why Facebook is like TV, but Better

12/5/2011-  All Facebook-BLiNQ Media Announces Two Hires, Chicago Office

11/28/2011- Ad Age Digital- How ‘Word of Mouth’ Marketing Will Pump Up Holiday Sales

11/17/2011- Social Ad Tech Provider BLiNQ Media Acqhires Looxii Analytics Founders

11/14/2011- Chinwag UK- How Did Facebook Advertising Get So Big?

11/04/2011- Ad Age Digital- How Ford Blew It On Facebook

10/25/2011- Figaro Digital- How to Stay on Top of Forever-Changing Facebook

10/21/2011- Ad Age Digital- The Inside Scoop on Facebook’s $1.6 Billion Ad Machine

10/09/2011- Ad Age Digital- Facebook is on the Hunt for more Tentpole Deals

10/09/2011- The Independent UK- Why it’s best to be friends with Facebook

10/03/2011- Digiday- Will Facebook Become the Operating System for Web Ads?

10/02/2011- Advertising Age- Facebook Unveils New Ad Unit, ‘Insights’ Tool

10/01/2011- TechCrunch Europe- Infographic compares Facebook in US and UK – Burberry beats Starbucks

09/19/2011 – Inside Facebook – Facebook Combining $50 Ad Credits and 3 Simpler Ad Tools to Attract Businesses

09/16/2011 – AdAge Digital – Connecting the Data Dots on Facebook and Beyond: The Future of Targeting Is Here. So, What’s Your Strategy?

09/08/2011 – Facebook tops rivals as its numbers double

09/08/2011 – Exclusive: Facebook doubles first-half revenue

08/22/2011 – AdExchanger.com – What Is The Difference Between A Social Display Impression And A “Regular” Display Impression?

08/21/2011 - AdAge Digtial – How Google+ Will Transform Search and Search Marketing: What Search Giant’s Social Foray Means Behind the Scenes

08/16/2011 - Inside Facebook – Facebook’s New Zip Code Ad Targeting Nearly Doubles Click Through Rates Says BLiNQ Media

07/18/2011 - AdAge Digital- How Facebook Makes Your Global Brand Feel Local

07/15/2011 – AdAge Digital -Omnicom Inks Deal With Facebook Ads Buyer BLiNQ Media

07/07/2011 - mashable.com – Why Facebook Relies on Third-Party Agencies to Scale Its Ad Platform

07/06/2011 - All Facebook – What’s The Deal With Facebook’s Ad Prices?

06/24/2011 - AdAge Digital – Why Microsoft’s Facebook Alliance Really Is a Threat to Google: How Social Data Will Help Bing and Facebook Revolutionize Search, Display

06/20/2011 - AdAge Digital – Display’s New Kingpin: Facebook’s No. 1

06/16/2011 - AdExchanger.com – On The Edge(Rank)

06/15/2011 - AdAge Digital – The Key to an Effective Facebook Ad Formula: EdgeRank

05/10/2011 - AdAge Digital – How to Stay Up to Date with Facebook

04/21/2011 - mashable.com – Facebook Courts Ad Agencies with New Site

04/15/2011 – Atlanta Business Chronicle – Pacesetters Show How to Grow (2011 Pacesetters Award)

04/14/2011 - MediaPost Publications’ Online Media Daily – Havas Digital Partners with BLiNQ for Global Facebook Ad System

04/12/2011 - Inside Facebook – BLiNQ Media’s Ads API Tool to Handle Havas Digital’s Facebook Ad Dollars

04/06/2011 - AdAge Digital – How Facebook Advertising is Like TV

04/04/2011 – Advertising Age – Ad Targeting Gets Social

04/04/2011 - The Wall Street Journal Video – Facebook Gets New Friends

04/04/2011 – The Wall Street Journal – Facebook Gets New Friends

03/16/2011 – TechCrunch – BLiNQ Media Buys Ruby on Rails Shop Calculated Combustion, Names CTO

03/14/2011 – MediaPost Publications – Why BLiNQ Acquired Ruby On Rails Talent To Support Facebook Campaigns

02/18/2011 – Atlanta Business Chronicle – BLiNQ Media #4 in “Atlanta’s Healthiest Employers”

02/17/2011 – emarketer – Targeting Boosts Low Facebook Click Rates

02/14/2011 – AdAge Digital- App-Happy Brands Bypassing Facebook to Build Content on It: Marketers Rely on Third-Party Technology and ‘Preferred Developers’ Liked by the Social Network

02/02/2011 – Bold Ventures Radio – Interview with Dave Williams, CEO, President and Co-Founder of BLiNQ Media

Audio MP3

(interview begins at 33:00 of audio file)

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