Native Ads:
- AOL is rolling out a native advertising product across its internal sites, such as TechCrunch and the Huffington Post that mom-and-pop advertisers will be able to buy, using AOL’s real-time bidding interface. Tests AOL ran reportedly garnered ludicrously high clickthrough rates ranging from six to eight percent.
Social:
- LinkedIn launched its own API interface to media avails it generates, allowing third party technology, data and targeting firms to cook up different ways to slice LinkedIn users.
Search:
- Google goosed its Keyword Planner with several new features, including some sexy looking visualization tools.