Sean Toohey

Today the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) announced that Internet advertising revenues set a new record of $8.4 billion in the first three months of 2012. “More online consumers than ever are taking to the internet to inform and navigate their daily lives—by desktop, tablet or smartphone,” said Randall Rothenberg, President and CEO, IAB. “Marketers and agencies are clearly–and wisely–investing dollars to reach digitally connected consumers.” “Digital media captures consumers’ imaginations, and marketers increasingly turn to interactive advertising to successfully speak to their customers,” said Sherrill Mane, Senior Vice President, Research, Analytics & Measurement, IAB. “The year-over-year growth between Q1 2011 and Q1 2012 sets quite a milestone,” said David Silverman, Partner, PwC U.S. “Moreover, a 15 percent increase over the comparable period in 2011 is a solid affirmation the internet is delivering on its promise to attract consumers and the advertising dollars t...

Intel combines Facebook, Vanity and mood music to produce one of the best interactive online Ads I’ve seen this year. Using Facebook Open Graph to pull your data into a Flash movie that creates a Virtual Museum Tour of your online presence: It is both very cool and very creepy how much Facebook data is open to   3 rd party developers with a couple clicks of the mouse. Check it out here: http://www.intel.com/museumofme/r/index.htm

One of my favorite website designs of 2009, is not even a website, but a YouTube video and campaign by Ad Agency Boone Oakley. They use YouTube to host their entire site, and make it easy to embed their site on anyone's blog. Enjoy: