Richard Rosenblatt, the CEO of Demand Media, Inc. is listed as number 34 on the list with a Klout Score of 56.

Bob Parsons, the Executive Chairman of Godaddy.com is listed as number 40 on the list with a Klout Score of 53. (It should be noted that Klout incorrectly still has Parsons listed as the CEO of Godaddy).

Both Richard and Bob’s Klout score are higher as that of the CEO of Group On, LinkedIn and Zynga.

Also making the top 50 list is Esther Dyson one of the most vocal opponents of the new gTLD program who made the list at number 46 as the CEO of EDventure Holdings.

It took a Klout score 51 to make the Top 50 list.

The number one spot went to Pete Cashmore the founder and CEO of Mashable with a Klout score of 89.

Oprah, Rupert Murdock, Richard Branson, Mark Cuban, Steve Forbes, Michael Dell all made the list.

Mark Zukerberg of Facebook did not.

In the spirit of full disclosure, and for the record I have a Klout score of 47.

To see the entire Top 50 list click here.…

“Yahoo! is retroactively charging Tsavo for what Yahoo! is now saying was actually low quality traffic, ranging back over many months during 2011.”

“While the Company and Yahoo! remain in discussions on this issue, the Company now expects that Yahoo! will enforce its decision to charge back this amount citing its right to do so pursuant to the terms of Tsavo Media’s agreement with Yahoo!.”

“Cyberplex also announced today that its President, Ted Hastings, has provided his resignation.”

According to TechCrunch.com, Tsavo Media  operates a network of roughly 300 websites and blogs which generated the traffic.

“‘The company’s network of Internet publications includes crappy websites like LumaGardening.com, ThinkFashion, TechSerious, WealthyGeek, Twirlit, DiscoverFame and KidGlue.”"…

The top three rated ads all featured dogs.

The Doritos commercial where the big Dog bribes the cat owner was the top rated rate.

The Volkswagen ad where the overweight Dog gets fit took second and the Sketchers ad where the Boston Terrier in Dog in sneakers wins the greyhound race finished third.

The rescue dog in the Bud Light that worked tirelessly to supply a thirsty crowd with beer finished 6th.

In 4th place was the Doritos commercial where the Baby grabs the bag of Doritos sling shot style, the M&M/Mars with the ‘Naked” Brown M&M was 5th.

The Godaddy commercials escaped the bottom 5, but were down towards the bottom on the list.

For the record The .Co commercial was ranked lower than the Godaddy.com cloud commercial.

You can see all the results of the USA Today Ad Meter Here…

The show was co-hosted by Godaddy’s Spokesman Jillian Michaels who appeared frequently in Godaddy gear.

Also appearing on the show were Bob Parson’s, and three Godaddy commercials including last year’s .Co commercial featuring Joan Rivers and this years .Co commercial,  Natalia Velez.

Congrats to Godaddy and the .Co Registry on some great extra exposure.

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There are many who think that Apps will kill domain names.

Stories have been written on the topic,  Sessions at domain name conferences have been dedicated to the subject and we have written about it on TheDomains.com as well.

According to  Adweek.com , Seth Sternberg, CEO and founder of Meebo had a completely different point of view saying that:

“I think apps are dead in three to five years,”

“”Don’t get too used to the app for everything era. In just a few years it could be over.”

He added that:

“As the links between mobile devices and the cloud speed up, applications won’t need to be stored locally to deliver a snappy experience.”

“The cutesy, bright-colored icons (or “chicklets”) that make it easy to open different programs will stay, but the distinct underlying software will go.

Another participant in the session, Shawn Gunn, head of strategic advertising for mapping and location data company Navteq added:

“It’s very hard to understand a unique user in each one of those app environments and so your ability to monetize against them, whether it’s for advertising or other types of models, becomes a lot more difficult,”

“You have much better targeting on the Web because you can kind of persistently track a user. . . . That’s a big challenge today in mobile.”

“As developers move toward more open platforms and remove the silos,  “apps” will give way to mobile experiences that are more like the Web.”

According to Perezhilton.com the “new” Pussycat Dolls will be featured in one of the upcoming Godaddy.com Super Bowl Commercials.

The dolls have gone through a make over since the original group which featured as lead singer, the now X-Factor judge and Dancing with the Stars winner Nicole Scherzinger.

According to Perez the New PussyCat Dolls will include Chrystina Sayers formerly of the group Girlicious.

We look forward to seeing the commercial and apparently some new star power for Godaddy

According to a story in MediaPost.com,  Citigroup estimates online advertising will grow 21% this year, up from 15% in 2010.

Citibank estimates online advertising will grow 17% in 2012 and 14% in 2013.

“Search will grow more rapidly than online advertising, taking share during the next few years, he said. Growth in display will follow behind search advertising and come from social and digital video ads.”

“If more TV advertising comes online, the 14% and 17% growth estimates for the next two years will become conservative, and the industry could see about 20% growth.”

The article goes on to say that social media sites maybe the biggest beneficiary growth.

According to a Citibank poll of marketing executives, “65% said they will spend more in social media, 50% in Web site upgrades, 53% in content creation, 51% in landing page optimization, 49% in search engine marketing for both SEO and paid search, 42% in online advertising, 42% in email, and 15% in direct mail.”

“Facebook now constitutes more ad impressions than Yahoo, Microsoft and AOL combined,”

Clear Channel Communications it one of the largest owners of over the broadcast radio stations in the US, maybe the largest with 850 channels.

This year they held the iHeart Radio concert in Las Vegas, a two day affair in which some of the most popular music performers appeared including Jay-Z, Lady Gaga, the Black Eyed Peas, Alica Keys and Coldplay just to name a few.

The I Heart Radio Facebook page has almost 1.8 million likes.

They acquired the domain name iHeart.com in February of this year, which is now the centerpiece of what appears to be a new service that may take a serious run at Pandora and even Sirius/XM.

Clear Channel is the original registrant of iheartradio.com which was registered back in 2007.

Yesterday Clear Channel registered the domain names,  ihearttraffic.com as well as iheartweather.com

They don’t own iheartsports.com, something they should have bought earlier this year as well before launching the product but wouldn’t be surprised if they tried to acquire that domain.

Just a quick note to let you know that my first post is up on CircleId.com

CircleID.com is a great publication with contributions from many different people throughout the domain space but typically not domainers.

The publication chats a lot about ICANN and public policy issues and has a large readership.

I have had it in my RSS feed for quite a while and was asked to write a post on it  a while back.

Yesterday I though of a perfect post for that audience entitled ”

According to a story in Media Post today, the data firm Performics,  a company that tracks PPC ad buyers for the Retail industry says according to its data the is 88% increase in spend and 43% rise in click-through rates between Oct. 30 and Nov. 15 compared with the same time period a year ago.

“Retailers and consumer product goods companies will continue to invest in technology, driving up competition and prices for specific keywords.”

“The cost per click for the first week in November rose to 32% — up from 12% between Oct. 2 and Oct. 8, respectively, compared with the year-ago time period, according to Performics.”

“Retailers should expect the 2011 holiday season to become the most competitive year for online keyword bids.”

Now if only our share of the PPC revenue would raise commensurately.