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IAB Lends Helping Hand to Small Online Publishers

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) created a new membership level for small online publishers, part of an effort to help them "prevent adverse state and Federal regulation that could hinder [their] ability to sell or carry advertising." Any publisher that vends ads directly, indirectly or through a third-party network may join the IAB Small Publisher network, provided they make less than $1 million in annual revenue. The introductory rate is $500 per year. Interested publishers may   [...]

Facebook May Face Class Action Suit, Fueled by Canadian Law School Students

The Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic has filed a privacy complaint against Facebook, asserting it violates the Canadian Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act. "Facebook does not make a reasonable effort to advise users of the purposes for which their personal information is used," the group wrote. "Facebook also does not advise users of the extent of their personal information that will be shared by joining a network." Facebook spokesmen denied tha  [...]

Overstock Deserts, Amazon Sues, New York State

Amazon has filed suit against New York in response to a new law requiring online retailers to collect tax from buyers in the state. Rival Overstock took a less complex measure: it has canceled relationships with its 3,400 New York-based affiliates,   [...]

How To: Deploying and Managing Effective Online Lead-Gen Campaigns

Marketers are under significant pressure to generate trackable ROI on online ad campaigns. This isn't easy when most online media charge for impressions or clicks, which may never convert to leads. Cost-per-lead (CPL) campaigns enable marketers to pay solely for leads. And while online lead-gen is stigmatized – mostly for   [...]

ad:tech Survey: Best and Worst Online Tactics, Budget Plans for '08

Behavioral targeting, search engine optimization (SEO) and direct email using house lists are the best-performing tactics in online marketing, according to MarketingSherpa's annual survey of ad:tech attendees, writes Mark  [...]

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Evo Connects Green Businesses with Jaded Buyers

Kermit is right. It's not easy being green. For spiritual Kermits, Evo has arrived -- to help green-leaning consumers make shopping decisions by making eco-friendly alternatives easily accessible. The site covers everything from food and clothes, to housewares and solar panels. The site's business model depends primarily on affil  [...]

Elsevier Prescribes Ads to Salve Medical Content Costs

OncologySTAT.com, a medical resource that launched last weekend, provides doctors with access to over 400 medical and scientific journals, including its own content, in hopes of footing the bill with ad revenue. In exchange for registering one's personal information with the site, users receive access to journals that include The Lancet and Surgical Oncology. Pricing for access to these journals can hit hundre  [...]

Interactive Marketing Association Launches in Austin

For those keeping up with the new cliques on the block, the Interactive Marketing Association has been formed in Austin, TX. The AustinIMA is officially the first interactive marketing group for the "third most innovative city in the country," - a title bestowed upon Austin by the Wall Street Journal. The AustinIMA is a non-profit organization dedicated to "championing innovation" in digital marketing. It also serves as an   [...]

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IAB and Lead Generation Committee Release Best Practices for Lead Generation

The Lead Generation Committee and the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) have today released the Lead Generation Data Transfer Best Practices. At the most practical level, the document will help standardize the transfer and reception of data between advertisers and lead generators. Two major considerations served as guidelines for the final product: Security - lead generation data should be encrypted  [...]

Internet Book for Cause Marketers Liberates Contents Online

The Internet Advocacy Book, a tool written by Michael Organ for cause marketers and non-profits, has just been published in full at www.issuemarketing.com. The book is written in a "how better to" format rather than as a "how to," covering topics like keyword research, online copywriting, SEO, press releases, advocacy blogging and affiliate programs, among others. Existing internet cause marketers are also included in the publication, including PETA and the March of Dimes.   [...]

Sports Illustrated, TAKKLE Deepen Friendly Ties

TAKKLE.com and Sports Illustrated (SI) have just formalized a closer agreement with SI's decision to purchase a minority stake in the social networking site. The pair have been cross-promoting since late 2006. TAKKLE focuses on high school athletes, a savory demographic for Sports Illustrated, the longtime high school sports publication owned by Time, Inc. The investment adds financial weight to a partnership that initially consisted of TAKKLE providing online nominations and hi  [...]

Online Marketers Spill Beans on Best, Worst Tactics

Online marketers rated what tactics worked best - and worst - in 2006 and those that they plan to focus on, and spend money on, this year, writes eMarketer, citing a yearend 2006 study by MarketingSherpa and ad:tech. The ad:tech early-adopte  [...]

Zango to Pay $3 Million, Settles FTC Charges

The former 180solutions, one of the world's largest distributors of adware, and its two principals have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they used unfair and deceptive methods to get consumers to download adware and then obstructed their efforts to remove it. Zango's settlement with the FTC bars future downloads of Zango's adware without consumers' consent, requires Zango to provide a way for consu  [...]

Local Ads Come to ABC Online Shows

The Walt Disney Company has come to an agreement with local ABC television affiliates to add local advertisements to the network's online shows. Episodes of ABC series such as Desperate Housewives and Lost can be viewed with an ad-supported broadband video player that Disney will make available for download later this month, Reuters   [...]

DMA Issues Affiliate and Ad Network Guideline

Some big marketers, relatively new to online marketing, have had their ads served via spyware-generated pop-ups, junk websites and other unseemly media, writes ClickZ; so, in an effort to end affiliate marketing practices and ad network buys that undermine brand, the Direct Marketing Association (DMA) has released relevant best practices guidelines. "The Federal Trade Commission had talked to us s  [...]

AzoogleAds Won't Work with 180solutions, Direct Revenue

CPA (cost per action) advertising network AzoogleAds has stopped doing business with adware firm 180solutions (MetricsDirect) and will soon (on March 3) end its relationship with DirectRevenue as well, writes Beth Kirsch in ReveNews, citing sources inside AzoogleAds. The moves come after Azoogle's attendance at a February 9 Anti-Spyware Coalitio  [...]

Marketing Drives Holiday E-tail Traffic, Conversions, Revenue Growth

Online marketing campaigns - email, paid search, affiliate marketing, banner ads and shopping comparison-site placements - have played a larger role than usual in shaping shopper behavior early in the holiday season, according to Coremetric's LIVEmark Index benchmark data. The number of visits to retail sites driven by online marketi  [...]

Direct Revenue to Clean up Act with Behavioral Network

Adware firm Direct Revenue, hoping to build a better reputation, is forswearing pop-up ads and is instead building a behavioral marketing network, to be launched in 1Q06, as Claria has done, reports ClickZ. It is developing a new adware product that will be compliant with TRUSTe's recently announced Trusted Download effort and will build a user base   [...]

FTC to Stiffen, Clarify CAN-SPAM Act

The all-seeingeye of the FTCeWeek reports that the Federal Trade Commission wants to stiffen some parts and clarify other elements of the CAN-SPAM Act. The Commission proposed five changes, currently open to public comm  [...]

Affiliate Marketers Getting Varied Results

Marketers are finding extreme variances in their affiliate marketing programs, according to Internet Retailer. A study by Shawn Collins Consulting showed that response rates vary enormously from below one percent to more than five percent. In some ways this isn't surprising, as different types of marketers have quite different value propositions they can allow affiliates to make to audiences. The survey found that marketers bel  [...]