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Top News: MillerCoors Severs DraftFCB | Fuse DM, Video | "Twitter Pro?" | Weather.com SoMe Alerts | Spotify Arrives on iPad

Ad Technology: Google Inside adSense Blog: Introducing Redesigned Payments Pages Agencies: MillerCoors Shakes Up Shops, Cuts Ties With DraftFCB Business Strategies: 12 Reasons to   [...]

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 09/21/09

Ad Networks and Analytics: 10 social media strategies from top brands. Seven reasons to ramp up paid search. AdMob vies for mobile advertising network leadership. Agenci  [...]

Offers.com: Another Day, Another Deal Site

Vertive, an Austin-based performance marketing company, launched a search engine for online deals and coupons, writes Search Engine Land. The site, Offers.com, provides coupons and deals from more than 1,000 merchants. Each is classified by product or service into more than 150 categories with the option of further categorizing these into deals, coupon co  [...]

Email, Search & Display Show Strongest Online Performance

A large majority of marketing executives say email, search marketing, and display ads are their company's top performing advertising channels, and many plan to increase spending on them in 2009, according to a survey from Datran Media.   [...]

26% of Small Biz Raises Ad Spend, Precipitating Online Growth

97% of US small business owners are concerned about the economy, but 26% nonetheless plan to spend more on advertising -- especially online. Another 60% plan to spend about the same as in 2008, according to a report from Ad-ology Research (  [...]

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UK Shoppers Flock to 'Net before Christmas

UK online spend last month surged 26% from October -- and 16% from November of last year, according to figures released from the Interactive Media In Retail Group (IMRG) Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index on Tuesday. The 26% surge in November sales was the highest of the year,   [...]

News Releases Not Just for Press, Serve Wide Variety of Functions

Press releases have historically been used by PR professionals to attract the attention of journalists and media outlets, but today's online news releases are now used by many types of marketers and small-business owners seeking to reach bloggers and customers, improve SEO results and drive website traffic, according to a  [...]

For the First Time, Divided Shoppers Prefer Web to In-Store

For the first time, the web has surpassed the store as the preferred way for multi-channel shoppers to purchase holiday gifts, according to the e-tailing group's third annual "Mindset of the Multi-Channel Shopper Holiday Survey," sponsored by ATG, Retailer Daily reports.   [...]

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Online Consumers Spend Less, Clip Coupons This Holiday

Nearly half of US online adults (45%) plan to spend less money on gifts this holiday season than last because of the state of the economy, and one in five plan to spend significantly less, according to a Harris Interactive survey commissioned by RetailMeNot.com,   [...]

DM Profitability Grows Despite Revenue Decline

Direct-marketing business performance in the second quarter declined overall from the year-earlier quarter, despite growth in profitability, according to the Q2 Quarterly Business Review (QBR) issued by the Direct Marketing Association (DMA),   [...]

Obama Sites Generate 6x More Traffic than McCain's

Nearly 22 million people per month visit websites related to Barack Obama, while John McCain-related sites generate about 3.5 million visitors, according to a report from AdGooroo that analyzes the candidates' websites and search-engine marketing programs, writes  [...]

Yahoo Email Dominates Web-Mail Landscape

Yahoo's email service dominates the web-mail market with the highest number of email users, monthly minutes spent per user and times users check mail, according to data from comScore, writes MarketingCharts (via a New York Times blog post by reporter   [...]

Affiliate Marketing Still Cost-Effective, but Budgets Shrinking

More retailers are seeing affiliate marketing as an effective sales channel - 46 percent of them rate it as very cost-effective for driving customer acquisition, up from 44 percent last year - but reduced budgets are affecting traffic and sales, finds new research (  [...]

Online Behavior Changed by Financial Worries

Brands that fail to embrace and engage in online consumer dialog are set be among those most severely affected by an economic downturn, according to research conducted in the UK by E-consultancy, Logan Tod and immediate  [...]

45% of Search Marketers Don't Integrate Offline Efforts

Nearly half (45 percent) of search engine marketers do not integrate search marketing efforts with offline channels, according to the iProspect Search Engine Marketing Integration Study, conducted by JupiterResearch, MarketingCharts   [...]

Paper Catalog Remains Primary Remote Sales Channel

The paper catalog is still the largest revenue generator -- some 50 percent of sales in both 2007 and 2008 -- among all channels used by companies that sell goods to consumers and businesses from a remote location, though web sales continue to grow, a new study finds (via Retailer Daily).   [...]

Billboards Identify Shoppers by Past Purchases ... and by Sight

In the film Minority Report, a wanted criminal undergoes black market surgery to have his eyes changed, worried that the bots -- and ads -- in his society will be able to visually identify him. The convict then walks into a shopping mall, where his new eyes are scanned with a telltale spark. Mistaking him for the eyeballs' former owner, a nearby Gap billboard exclaims, "Hello, Mr. Yakamoto! Welcome back to the Gap! How'd those assorted tanktops work out for you?"   [...]

Microsoft Ups Business Search Efforts

Microsoft is adding a new Search Business Group, which may indicate an increased sense of importance around certain search applications, such as mapping and geo-targeting. Internal reorganizations in Redmond are viewed in the context of an eternally evolving ecosystem of internal politics and external market forces, so such moves often do not result in actual changes in behavior or product developments. That said, mapping executive Jeff Kelisky will head the newish effort. He   [...]

3 in 4 UK Searches Happen on Google

Google Sites slightly increased their lead in June as the most popular search property in the UK -- to 75.3 percent of all search queries, followed by eBay (5.5 percent), Yahoo Sites (4.3 percent) and Microsoft Sites (3.4 percent), according to a comScore analysis, writes Marketi  [...]

Tweens Favor the 'Net, Need Search to Shop

The vast majority (83 percent) of tweens (age 10-14) spend at least an hour online per day, compared with 68 percent reporting they watch an hour of TV per day, according to an ROI research study commissioned by DoubleClick Performics, writes Chief Marketer (vi  [...]