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E-commerce Spending Falls First Time

U.S. e-commerce spending fell for the first time on record in 2009, according to the comScore 2009 U.S. Digital Year in Review. Total U.S. e-commerce spending reached $209.6 billion in 2009, down 2% compared to the previous year and the first year on record with negative growth rates. Travel e-commerce spending dropped 5% to $79.8 billion, while retail (non-travel) e-com  [...]

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Industry Buzz & Snippets: 02/12/10

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Online Retailers Tackle Sales-Tax Hurdles

Sales taxes - or the absence of them - are one of the big reasons why some online retailers can often beat out their brick-and-mortar counterparts that also sell online. Simply put, many e-tailers do not collect taxes from their customers if they don’t have a presence in a state. This gives them an edge over operations that range from Wal-Mart to Target to Sak's Fifth Avenue. This discrepancy is also one reason sites such as eBay and Amazon have thrived in the downturn,   [...]

Online Newspaper Ad Revenue Falls 17%

Online newspaper advertising revenue dropped by a precipitous 17% in Q309, compared with the same quarter in 2008, from $750 million last year to $623 million this year, according to the most recent figures released by the Newspaper Association of America (NAA). That number, though, pales in comparison with the total newspaper revenue decline of 28%, writes  [...]

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Senate Sniffs Out Shady Direct Marketing

A recently released Senate Commerce Committee staff report is taking aim at the dark side of 'aggressive' online direct marketing, and has singled out shady and controversial practices by three companies - Affinion, Vertru and Webloyalty, in addition to the hundreds of retailers that have used their services. The report details purchase procedures in which consumers rarely realize they are signing up for a monthly cl  [...]

FDA Declares War on Fruity Cigarettes

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is exercising its recently acquired regulatory authority over the tobacco industry by targeting online ads for cigarette products that are aimed at youth. In this case, the government agency has sent warning letters to several companies selling flavored cigarettes through their websites, directing them to either cease their marketing or sales or bring the products in  [...]

Scareware, Rogue Ads Join Up for Hack Attacks

Two separate online security threats aimed at publishers and online advertisers are converging to form an even more potent force: Scareware is increasingly piggybacking in rogue ads to cause serious financial havoc and digital distrust - in some cases of once venerable websites - among consumers. Scareware refers to warnings that suddenly pop up on a consumer's screen purporting to be from a security vendor. The messages often suggest that the computer has been infected by malware. To stay sa  [...]

Retailers Clear Q3 Hump; Ramp Up for Holidays

Amazon's recently announced Q3 earnings are not as telling for online marketers as, say, the hopeful results delivered by Yahoo,  Google and   [...]

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 10/23/09

Web 2.0 Trends: Amazon: Earnings are up; Kindle is best seller. It's official – Facebook is king of the social networking scene: MySpace has conceded defeat in contest to become the largest online social network. Dailymotion, Europe’s biggest online video challenger to YouTube  [...]

Web Retailers Cope with Shipping-Charge Rejection

In response to consumer demands for low or no-cost shipping and the increasing role shipping costs play in online purchase decisions, a growing number of top online retailers are planning free shipping promotions during the 2009 holiday season, the Wall Street Journal reports. The moves come as a slew of industry studies and internal retailer data confirm that shipping charges rank as one of the bigge  [...]

Phony Online Flu Cures Draw FDA Ire

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is monitoring the online marketing and sale of products that claim to diagnose, prevent, treat or cure the H1N1 influenza virus - and in at least one high-profile case - is ordering the well-established brand, doctor Andrew Weil, to cease marketing a product in this way. As part of its enforcement activities, the agency, which issued a   [...]

WSJ Passes USA Today; HuffPo Passes WashPo

The Wall Street Journal said last week that it has passed USA Today to become the #1 newspaper in the US by weekday circulation, though the USA Today - the longtime holder of this distinction - is still claiming it has the highest total print circulation.   The Journal recently told Ad Age that when the next Audit Bureau of Circulations report is released on Oct. 26, it is expected to show average paid circulation  [...]

IAB to FTC: Rescind Blogger Rules

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) is protesting portions of the Federal Trade Commission's new rules (pdf) governing endorsements and testimonials - namely its stepped up expectations of bloggers - and has called on the FTC to rescind these rules. FTC Clamps Down Released at the beginning of October, the new guidance for conforming to the FTC Act - the first since 1980 - touche  [...]

Pharma Steps Back from Sponsored Ads

Pharmaceutical companies are struggling to reconcile online marketing techniques with a stepped-up oversight campaign by the Food and Drug Administration's Division of Drug Marketing, Advertising and Communications (DDMAC), which is specifically targeting such activities. While industry-regulatory give and take on marketing is a long-standing and complicated dance, recent events appear to have caused pharma companies to take a step back from several strategies – at least until they can be s  [...]

Invisible Ads Haunt Marketers

Marketers are becoming increasingly vulnerable to fraud on the internet – both from targeted attacks launched from fake ads, and more recently, from 'legitimate' publishers looking to eke out extra money from advertisers. In 2007, MarketingVOX was snookered by a fraudulent and malicious trojan-horse campaign, while the most recent victim has been The New York Times, after the venera  [...]

Twitter Fair Game for Serving UK Court Orders

The British High Court is permitting an injunction to be served to an anonymous user on microblogging site Twitter. The user, who has been posing as right-wing political blogger Donal Blaney of website Blaney's Blarney, is accused to breaching Blaney's copyright. Blaney, who felt the content appearing on Twitter under his name was "mildly objectionable," approached the courts to find out whether an injunction could be served via the social network -- as opposed to contacting Twitter headqu  [...]