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Facebook Self Service | Lamborghini Shops PR | iOS/Publishing Non-Fit? | Oracle Goes Social | Yahoo's Axis

Ad Technology: Sense Networks Releases New Predictive Mobile Ad Targeting Services Facebook Premium Ads Get Self-Service Availability  Facebook 'plotting ad-tracking system'  [...]

Global E-Commerce's Language is Not English

Copy Blogger plucked an eye-opening stat from a J.P. Morgan-prepared report for the Department of Commerce: only 27% of online shoppers speak English.  It is a surprising finding, no doubt especially for U.S. small businesses that rely on the Internet to expand their market and assume that their customers are English-friendly. The report noted that in South Korea, 99% of individuals with Internet access shop online an  [...]

Top News: Ad market growth in 2012 | Ad network legal issues | Email pollution

Online Ad Industry: Quadrennial events to help ad market grow in 2012 despite economic troubles. Legal/ Regulatory: Publishers can't just blame ad network for having ads on a site that   [...]

New Rules of the Road for Global Online Marketing Campaigns

News flash. Online ads in India perform better when written in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and other regional languages compared to English creatives! Apparently these localized ads attract more internet users, according to a survey by Ozone Media and reported in the Economic Times. If that wasn't surprising enough, the study also found that resident Indians res  [...]

EU Privacy Policy May Reach Icy Hand Across Atlantic

If a new privacy proposal set forth by the European Union (EU) becomes law, it could potentially reach all the way across the Atlantic to have a chilling effect on US online marketing practices. In a nutshell, the proposed regulation would prohibit the use of 'cookies' unless users move to specifically allow them. The proposal is part of a larger piece of proposed legislation aimed at telecom providers, which requ  [...]

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Industry Buzz & Snippets: 10/21/09

Web 2.0 News and Trends: Rumor has it that Google will launch a music initiative called One Box to offer song previews, artist bios, graphics, and video - but no downloads or subscriptions. One Box won't be limited to music, according to CNET's Stephen Shankland. There are several different kin  [...]

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 10/7/09

Ad Networks and Analytics: Facebook shutting out developers. Magazines band together for new ad network. Agencies and Marketing Execs:   [...]

Europeans Abandoning Brand Name Searches, Use Longer Terms

European online search behavior is changing: Users are abandoning brand-name searches and opting for more sophisticated terms for both food and online services, according to research from bigmouthmedia in the UK. European online shoppers still use the search box to access brand sites and browsers li  [...]

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EU Gets Tough On Privacy

The European Union warns it will intervene to protect users' personal data from abuse, reports Reuters. In a speech that underscores EU's seriousness about protecting user privacy, EU Consumer Affairs Commissioner Meglena Kunevaco will set tougher rules on how Internet users' personal data should   [...]

EU To Microsoft: For the Last Time, Stop Bundling IE With Windows

This week Microsoft suffered a heavy blow when the European Commission (EC) issued an order demanding that it remove its browser from the Windows operating system package. "Microsoft's tying of Internet Explorer to the Windows operating system harms competition between web browsers, undermines product innovation and ultimately reduces consumer choice," the Commissi  [...]

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,   [...]

Google Grabs 76% of US Search Spend

Google continues to dominate the market for search advertising spending, with a 76% share in Q3 2008, while Yahoo gained 1.8 points to bring it to 19.2% and Microsoft Live Search held steady at a 4.8% share, according to search engine spending data from Efficient Frontier - MarketingCharts   [...]

Comparison-Site Sales Rise as Consumers Scavenge for Deals

Online retailers increasingly benefit from marketing products on shopping-comparison sites as cash-strapped consumers seek bargains online, according to research published by E-consultancy and DoubleClick,   [...]

Mobile Search Up 68% in US, 38% in W. Europe - Google Leads

Mobile search use is more widespread and frequent in the US and Western Europe -- 20.8 million US and 4.5 million European mobile phone subscribers used search in June -- up 68 percent and 38 percent, respectively from June 2007, comScore M:Metrics reports, MarketingCharts writes  [...]

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  [...]

Yandex to Debut IPO in '08 After All

Last week Profy reported that Russian search site Yandex planned to hold off its $2 billion NASDAQ IPO until 2009. Roem.ru, another Russian news site, declares that announcement did not come from Yandex; it was only a market forecast by financial firm Finam, Quintura reports. Yand  [...]

Carat Revises Global Ad Spend Forecasts

Carat lowered its growth forecasts for global advertising expenditures in 2008 and 2009, predicting 4.9 percent growth in 2008 (vs. 6.0 percent it estimated in March) and a growth of 4.8 percent in 2009 (vs. a 4.9 percent estimate in March),   [...]

MSFT Absorbs Price Comparison Site, Vows to Change Face of Search

Microsoft is acquiring Greenfield Online, the parent company of European price comparison site ciao.com, for $486 million. The company said ciao's technology would precipitate the development of a more consumer-friendly search engine for European users, reports Reuters. Google is currently the top search engine in Europe, with   [...]

Yandex Abstains from NASDAQ IPO 'til 2009

Russian search engine Yandex has decided to withhold its planned fall IPO until 2009, reports Profy. Official reasons were not explained, but Profy, which gleaned its report from Russian news source GZT, pointed out that the Russia-Georgian conflict, coupled w  [...]