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Million Dollar Homepage Being Blackmailed

The Million Dollar Homepage is being hammered by extortionists who want money in return for halting the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that knocked down the site last week and has since made it nearly impossible to access, reports The Register (U.K.). The site's ow  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, January 18th 2006

Consortium Makes Bid for VNU

Netherlands-based VNU, which owns Nielsen Media Research, ACNielsen and Adweek (among others) on Monday said it was in talks to be acquired by a group of private equity firms that have offered to buy it for as much as 7.3 billion euros (approximately $8.8 billion), or 28.00-28.50 euros per share, reports Reuters. The buyout firms are t  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, January 17th 2006

Million Dollar Homepage Reaches Goal, Suffers DDoS Attack

Click to enlargeThe final 1,000 pixels of the Milli  [...]
Posted: Friday, January 13th 2006

Murdoch: MySpace Can Beat Theirs (Yahoo's, MSN's)

News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch finally revealed, at least in part, his plans for the social-networking website MySpace.com, announcing that the recently acquired site would challenge portals such as Yahoo and MSN, writes iMedia, citing a Wall Street Journal report. Murdoch said MySpace would offer free video downloads,   [...]
Posted: Thursday, January 12th 2006

Watchdog Asks FTC to Tackle Adware Firm

The Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) has asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Integrated Search Technologies and several of its affiliates for installing adware without first obtaining consumers' informed consent, reports MediaPost. The group charged that Montreal-based Integrated Search Technologies distributes ad-serving programs by bundling them with NegativeBeats.com, a site based in  [...]
Posted: Friday, November 4th 2005

BLOTO, or Online Shopping Under the Influence in the U.K.

A goodly number of Brits are shopping online after having tipped back a few pints with the blokes (or otherwise), resulting in what has been dubbed BLOTO (Buying Loads of Tat Online), according to research from customer experience firm Conchango, writes NetImperative. The research reported that 7 percent of Britons know someone who has shopped online while under the influence. The survey also found that 6 percent of Britons a  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, November 1st 2005

U.K. Cell Phone Network Hires Mobile Media Agency

Britain's largest cell phone network, "3", is the first mobile phone company in Britain to run video ads on its network, and response has been good, writes Media Life (via MediaBuyerPlanner). One ad has ac  [...]
Posted: Friday, October 28th 2005

Zenith Ups Worldwide Ad Outlook

The global emergence of online advertising and the growth of advertising in developing countries has created a global ad spending climate that "remains positive despite economic uncertainties," including successive hurricane strikes against the southern shores of the U.S., according to ZenithOptimedia Group quarterly report, writes MediaPost. The report anticipates worldwide ad growth will rise 6.  [...]
Posted: Monday, October 24th 2005

WPP Shutters Red Cell

WPP Group is unraveling Red Cell, the multifarious assortment of agencies it tried to knit together in 2001 into a worldwide network in hopes of duplicating the global coverage of the likes of Ogilvy & Mather, JWT and Young & Rubicam, reports the New York Post,   [...]
Posted: Monday, October 17th 2005

U.K. Online Adspend Up 62 Percent, Tops Outdoor

Internet ad spending in the U.K. increased to $861 million in the first half of the year, up 62 percent from the first half of 2004, and is now worth more than outdoor advertising, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers, reports Bloomberg (via MediaBuyerPlanner). Online advertising accounted for 5.8 percent of the U.K  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, October 5th 2005

European Online Advertising to Triple by 2010

Online advertising revenue in Europe is expected to reach EUR6.5 billion by 2010, triple this year's EUR2.3 billion - with paid search dominant - writes ElectricNews.net, citing a JupiterResearch report titled "European Online Advertising Forecasts, 2005 to 2010." In 2004, European paid search revenues totaled EUR0.6 billion, compared with EUR1.1 billion for display advertising. By 2008, paid search is expected to lead the sector. By 2010, p  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, October 4th 2005

BMW Backs Out of Branded Entertainment

BMW of North America, which helped pioneer a new era of branded entertainment when it launched its first round of BMW Films online in the summer of 2001, has just about abandoned the genre after having long dominated it in the automotive category, writes AdAge, saying that branded entertainment is now simply too expensive for BMW, which - as a niche, family-controlled carmaker - has tighter budgets than its rivals. It spends roughly $70 millio  [...]
Posted: Monday, October 3rd 2005

U.N. Wants to Run the Net, U.S. Says No

The United Nations' International Telecommunications Union (ITU) is ready to take over the internet's governance from the U.S., ITU head Yoshio Utsumi said on Friday, a day after the U.S. clashed with much of the world at a two-week conference preparing for a U.N. World Summit on the Information Society, in Tunisia, in November, reports Reuters. The U.S. now manages the internet via  [...]
Posted: Monday, October 3rd 2005

IPG Restatement Drops Half a Billion Dollars

After a six-month internal investigation, Interpublic Group this morning issued a restatement of its earnings - reduced by more than half-a-billion dollars between 2000 and 2004 - reports AdAge. IPG also reported that net losses for 1H05 had been reduced to $139 million from $182 million in 1H04, while revenue had increased 1.5 percent to $2.95 bill  [...]
Posted: Friday, September 30th 2005

Bollore Ups Stake in Aegis

A week after Publicis was reported to be in preliminary talks with Aegis - one of the last remaining independent media groups and owner of Europe's largest media buying agency Carat - about a possible takeover, French billionaire Vincent Bollore has upped his stake in the company, reports the Guardian Unlimited (  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, September 28th 2005

U.K. Affiliate Market to Double, Surpass 1B Pounds

Sales generated for e-commerce businesses by U.K. affiliates in 2005 are expected to double year over year - the second year in a row - and account for 1.1-1.35 billion pounds in sales for merchant partners in 2005, up from around 600 million pounds in 2004, according to a new E-consultancy report titled Affiliate Marketing Networks - A Buyer's Guide. That growth surpasses the rates for both online adverti  [...]
Posted: Friday, September 23rd 2005

iMedia Connection to Be Bought by DMG World Media

paidContent breaks the news that interactive media and marketing publisher and event producer, iMedia Communications, which publishes iMedia Connection, is being acquired by DMG World Media - which in January   [...]
Posted: Thursday, September 22nd 2005

Aegis Gets $2.8B Takeover Bid from Publicis

Aegis Group, the world's largest independent buyer of advertising space, received a takeover bid from Paris-based Publicis Groupe, the world's fourth-largest ad company, and the bid values Aegis at $2.8 billion,   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, September 21st 2005

IPG to Restate Earnings; Cites 'Material' Errors, 'Misconduct'

Interpublic Group yesterday said it would restate earnings for 2000-2004 because of problems in accounting for revenue, acquisitions and lease expenses, and in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission cited weak financial controls and a decentralized operational structure, reports Adweek. The SEC   [...]
Posted: Friday, September 16th 2005

Hitwise: Bountiful Holidays for U.K. Online Retailers

With U.K. shoppers relying more and more on the web for gift buying, online shopping is predicted to increase 12 percent during the upcoming holiday season, according to new research firm Hitwise, reports NetImperative. The U.K. online retail sector is expected to grow 25 percent in share of visits from July 2005 to December 2005, or a 12 percent increase compared with December 2004, according to the research. Visits to online re  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, September 13th 2005