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FTC Gives GoogleClick Merger the 'Go-Ahead'
The FTC today approved Google's $3.1 billion merger with DoubleClick, despite a menagerie of complaints from competitors, privacy advocates and politicians, in addition to hold-ups abroad [...]
Posted: Thursday, December 20th 2007
Wal-Mart, Apple Considering Digital Download Deal
After months of pressuring movie studios not to partner with Apple to make movies available for download via iTunes, Wal-Mart itself may be ready to partner with Apple over movie, music, and TV show downloads.
Apple and Wal-Mart are considering an alliance that would allow consumers to purchase a digital download "coupon" that would let consumers download movies, music, and TV shows, with Apple paying Wal-Mart a portion of the proceeds, Variety [...]
Posted: Tuesday, October 3rd 2006
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
'eBiz for Media Lab' for Electronic Media Buying Launched
The American Association of Advertising Agencies has launched an effort it hopes will help convert all transactions between media buyers and sellers into a fully electronic system of communications, writes MediaPost (via MediaBuyerPlanner). The AAAA has been pushing for media industry guidel [...]
Posted: Tuesday, January 17th 2006
Media Matchmaker Hooks up Buyers, Potential Partners
In Media Matchmaker, Media buyers wishing to find product placement, promotions and integration opportunities for their clients have a new tool to help find potential partners that are likewise looking to negotiate and close deals, writes MediaBuyerPlanner. As traditional advertising has been augmented by digital opportunities, product placement and other non-traditional approaches have become increa [...]
Posted: Tuesday, January 17th 2006
Online Shoppers Not Too Worried about Security
Some 70 percent of online adults responding to a new Business Software Alliance (BSA) study conducted by Harris Interactive said security concerns did not prevent them from making purchases online - and 38 percent said spent more online in 2005 than they in 2004, reports InternetNews. Nine of ten said they did online shopping from home; 26 percent said they did at least some online shopping while at work.
Some 88 percent said [...]
Posted: Tuesday, January 17th 2006
Online Sales Up 33 Percent Christmas Week
Year-over-year online sales growth was strong Christmas week (ended Dec. 25), up 33 percent, to $1.77 billion, from the $1.33 billion in the corresponding week a year earlier, reports Internet Retailer, citing comScore figures. Online sales were, however, down significantly from the record $3.03 billion the week before. Online travel sales [...]
Posted: Tuesday, January 17th 2006
Gather.com Gets Funding, Writers Get Ad Revs
Boston-based Gather.com, set to receive $6 million funding this week, intends to become an eBay of sorts for bloggers, other writers and their readers - with a business model that recruits writers by offering them a share of online advertising revenue, writes the Boston Globe. The m [...]
Posted: Monday, January 16th 2006
Internet Sales Tax Bills Likely to Be Combined
Two Senate bills that propose mandatory collection of internet sales tax will likely be combined into one that would provide exemptions to small retailers, writes InternetRetailer, quoting John Logan, senior state tax analyst at CCH Inc. "As we get further into 2006, some of the unsettled issues will get settled, making passage...more favorable," Logan says. Two versions of an internet sales tax bills were [...]
Posted: Monday, January 16th 2006
Seven Digital Marketing Predictions for 2006
eMarketer this week issued e-marketing predictions for the coming year: (1) Online advertising will constitute 5.4 percent of all U.S. advertising spending in 2006, surpassing the 5 percent mark for the first time, and reach 7.5 percent by 2009; (2) retail e-commerce will grow even more, from $87 billion in 2005 to $105 billion in 2006, a 21 percent increase; (3) Broadband use will continue to expand, from the current 105 million users [...]
Posted: Friday, January 13th 2006
Google Seeks Mobile Click-to-Call Ad Patent
A new Google patent application hints at the search giant's plans for the mobile advertising market, with a type of ad that would result in a phone call instead of a visit to a website, reports ClickZ. A senior research scientist at Google, Shumeet Baluja, filed U.S. patent application 20060004627 for the "call-on-select" process that takes into account screen size, connection speed and input capabilities of mobile devices to determine [...]
Posted: Thursday, January 12th 2006
Online Agency Creates $500 TV Ads for Local Businesses
A new, internet-based ad agency, Spot Runner, is positioning itself as a company that offers commercial production, media planning and ad time for as little as $500, [...]
Posted: Thursday, January 12th 2006
Hitwise: Google, eBay Drive Online Retail Visits
Online shoppers tended to rely more on Google than other search engines for their shopping-related searches in December, but eBay sent even more traffic to shopping sites, according to a Hitwise report issued Wednesday, writes Reuters. Some 11.1 percent of all December shopping-related visits originated at Google - 28 percent more than last year. eBay generated more than 13 percent. Yahoo Search and Microsoft [...]
Posted: Thursday, January 12th 2006
Online Sales, Up 29 Percent, Again Surpass $3B
Online sales passed the $3 billion mark for the week ended Dec. 18, increasing 29 percent to $3.03 billion from $2.35 billion in the corresponding week in 2004, reports InternetRetailer, citing comScore figures. A week earlier, online sales totaled $3.07 billion, exceeding the $3 billion mark for the first time. Online travel sales were up [...]
Posted: Thursday, January 12th 2006
Holiday Shoppers Less Satisfied with Online Retailers
Consumer satisfaction with many top retail websites decreased during the holidays according to a ForeSee Results and FGI Research study, writes DM News. The "Top 40 Online Retail Satisfaction Index" weighs online shopper satisfaction between the holidays and the rest of the year. Although holiday revenues were up, overall satisfaction decreased four percentage points between spring 2005 and the holiday season at yearend. [...]
Posted: Wednesday, January 11th 2006
Online Customer Service Deteriorated in 4Q05
A study of 100 online retailers found a decline in customer service in 4Q05 compared with 4Q04, reports InternetRetailer, citing E-Tailing Group's 8th "Annual Mystery Shopping Study." The number/percentage of sites offering a toll-free customer service telephone number - the most important service feature, according to E-Tailing Group - fell from 93 to 95. "Overall...more drill-down was required to find answers to questions on [...]
Posted: Wednesday, January 11th 2006
Clear Channel VODs to Offer 15-Second Ads
A beta version of a Videos on Demand feature will be available on 16 of Clear Channel Radio's Online Music & Radio websites from stations in New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Washington, D.C., and St. Louis, the company announced Monday, [...]
Posted: Tuesday, January 10th 2006
A Day of Rest Even for E-Commerce
One of the benefits of e-commerce may be that customers can expect 24/7 shopping and service, but some e-tailers with strictly observant religious owners or execs do not complete orders or otherwise engage in business on their Sabbath (Jewish or Christian) - apparently with no serious consequences - writes the New York Times. Adhering to the tenets of both business and religion can be tricky, though. For example, observant Je [...]
Posted: Tuesday, January 10th 2006
Search Marketers Spent $5.75B, Mostly on Paid Placement
Advertisers in the U.S. and Canada spent $5.75 billion on search engine marketing (SEM) in 2005 - 44 percent more than in 2004 - according to "The State of Search Engine Marketing 2005" report, released today (Monday) by the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO), which predicts [...]
Posted: Monday, January 9th 2006
Google Video Store to Launch
Google on Friday afternoon announced its much-anticipated video service - Google Video Store - which will soon begin to offer, for rent or purchase, downloadable videos online, [...]
Posted: Monday, January 9th 2006