Small Providence ad shop RDW Group bought 30-person-strong interactive shop iFactory, giving it a much larger footprint in the more active Boston market. The agency claims $110 million in billings and $16 million in revenue. AdWeek reports....
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Online payments aren't taking the world by storm, as once predicted during the first internet boom. Just under one percent of business-to-business payments will have been made via electronic means in 2004, up from about 0.51 percent in 2003. But...
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In a sign that the ingredients for another overly frothy market are perhaps combining, venture capital firms are being stuffed with billions of dollars - money that will be seeking new homes, primarily in start-up firms. With $5.5 billion added...
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Independent web content industry blog PaidContent hired Staci Kramer as executive editor. Kramer is a well-known commentator on media issues for the Online Journalism review and occasional contributor to related sites, like Wired News. She will continue in those other...
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Automaker Mercury is trying to shed its old image of producing merely adequate cars for aging rustbelt pensioners, launching a video ad campaign titled "Meet the Lucky Ones" on the web that directly addresses this perception. The creative shows a...
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Pay per click search firm FindWhat reported income of almost $5 million, about double last year's figure for the quarter. About half of that figure came from its recent Espotting acquisition. Earnings were up 25 percent. This was the first...
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A local paper reviews the progress of cost per click search network Kanoodle. Founder and CEO Kent Keating answered criticisms that the network's second tier keyword traffic is anemic by saying that the firms current growth rate will solve that...
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Anonymous sources say AOL will cut about 700 jobs just in time for Christmas (and bonus season), trying to deliver the $1 billion in cash it promised parent company Time Warner. Ad sales improvements - estimated by analysts to have...
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A MediaPost survey shows that media buyers show a surprising degree of political activity in their media choices. More than half of buyers said they took a network's political slant into account when apportioning media dollars. 52.5 percent said an...
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For the first time, people spent more time this year looking at stuff online than they did communicating with each other. Content viewing's share of internet activity increased about seven percent from August's figures. Commerce and communicating (and even, surprisingly,...
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Online retail sales grew 19 percent in the week ending October 17, according to comScore. E-commerce hit $1.3 billion. ShopperTrak reports that all retail sales increased only 5.5 percent for roughly the same period. Online travel sales increased 24 percent...
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