A Tuesday site outage for Commission Junction is being investigated, according to a Internetnews.com report. Affiliate ads failed to appear, leaving blank spots on some sites, and some people could not log into their CJ accounts between 9 a.m. and...
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eCommerce Times put together a comprehensive special report on the resurgence of web analytics and their importance to ferreting out success in critical and competitive shopping markets, like the holiday retail season....
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Forbes.com and Euro RSCG, as reported by ClickZ, polled senior executives at major firms around the world, finding that while 72 percent believe advertising has a big effect on their markets' perceptions of their firms, more than two out of...
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Merriam-Webster said yesterday that the most looked-up word for 2004 on its website was "blog." Reuters reports that for 2005, Merriam-Webster's new "collegiate" dictionary will finally include the word. Its popularity among definition seekers may indicate increased exposure and influence...
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PaidContent points out that Microsoft seems ready to launch its own blogging engine, taking on Google in yet another category. The MSN Spaces product is expected to offer free blogging tools as well as an Apple-like hub for sharing personal...
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AOL will launch an improved version of its Singingfish video search engine today, according to ClickZ. AOL acquired the company a year ago. The search engine will also break a consumer ad campaign to increase traffic. The advertising was developed...
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Visa reported 28 percent gains in Black Friday online retail receipts, about double the growth rate seen for all November 26 sales, according to Internet Retailer. Total sales on Visa cards amounted to $234 million, up from $183 million in...
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Shopzilla's BizRate.com polled about 4,500 online shoppers over last weekend to find that the buyers indicated they were about a quarter done their holiday shopping, according to Internet Retailer. Almost half said that they would do the rest of their...
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And we thought that ad server discrepancies had gotten bad online. People in the print world are skulking about under much heightened scrutiny after a series of circulation overstatements were revealed. The most egregious of them so far was...
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MediaPost reports that Geico settled its copyright suit with Overture, leaving Google as the main defendant in the suit that will help determine whether or not search engines will be allowed to target ads based on brand name keyword searches....
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Jupiter attributes much of the recently reported growth in online advertising to price increases, rather than additional inventory purchased. Jupiter analyst Nate Elliott said that increased rates "are the key driver of that growth across all three sectors," referring to...
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AdWeek reports that the chairman of Boston-based online agency BigBad died just prior to Thanksgiving after a long illness. Charles Lard was 58. Memorial donations may be sent to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, the Jimmy Fund, 10 Brookline Place West,...
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CNET reports that AOL's new Netscape release will allow users to select which browser engine will handle specific web pages, taking into account the fact that a few sites out there are geared to be read only by Microsoft's Internet...
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ComputerWeekly reports that IT executives are increasingly concerned about software that monitors internet usage. In particular, a program called Marketscore - the site for which is registered under the same address as that of comScore Networks - is being decried...
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