Adspend Estimates Up and Down

eCommerce Times reads the ad spending tea leaves, trying to make sense of slightly differing forecasts. The upshot: analysts and agencies are expecting roughly five percent growth next year, although online ad spending is rollicking along at 31 percent this... continue reading »

NYT Sees 35.5 Percent Internet Ad Increase

BtoB Online reports that the New York Times digital unit saw ad revenues rise 35.5 percent for November. The media group generally saw 6.2 percent revenue growth.... continue reading »

Boede Bought by McCann

McCann Erickson scooped up Boede & Partners, according to ClickZ. The shop will be called McCann Erickson Salt Lake City, and Dave Boede will stay on as senior VP. McCann said no layoffs were planned. Boede had clients like Unisys,... continue reading »

Brin, Page Interviewed by Walters

SearchEngineLowdown took one for the team, wading through an interminable Barbara Walters interview to see if there were any nuggets to mine from her discussion with Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. There weren't any.... continue reading »

Net Ad Networks Multiply

DM News analyzed the recent profusion of online media networks, calling it a comeback for the aggregation that became immensely unpopular as the dot-com bubble burst. With Conducive's adMarketplace coming out this week, it seems as though there have been... continue reading »

Trademarks at Issue in Meta Tags

The trademark testiness of some brands is even extending to meta tags, according to SearchEngineLowdown. It points to a story showing a pharmaceutical company suing its competition for having included "BDI Blood Diagnostics" in its website's HTML. These efforts to... continue reading »

Designers Predict End of "Retro" Sites, More Brown

PoynterOnline's David Carlson covers predictions from Forty Media for web design in 2005, including (finally) the expected retreat of "retro" sites and the increasing deviation from the standard "5-piece" design. Unfortunately, the predictions peg the color of the year being... continue reading »

Feds Develop Massive Anti-Phishing Database

ClickZ reports the federal government is setting up a massive, almost-real-time database into which several major ISPs, financial services firms and e-commerce companies are to place their some of their data to help fight crime, particularly phishing attacks. The Internet... continue reading »

Eolas Case Rears Head Again

CNET covers the continuing largely mute flailings of the Eolas-Microsoft court battle with a piece that makes the whole affair seem quite dramatic. Eolas initially won a patent battle against Microsoft in a district court that didn't seem to have... continue reading »

DoubleClick Updates Planning Tool

DoubleClick upgraded its media planning tool MediaVisorSM to include better exporting into Excel, RFP and insertion order generation and bulk insertion order management.... continue reading »

Cross-Media Adspend Articulated

eMarketer took data from AdAge, TNS Media Intelligence/CMR, Yellow Pages, and Deutsche Bank to create a nifty chart laying out the spending different product categories put against various media in 2003. eMarketer's report states that the increased spending in rich... continue reading »

Google Gets $0.09 per Search

John Battelle found some extremely interesting information on Google's business based in part on comScore data. Among the findings: - Google makes about nine cents per search query - Two thirds of its revenue comes from domestic sources - Paid clicks grew... continue reading »