Poynter reports on LeMonde's successful efforts to capture the blog trend by providing Six Apart blog software for free to its subscribing users. Rather than see its readers looking elsewhere for diary content, LeMonde now has some of the most...
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Just prior to SEMPO releasing its study on the search marketing industry, Jupiter came out with its own research. It too found that almost a third - 31 percent - of marketers use an agency to manage search campaigns, but...
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CNET reports that Gmail is trying out DomainKeys, the Yahoo-backed standard for ensuring emails come from the domains they claim to be coming from. No official announcement was made, and Gmail spokespeople have yet to comment....
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Revenews reports that MarketingSherpa released a large research report on the state of affiliate marketing. It found that despite a panoply of industry kicking trends - such as fights with "cookie stuffers," Can-Spam issues, threats to paid search arbitrage -...
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MarketingVOX staff favorite Adland surpassed the 20,000 post mark for its video commercial library, making it very likely the most complete archive on the web....
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Yesterday's start to the Google-Geico trial, covered here in the Washington Post, revealed the basic arguments of both sides. In the trial to determine whether or not search engines should be allowed to use trademarked terms as search terms for...
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Hitwise reports that traffic to shopping sites peaked as a percentage of all web traffic on December 11, the plurality of them coming from Google referrals. Interestingly, the different search engines threw their traffic to different sorts of shopping sites....
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MediaPost reports that the tough Maryland anti-spam law suffered a setback when a state judge struck it down in the proceedings of a civil suit brought against a New York-based company. The judge said that the connection between the sender,...
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Arial Software launched ReleMail, an auditing service for emailers, ensuring that email marketers and other list users pass a 15-point inspection that allows them to use a ReleMail certification seal and gain entrance on a whitelist (which, as yet, isn't...
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Internet Retailer's weekly report of e-commerce spending from comScore data shows that this year's Thanksgiving week showed a 36 percent gain on retail online sales, falling in line with the many, many corroborating figures research companies have been releasing over...
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Recognizing that it's tough to take TV ads away from automotive marketing executives, Autobytel will start running streaming video ads on its site, ClickZ reports. The video banners - to be seen on subsidiary sites Autoweb, Carsmart, Autosite and Car.com...
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As expected, Ask Jeeves launched its beta of its desktop search application, according to DM News. Ask Jeeves has been setting product expectations high, indicating the beta stage will be a short one, with a real release coming early in...
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