Adrants reports jubilantly that Ad Age named it the number one site to bookmark. Of course, the traditional media mavens over at Crain failed to leave a bookmark of it on their own site. Also mentioned were Gawker, Drudge Report...
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Internet Retailer points to comScore figures showing that about 80 percent of people online have visited a shopping-oriented site in November. 128 million people visited retail category sites, with eight of the top ten gaining categories being shopping subcategories of...
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Internet Retailer reports rather comprehensively the run-down of comScore, Nielsen and other figures for the holiday shopping season, showing a gross increase of about 49 percent for the week ending December 17, and up 26 percent generally over last year's...
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MarketingShift points out that Isobar Communications bought search firm iProspect in the latest in a series of acquisitions. Isobar is the consolidated online holdings of Aegis, the European-based ad firm that owns Carat and brags of about $500 million in...
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PaidContent points to a Jack Myers report predicting 30 percent growth for online advertising media budgets in 2005. Myers anticipates much larger spending from large brand organizations that previously eyed the internet more skeptically. Search is to slow its growth...
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In a story the rest of the world doesn't seem to realize was reported back in late September, The New York Times reports that the Washington Post will buy the highly-acclaimed and not particularly highly profitable Slate online magazine from...
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Cindy McCaffrey, Google's top PR official who was also responsible generally for marketing and communications, will leave the company, becoming in some ways the most senior person to leave. Google has been quite successful while eschewing traditional marketing, relying on...
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CNET reports that InterActiveCorp (IAC) will split into a travel company and an e-commerce company. The previously Frankensteinian online media and commerce conglomerate is Barry Diller's online investment vehicle. He will retain his complete grip on IAC, the e-commerce element,...
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Hitwise humbugs that shopping is big this Christmas, with shopping-oriented sites comprising about 10 percent of internet visits - a rise of about 27 percent - but that this rise comes partly at the expense of charity sites, which saw...
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