Bacon's, which merged its PR-monitoring service with that of MediaMap a year ago, announced it will now include blogs in its web trawling for those subscribed to its MediaSource Premium Research....
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ClickZ notes a new report that estimates the popular bay-area-based online classifieds firm Craig's List costs the local newspaper industry about $50 million per year. San Francisco-based papers studiously did nothing for years as Craig's List slowly bit into their...
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Newsday covers WhenU's continuing efforts to distinguish itself from spyware purveyors. While WhenU's pop-up ads do disclose their origin, many owners of WhenU-installed computers say in surveys conducted by critics that they do not recall installing the application, inspiring some...
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The New York Times published a round-up of stories showing where word-of-mouth marketing can be a very sharp and double-edged sword, coming back to slash at marketers with inferior products or policies. Without introducing any novel examples, the story focuses...
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BtoB Online reports that a Florida firm is selling its largely unused domain advertise.com. Moniker.com is offering the name up in an auction....
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An eMarketer redux of e-commerce in China shows that the same limitations still apply to the huge potential market, fettered by a lack of consumer credit and distrust of vendors. Among the interesting graphs collected, eMarketer shows that the biggest...
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Late holiday shopping rocketed up 57 percent, according to an Internet Retailer report on comScore figures. Operational improvements in e-commerce companies seem to be allowing more and later shopping to get in prior to Christmas. In the week prior to...
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The Laredo Group announced it launched an ad sales representation service concentrating in the online marketing field. It boasts daily sites Adrants and MarketingVOX as clients. Together they attract about 225,000 unique visitors per month and send out daily newsletters...
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