BtoB online reports that business publishers VNU, the makers of industry titles such as AdWeek and MediaWeek, and tech publisher IDG will merge their operations into a joint venture in France. The two French divisions have combined revenues of about...
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Adrants points to a new spoof site mocking Crispin Porter's super cool agency website. The hot creative boutique, makers of many of the most popular online viral campaigns, such as Subservient Chicken and Mini Cooper Robot, appears to be planning...
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AdWeek's new online reporter Brian Morrissey reports that the man who once ran About's Sprinks division will now take over as CEO of Kanoodle. Lance Podell, who had been Kanoodle's president for the past year, accepted the position. He oversaw...
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Online retail sales growth got off to a slow start in 2005, managing a relatively anemic nine percent boost over the same week in 2004, according to an Internet Retailer report on comScore figures. Retail spending online amounted to...
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The New York Times saw online ad revenues increase by about a third, although it failed to break out the specific revenue figures by medium. Net ad revenues grew 32.2 percent, contributing - along with the Times's broadcast properties -...
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Digitas today adopted a "shareholder rights" plan that, if upheld in court, would make it more difficult for it to be acquired involuntarily. The plan would effectively make it about twice as expensive for a buyer to control Digitas -...
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Almost certain to become a post-game viral spot, Budweiser pulled a humorous commercial that pretended to be a prequel to Janet Jackson's Superbowl 2004 peep show. In it, someone uses her dress, hanging on a rack, to open a Bud....
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AP reports that Knight Ridder's earnings grew eight percent last quarter on a $8.2 million growth in profits. Its online properties' revenues grew by $11 million, a 44 percent rise....
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Making the jump to media integration, ESPN ABC Sports will break down its sales structure from a media-specific repping process to an integrated model where the salespeople all sell across online, TV, radio print and mobile advertising, according to MediaPost....
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AOL announced it will stop providing support for access to internet newsgroups, the original internet forum format. AOL subscribers can still access the widely read forums through other interfaces, such as Google Groups. The move signifies that AOL put a...
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Creative outsourcing firm Aquent launched an online "reality show," pitting five designers against one another to create campaigns in several specific fields. The work will be shown online and judged by the public, winnowing down the numbers to get to...
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Pepsi and Apple's iTunes Store are again trying to give away songs with larger bottles of flavored sugar water. Last year's attempt to give away $100 million in songs at a dollar a piece saw a redemption rate of only...
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