Madison & Vine reports that JWT's branded entertainment outfit Icon Entertainment@JWT will close down after key personnel left. The firm's run lasted about two years and marks JWT's parent company WPP's second failure in the category....
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Earthlink settled its case against two Alabama men accused of sending 250 million spam messages, according to DM News. Last February, Earthlink accused Damon DeCrescenzo and David Burstyn of using the local phone system to send the spam, dubbing them...
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As expected, 2004's rate of online ad revenue expansion was lower than that of 2003, according to AdZone Research figures, reports MediaPost. Still, spending did increase significantly. With December 2004 billings pegged at $648 million, the research firm predicts 2005's...
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Microsoft will again rejigger its marketing department structure, according to reports, this time consolidating marketing under one group and perhaps even centralizing the group's location on the Microsoft Campus. Budgets for the various divisions are to remain the same. The...
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Pheedo partnered with IUpload, a web content management firm, to create a new RSS feed advertising enabling system, according to a ClickZ Report. Publishers can serve and track ads on both their blogs and RSS feeds through the system, which...
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A second senior Mozilla developer, Darin Fisher, left the effort to join Google, according to BetaNews. The move follows the earlier reported move of Ben Goodger, which reignited the flames of Google browser rumors....
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ClickZ reports that PointRoll - the rich media firm that markets the FatBoy and TomBoy rich media ad units - may be on the block, having hired an unnamed investment bank to field offers. CEO Jules Gardner said the company...
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Media General, a large newspaper chain, isn't known to have much in the way of online advertising. In December, for instance, it booked $1.2 million, a 63 percent growth over the year before, which among dead-tree publishers isn't a high...
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It didn't take long for MarketWatch's sale to the Wall Street Journal folks to lead to cost-saving layoffs. Almost 100 employees of both companies will get notices from all over the organizations. Dave Callaway will remain as editor-in-chief of MarketWatch,...
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Poynter E-Media Tidbits blogged a Guardian story that quotes one of the makers of the recent VW bomber-in-a-Polo ad, who now is explicitly denying that VW had anything to do with it. The report indicates the group, Lee and Dan,...
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John Battelle looked into the tale of the new Google employee who blogged a little too much. After hinting at some new product developments, criticizing compensation packages and then commenting "I must say, 1500+ sales people getting drunk at a...
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Amazon's A9 search engine launched a quirky feature where it allows visitors to view the storefronts of locally-listed businesses, according to USAToday. It claims to have 20 million such storefront images stored and ready. It says it took pictures of...
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