An interview with the creators of two competing blog networks probed developments in the market. Weblogs Inc. founder Jason Calacanis said he warmly welcomed competition, as it tended to validate blog media markets that otherwise remained strange and opaque to...
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The Commerce Department pegged online Q4 sales growth at 22.3 percent, according to Internet Retailer. That placed sales at $21.4 billion, or 2.2 percent of all sales in the U.S. for the period. For the year, online sales hit $69.19...
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Mobile content provider Vindigo announced a partnership with 24/7 Real Media this morning to send mobile ads via 24/7's Open AdStream system. 24/7 adopted the wireless applications protocol (WAP) to enable the sending of ads that could be regularly accepted...
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ClickZ reports on increased industry worries about impression spam, the nefarious practice of creating many clickless impressions on a search engine in order to convince its search technology that the prevailing ads aren't as relevant as they otherwise would be...
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ClickZ editor Rebecca Lieb takes a look at the silly conventions used in standard web metrics, which together contribute much of the difference between reality and web statistics. Among the fudgy perpetrators are assumptions about session length, a presumption that...
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AdWeek reports mega credit card firm Capital One is putting up its online media account into review, seeking to consolidate six media buying firms to just one. Current roster members - which include Mediavest, Reprise Media, Page Zero Media, Marketleap,...
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Eurekster, the combined social network cum vertical search firm, announced a shuffling in its boardroom, moving its chairman into its CEO position and its former CEO into an executive chairman position. It announced that it completed a first round of...
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A study commissioned by the Washington Post showed rapid movement from traditional sources to online news consumption. In 2004, 47 percent of respondents to a Nielsen and Scarborough series of surveys said they increased online news use. Only four percent...
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After the Wall Street Journal reported negative analyst comments on the pricing prospects for the search market, the trades picked it up, helping drive Yahoo and Google stock prices down almost five percent for a time. RBC Capital Markets analyst...
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Kevin Lee sums up recent search research by DoubleClick and, separately, Overture that shows many sales that were either inspired by or at least helped along by online searches happen quite a bit of time after the initial search activity....
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PRWeek reports that Gawker Media's anchor advertiser on its new travel site - Gridskipper - decided to abandon the project only a few weeks after the deal started. Cheaptickets.com, touted as the exclusive partner on the site's launch on January...
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Online dating firm Match.com launched its own online title, according to MediaPost, starting up the HappenMagazine.com site. Custom publishing, already quite common in paper form, hasn't taken off quite as quickly online, with many brands instead concentrating on their own...
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InfoUSA's offer to buy Digital Impact turned hostile, as the DM firm made a tender offer directly to Digital Impact shareholders, according to DM News. "Digital Impact's failure to agree to negotiate with us or to engage in substantive discussions...
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