LinkedIn is today unveiling a new business-to-business local search offering, "LinkedIn Services," to connect its network of 2.4 million professionals and business owners with local service providers, reports MediaPost. Some 150,000 service providers have reportedly registered and created listings, which...
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Citing comScore figures, Internet Retailer reports that online sales were up 12 percent for the week ending March 27 over the corresponding week last year - from $1.1 billion (2004) to $1.24 billion (2005)....
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Expected or recently experienced life changes significantly alter consumers' web usage and browsing behavior, according to a comScore study, report MediaPost and Internet Retailer. The research studied three types of Web users: those expecting a child, those recently engaged or...
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United Virtualities, the makers of rich media advertising elements Shoskeles and Ooqa-Ooqa, announced they are providing rich media creative production for marketers and agencies in its Argentinian offices. Dubbing the offering "South-Sourcing," company founder Mookie Tenembaum points out that the...
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MarketingShift search blogger Jason Dowdell conducted his own experiment into the originality of all the various links that come back from the major search engines - initially an attempt to test new search entrant Become. After eliminating results found in...
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Marketers are gaining new opportunities to reach web users with rich media and integrated campaigns as users more and more adopt broadband and make the web an integral part of their lives, writes ClickZ, citing a new Yahoo report based...
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Infospace Search & Directory said yesterday that it plans to add results from Microsoft's MSN Search, reports DM News. Infospace has direct distribution agreements with Google, Yahoo and Ask Jeeves. It will feature MSN Search results on its branded search...
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In a new report, "E-Commerce in the US: Retail Trends," eMarketer reviews changes over the decade since the first online purchase and looks to the future of e-commerce. A full decade old, e-commerce accounts for a $140 billion in business,...
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ClickZ reports that game publisher WildTangent is partnering with 24/7 Real Media to serve ads dynamically into its downloadable games and track the number and duration of impressions. The first game featuring the technology, "Snowboard Super Jam," puts the Jeep...
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PaidContent points to a New York Times announcement reporting, inter alia, that RSS feeds generated 5.9 million page views in March for its website - a 342 percent increase year over year and a 39 percent increase from February's 4.3...
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In a report using custom Nielsen data, DoubleClick's Rick Bruner takes a strategic view of online advertising over the last decade, writes ClickZ. The report concludes that a seller's market has emerged and publishers are again on top. Meanwhile,...
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In March, consumers spent less time than in February visiting e-commerce and search sites (by 3.8 percent and 2.2 percent, respectively) and slightly increased their time spent on content and communications sites - 1.1 percent and 1 percent, respectively, according...
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aQuantive's Atlas Institute reports that the obituaries for the common cookie have been premature, with self-reported data versus actual cookie deletion varying wildly. For instance, Atlas's own study showed that people who reported deleting cookies every seven days typically had...
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"It's sensationalism, and I think it's going to be a tempest in a teapot." That's what Matthew Roche, Founder and CEO of testing and optimization firm Offermatica, says about the uproar surrounding the Jupiter Research cookie report. Even before aQuantive�s...
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