Internet Broadcasting had a record 12.94 million online visitors for December 2005, a year-over-year increase of 29 percent, reports MediaBuyerPlanner. The company says its online local coverage of weather and news events during the period contributed to its second consecutive...
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Meredith Corp. - thanks to strong ad revenue from magazine and online divisions, and from its newly acquired titles - posted a 12 percent gain in earnings for its second quarter, ending Dec. 31, MediaWeek reports (via MediaBuyerPlanner). Ad revenues...
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Gannett's PointRoll has partnered with On2 Technologies to add new video-encoding capabilities to PointRoll video units, the companies announced. PointRoll is licensing On2's Flix Engine and Flix Pro toolsets to create and deliver Flash 8 video-enabled online ads. PointRoll said...
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Signaling that Microsoft is intent on putting a dent in Google's dominance of online advertising, it has created a global sales and appointed as its head Joanne Bradford, MSN.com's VP of chief media revenue officer, reports AdAge. She will remain...
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The state of internet advertising in Europe is about what it was in the U.S. two years ago - and is growing rapidly, according to an eMarketer report. Online advertising ad spend in the five largest countries of Western Europe...
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Six leading advertising associations and civil rights watchdog groups have applied to file an amicus brief in a lawsuit challenging Utah's "Do Not E-mail" registry and say in their application that the case is important "to all parties with a...
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Google this week began testing a desktop application - AdWords Editor - for managing multiple AdWords campaigns, in multiple accounts, and then bulk-uploading changes, reports ClickZ. "The application is particularly useful for advertisers with large accounts containing multiple campaigns and...
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Online advertising revenues at recruitment sites nearly tripled in 2005 - in part due to the role of new market players - and are forecast to overtake newspaper job ad revenues in 2007, according to a Borrell Associates report, "2006...
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Jumpstart Automotive Media is launching a new service next week that it says will give auto dealers the opportunity, for a flat fee, to have their dealership name and phone number locally targeted and highlighted on in-market car research sites...
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An Allurent survey after the record-breaking online holiday shopping found that retailers are risking significant damage to their brands by failing to deliver a positive customer experience online. Some 82 percent of respondents said they would be less likely to...
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Microsoft is expected to launch a major upgrade of MSN Spaces, including its blogging features, to include a revenue-sharing advertising option and a new partnership with Kanoodle and Amazon.com, reports Publish, citing Liveside.Net and other Microsoft watchers. Apparently, MSN is...
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