Sheraton Hotels has re-launched its website to emphasize user-generated content and take advantage of the popularity of social networking, writes DM News. Visitors can share stories, photos, travel tips and favorite destinations. The site will offer a "click to call"...
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Video-sharing site Metacafe has received $15 million in a second round of funding, from Benchmark Capital and Accel Partners, writes TechCrunch (via paidContent). Metacafe uses a filtering algorithm to prescreen videos, only about two dozen of which are approved each...
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The Advertising Research Foundation plans to publish "The Online Advertising Playbook," an online-advertising for "brand marketers eager to tap power of internet, but who have shied away because of lack of confidence in how to use the medium," MediaPost quotes...
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Global business information company United Business Media announced its acquisition of business intelligence provider Commonwealth Business Media for $152 million, subject to anti-trust regulatory clearance; the deal is expected to close in the next four weeks. Commonwealth has an established...
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Some 20 percent of Americans over age 12 own at least one portable MP3 player - and among teens ownership reaches 54 percent - but those players contain less downloaded content and more music ripped from CD, according to an...
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Wurld Media's peer-to-peer service, Peer Impact, has struck a deal with another studio to provide TV and movie downloads on its site, writes MediaBuyerPlanner. The company announced last week that titles from Twentieth Century Fox and Warner Bros. Entertainment are...
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VW has resurrected the Rabbit, and to help market the 2007 version, Crispin Porter + Bogusky has launched a video-focused site that positions the car as ideal for city drivers, writes ClickZ. The so-called Gypsy Cab Project gives to Steve,...
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Google VP and "Father of the Internet" Vint Cerf yesterday said Google might file antitrust complaints if high-speed internet service providers abuse the power they are likely to receive from Congress, reports Reuters. The Senate's Commerce Committee last week approved...
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Gawker Media founder Nick Denton has put two of his 15 sites up for sale, reorganized others and is laying off several bloggers - despite having doubled the network's pageviews in the past year, reports the New York Times (via...
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MSN has again signed up Honda and Verizon Wireless as the exclusive advertisers for Rockstar.MSN.com, the companion site to CBS's "Rock Star: Supernova" (last year, "Rock Star: INXS") reality show from Mark Burnett, reports MediaWeek. The show premiers tonight on...
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Online advertisers lost hundreds of millions of dollars to click fraud in 2005 - and as a result lost some confidence as well and so reduced search spending with Google, Yahoo and others, according to a study by Outsell Inc.,...
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