Display:

• A review of the major online property display advertising battles shows Yahoo and AOL having difficulty fending off Google, Amazon and other newer pools of inventory, forcing them to rely on special homepage promotions for larger clients.

Email:

• Canadians are upset (which we take to mean frowning, or perhaps at worse a bit more terse) because Industry Canada has been dragging out anti-spam enforcement. A tough anti-spam law went into effect two years ago, but the business regulator has been going through an iterative set of rule writing processes.

Social:

• Facebook is sneakily launching its marketing management Pages Manager app on Android in out-of-the-way markets such as Australia and New Zealand, likely a soft roll-out.

Search:

• In the aftermath of the FTC having punted on its Google investigation by having considered the negative effects of market control only on searchers, not on the buying advertisers, those annoyed at Google are surfacing examples of what they see as anti-competitive behavior.