Going Up? Vertical Ads Gaining Popularity with Sites, Advertisers
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Going Up? Vertical Ads Gaining Popularity with Sites, Advertisers

25y Michael Pastore

Going Up? Vertical Ads Gaining Popularity with Sit...

Vertical ads are the latest vehicle to carry the hopes of the Internet advertising faithful. According to AdRelevance, the number of vertical ads incr...

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Interactive TV: Don't Repeat Web Advertising's Mistakes
Marketing

Interactive TV: Don't Repeat Web Advertising's Mistakes

25y Eric Picard

Interactive TV: Don't Repeat Web Advertising's Mis...

Eric thinks the time is right for interactive TV. First, a look at how these new media models will play out during the early-adopter stage. Second, ho...

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AltaVista: Ready for Takeoff
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AltaVista: Ready for Takeoff

25y Paul J. Bruemmer

AltaVista: Ready for Takeoff

With all the talk about whether or not search engines will be around tomorrow, Paul highlights the changes at AltaVista, focusing on its search capabi...

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Familiar Challenges in a Wireless Future
Marketing

Familiar Challenges in a Wireless Future

25y Jeffrey Graham

Familiar Challenges in a Wireless Future

No one can fully foresee the future of marketing and commerce in a world of dispersed, wireless platforms. The only thing that's certain is that the o...

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Razorfish Offers "Voluntary Termination" to Branch Offices
Media

Razorfish Offers "Voluntary Termination" to Branch Offices

25y Christopher Saunders

Razorfish Offers "Voluntary Termination" to Branch...

The firm aims to bring staff levels in its Boston, San Francisco andLondon offices in line with client demand, amid a worsening market for Webdesign a...

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IAB New Ad Units: What's Next?
Marketing

IAB New Ad Units: What's Next?

25y Adam Jackson

IAB New Ad Units: What's Next?

The IAB voluntary guidelines for new ad units bring much-needed changes to the advertising options that keep publishers in business. Adam highlights s...

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Pay For Performance Still Rules
Media

Pay For Performance Still Rules

25y Jim Meskauskas

Pay For Performance Still Rules

Is CPM a sort of artificial label? Deconstructing the terms of advertising isn't going to get us anywhere. At the end of the day, clients still really...

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Primedia Moving to Leverage About for Cross-Selling
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Primedia Moving to Leverage About for Cross-Selling

25y Christopher Saunders

Primedia Moving to Leverage About for Cross-Sellin...

The special interest magazine publisher-turned-Web site operator tweaks its organization to optimize for cross-media sales. Read More...

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The Magnificent U.K. Seven: Part 2
Email

The Magnificent U.K. Seven: Part 2

25y Laurel Delaney

The Magnificent U.K. Seven: Part 2

What does it take to set up an email marketing campaign for the U.K. market? Laurel's interview with Lycos's Duncan Parry sums it up with a three-word...

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Industry Group Argues Against Web Bug Legislation
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Industry Group Argues Against Web Bug Legislation

25y Christopher Saunders

Industry Group Argues Against Web Bug Legislation

An industry association says the U.S. government should hold off on passing privacy-related laws on the use of user-tracking technologies on the Web. ...

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IAB: Agencies Have "Overwhelming Support" for New Ad Units
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IAB: Agencies Have "Overwhelming Support" for New Ad Units

25y Christopher Saunders

IAB: Agencies Have "Overwhelming Support" for New ...

The Internet Advertising Bureau says ad agencies and media planners like its new ad types. Read More...

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Internet Appliances Next Step for Wired Households
Audience

Internet Appliances Next Step for Wired Households

25y Michael Pastore

Internet Appliances Next Step for Wired Households

Despite a slow start, the Internet appliance market is poised to grow dramatically, with shipments of more than 174 million units expected by 2006, ac...

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Working the Network for Net Work
Marketing

Working the Network for Net Work

25y Cliff Kurtzman

Working the Network for Net Work

When it comes to being a network community of thriving entrepreneurial organizations and technology professionals, does your city chalk up? Find out w...

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What Is a Rose?
Analytics

What Is a Rose?

25y Janet Ryan

What Is a Rose?

You don't have to be Shakespeare to get people to understand you; you just have to define your terms. Read More...

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Kiddie Ergonomics
Marketing

Kiddie Ergonomics

25y Zachary Rodgers

Kiddie Ergonomics

When thinking about ergonomics, are we overlooking a segment of the desktop-enslaved public that should be a top priority: our children? Following a f...

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Publishers React to Yahoo! Revenue Cuts
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Publishers React to Yahoo! Revenue Cuts

25y Christopher Saunders

Publishers React to Yahoo! Revenue Cuts

Other top Web publishers say they know what Yahoo! is just now understanding: that online advertising alone won't pay the bills. Read More...

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Surfing the Channel -- Channel Partners, That Is
Marketing

Surfing the Channel -- Channel Partners, That Is

25y Chris McTiernan

Surfing the Channel -- Channel Partners, That Is

Selecting channel partnerships online can often be a much riskier gamble than establishing partnerships offline. But when you know what your greatest ...

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The Shape of Killer Apps to Come
Email

The Shape of Killer Apps to Come

25y Alex Sirota

The Shape of Killer Apps to Come

The hype vacuum: You can feel it in the air, in the email ether. What was once widely present is now weirdly absent. So where's the next killer app wh...

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How to Sustain Affiliate Program Success
Marketing

How to Sustain Affiliate Program Success

25y Shawn Collins

How to Sustain Affiliate Program Success

Are you interested in maximizing your affiliate channel, but not sure how to improve the active rate of your program? With some advice from Shawn, you...

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E-Business Democracies in Europe
Marketing

E-Business Democracies in Europe

25y Greg Sherwin and Emily Avila

E-Business Democracies in Europe

Thankfully, unlike Tocqueville's observations on democracy after his visit to the old New World (America), Greg's observations on e-business globaliza...

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Don't Build a Web Site - Build a Response Site
Marketing

Don't Build a Web Site - Build a Response Site

25y Barry Silverstein

Don't Build a Web Site - Build a Response Site

Do you use your Web site for lead generation, qualification, and sales? Here's how to incorporate direct marketing techniques into your Web site for o...

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On Happily Disrupting the User Experience
Media

On Happily Disrupting the User Experience

25y Chris Maher

On Happily Disrupting the User Experience

No one in his right mind would disrupt the user experience, right? Well Chris isn't in his right mind and admits it. And he's a raving pragmatist to b...

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Pixel Tagging: Self-Regulate or Self-Destruct
Media

Pixel Tagging: Self-Regulate or Self-Destruct

25y Tom Hespos

Pixel Tagging: Self-Regulate or Self-Destruct

Pixel tagging is commonly used to help determine which ads perform best in a given campaign. Few abuse this technique, but privacy advocates are suspi...

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Even Among Big Names, Linux OS Has a Future
Marketing

Even Among Big Names, Linux OS Has a Future

25y Michael Pastore

Even Among Big Names, Linux OS Has a Future

Linux remains well behind operating systems such as Microsoft's NT and Sun's Solaris, but the open-source system does have a future in corporate compu...

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Report From the Field: Email Marketing Best Practices
Email

Report From the Field: Email Marketing Best Practices

25y Debbie Weil

Report From the Field: Email Marketing Best Practi...

Reporting from the field can be perilous. Ask Debbie; she weathered an earthquake to bring you the scoop on the DMA net.Marketing conference in Seattl...

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Ad Revenue Not Cutting it for Yahoo!
Media

Ad Revenue Not Cutting it for Yahoo!

25y Christopher Saunders

Ad Revenue Not Cutting it for Yahoo!

Online ad sales continues to be the Achilles heel for the online media giant, which hopes to wean itself off of its marketing services business for th...

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Writing and Ranking for the Search Engines
Search

Writing and Ranking for the Search Engines

25y Jill Whalen and Heather Lloyd-Martin

Writing and Ranking for the Search Engines

What's more important than meta tags and link popularity when it comes to any search engine optimization (SEO) campaign? Heather and Jill share their ...

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Carat to Spearhead Development of iTV Industry Coalition
Media

Carat to Spearhead Development of iTV Industry Coalition

25y Christopher Saunders

Carat to Spearhead Development of iTV Industry Coa...

The media buyer's online group says iTV providers and advertisers need to understand consumer response and advertising's place in the nascent medium. ...

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