Interactivity Key to Wireless Ads
Data insights

Interactivity Key to Wireless Ads

25y Michael Pastore

Interactivity Key to Wireless Ads

Consumers are all for wireless advertising -- so long as the the ads are interactive and they believe the ads provide a useful service, according to a...

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Promotions.com Sells Japanese Assets for $1.3 Million
Media

Promotions.com Sells Japanese Assets for $1.3 Million

25y Christopher Saunders

Promotions.com Sells Japanese Assets for $1.3 Mill...

After posting a widening quarterly loss last month, the firm sells a costly portion of its business and nabs a licensing deal. Read More...

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A Lesson in Scale
Media

A Lesson in Scale

25y Dana Blankenhorn

A Lesson in Scale

What happens when you have five million customers and one percent report a problem with DSL service? Dana says you have a lesson to learn about our br...

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Partnership Beefs Up DoubleClick Research
Media

Partnership Beefs Up DoubleClick Research

25y Christopher Saunders

Partnership Beefs Up DoubleClick Research

A deal with a D.C.-area startup will provide additional fuel to DoubleClick's plans to rev up its Research division. Read More...

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Forget Portals; Create a Divine Web Experience
Media

Forget Portals; Create a Divine Web Experience

25y Lazar Dzamic

Forget Portals; Create a Divine Web Experience

With the Internet's virginity lost, even portals are not a sophisticated enough means of communication these days. So what should your company do to k...

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Aptimus Meets Lowered Guidance, Says Cuts Will Help 2001 Profitability
Media

Aptimus Meets Lowered Guidance, Says Cuts Will Help 2001 Profitability

25y Christopher Saunders

Aptimus Meets Lowered Guidance, Says Cuts Will Hel...

The Seattle marketer's CEO defended its recent business changes, its layoffs, and its widening sequential quarterly loss. Read More...

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Media's New Primacy: The Argument for a Career in Media
Media

Media's New Primacy: The Argument for a Career in Media

25y Tig Tillinghast

Media's New Primacy: The Argument for a Career in ...

Media is the redheaded stepchild of advertising agencies. Here's how it all got started and why the creative and account people had the upper hand -- ...

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The Curmudgeon's Believe It or Not
Email

The Curmudgeon's Believe It or Not

25y Alex Sirota

The Curmudgeon's Believe It or Not

Just when you think you've seen it all spamwise, the spammers surprise you with stuff that challenges belief. So to educate you (and arm you!), we her...

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Huge Cuts Hit Sapient
Media

Huge Cuts Hit Sapient

25y Christopher Saunders

Huge Cuts Hit Sapient

The Cambridge, Mass., Internet consultancy had been one of the few in a battered sector to avoid wholesale layoffs. No more -- it's slashing 720 worke...

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PR Is Not Marketing's Stepchild
Marketing

PR Is Not Marketing's Stepchild

25y Greg Sherwin and Emily Avila

PR Is Not Marketing's Stepchild

Whereas marketers focus on the product and the customer, PR professionals have the company's image and reputation in mind. So don't confuse the two. T...

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24/7 Media Talking Possible Acquisition
Media

24/7 Media Talking Possible Acquisition

25y Christopher Saunders

24/7 Media Talking Possible Acquisition

The firm's COO hints that there's been "interest" in the company -- especially its new broadband unit -- and says it doesn't plan to sell off any of i...

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Affiliate Marketing Meets the Channel
Marketing

Affiliate Marketing Meets the Channel

25y Joel Gehman

Affiliate Marketing Meets the Channel

After five years of growth and development, affiliate marketing is still primarily the domain of B2C marketers. But Joel introduces a few firms up for...

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ePrize Targets Smaller Web Marketers
Media

ePrize Targets Smaller Web Marketers

25y Christopher Saunders

ePrize Targets Smaller Web Marketers

ePrize joins a growing trend, in which marketing technology firms are focusing on smaller businesses that have an online agenda. Read More...

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Mediaplex Taps RealMapping for Location Targeting
Media

Mediaplex Taps RealMapping for Location Targeting

25y Christopher Saunders

Mediaplex Taps RealMapping for Location Targeting

Using technology from an Amsterdam-based technology firm, Mediaplexsaid it will be able to pinpoint Web surfers to their exact city, in manycases. Rea...

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Modem Media Cuts 10%, Will Close Tokyo Office
Media

Modem Media Cuts 10%, Will Close Tokyo Office

25y Christopher Saunders

Modem Media Cuts 10%, Will Close Tokyo Office

Another round of layoffs and plans to restructure for theConnecticut-based interactive agency. Read More...

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Don't Believe What You Read
Marketing

Don't Believe What You Read

25y Gerry McGovern

Don't Believe What You Read

Is today's Internet damaging the integrity of content? There's some great stuff, sure. However, it's vastly outweighed by badly written, out-of-date, ...

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Owners of Wireless Devices Find Wireless Web 'Appealing'
Data insights

Owners of Wireless Devices Find Wireless Web 'Appealing'

25y Michael Pastore

Owners of Wireless Devices Find Wireless Web 'Appe...

Few owners of wireless devices use the wireless Web, according to a study by Accenture, but that didn't stop 40 percent of device owners from saying t...

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Pay to Play
Media

Pay to Play

25y Dana Blankenhorn

Pay to Play

As more clued-in Web sites define and create enhanced, premium services, Dana recommends turning a deaf ear to the moans about the "end of the free We...

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Digital TV Grabs 20 Million Subscribers in 2000
Audience

Digital TV Grabs 20 Million Subscribers in 2000

25y rumo

Digital TV Grabs 20 Million Subscribers in 2000

By the end of 2001, 38 million homes worldwide will have access to interactive digital television services, according to Strategy Analytics. And while...

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Pitching Creative Versus Returns
Media

Pitching Creative Versus Returns

25y Adam Posman

Pitching Creative Versus Returns

Web advertising has changed dramatically over the past year. Interactive agencies are servicing far fewer dot-com clients and have shifted toward trad...

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Online Ads: What Good Are They?
Marketing

Online Ads: What Good Are They?

25y Sean Carton

Online Ads: What Good Are They?

Beauty (and branding) may be in the eye of the beholder, but Sean argues that ad efficacy is in the eye of the advertiser: Ads work, or don't, dependi...

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Icon Medialab Cuts 325, to Refocus on Verticals
Media

Icon Medialab Cuts 325, to Refocus on Verticals

25y Christopher Saunders

Icon Medialab Cuts 325, to Refocus on Verticals

An international interactive agency joined the ranks of those slimming down and rethinking their strategies, but it still hasn't found a new CEO. Read...

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Drug Companies Fail to Harness Internet's Marketing Potential
Audience

Drug Companies Fail to Harness Internet's Marketing Potential

25y Michael Pastore

Drug Companies Fail to Harness Internet's Marketin...

The Internet is the most cost-effective channel for creating consumer demand for prescription medications, according to Cyber Dialogue, but it isn't b...

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FloNetwork, Y&R's impiric in Asian E-mail Deal
Media

FloNetwork, Y&R's impiric in Asian E-mail Deal

25y Christopher Saunders

FloNetwork, Y&R's impiric in Asian E-mail Deal

The e-mail marketing firm continued its recent efforts at expansion, inking a deal to expand its footprint to Singapore, East Asia and China. Read Mor...

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Take This Job Market - Please!
Marketing

Take This Job Market - Please!

25y Peter Kaufman

Take This Job Market - Please!

Layoffs, mergers, restrategizing, and plain old firings have made this a tough time for industry veterans and rookies alike. Here's how to strengthen ...

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When Greed Is Really Not Good
Marketing

When Greed Is Really Not Good

25y Blake Rohrbacher

When Greed Is Really Not Good

When users are greedy for information, that's a good thing. When sites are, it's not. The first casualty? Shopping carts -- half full and fully forsak...

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Redirecting Users to a New Site
Marketing

Redirecting Users to a New Site

25y Cliff Allen

Redirecting Users to a New Site

Redirection is a handy way of taking users to a new site. Just keep in mind that it takes a little extra planning and programming to accomplish the go...

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For Content's Sake, Collaborate
Media

For Content's Sake, Collaborate

25y Susan Solomon

For Content's Sake, Collaborate

Did your presentation ever inspire groans instead of applause? Well, Susan learned that the words "Web site" and "responsibility" don't have to elicit...

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