When Buzzwords Don't Create Buzz
Marketing

When Buzzwords Don't Create Buzz

26y Andy Bourland

When Buzzwords Don't Create Buzz

Have you ever had a pet project or name or theme that you really, really liked and, for whatever reason, nobody else quite got it? It happened to us h...

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Not Ready for Prime Time
Marketing

Not Ready for Prime Time

26y Greg Sherwin and Emily Avila

Not Ready for Prime Time

The promise of a wireless web is still a long ways off. We all know it's coming, but no one knows exactly when and what form it will take. Far from fu...

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Building Creative That Works
Media

Building Creative That Works

26y Karim Sanjabi

Building Creative That Works

Agencies are dinosaurs. While they aren't in danger of extinction quite yet, they need, technologically speaking, to evolve rapidly. Future creative m...

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AOL, Office Depot Ally to Reach Small Businesses
Media

AOL, Office Depot Ally to Reach Small Businesses

26y Pamela Parker

AOL, Office Depot Ally to Reach Small Businesses

In the latest alliance between an online player and a "clicks and bricks"e-tailer, America Online Inc. and Office Depot onThursday inked a five-year, ...

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What Do Online Points Add up To?
Marketing

What Do Online Points Add up To?

26y Martin Lindstrom

What Do Online Points Add up To?

As consumers in the offline world, we're addicted to spending money to earn points. In the online world, the most common way to earn points is you gue...

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Sega to Spend $135 Million to Market Net Games
Media

Sega to Spend $135 Million to Market Net Games

26y Pamela Parker

Sega to Spend $135 Million to Market Net Games

In an effort to bolster its position against Sony's Playstation andNintendo's N64, Sega Thursday unveiledplans to spend $135 million this year to mark...

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The Engines and Directories That Count
Search

The Engines and Directories That Count

26y Paul J. Bruemmer

The Engines and Directories That Count

There are hundreds of legitimate search indexes in cyberspace, but does it pay to submit to all? You get better results and more targeted traffic when...

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ACTV Lines Up Partners for Interactive TV
Media

ACTV Lines Up Partners for Interactive TV

26y Pamela Parker

ACTV Lines Up Partners for Interactive TV

ACTV Inc.'s SpotOn interactive televisionad system took two steps forward Tuesday, as ad agency GSD&M and Nielsen Media Research signed on asstrategic...

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Is Viral Marketing All It's Cracked up to Be?
Marketing

Is Viral Marketing All It's Cracked up to Be?

26y Sandeep Krishnamurthy

Is Viral Marketing All It's Cracked up to Be?

Viral marketing is widely touted as the new way to increase market penetration and build brand awareness in the Internet space. Hotmail is a classic e...

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Accountability Is Back
Marketing

Accountability Is Back

26y Neil Cohen

Accountability Is Back

Welcome to a new column with an ongoing focus on the enormous marketing challenges that face start-ups as they set out to build and extend a brand, dr...

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OneMediaPlace Taps CMGI, Media Giants in Financing Round
Media

OneMediaPlace Taps CMGI, Media Giants in Financing Round

26y Kevin Lee

OneMediaPlace Taps CMGI, Media Giants in Financing...

OneMediaPlace -- formerlyAdauction.com -- this week secured $67 million in private investmentfinancing led by CMGI @Ventures. Read More...

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E-Mail Marketing Delivering the Message
Ad Industry Metrics

E-Mail Marketing Delivering the Message

26y Michael Pastore

E-Mail Marketing Delivering the Message

E-mail marketing is big business, according to research by Jupiter Communications, and its growth will come at the expense of direct marketing. Commer...

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StarMedia Sponsors Santana Concert Tour
Media

StarMedia Sponsors Santana Concert Tour

26y Pamela Parker

StarMedia Sponsors Santana Concert Tour

As part of its effort to win US Hispanic users, StarMedia Networks, a network ofSpanish- and Portuguese-language Web sites, on Tuesday committed toexc...

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Online Media: Is the Price Right?
Media

Online Media: Is the Price Right?

26y Jim Meskauskas

Online Media: Is the Price Right?

Back in the good old days, media planners used to chortle when they got publisher rate cards, because everyone knew you didn't really have to pay thos...

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Stardom in Action
Media

Stardom in Action

26y Dana Blankenhorn

Stardom in Action

Accepted wisdom says that the web is a different medium from TV. While earlier assumptions that video content would replace text have not become real,...

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UK Experiencing an E-Commerce Boom
Audience

UK Experiencing an E-Commerce Boom

26y Michael Pastore

UK Experiencing an E-Commerce Boom

E-commerce has overtaken communication as the driving force behind Web developments in Britain, according to Fletcher Research, and many big businesse...

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Online Advertising Glossary: Part 1
Media

Online Advertising Glossary: Part 1

26y Janet Ryan and Nancy Whiteman

Online Advertising Glossary: Part 1

Last week Janet and Nancy issued a challenge to the Internet advertising industry to clean up the use of our language, clarify definitions, and get so...

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Network Solutions, AOL Ink Marketing Deal
Media

Network Solutions, AOL Ink Marketing Deal

26y Pamela Parker

Network Solutions, AOL Ink Marketing Deal

In a bid to remain the top player in the domain name registration business, Network Solutions Inc. onMonday inked a multi-year, multi-million dollar m...

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CRM: Creating Relationships on the Fly
Email

CRM: Creating Relationships on the Fly

26y Kim MacPherson

CRM: Creating Relationships on the Fly

In an ideal world, effective customer relationship management (CRM) would be based largely on your ability to enhance yourcustomer communications to t...

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Your Merchant Account and Puffy Director Pants Taxes
Media

Your Merchant Account and Puffy Director Pants Taxes

26y Richard Hoy

Your Merchant Account and Puffy Director Pants Tax...

Richard would like to tell you that setting up a merchant account and real-time credit card processing is quick and painless. But he'd be a big fat li...

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The Schizophrenic Web
Marketing

The Schizophrenic Web

26y Greg Sherwin and Emily Avila

The Schizophrenic Web

Is content still the driving force on the Internet? Depends which business magazine you read. One reports a growing trend toward syndication. Another ...

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TheStreet.com Taps DeVito/Verdi for Re-launch
Media

TheStreet.com Taps DeVito/Verdi for Re-launch

26y Pamela Parker

TheStreet.com Taps DeVito/Verdi for Re-launch

Expect edgy ads from financial news and information company TheStreet.com, which late Thursday selected DeVito/Verdi asagency of record for its June r...

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L90 Reaches Latin American, US Hispanic Markets
Media

L90 Reaches Latin American, US Hispanic Markets

26y Pamela Parker

L90 Reaches Latin American, US Hispanic Markets

Internet advertising and marketing firm L90 on Thursday opened the doors on a newdivision -- L90Latino -- that aims to reel in advertisers and publish...

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The End of the Stupid Portal Deal Era
Media

The End of the Stupid Portal Deal Era

26y Tom Hespos

The End of the Stupid Portal Deal Era

Thanks to the Nasdaq crash, we can all look forward to more reasonable pricing for portal advertising. Most media planners try to find deals for their...

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Who Wants to Be a Billionaire?
Media

Who Wants to Be a Billionaire?

26y Dana Blankenhorn

Who Wants to Be a Billionaire?

I know you're enjoying the battle between Time Warner and Disney over thecarriage of ABC channels on some big cable systems. Even if the action has su...

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Verio To Support 5th Avenue Channel's NeTVideoNetworks
Media

Verio To Support 5th Avenue Channel's NeTVideoNetworks

26y Team ClickZ

Verio To Support 5th Avenue Channel's NeTVideoNetw...

Verio Inc., a web hosting company, Thursday announced it will provide the infrastructure to support 5th Avenue Channel Corp.'s NeTVideoNetworks, a TV ...

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Understanding the Submission Process
Search

Understanding the Submission Process

26y Paul J. Bruemmer

Understanding the Submission Process

The most important piece of the search engine puzzle is to submit search engine friendly web pages, but most web pages are NOT so optimized. That's be...

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Surveys Show Effect of Internet on Businesses
Audience

Surveys Show Effect of Internet on Businesses

26y Michael Pastore

Surveys Show Effect of Internet on Businesses

A pair of surveys of industry executives take a look at how the Internet, in particular e-commerce, will change the way business is done as more corpo...

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