The Versatility of Profile Targeting
Media

The Versatility of Profile Targeting

26y Tom Hespos

The Versatility of Profile Targeting

Ever been to a web site that personalizes its offerings for users? Typically, such a site offers to target relevant information to users who tell the ...

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What to Look for in a Search Engine Optimization Specialist
Search

What to Look for in a Search Engine Optimization Specialist

26y Detlev Johnson and Shari Thurow

What to Look for in a Search Engine Optimization S...

Search engines are the primary way most people find web sites, but web site designers forget to think of this when they create their sites. Often, sit...

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AltaVista, Musicland Forge Co-Marketing Alliance
Media

AltaVista, Musicland Forge Co-Marketing Alliance

26y Team ClickZ

AltaVista, Musicland Forge Co-Marketing Alliance

CMGI's AltaVista portal and retailer Musicland StoresCorp. Thursday struck a co-marketing deal that leveragesAltaVista's online brand equity and Music...

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Online Grocer Pink Dot Taps BBDO West
Media

Online Grocer Pink Dot Taps BBDO West

26y Pamela Parker

Online Grocer Pink Dot Taps BBDO West

Online grocery and prepared food delivery firm Pink Dot this week picked BBDO West as advertising agency of recordfor an estimated $10 million account...

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That Old Time (Marketing) Religion
Media

That Old Time (Marketing) Religion

26y Dana Blankenhorn

That Old Time (Marketing) Religion

Dana had a column rejected last weekend. The editor said it was "Marketing 101, maybe the first six weeks." That may be true, but the fact remains tha...

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Making Your Site Search Engine Friendly
Search

Making Your Site Search Engine Friendly

26y Paul J. Bruemmer

Making Your Site Search Engine Friendly

Many marketers submit their sites to the search engines carefully, only to find they didn't get listed in this search engine or that one. There's a lo...

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Beyond Interactive Goes International
Media

Beyond Interactive Goes International

26y Pamela Parker

Beyond Interactive Goes International

Internet marketing firm BeyondInteractive this week opened the doors on its first two internationaloffices, in China and Mexico, as part of an expansi...

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AdAgency Mezzina Brown Turns VC With Reorganization
Media

AdAgency Mezzina Brown Turns VC With Reorganization

26y Pamela Parker

AdAgency Mezzina Brown Turns VC With Reorganizatio...

With all of the ads for equity deals giving agencies a taste for theventure capital business, it's no surprise that Mezzina/Brown on Tuesdayjumped in ...

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Final Edition
Analytics

Final Edition

26y Jeff Moore

Final Edition

This is the final edition of Ad Metrics. Jeff Moore, its writer, recently left the Internet advertising field when he accepted a new position with Cur...

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The Dot-Com Sky is Falling
Audience

The Dot-Com Sky is Falling

26y Michael Pastore

The Dot-Com Sky is Falling

Some of the biggest names in market research are predicting that most of the dot-com retailers that rule the PC screen, the airwaves, and the billboar...

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Internet World: The Start-Up Woodstock
Media

Internet World: The Start-Up Woodstock

26y Dana Blankenhorn

Internet World: The Start-Up Woodstock

If you missed last week's Internet World in Los Angeles (like I did), shame on you. And if you think Penton Media Inc. was hosed when it bought the sh...

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Walk a Mile in Your Media Buyer's Moccasins
Media

Walk a Mile in Your Media Buyer's Moccasins

26y Janet Ryan and Nancy Whiteman

Walk a Mile in Your Media Buyer's Moccasins

Sales reps, particularly those new to the industry, spend most of their time selling to media planners and buyers. The average interactive media buyer...

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Web-Based Procurement Saving Dollars
Audience

Web-Based Procurement Saving Dollars

26y Michael Pastore

Web-Based Procurement Saving Dollars

In a surprise to absolutely no one, Zona Research and Forrester Research both found that companies can save money by using online procurement, and tha...

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About.com Offers Sponsored Links
Media

About.com Offers Sponsored Links

26y Pamela Parker

About.com Offers Sponsored Links

In a move to further monetize the traffic on its network ofvertical content sites, About.com on Mondayunveiled "Sprinks," sponsored contextual links, ...

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Internet May Help Close Economic Gap Among Hispanics
Audience

Internet May Help Close Economic Gap Among Hispanics

26y Michael Pastore

Internet May Help Close Economic Gap Among Hispani...

A study by Cheskin Research found that computers and the Internet may help close the economic gap that separates Hispanics from most of the US populat...

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3D Site Worlds.com Launches First Advertising Push
Media

3D Site Worlds.com Launches First Advertising Push

26y Pamela Parker

3D Site Worlds.com Launches First Advertising Push

Worlds.com, a 3D site that offersreal-time chat, on Thursday made its first big effort to capture thepublic's attention, with an advertising campaign ...

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Getting the Most From Your Launch
Marketing

Getting the Most From Your Launch

26y Jason Mandell

Getting the Most From Your Launch

With the Internet economy in full swing, newly formed technology companies are forced to work at Internet speed in virtually every aspect of business....

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C-Commerce Calling
Marketing

C-Commerce Calling

26y Martin Lindstrom

C-Commerce Calling

Europe and Australia are already well down the track, but the U.S. is still lagging behind. But probably not for long. We're talking about WAP (wirele...

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Web Users Will Share Information for Better Service
Ad Industry Metrics

Web Users Will Share Information for Better Service

26y Michael Pastore

Web Users Will Share Information for Better Servic...

Only 15 percent of Web users would be unwilling to provide personal information to Web marketers if that information improved their online service exp...

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Ursus Telecom Taps Beyond Interactive for $5 Million Campaign
Media

Ursus Telecom Taps Beyond Interactive for $5 Million Campaign

26y Pamela Parker

Ursus Telecom Taps Beyond Interactive for $5 Milli...

Ursus Telecom Tuesday chose BeyondInteractive to handle all online marketing for theSTREAM.com, a site that sells itscommunications services, with ini...

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Business.com Names Agencies for Launch
Media

Business.com Names Agencies for Launch

26y Pamela Parker

Business.com Names Agencies for Launch

Business.com, the new eCompanies-incubated Internet servicefor businesses, has tapped four firms to help it launch and market itselfon an ongoing basi...

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Baby Boomers and Seniors Fastest Growing Web Groups
Audience

Baby Boomers and Seniors Fastest Growing Web Groups

26y Michael Pastore

Baby Boomers and Seniors Fastest Growing Web Group...

The number of baby boomers and seniors online grew by 18.4 percent last year, making them the fastest growing Internet population, according to Media ...

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Saving for the Fire Sale
Media

Saving for the Fire Sale

26y Jim Meskauskas

Saving for the Fire Sale

Have you ever noticed that, in planning and placing online media, a number of great deals suddenly become available on a number of sites during partic...

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A Day in the Life of a Media VP
Media

A Day in the Life of a Media VP

26y Janet Ryan and Nancy Whiteman

A Day in the Life of a Media VP

Janet and Nancy have spent the past few weeks talking about what keeps marketers up at night. But what about the concerns of those on the agency side?...

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Cyrk Creates Internet Subsidiary
Media

Cyrk Creates Internet Subsidiary

26y Pamela Parker

Cyrk Creates Internet Subsidiary

In a move to consolidate its Internet holding, focus more attention on theburgeoning medium, and fuel growth, Cyrk,a 24-year-old traditional promotion...

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Where Do Affiliates Come From?
Marketing

Where Do Affiliates Come From?

26y Joel Gehman

Where Do Affiliates Come From?

Affiliate marketing gets a lot of attention these days. Forrester reported that affiliate programs accounted for 13 percent of 1999's online retail sa...

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Internet Branding and the User Experience
Marketing

Internet Branding and the User Experience

26y Robert Manning

Internet Branding and the User Experience

So you want to build your Internet brand? There's a lot to it. You need the positioning skills of an ad agency, the keen foresight of an information a...

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The Two-Year Itch
Marketing

The Two-Year Itch

26y Greg Sherwin and Emily Avila

The Two-Year Itch

Hard to believe, but this month makes two years that Greg and Emily have written for ClickZ. Take a stroll down memory lane to reflect on the topics t...

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