According to the most recent numbers released on Monday by comScore Networks, Google and Yahoo were the only two of the five top search engines to gain ground in December 2006. Microsoft, Ask, and Time Warner all fell a…

The stratospheric rise of the Affiliate Summit series of tradeshows is no secret in the industry. I remember attending my first Affiliate Summit a few years ago and I was struck in particular by two things: (1) I had never seen such a high…

In 1979, a British Band named The Buggles released a song that almost all reading have heard at some point in their lives. Chances are most people haven’t seen the video, which is slightly ironic considering its status as the first…

To balance out this week’s Digital Thoughts, where we look at the incredibly non-direct marketing world of MySpace and YouTube, in this week’s Trends Report, we focus closer to our roots by looking at a company that has come a…

No, I don’t mean it’s the new “most important” component of the Google algorithm. I mean it’s the one that probably isn’t that important but causes people to OBSESS. Just like toolbar PageRank has done for years.

MTV and Maybelline New York have launched a program that will award a $25,000 scholarship to a female student that best embodies the theme of empowerment through education.

Google may be the undisputed king of search, but for some reason new search engines keep popping up. And probably for good reason. There are niches and methods of delivering information that just can’t be bottled up in a…

Just as Google’s dominance has failed to end the spawning of more search engines, the fairytale that is YouTube has not discouraged other video sites from pursuing greatness in their own, smaller-scale forms.

According to iSuppli Corp., the worldwide mobile gaming industry will surpass $6.1 billion in 2010. This is a far cry from the $1.8 billion the industry realized in 2005.

New numbers from the Pew Internet & American Life Project confirm the obvious: teenagers in the U.S. love their social networking sites. And, as expected, MySpace is the overwhelmingly favored site for teens when it comes…