Topic

Digital

  • VideoEgg Hatches Permissioned Video Ad Network

    Video is big on the Internet, and particularly consumer-generated video. But so far, agreement over how to profit from it through advertising is not. Video hosting platform VideoEgg may have come up with one part of the answer: permission-based ads that advertisers don’t pay for until a user sees them.

  • Ask.com Updates Features in Paid Search Platform

    Search engine Ask.com continued its drive for a slot in the first rank of pay-per-click properties yesterday with the launch of an updated version of its advertising platform, offering more management tools for ad campaigns and more real estate on its results pages.

  • Trademark Keyword Suit against Google Dismissed

    A federal judge late Thursday dismissed a suit brought by a company that claimed Google was violating the law by selling its trademarked name as a keyword used to deliver competitors’ pay-per-click ads in search results.

  • Search Users Choosing the Local Option: comScore

    Use of local online search in the U.S. increased about 43% from July 2005 to the same month this year, according to a survey by comScore Media Metrix.

  • A Canvas Is a Canvas

    Lately I have been putting a lot of thought toward the next great marketing canvas. Sometime after my third Diet Coke I figured out that no matter what the next great canvas is, it will tragically become a commodity

  • B-to-B Marketer Follows the Money

    Lead generation has been the name of the game in B-to-B online marketing for some time now. The long, complex decision cycles that precede most B-to-B purchases and the relatively high cost of the products have led most marketers to believe that they

  • Selling Solar with Old and New Media

    Back in the late 1990s, Sascha Deri, an engineer working at a high-paying day job, decided he wanted to act on his childhood dream of doing something for the greater good.

  • Internet Advertising Soars as Web Sites Frustrate Consumers

    Internet advertising revenues are skyrocketing to new record levels. Paid search generates higher conversion rates than nonpaid search advertising. And almost 40% of consumers who encounter Web problems will abandon transactions, according to various study findings released Monday.

  • Google to Sharpen Product Search for Holiday Sales: Analyst

    Google will beef up product search capabilities on its general search engine in time for holiday selling and emphasize its Google Base selling platform as a comparison shopping engine, according to an analysts’ report published Friday.