Topic

Digital

  • Yahoo! Tests Mobile Search Ads in the U.S.

    Yahoo! has launched a test program delivering pay-per-click ads on searches done over the Yahoo! Mobile Web service in the U.S. and the U.K.

  • Online Merchants, Shoppers to Deck the Halls Early

    More than 38% of online retailers say they’ll start their holiday marketing earlier this year, to accommodate early-bird demand from shoppers, according to a study of the online holiday shopping mood from BizRate Research.

  • Ad Infuse, Mondo Media Team on Podcast Ads

    Ad Infuse has teamed up with Mondo Media to add greater personalization and segmentation capabilities to podcast advertising.

  • New Ask.com Platform Answers Marketers’ Needs

    Search engine Ask.com continued its drive for a slot in the first rank of pay-per-click properties this week 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 and related IAC Web sites.

  • Onvia Finds Better Leads for Less

    Onvia Software was facing a challenge in its search marketing: It was working too well. Faced with a requirement to cut acuisition costs, onvia also faced the problem of deciding which campaigns produced the hottest leads, then losing the underperformers.

  • 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