Articles by

The Fault Lines of Direct Response

It’s a great time to be in online marketing. Spending is booming, old and new firms are innovating, and just about everyone is making money. But despite the good vibes and rosy analyst projections, the CPA and affiliate industry faces...

Content is Bigger Than Search

A four-year study conducted by the Online Publishers Association (OPA) indicates that Internet users in the U.S. spend almost half of their time online viewing content. The study also found that users are spending less time on...

Yahoo is Popular in Japan

comScore recently released its first report detailing the top Web properties and the top gaining Web properties in Japan for the month of June. The figures took into account all unique visitors age 15 and over who browsed the Internet...

Mozilla Targets Malicious Sites

Mozilla’s Firefox browser has been gaining popularity over the past few years, but its success has not satisfied its developers. For Firefox 3.0, Mozilla hopes to develop two defenses against dangerous Web sites for Firefox users.

Making Sense of the Mortgage Market Mess, Week Two – Part 2

Over the course of several years, we've talked many times about the mortgage lead generation market. As the fuel for much of that growth, the subprime lending market, which collapses at unprecedented speeds, the mortgage lead...

Popular

Search engines have essentially become guides for living life for many people all over the world. They might help find a Web site, or an image, or shed some light on "how to" do just about anything imaginable. Two people at Hitwise...

Making Sense of the Mortgage Market Mess

For the past four, perhaps five years, the mortgage vertical has generated more leads and ultimately more revenue than any other. That could change this year as the mortgage market undergoes its biggest correction...

University of Phoenix Does It Again

In February of 2006, University of Phoenix shook up the lead generation space by forming an exclusive partnership with Advertising.com. This meant that any company that produced leads or wanted to produce leads...