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Broadband Users Spend A Lot of Time Online

According to Media-Screen’s "Netpop|Play" report, broadband users in the U.S. spend almost half of their spare time in an ordinary weekday online. This means that a broadband user spends about an hour and 40 minutes of their...

All Your Base Are Belong To Porn

Good Magazine, “media for people who give a damn” according to its Web site, recently unveiled a revealing video with some revealing information about the big world of porn.

Google Looking To Profile Online Gamers?

Google has shaken many boots in the past whenever the media picked up on a possible privacy-infringing venture the search giant was looking to take, and there may be another on the horizon. Or maybe not.

Apparel Sales Top Computer Sales Online

For the first time ever, apparel sales exceeded computer sales online in 2006. According to a study titled "The State of Retailing Online 2007" conducted by the National Retail Federation’s online arm Shop.org, U.S. consumers spent...

A Site You Can’t Live Without

Some ideas take a while to grasp. Some make sense right away. Some might make sense but go nowhere. Others don't seem to make sense right away but end up clicking at some point later. Some ideas become financial successes...

Spotlight On… Daniel Starr Of Blockbuster

Blockbuster has leveraged their offline presence to expand their online store and vice-versa. I recently met with Daniel Starr, the Senior Director of Marketing for Blockbuster. Excerpts below.

Search Arbitrage Strategies

Those not in the direct marketing space tend to have an antiquated notion of what it really means and associate search engine arbitrage only with affiliate marketers, generally in a negative light. Search engine arbitragers span the...

Quiz Show

If you use Gmail, you probably have noticed an ad showing up more than you might expect. Given its prominence and the seeming lack of relevance to your conversations, you might have wondered whether Coffeefool.com was more...

Strengthen Your Subscriber Base

More important than what you communicate through your e-marketing efforts, is to whom you choose to send it. Your list of email subscribers or recipients does much more than represent a core group of current or potential...