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Cal Ripkin Goes to Bat for Holiday Inn

Holiday Inn Hotels and Resorts has signed baseball icon Cal Ripken, Jr. as its newest celebrity to promote the brand's Look Again marketing effort.

Google Gains, Everyone Else Loses

February was a tough month for every search engine whose name did not start with “G.” The most recent figures released by comScore’s qSearch indicate that Google...

Broadband Excels Around Globe, Americans Apathetic to Internet

Broadband connections are covering the globe at a rapid speed. The growth that speedier connections are seeing is not just confined to reach, but to actual speeds as well, as countries like Japan and South Korea are seeing faster...

Online Ads Channel Malicious Code

Finjan, an online security firm based in San Jose, California, released findings from a study of live Internet traffic in the U.K. earlier this week. The analysis, which included over 10 million unique URLs, found that about 80% of all malicious code is hosted on online advertising.

Google Benefiting From Advertisers’ Ignorance

Jon Morris is the founder of Internet Marketing Initiative, which is a search engine marketing firm. He claims that if advertisers using Google’s ad platform knew what they were doing, they would save themselves $2.1 billion...

The FTC is Watching – General Rules and Regulations

I’ve been getting quite a few emails asking that I cover more generally, the things which are most likely to be in the sights of the FTC. The big, general category that the FTC is monitoring is "unfair or deceptive advertising." The

The Current State of Incentive Marketing…Sort of

We at the Confidential have covered the incentive marketing space for almost three years. A lot has changed during that time. Had you taken a poll in 2004 asking those in the interactive space if they thought incentive...