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  • Mergers and Acquisitions – What Does it all Mean?

    In the latest major acquisition announcement to rock the industry Yahoo revealed that it will acquire BlueLithium for roughly $300 million in cash. Yahoo said its purchase of the three-year-old company will allow it to accelerate its…

  • B2B Search Marketers’ Budgets Unaffected by Competition

    B2B search marketers keep close watch of their competition’s activities. That, of course, is obvious. But a new study released by Business.com takes a closer look into the details and finds that though these search marketers…

  • Behavioral is Better Than Contextual

    According to a recent study done by Forrester for RevenueScience, behavioral targeting advertising efforts are better for reaching online consumers than contextual advertising.

  • Canada Stands Up to Google

    Google Maps’ Street View feature has caused some buzz since its debut in May. Much of the buzz has been negative, with countless publications and Web sites finding bizarre and disturbingly private images available on Street View.

  • Cell Phone-Only Homes Overtake Landline-Only Homes

    For the first time ever, cell phone-only households are more popular than landline-only households, according to the most recent Mediamark Research report titled “The Birth of a Cellular Nation.”

  • News, the Broken Variety: Breaking of Champions

    This episode of Broken News is brought to you by our trusted industry insider, Cauldron Larynx. Cauldron utilizes deep knowledge, deeper skills and deepest relationships to make up the most breaking and relevant news in the Affiliate Marketing sector.

  • Push vs. Pull in Lead Generation

    If you follow the public companies within the Internet advertising space, you should have some familiarity with the rise and fall of Valueclick. The stock went from around $13 in the middle of 2006, doubled within five…

  • Ringtone Shakeup – Part 1

    If asked what an unknown article in the DMConfidential might cover, longtime readers as well as significant others to writers of this publication might guess any of the following – a) Google, b) search arbitrage, or c) the ringtone…

  • Ringtone Shakeup – Part 2

    If you read Part 1, you see the makings for an industry ripe for change. It’s a market that relies heavily on affiliates to drive new sign-ups and has little to low barrier to entry. Few offers have the breadth of reach, the run of…

  • Datran Media’s StormPost Selected by Microsoft for Worldwide Email Delivery

    Datran Media, who recently launched EO.com, the first exchange online for cost-per-acquisition media, announced that Microsoft has selected its StormPost solution to deliver email newsletters and marketing communications worldwide.