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  • Video Game Advertising Persuades Players: Study

    Advertisements in video games can play a major factor in whether players buy products or recommend them to friends, a new Nielsen Entertainment study found. The study, released Monday from a joint project between Nielsen Entertainment and game publisher …

  • The Beauty of Baileys

    Sandra Mitchell, the owner of Divinity Salon and Day Spa in Philadelphia, didn’t like the look of the blue and white tile that blanketed her salon. So

  • India: A Laboratory For Mobile Marketing

    With one of the fastest growing mobile telephone markets and an installed base of the most current infrastructure technology, India is in a powerful position to develop innovative mobile marketing strategies and practices. Currently other…

  • Google’s Jagger Update and Analytics Change Search

    Google’s newest update, Jagger, has webmasters, online businesses, and SEO companies shaking in their boots. Put Jagger together with Google’s recent Google Analytics, and it seems that search will soon see some sweeping changes that are here to stay….

  • New Orleans to Get Free Wi-Fi

    On Tuesday, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin revealed the city’s plan to offer a free, city-run Wi-Fi system that will be available to the entire city within a year. It has already begun operating in the city’s French Quarter, New Orleans’ central business district.

  • Online Ad Revenues Soar To $3.1 billion

    Online ad revenues for the third quarter of 2005 rose to a record-setting $3.1 billion. This is a 4.7% increase from the second quarter’s $2.9 billion, and a 33.9% increase over the $2.3 billion in online ad revenues for the third quarter of last year…

  • Broadband Video Ad Spending to Triple by 2007

    Online video advertising spending in the US will nearly triple to $640 million in 2007, surging way past this year’s $225 million mark, according to a report by market research firm, eMarketer. By 2009, video ad spending is expected to reach…

  • All That’s Fit to Google

    In what feels like ages ago, yet in actuality occurred only two months ago, NASA and Google publicly announced their intent to work together. Having already conquered cyberspace, a milestone seemingly capped by Google’s successful hiring of the “father…

  • The Local Internet

    The weekend before Thanksgiving, I moved into a new apartment. Besides marking the first time I have lived outside of downtown Los Angeles, the move also signified another first, my using Craigslist to sell stuff. The results truly speak for themselves…

  • DM Pimping Cartoon V9

    Persistent Screamers become comic book creations in the newest addition to the Confidential, DM Pimping. The Web Surfing Sinners get brought to animated life in this weekly cartoon for the online media masses. Click below to get flashed by the prettiest peons and ugliest underbelly of affiliate life.