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  • PPAI Site Tracks Legislative and Regulatory Issues

    The Promotional Products Association International has launched a Web site for its members to gain access to legislative and governmental issues affecting promotional products professionals.

  • Digital Thoughts – AOL-MSN or is it MSN-AOL?

    AOL earned more than a billion dollars last year on advertising revenues and will earn even more this year. A healthy chunk of those ad revenues come from search, and no surprise to those in our industry, AOL’s search revenues come from Google…

  • Trends Report – Yahoo! Search Marketing Listing Guidelines Policy Change

    The message might have come out a little late yesterday for those covering the industry to pick it up, but almost assuredly, this topic will dominate the industry today. Then again, maybe not. Postings about the topic are scarce, and usually such postings…

  • From AdTech London to Shanghai

    As I am on Virgin Atlantic Flight #1833 flying from Heathrow to JFK, I ponder about my last five days in London, two of which I spent at AdTech London. Nothing excites me more than seeing the amount of energy at this show. Bigger than AdTech Chicago…

  • DM Pimping Cartoon V1

    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.

  • Google, Lost in Space?

    Google and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have joined forces, an unlikely alliance you would think, unless of course Google has already begun preparations for dominating other planets. While one rules the search space…

  • Sanded Alone

    A break from Direct marketing talk, The column may be about politics, or s@x, religion, lost youth, lost love, or lost lives, but it will be something that relates to you. It will be something that relates to us all

  • Eating Dirt

    I have a confession to make. For the two days that I sat through the FTC’s workshop on how to curb childhood obesity, I kept craving Tater Tots. It was

  • Traffix Announces Official Launch of RocketProfit.com

    PEARL RIVER, N.Y.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sept. 7, 2005–Traffix, Inc. (NASDAQ: TRFX – News), a premier interactive media company, announced today the official launch of its new affiliate marketing site, RocketProfit (http://www.rocketprofit.com).

  • eComXpo BRINGS THE TRADESHOW TO YOU!

    CHICAGO, IL, September 23, 2005 – Catch the red-eye flight, check into the hotel, take a cab to the tradeshow, spend all day trying to find your colleagues, affiliates and the press, run to sit-in on a few presentations, fight the crowd to do…