This past Monday, Cliff Kurtzman, from Online-Ads, and I gave a presentation during Ad:Tech Chicago 2005 called, “A Crash Course on the Digital Marketing Vendor Landscape,” a talk that tried to untangle what some of those even in our space...
The first half of the newsletter version of “A Crash Course in the Vendor Landscape” covered the display ad network space and three areas that overlapped with it - ad serving, contextual / behavioral ad providers, and adware. We also covered ad rep firms...
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The flapping of a single butterfly's wing today produces a tiny change in the state of the atmosphere. Over a period of time, what the atmosphere actually does diverges from what it would have done
This year, one topic in our industry has arguably drawn more attention than almost any other. From its effectiveness for advertisers, to its ability to frustrate consumers, as well as its almost disproportionate influence on the yearly internet advertising ecosystem, adware stands, for better or worse, in a league of its own
When both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal choose to a cover a topic, chances are it is a press worthy story. On the rare instances that they cover a story that involves our industry, it generally focuses on growth and the size of the market.
Drugstore chain CVS discontinued a pharmacy-tracking service for its ExtraCare cardholders after a consumer privacy watchdog group found a way to access sensitive purchase data. The service let cardholders with flexible spending accounts (through their ...
While they may be expert at store layout and catalog design, many retailers slip up when designing the shopping experience for customers visiting their
Verizon Wireless got a great date for the Oscars. Access Hollywood met Million Dollar Baby star Hilary Swank on the red carpet and showed her a Verizon
Those looking for a stock tip probably should have wagered on Intermix recovering, which it did after announcing roughly two weeks ago that it had settled its spyware suit brought on by Elliot Spitzer. Besides paying $7.5 million, the company also...
