Three weeks ago, collaborator and friend Cliff Kurtzman, creator and maintainer of the wonderful Online Advertising Industry M&A Deal Flow, sent me a link to a PDF white paper created by Ken Sonenclar, Managing Director of the Digital Media…

Students of history will remember the Dutch Tulip Mania that swept the country from 1634 through the beginning of 1637. At one point in time, a single tulip bulb went for the equivalent of 1000 pounds of cheese or even four tons of wheat. The rise of…

While we’re using search marketing to bring the advertiser to the interested query at ICMediaDirect.com, our iconic locale, the Empire State Building, brings the outlandish to our doorstep. It wasn’t a man in an ape suit that startled me…

There has been buzz about a Google cube, box, or PC soon to debut, and reports seem to indicate that this may be confirmed as soon as this Friday, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where Google co-founder Larry Page will make a keynote…

Spam is quickly rearing its ugly head in the blogosphere, and it could very well turn off people who currently enjoy the value of browsing through blogs. Despite the fact that approximately 800,000 blogs are created each day, according to new…

Fisher-Price celebrates the Hispanic holiday El Dia de los Reyes Magos (“Three Kings Day”) with a limited-edition toy set and promotions throughout the Southwest. Fisher-Price marks the Jan. 6 holiday— Latino tradition that celebrates the arrival of the …

Procter & Gamble has filed suit against packaged goods distributor McLane Co. for copying the packaging of P&G brands including Bounty, Charmin, and Vicks’ NyQuil and DayQuil.

Anheuser-Busch, the maker of Bud and Bud Light, is out with a new “winter seasonal” draft, just one of a number of seasonal brews it has been offering to spice up its line. Winter’s Bourbon Cask Ale is brewed with dark roasted caramel malts and imported …

First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes the baby in the baby carriage. Wedding pro The Knot, Inc., has teamed up with American Baby Magazine to launch an online baby gift shop, AmericanBabyShop.com. The collaboration leverages The Knot’s …

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.