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  • Pixsy and PureVideo Team Up

    On Monday, a day that was owned by Google and YouTube’s big news, Pixsy, a “visual search” site that looks for images and videos across thousands of content providers on the Web, announced a partnership with new video search…

  • Almost Two-Thirds of Online Gamers are Women

    Late last week, Nielsen Entertainment released its third annual Active Gamer Benchmark Study, and the results indicated that 56% of the 117 million Active Gamers in the U.S. in 2006 played online, and that 64% of these online gamers are women.

  • Google, YouTube Notch Deals, Make a Deal of Their Own

    On Monday, Google announced two separate deals with Warner Music Group and Sony BMG Music that will allow Google Video users to view music videos from both labels at no charge, thanks to Google’s ad-supported model. The…

  • LinkConnector Partners with thinkingVOICE and Raises the Bar with Pay Per Cal

    (http://www.linkconnector.com/), an Affiliate Marketing Network, announced today that it has partnered with thinkingVOICE to launch a new pay-for-performance event, Pay Per Call. ThinkingVOICE is a highly flexible, hosted…

  • Search Engine Marketers to See Big Holiday Season

    According to DoubleClick’s affiliate network arm, Performics, online marketers could be in for a huge holiday season. This is assuming that a general rule remains true to form.

  • Local Search’s Growth Bolstered by Google, Yahoo

    According to recent figures released by comScore Networks, local search is continuing its ascent. The study for the month of July found that about 109 million people in the U.S., or about 63% of the American online population, performed local…

  • Spammers Go Old School and Geeky, IM Attacks Increase

    According to a recent report released by IT security firm Sophos, September was both good and bad for the battle against spam. The upside was the fact that the overall ratio of infected e-mail was at an all-time low of 0.33%, or just…

  • Online Gambling Goes Bust in the U.S.

    After the House of Representatives and the Senate approved the Safe Port Act on Saturday, a bill that includes the barring of U.S. banks and credit card companies from making payments to online gambling sites, the industry all…

  • CPA Empire Breakaway Fitness Challenge Update

    Our contestants made incredible progress during the first week of the challenge. Scott Richter has dropped an amazing 12 pounds since last week and Jenny Frederick lost an outstanding, but not quite as impressive 6…

  • Future of Internet Advertising

    It’s getting almost predictable, but there’s more reaffirming reports about the good health of Internet advertising. According to PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Interactive Advertising Bureau, the first six months of 2006 delivered…