Consumer electronics maker JVC has built an integrated online/offline promotion around the launch last Tuesday of the DVD and Blu-ray versions of the latest movie in the Batman franchise, “The Dark Knight.”

Fueled by positive response to its ad in the last Super Bowl, Audi has bought a 60-second spot to run during the first quarter of this season’s big game

One fan will have a fleeting shot at bowl game fame with a field goal attempt for a $25,000 prize at the Papajohns.com Bowl on Dec. 29

Spanish-speaking Web star wannabes will have a shot at a brief appearance in a webnovella that Univision Online plans to introduce early next year.

Nabisco is kicking off a holiday campaign around the art of simple entertaining at home with family and friends.

Online advertising and promotion appear set to take up a larger proportion of brand ad budgets in 2009. But for some industries that must comply with heavy regulation and disclosure requirements, that transition to digital marketing can raise issues.

Ask.com, Yahoo! and AOL recently released various lists of top searches for 2008. Britney Spears, “Dictionary” and questions about how to get pregnant were popular.

Two weeks ago, we covered one of the more fundamental topics in the world of performance marketing – transparency. We didn’t call it transparency then; instead, the article described one of the unsung heroes…

The most recent figures released by Nielsen Online show that Google was the top parent company in October, while Electronic Arts Online was the stickiest brand.

Google had another good month in October, according to comScore and Hitwise. Though their figures are different, they are agreed upon Google’s continued display of growth and strength.