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  • Playboy Reports Net Loss for Quarter

    Playboy Enterprises Inc. reported a net loss of $3.3 million for the second quarter compared with net income of $4.6 million last year.

  • Live Nation Names Schroeder EVP of Direct Marketing

    Live Nation, a live event and venue management company, has named Jeff Schroeder executive vice president, direct marketing and research.

  • Courtesy of World Cup Sponsorship, Adidas’ Sales Soar

    Adidas’ reported $200 million World Cup sponsorship is proving to be fruitful for the sporting goods company. The alliance helped sales soar 20% to $2.33 billion in the second quarter.

  • Quiznos Marketing Exec Charged in Sex Sting

    A Quiznos marketing executive is on an indefinite leave of absence following his recent arrest for allegedly arranging a sexual encounter over the Internet with a teenager, according to news reports.

  • Google and the MTV/ XM / MySpace Generation

    Eric Schmidt, Google CEO, is betting that advertising will be a hit on the Internet even beyond search. That’s why his company has launched a flock of new ad initiatives in the last two weeks, he told an audience at this year’s Search Engine Strategies meeting in San Jose CA.

  • Click Auditors Sandbagged in San Jose

    Someone inside the Googleplex has been reading the great Chinese strategist Sun Tzu on the value of surprise in battle. That might explain why the company chose to lob a hefty grenade into a panel discussion on click fraud and click auditing at this week

  • News Briefs

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  • Live from SES San Jose: Google Sandbags Click Fraud Panel with Surprise Report

    The panel discussion on click fraud and click auditing, a tradition at Search Engine Strategies conferences, got a little less conventional during the current San Jose meeting when Google disclosed that it had posted to the Web an internal report detailing flaws in the ways many click audit firms count page clicks — without sharing the report with other panelists.

  • Live from SES San Jose: Yahoo! Demos “Panama” Ad Platform

    Attendees at this year’s Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose CA got their first look at the new search ad platform that Yahoo! plans to roll out in the U.S. by the fourth quarter of this year.