Topic

Digital

  • Budgets, Branding and the State of Search

    Search engine marketing was a $9.4 billion budget item for North American companies last year, according to the latest edition of a report issued annually by the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization. The figure represents a 62% increase over the $5.75 spent on search in 2005.

  • In Testing, Keep the Baby, Change the Bathwater

    Prospective parents are accustomed to lots of tests: for the health of the baby, for its gender, and for the mother

  • Ross Named CEO of Sweepstakes.com

    Internet Real Estate Group, LLC, Boston, has tapped Matthew S. Ross to
    serve as CEO of its affiliate company Sweepstakes.com. Sweepstakes.com
    is scheduled to re-launch this coming summer.

  • Yahoo Boosts Advertising Click Through Rates

    Yahoo’s search engine advertising click through rates have increased following the introduction of its new ranking model, according to study findings released by comScore Networks.

  • EFF Backs Google in Trademark Case

    The Electronic Frontier Foundation, which has criticized some of Google’s online policies, last week filed a court brief supporting the search engine’s practice of allowing marketers to use rivals’ trademarks as keywords to trigger paid ads.

  • Interactive Video: The Heart of Digital Marketing

    Interactive video is the most important element of your new-media tool kit – more important than blogging, podcasting, or mobile devices. Understanding video’s potential for creating interactive, immersive experiences for the digital consumer is the key to unlocking its value for you.

  • Landmark Acquires Franchise.com

    Landmark Communications has acquired Franchise.com for an undisclosed sum.

  • Google Gets Personal: Should You Care?

    What if you had to optimize your Web site to suit not one Google search algorithm but 100 million subtly different ones? That nightmare scenario was raised pretty quickly by an announcement from Google in early February that it was finally ready to bring out of beta a unified platform for tailoring natural search results to users

  • Smoothing the Path for Online Video Ads

    Video content is flowing onto the Web, and the video-watching audience is growing correspondingly. So it’s not surprising that direct marketers are showing interest in attaching ads to that content and reaching this online audience.