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Digital

  • Responding to CPC Inflation

    Recent buzz in the press and blogger community indicates that costs per click (CPCs) are rising and performance falling. Putting CPC pricing trends in context helps us more thoroughly understand how growing search campaigns evolve in this dynamic market.

  • Meredith Acquires Word-Of-Mouth, Online Marketing Firms

    Meredith Corp. has acquired Genex, an interactive marketing services firm that specializes in online customer relationship marketing, and New Media Strategies, an interactive word-of-mouth marketing company.

  • Yes, Virginia, There Was a Cyber Monday: OneUpWeb

    Web retail traffic, conversions and sales started building in the last week of October 2006 and did not start declining to pre-holiday levels until the week of Dec. 18. Even then, sales and conversions remained high, although traffic dropped back to pre-holiday levels.

  • Panama without Tears

    If you’re a search marketer, chances are you’ve just run through the last items on your post-holiday To Do list. Got those keyword bid prices down again to pre-Black Friday levels? Check. Swapped out the “free shipping” and “no-hassle return” ads for creative about gift card redemption? Done. Migrated your Yahoo! Search Marketing account to the new Panama platform? Ummm…

  • Omniture Gets It Together with Applications

    Web analytics is getting its act together. In fact, it’s been doing so for a while now, starting with the integration of Web data into a unified, single-view dashboard. That was soon followed by the introduction of application programming interfaces (APIs) that allowed other data handlers, from CRM programs and e-mail platforms to search marketing tools and site search, to tap into and use the Internet metrics that Web analytics could provide.

  • Marketers Speak Out on Search Arbitrage

    How big a problem is search arbitrage

  • InsuranceOnly Acquires Direct Response Insurance Agency

    InsuranceOnly, an online life insurance marketer, has acquired Direct Response Insurance Agency.

  • Sears Closes on Virtual Home in Second Life

    One of the oldest names in American retailing, Sears, will sprint to the cutting edge of online marketing with a 3-D virtual home d

  • U.S. Ready for (Some) Mobile Marketing: Forrester

    Even though almost four-fifths of consumers say they find the notion of ads on cell phones annoying, a growing number are being engaged by mobile campaigns that offer value without being unduly interruptive, according to a new report from Forrester Research.

  • Short Cuts

    Digital Brand Expressions has expanded its consulting services to include search engine marketing agency reviews