Channel | Digital

Online marketing services provider AzoogleAds has named Michael Sprouse chief marketing officer.

Forty-three percent of catalog customers make online purchases with the same merchant, while 35% of online customers also make purchases from company stores, according to new multi-channel marketing data findings released by Forrester Research Inc.

Catalyst is a new digital marketing agency in San Francisco that's been founded by John Durham and Cory Treffiletti. Both have extensive online marketing experience.

Landmark Communications Inc. has acquired InternetSeer.com Corp., a provider of small business Web site monitoring, for an undisclosed sum.

The National Hockey League has signed a contract extension with GSI Commerce Inc. for the latter to provide online and offline marketing services through 2014.

Publicis Groupe has acquired Wcube, a French Internet marketing agency. Wcube will be renamed Publicis Modem France.

Yahoo Inc. will sell most of the display advertising for Bebo, a British online social network, according to wire service reports.

HourPower markets watches containing a secret chamber for inserting inspirational messages, photographs and the like.

MTV Networks has more than two dozen new Web sites on its drawing board, many of which will rely on consumer contributed content.

(Direct) Any company that's been in e-commerce nearly 10 years has a pretty decent claim on being thought of as a pioneer. But Buy.com, which started selling tech goods and consumer electronics through a Web-only store back in 1998, isn't content to sit around and tell stories about the old days.