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Despite growing fears about the economy and the impact on ad spending in general during the past several months, online ad dollars jumped 23.2 percent to a yet another record $14.9 billion in the first half of 2011, according to figures released today by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC US). While online … Continue reading IAB: Online Ad Dollars Keep Rising, But Interest In Brand Spend Is Murky

As Russia now looks set for another lengthy period of rule from Vladimir Putin, it’s worth a look at where the man came from. Putin’s back story certainly isn’t dull. He’s the former KGB agent, the judo champion and the man who thought it was appropriate to fly a fighter jet into a war zone … Continue reading VLADIMIR’S EMPIRE: A Look At Back At Putin’s Rise To Power

Tonight is the relaunch of Delicious, the little bookmarking site that helped inspire a wave of social companies in the eight years since it was founded. New owners Chad Hurley and Steve Chen (aka the creators of YouTube) have ported Delicious over from previous owner Yahoo and are ready to show their first revision to … Continue reading Delicious Relaunches Tonight: Exclusive Q&A with CEO Chad Hurley

Neal Mohan thinks display advertising can be a $200 billion business and that Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is uniquely positioned to help make it so. During an on-stage interview with paidContent Editor Staci D. Kramer at our recent paidContent Advertising conference, the Google vice president of product management explained his rationale for that $200 billion estimate, … Continue reading paidContent Advertising: Google’s Mohan: Display Can Be $200 Billion Biz

The media is already dissecting yesterday’s Facebook event, where the company unveiled major new changes to their platform. Par for the course, really. Drama always accompanies any change to the Facebook site or platform. But I see drama brewing in a place unaccustomed to it, and involving a different kind of media — the media … Continue reading Facebook Changes Upend Advertiser and Agency Models

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AOL still makes almost all of its shrinking profits from that dial-up product you remember from the 1990s and their search deal with Google. In hopes of changing that, AOL is betting a big portion of its also dwindling revenues on a network of 840 local news blogs called Patch. Analysts say the investment will … Continue reading Here Are The “Smoke And Mirrors” AOL Is Using To Make 10 Patches Look Profitable By Year’s End (AOL)

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