Challenges in getting advertising spend online

Online advertising jumped 25 percent this year, raking in a cool $20 billion, but Internet executives say that figure could have been even higher if advertisers had reliable and consistent ways to measure online audiences.
The challenge is that there is no standard for online metrics - both what to measure and how to measure it.
Advertisers [...]

Trend watching top 5 tips

Trend spotting can be fun. Makes you feel in the now and in the know. But that alone is not necessarily going to make you or your company more money. Trend watching should ultimately lead to profitable innovation.
Read more on trendwatching.com’s Want to be a better trend watcher? Our top 5 tips

ClickZ: IAC Leaves DoubleClick for Atlas IAC Leaves DoubleClick for Atlas

IAC Advertising Solutions has switched ad servers, abandoning DoubleClick in favor of aQuantives Atlas.
The ad sales division of IAC/InterActiveCorp said its goal in making the move was to consolidate IACs myriad Web properties into a single media ad serving platform using the latest available technology. It said the move to Atlas will allow it to [...]

Understanding affiliates

PR-GB.com has written a short article on affiliate management, which may be interesting to those who are unfamiliar with the concept. The article is called Understanding affiliates.

Yahoo buys Blue Lithium

Yahoo agreed to buy advertising network Blue Lithium for $300 million this week, a deal that adds to a string of industry acquisitions and signals a growing new direction for online ads.Blue Lithium, based in San Jose, Calif., specializes in selling performance-based display ads across a network of Web sites. Like search-related text ads, performance [...]

TradeDoubler acquisition of IMW Group

TradeDoubler announced today, July 26th, 2007, the acquisition of the IMW Group, with the two search marketing companies The Search Works and The Technology works. The acquisition places TradeDoubler as one of the largest online marketing companies in Europe.
The acquisition provides a lot of synergies for TradeDoubler and the acquired IMW Group. The product offerings [...]