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In an attempt to find the best possible way to deliver advertisements to internet users without annoying them, come September will see websites like MSNBC.com, Yahoo.com, and Hulu.com allowing their visitors to decide which ads they want to watch before the video they actually want to watch.
This new ad-selecting tool called ASq aims to improve customer targeting by letting video viewers decide which of …
AOL is set to give Google a run for their money through a new display ad platform.
AOL has built a self-service management platform for its Advertising.com network to give advertisers and agencies more control over their campaigns.
“Transparency and control are the future of online advertising,” said Jeff Levick, Executive Vice President, AOL Advertising. “Providing clients with a greater level of personalized control over …
SEMPO (The Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization) has released it’s annual State Of Search Engine Marketing Report. The 2010 report confirms that Search is continuing its meteoric rise.
The North American search engine marketing industry is expected to reach $16.6 billion by the end of the year. This will represent growth of over 13% from 2009 – which was about $14.6 billion.
And there’s …
Touted as “its most significant homepage redesign in over a decade”, Microsoft has begun rolling out its new homepage to select users.
Microsoft says the redesign includes more than 30 updates that are based on 70,000 pieces of customer feedback. These new features include:
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News is surfacing that a report has been released & financed by the French government recommending that Google, Yahoo!, MSN and other big advertising companies be taxed on revenue made by online advertising.
The Zelnick Report says the tax would apply anytime an online ad or sponsored link is clicked in France and calls for a company to be taxed regardless of where it is …
Most of the talk recently from Microsoft has been around Bing, but what about the MSN portal? Have they forgotten about it? The answer is no, it has actually just undergone a cool new facelift.
The MSN portal is one of the top 5 most visited sites on the net (about 100 million visitors per month) and seeing as though it’s been 5 years since …
Following the big news about the Yahoo!/MSN search deal, everyone’s been wondering how this might impact Google and what it means for competition. Marissa Mayer, Google’s VP of search has given the thumbs down to the deal, saying it might hurt competition and consumers.
In case you missed the big announcement, Microsoft effectively bought second place in the search engine wars by announcing a deal …
The team at Microsoft are working overtime at the moment, with Bing launching, Yahoo! deals and now MSN overhaul!
Microsoft’s MSN portal is receiving an extreme makeover, with a clear and simple mandate to the team – “Do Less Better”
As ‘was’ the case with most web portals, the goal was to be everything to everybody. A one stop source of everything you need online.…
Bing has surprised many of us over the past few weeks with its solid growth in search volume and users.
With Bing securing more and more market share, Microsoft has started to reclaim the attention of webmasters and Search Engine Optimizers.
Accordingly, Microsoft has been quick to get on side with Webmasters and site owners by launching Bing Toolbox. Bing Toolbox is similar to …
Last week I posted about the imminent launch of Microsoft’s new search engine. Low and behold – it’s here. Say hello to bing – The Decision Engine.
“Decision Engine?” You may wonder… well that’s how the marketing team down at Microsoft have decided to position the new search experience.
This week at the D7 conference, Steve Ballmer (Microsoft CEO) debuted the new search …