• Triple-X Sells
    Have you heard? Apparently, sex sells - and no company takes that adage to pervy, pornographic heights like American Apparel. Though the company's ads have long featured sad-looking lady friends of ceo Dov Charney in various states of undress, AA pushed its final frontier in late December by hiring an actual porn star - 20-year-old Sasha Grey, Adult Video News' Female Performer of the Year - to flash her full-frontal bits.
  • Industry Watch: No Place Like Home Page
    eBay isn't a Web site - it's an obsession. Ever since Internet users learned how easy it was to shop from home, it's been a credit card and click. Shopping for a home, however, is a different story, considering that one click would equal a $200,000 mortgage and, therefore, a death wish to many economically uncertain consumers.
  • Social Focus: The Wayback Machine
    Something extraordinary is happening: we are witnessing the creation of an entirely new Internet model that few people could have foreseen even three years ago. According to some analysts, as much as 70 percent of consumer time online is now spent viewing content created not by professional editors, but by fellow consumers. Most eyeballs are trained on social media sites like Facebook, MySpace, Flickr, and YouTube.
  • Market: What a Girl Wants
    It's a proven fact that women do the majority of the shopping, both online and off, in all but a few categories. If your products fall into any of the tens of dozens of categories in which women control the spending, your career may depend on getting women not only to listen to or see your message, but to embrace it, pass it on and talk endlessly about your product's virtues to millions of other women.
  • Need to Know: The Ad Stays in the Picture
    In the never-ending struggle to monetize digital video, technology providers are throwing ad units at every last pixel of visible real estate: pre- and post-rolls, bottom-third and pop-down overlays, and media player skins. The only space left may lie inside the frame itself, in all that background empty space where video action doesn't occur.
  • Behind the Numbers: The Energizer Bunny Sector
    At a time when many traditional media are posting double-digit reductions, it's heartening to see one that is moving in a (sort of) upward direction. That medium is digital out-of-home. In q408, pq Media projected that digital ooh - which includes both static signage and full-motion audio and video on a flat screen - would finish
  • Ed:Blog February 2009
    Well, well, well, MediaVest, Ed:Blog sees what you did. Don't think we haven't noticed. We know you like to keep your dealings shrouded in a cloak of secrecy.
  • The Rise of Glut Inventory
    The rapid growth of the online advertising marketplace has made the Internet the envy of other major media, but publishers are beginning to realize that they may actually have too much of a good thing. There's a hidden price in the rapidly expanding supply of online advertising inventory and it appears, quite literally, to be the price people pay for it.
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