• Traffic Surges At Classifieds by Wendy Davis

    More than 26.3 million people visited one of the top 15 classified sites in September, marking an 80 percent increase from the 14.6 million people who landed at an online classifieds in September of 2004, according to a new report by the Pew Internet & American Life Project and comScore Networks. ...Read the whole story

  • Centro Pitches Local Ad Buy Alternative by Gavin O'Malley

    Centro today is expected to launch its local-online-media-buying service for ad agencies. The company aims to provide ad buyers with an alternative to the rising ad rates that Yahoo!, AOL, and MSN now command, without having to build and maintain local campaigns across hundreds of local publisher sites. ...Read the whole story

  • Video Gamers Create Online Movies by Shankar Gupta

    Lionhead Studios has released a new tool that allows video game players to create their own machinima--movies made by manipulating the characters in video games--and then export their work and upload it to the Web. The medium is just now gaining wide exposure, but marketers already have started placing ads against machinima. ...Read the whole story

  • Shopping Skyrockets On Black Friday by Wendy Davis

    More than 17.1 million Web users visited an online shopping site on Friday, marking a 29 percent increase from the 13.2 million Internet users to visit an e-commerce site Black Friday last year, according to data released this weekend by Nielsen//NetRatings. ...Read the whole story

  • A Leap Of Faith by Larry Dobrow

    Can't beat the holiday rush? Here are some smart ways to join it . ...Read the whole story

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