Studios are putting explanations next to the ratings. But the disclosures' size and the wording have raised red flags with critics.

Forget about "Survivor," "The Mole" or "Temptation Island." There is a tense, thrilling drama on its way that makes those television reality series look, well, unreal.

Here's what it will take to break the logjam, and unleash the potential of streaming video advertising...

Online ad sales continues to be the Achilles heel for the online media giant, which hopes to wean itself off of its marketing services business for the present.

Internet: Promotions push its new products and AOL Time Warner's properties. Some say the blitz is aimed at investors.

San Francisco-based online media marketplace OneMediaPlace cut "at least" 36 positions prior to its merger with Mediapassage, a transaction that closed Monday night.

Uncertainty about the economy and a dearth of new business activity has triggered yet another round of industry layoffs, this time at agencies in San Francisco and New York.

Wireless advertising is in diapers still. Yet even now some of its personality traits are apparent. Will they remain unchanged? Probably not. But they're all we have right now, and they're worth talking about.

Neither rain nor sleet nor snow will keep the U.S. Postal Service from delivering the mail, and under a new policy, the agency will also be delivering the advertising messages of big companies willing to pay the price.

As one exhibitor described it, you could have tossed bowling balls down most of the aisles of last week's DMA net.marketing show in (pre-earthquake Seattle) and not hit anyone.