In retrospect, most advertising-based websites were doomed from the start.
There will be a new Emmy award for the best of interactive television programming but the winners won't receive a statuette.
Third-place cable news network MSNBC wants to establish itself as the "fiercely independent" choice, and its president is driving the point home with some shots against his competition.
The first new daily paper in New York in nearly two decades hits stands tomorrow, bidding for a slice of the city's readership amid the worst advertising recession since World War II.
Online advertising services company DoubleClick Inc. said Thursday that cost-cutting efforts helped it slash losses and turn in what was, on a pro-forma basis, its first-ever first-quarter profit.
Pressed for profits, Internet companies are increasingly selling access to their users' postal mail addresses and telephone numbers, in addition to flooding their e-mail boxes with junk mail.
Magazine publishers are seeking a little sunshine through the storm clouds. As hopes continue for a definitive advertising turnaround - and as publishers of monthly magazines close their June issues and begin to set their sights on July - a partial peek at the near-term fates of fabled glossies like GQ, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, and Better Homes & Gardens, to name but a few, has started to emerge.
The NBC television network became the latest to see signs of a recovery in the advertising market, which has been reeling since late 2000 under the weight of weaker corporate spending and broad economic weakness.
AOL Time Warner said that Robert W. Pittman, its co-chief operating officer, would resume day-to-day management of the company's flagship America Online Internet service, 15 months after he gave up that post. A move that underscores the sense of urgency about America Online's slowing growth.
Some advertisers are seeing red over TV's newest show about men in blue, "The Shield," with several national companies pulling ads in recent weeks due to the show's violence, language and nudity.