In case you missed it, last night was 212's final event for the year.

Ad spending for the first nine months of this year increased 10.3 percent to $102.4 billion compared to the same time period in 2003, according to data released today by TNS Media Intelligence/CMR.

Shoppers, start your engines. It's that time of year again. Online, offline, it really doesn't matter.

Rewind please.

Taking a page from Microsoft Corp.'s MSN and providers, America Online is poised to launch its own free, ad-supported video service, according to a report on CNET's News.com that surfaced last week.

If you want to know why key players in the online industry are finally getting active on the anti-spyware front, you have to hear the story of the senior media executive at a major marketer who is trying to figure out how to incorporate the Internet into his massive advertising budget.

Readers responded enthusiastically last week after the Minute's request for ideas to name Microsoft's search engine something other than, well, MSN Search.

Here are a few findings and some interesting data, courtesy of Claria Corp.'s Feedback Research unit:

Evan Harrison, the talented head of America Online's music and radio division, is leaving the online media company to run Clear Channel Communications' online radio unit, the Wall Street Journal reports today.

The suspense is over.