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Burst Media today released the results from a survey on the topic of ad clutter. The survey was administered to over 4,000 web users with the purpose of better understanding how ad clutter impacts a web users’ Internet experience, as well as its impact on the perception of advertisers who ...

Total measured advertising expenditures in the first nine months of 2008 declined by 1.7 percent as compared to the same period in 2007, according to data released today by TNS Media Intelligence, the leading provider of strategic advertising and marketing information. Ad spending during the third quarter of 2008 was ...

LucidMedia, an online contextual display advertising platform and meta-network, today announced several milestones surrounding its continued growth, inclusive of the completion of $8.8 million in funding, including the value of converted debt, to support the launch and expansion of LucidMedia’s contextual advertising network; the opening of a New York City ...

Despite the economic woes facing the country and numerous predictions for the implosion of advertising online and offline, a new report released this past week from AdGooroo provides evidence to the contrary.

Under the long prevailing cost-per-thousand (CPM) model of buying advertising, online marketers have to pay to reach prospects. The major problem here is: whose numbers do you trust? Evidence has emerged that page views cited by online publishers as a proxy for impressions are overstated, to say the least. And ...

PubMatic has unveiled the PubMatic AdPrice Index for Q3 2008, a quarterly industry-wide measure of online ad network pricing for publishers. The index shows that online ad prices declined overall this past year by 27%. Publishers of all sizes are feeling the challenges of a nationwide economic slowdown. Small sites ...

BlackArrow, the independent provider of multiplatform ad-management systems for viewer-controlled video, has released a Connector (software development kit) that integrates its ad-management system with Akamai’s Media Framework, a valuable resource for the rapid development of video player applications. This integration allows broadband video providers to ad-enable video content distributed using ...

MIVA Direct announced this week the further and significant expansion of its ALOT brand with the beta release of new, fully customizable toolbar and homepage products, ALOT Toolbar and ALOT Home. Coinciding with these releases, MIVA Direct also today announced the beta launch of ALOT Buttons, a website offering a ...

Someone needs to remind Microsoft that we're in a recession, AdGooroo unveiled their third quarterly report detailing several key performance indicators for Google, MSN and Yahoo!, such as changes in share of advertisers. Microsoft’s increase in active first page advertisers for Q3 was the biggest quarterly increase since AdGooroo began ...

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) have just released the IAB Internet Advertising Revenue Report covering the first six months and the second quarter of 2008. Internet advertising revenues (U.S.) for the first six months of 2008 were $11.5 billion, setting yet another new half-year record that represents ...