Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Online advertising - With Yahoo deal's collapse, stymied Microsoft must find new online - Seattle Times

With Yahoo deal's collapse, stymied Microsoft must find new online - Seattle Times
With its three-month pursuit of Yahoo at an end, Microsoft is back where it started: far behind Google, the undisputed online-advertising leader. For several years, Microsoft has been striving for a bigger share of the billions of advertising dollars
Source: seattletimes.nwsource.com

TV and internet ad combination reaps success - Brand Republic
LONDON - Combining TV and online advertising is more effective than using either in isolation, according to research. Thinkbox and the Internet Advertising Bureau carried out research which showed that combining the two led to an increased positive
Source: www.brandrepublic.com

What’s next for online ads? - Tacoma News Tribune
NEW YORK – The collapse of Microsoft Corp.’s pursuit of Yahoo Inc. is leaving advertisers looking for other ways to reach mass audiences on the Web and to counteract Google Inc.’s dominance of the online ad market. Advertisers can still
Source: www.thenewstribune.com

Google in driver's seat after Microsoft-Yahoo bust - Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc may not be celebrating the end of takeover talks with Microsoft Corp, but their mutual rival Google Inc should feel free to pop the champagne cork. The rift between Microsoft and Yahoo leaves the online advertising
Source: www.reuters.com

Greenlight Applies Wall Street Tool to Online Ads - Forbes
Greenlight, the largest independent search marketing agency in the UK, today announced the U.S. launch of Quant(TM), an artificial intelligence-driven program that enables marketers to forecast the success of pay per click (PPC) advertising campaigns
Source: www.forbes.com

Microsoft to explore other online options - San Francisco Gate
Foiled in its blockbuster Yahoo bid, Microsoft Corp. will be forced to cobble together smaller deals - or rely on its own technological gumption - to achieve the scale needed to rival Google in online search and advertising. And it will take a lot
Source: www.sfgate.com

Microsoft Switches Yahoo Strategy for Organic Pipe-Dream - Softpedia
From the start of February and until the debut of May, Microsoft's new strategy on the search engine and online advertising markets seemed focused on the acquisition and integration of Yahoo as a key component. Microsoft insisted all along that the
Source: news.softpedia.com