Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
A new report from Lewis PR suggests that only 5% of companies worldwide have a blog. In fact, the survey came back with such low adoption rates that a larger scale research project was scrapped.
Focusing on ‘corporate blogs’, i.e. blogs that are permanent and opinion-driven, the survey also found that
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Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
Yahoo! Mail is fast approaching its 10th birthday and have announced that to celebrate, users will get unlimited email storage from May.
Starting off with only 4MB of email storage 10 years ago, Yahoo’s announcement really shows how times have changed; today, you would fill that up with a single picture! But the new unlimited storage means that you don’t have to worry about getting rid of old messages and keeping everything you need in your email account.
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Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
New media sales got a boost today with the news that UK internet advertising revenue is set to pass £2bn for 2006, up from the 2005 figure of £1.4bn.
The Internet Advertising Bureau’s official announcement is expected tomorrow, and while they refused to comment prior to the report release, industry sources said revenues would exceed £2bn as a result of growth in both search and display formats.
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Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
Blog spam is evil. If you, like me, spend ages every day getting rid of mountains of spammy posts for Viagra and the like, take a look at these top tips from the Online Marketing blog to stop blog spam.
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Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
Meta data is one of the least understood parts of the optimisation process, and for years there have been debates on the level of their importance, with ebbs and flows ensuring that few people are ever entirely clear as to just how important they really are.
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Friday, March 23rd, 2007
News Corp. and NBC Universal have announced that they are to launch an online video sitew stocked with TV programmes, films, and clips that is set to rival YouTube.
According to the press release detailing the venture, News Corp and NBC will launch “the largest Internet video distribution network ever assembled with the most sought-after content from television and film.”
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Thursday, March 22nd, 2007
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Thursday, March 22nd, 2007
While young people make the most use of the internet, they are also less susceptible to online advertising in comparison to older users, according to a new European wide study from NetObserver Europe.
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Thursday, March 22nd, 2007
Yahoo! is stepping up its fight against click fraud as it announces that between 12 and 15% of clicks coming through Yahoo! PPC ads are identified as invalid and are removed from advertiser’s bills.
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Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
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