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CHART OF THE DAY: Internet Ads Growing Faster Than Any Medium In History

Great chart and post from Silicon Valley Insider:
The growth of Internet advertising through the medium's first 14 years obliterates the growth of advertising for cable and broadcast television over their first 14 years. Here's a revenue comparison in current inflation-adjusted dollars.
(Dare we say that online advertising looks as though it has gotten a [...]

Posted 15 April 2009 † dhelmreich § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) °

Gator / Claria / Jellycloud finally shuts down.

I thought we would never see the day.
The infamous spyware company, Gator, having rebranded at least twice and most recently losing several of their "key" employees to the toxic, ISP behavioral targeting firm, NebuAd, had shuttered it’s doors.
http://venturebeat.com/2008/10/06/controversial-ad-company-jellycloud-shuts-down-citing-industry-consolidation/

Posted 06 October 2008 † dhelmreich § behavioral targeting ‡ Comments (0) °

Blogger Spam

I have been diligently posting for a few days now, and earlier today I received a notice that a new had registered with the email address of adolfodaine77@gmail.com.
Wondering if this was someone that I knew professionally, I first went to Rapleaf to determine which friend had registered. You can see the Rapleaf results [...]

Posted 25 December 2007 † admin § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,