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How powerful has new media advertising become?

Berkonomics

We think of media advertising as either paid or free – placed by paying a fee or by a PR firm or by you at no placement cost, especially when you provide editorial content beneficial to the publisher. Expand your definition of advertising to include four, not just two methods of finding your potential customers.

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Entrepreneurs Are Needed To Make Web Searches Smarter

Startup Professionals Musings

This has been a long-time dream of Tim Berners-Lee , the man who (really) invented the World Wide Web. He calls his dream the ‘ Semantic Web ’ (or Web 3.0), meaning it understands user context. He and many other experts believe that the Semantic Web will act more like a personal assistant than a search engine.

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6 Reasons Your Business Needs A Web Presence To Start

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet I am amazed to see from recent data that nearly 28 percent of small businesses today still have no web presence at all. There are many practical reasons for going to work early on your web site. Two months later they still didn’t have a web site, and didn’t have a customer. Viral marketing needs a website.

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The Future of Advertising will be Integrated

Both Sides of the Table

They first started in 1994 and are therefore almost as old as the Web itself. In the IAB study that revealed the graph above, brand advertisers indicated that their number one objective in online advertising was “creating awareness&# followed by “creating purchase intent&# or “likelihood to recommend&# the product.

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OpenX Gets $22.5M More For Online Advertising

socalTECH

Pasadena-based advertising technology firm OpenX has raised $22.5M OpenX develops online ad serving software, used by web publishers to serve up advertising on their web sites; the firm also offers up a real-time bidding exchange, OpenX Market, used by advertisers and publishers for deciding what advertising to serve up to consumers.

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Specific Media Adopts Advertising Option Icon

socalTECH

Irvine-based Specific Media , which operates an Internet advertising network, said today that it is one of the first memebers of the IAB to adopt a new "Advertising Options Icon", a new tool to provide web surfers with information about what data is being collected about them by advertisers. READ MORE>>.

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Rubicon: We're Second In Online Advertising Audience

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Los Angeles-based Rubicon Project , the online advertising optimization technology firm headed by Frank Addante, said that it has been ranked second in terms of unique visitors in online advertising reach, second only to Google. READ MORE>>.