28 Sep 2007
Metacafe is currently the third largest video site on the net, behind YouTube and Google Video. In terms of site visits, Metacafe trails in eighth place behind competitors including Veoh and MySpace Video, according to Hitwise s July 2007 rankings. Text 100 will aim to capitalise on Metacafe s video ...
28 Sep 2007
Google is ending its agency discount scheme following pressure from advertisers for the search...The deal will see the Best Practice Funding programme, which offered
£50 million in discounts for agencies running search campaigns,
scrapped in 2009. Google had earmarked the discounts for agencies to
invest in online training and research, but instead discovered they were
passing them on to clients as a ...
28 Sep 2007
| by Russell Davies, russell@russelldavies.com
talent, the Google
Ad Widget hints at a deeper threat to the media status quo. It's a
little bit ...
28 Sep 2007
Facebook, which was set up three years ago by the Harvard graduate Mark
Zuckerberg, could now become the centre of a global bidding war between
Microsoft and Google, which has also been linked with acquiring a stake
in the site. According to reports in The Wall Street Journal, Microsoft
has approached ...
28 Sep 2007
is attempting to tout some interesting trend data about
its client Argos. By using Google Trends, which analyses keywords used
in its search engine, the agency discovered that more Google users type
in "Argos" than "porn" at Christmas time. Has typing random words into
Google Trends been the secret behind the company's new ...
28 Sep 2007
"Agencies don't need a subsidy. Everyone should be equal in an auction
system, there shouldn't be buying clout, the value for clients is in how
well campaigns perform." - Damian Burns, the head of agency relations
for Google EMEA, on plans to drop its Best Practice Funding payment
system to agencies "This ...
27 Sep 2007
| by Jacquie Bowser
LONDON - Google is planning to hire several thousand software engineers in Europe, expanding its...According to a report in the Financial Times, Google plans to create a research and development team in Europe to match the size of the search giant s team in the US. Nelson Mattos, Google s new ...
is that Google is seen as a big US company that is here to make money. There is a lack of understanding of how we ...
26 Sep 2007
| by David Singleton
urging businesses to raise the issue of Google s dominance of search engines with politicians, regulators and the media. The issue centres around Google s proposed acquisition of internet advertising firm Double ...
26 Sep 2007
. Online coverage by The Times ranked it as the most-read story for more than 24 hours. Yahoo and Google ...
26 Sep 2007
| by Gareth Jones
Advertiser pressure on agencies to deliver cheaper search campaigns has prompted Google to ditch a..., bringing to an end discounts for agencies
running search campaigns. Google had introduced the initiative ...
for campaigns, negating the original intention
of the incentive. Google is abandoning the BPF programme ...
Damien Burns, head of agency relations for Google EMEA.
'Instead, they were passing it on to advertisers ...