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In late 2008, the advertising industry appeared to be headed in the same direction as the American economy, except that the federal government is expected to provide some help to the economy in 2009. Advertising couldn't even count on a Holiday bonus and 2009 had nothing in sight to replace the...

Smarter RFID is leading to growth in some applications, such as vehicle tracking and food freshness, and even management of assets such as laundry.  But some of the hype from the Wal-Mart requirements and California drug e-pedigree legislation is dissipating: the technology is complicated and expensive,...

Until visual image searching gets a lot better, you'll be relying on words (metadata) to find and make sense of your images, whether personal photos or a corporate image library.  Thousands of hours have been spent muddling toward standards, and it would take thousands more to get compete agreement. ...

1. Zenith Optimedia, Universal McCann, WPP, BMO Capital Markets, Oppenheimer, Lehman Brothers and eMarket all have announced downward revision of overall Ad spend for 2008           2. Nielsen Monitor-Plus: first-half U.S. ad spend declined 1.4 percent,...

- Nielsen comes out with a new study - telling us everything we already know, and analysts rush to measure the industry-changing impact. The knee-jerk reaction is that the advertising industry will adjust spending from "mainstream" markets to ethnically-diverse outlets; however, Entertainment companies...

Google is a behemoth, but it rules because it delivers better search results than the competition.  That's how Google got ahead, and that's how they are maintaining their lead, against Microsoft, Yahoo!, and everybody else.  Does the Cuil team have the magic to beat them at their own game?...

1. Motion Pictures Association of America site to link to any legal distributor such as Fandango, Xbox Live, Netflix, iTunes and Sony's PlayStation Store.      2.  Recent research conducted by the MPAA and Yahoo found that the internet plays a significant role in driving...

1. DIRECTV is the key factor in stimulating the HD market.    2.  For the MSOs and Telcos, Time Warner leads in terms of High-Definition feeds with 56 HD channels in the New York

Flickr photographers dream of the big break - and that big break is getting both attention and money for their images.  So Getty Images is giving substance to that dream.  Flickr was right to make the deal: it energizes their users and upgrades their offering with a new veneer of professional...

What is Yahoo/Flickr thinking?  The Execs at Flickr have done it again - they have shown they lack the understanding of the value of what Flickr is and could be.  This week they announced a deal with Getty Images which allows Getty editors the exclusive right to peruse the site and select...