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Search Eats Little Of Food Budgets

The food and beverage industry is the leader in the U.S. consumer packaged goods (CPG) when it comes to online advertising, but they only put 2.1 percent of their total $8.7 billion advertising budget online in 2006.

Personalized Search Pollutants

I'll start by saying Thank you Google, for the web history and personalized search idea - which is great in theory, but plain sucks in practice! At least for this searcher.

Viral Video: Worth It?

Marketing Sherpa and the Online Publishers Association took a look at viral video. Video is a popular marketing tactic, with 29% of MarketingSherpa’s responding viral marketers experiencing “great results.” Only “cool” microsites (37% great results) and online games/quizzes/polls (33% great results) were better received.

Active Blogging Flat At 15.5 Million Blogs

Those who can be bothered to update their blogs at least once every 90 days has hit a broad piece of flat ground, with Technorati's numbers showing minimal movement between October 2006 and March 2007.