The healthcare reform battle has hit every level of society and now it has even encroached on the e-mail space. Concerns about unsolicited e-mails arose on Thursday last week, after White House senior advisers sent out an e-mail about healthcare with the subject line "Something worth forwarding." Some recipients and Fox News claimed that some of these e-mails were sent without the user opting in. In response to this, The White House said on Sunday it will change its e-mail sign-up procedures.
Newspapers, buffeted by this year's downturn in print advertising revenue, are increasingly looking to new online revenue strategies. The Financial Times (FT) is the latest example of this push for online cash, with its announcement that it is considering a "pay-as-you-read" model for its content on the Web.
Two magazines that shuttered earlier this year are making comebacks with a digital focus: Vibe, under new ownership, will relaunch in print and online this Fall, while Condé Nast's Portfolio has reopened as a Web-only venture owned by American City Business Journals (ACBJ).
Katz 360 Sales, the digital sales arm of the Katz Media Group, is expanding its digital ad sales inventory for local advertisers to include optimized display impressions, through a new partnership with the Rubicon Project.
Barbara Coll, CEO of Webmama.com, sat down with DMNews at the 2009 Search Engine Strategies Conference to discuss the latest trends in search marketing. In our five questions, Coll covers why you can't do search in a vacuum and the reason search needs to be a strategy rather than a tactic.
Michael Briggs, VP-Search Strategies, @Website Publicity
If you haven't made significant changes during the past year to the way your Google AdWords account is set up and managed, you're leaving money on the table. Google calculates Quality Scores for your ads with the goal of increasing relevance to a searcher's query, and it is imperative to organize your account to convey the highest relevance possible.
The DMNews Essential Guide to Search Engine Marketing
Melissa Mackey, online marketing coordinator, Fluency Media
In difficult economic periods, online advertisers are tempted to slash pay-per-click budgets. But PPC doesn't act in a vacuum — it also influences online traffic and conversions from other channels.
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