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Wall Street is apparently abuzz about a huge potential internet alliance - most likely a Yahoo-eBay partnership - but also possibly involving others, including Google and Microsoft, writes the New Zealand Herald (via MarketingVOX), citing a JP Morgan report. According to eBay spokesman Hani Durzy, the company works closely with the major search providers, but he would not address a potential Yahoo relationship. “We don’t comment on rumors and speculation,” Durzy is quoted as saying.
“A partnership or merger between eBay and Yahoo is the most strategically feasible,” according to a report by JP Morgan internet analyst Imran Khan. “A combined company would have the leading position in auctions, communications, payments, graphical advertising, audience reach, and geographic breadth.”
At a time when internet growth has begun to slow a bit and competition is heating up, potential merger deals have become conceivable. Last week, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel confirmed that the company had been approached by Microsoft to buy a piece of Yahoo’s search business, but he ruled out such a deal.
Though off-air online and experiential advertising grew modestly as a part of the overall radio revenue pie, and election-related political ads increased in Q3, total radio ad revenues were down 9% to $4.97 billion for Q3 and down 10% for…
Glamour magazine is running its photo of Britney Spears not only on the cover of the U.S. edition, but on the covers in seven other countries, as well.
Britney will grace Russia, Sweden and Greece’s editions of Glamour, among others.…
Titan Worldwide has signed a five-year deal with the Delaware River Port Authority to manage out-of-home advertising for the Port Authority Transit corp.
The contract covers advertising on PATCO’s rail service and stations between Southern New Jersey and Philadelphia, writes Mediaweek.…
Publicis has acquired full-service agency W&K Communications, continuing its Asia expansion that began several years ago.
W&K will be pulled under the umbrella of Publicis’s Burnett agency network, and will be renamed Leo Burnett Beijing Advertising, writes Adweek.
Other recent Publicis…
With only four weeks separating Thanksgiving and Christmas this year, Cyber Monday One (December 1) and Cyber Monday Two (December 
may command a greater share of online sales than they have in years past - thus increasing the importance…
Top American non-luxury auto brands received higher ratings and less negative comments from online consumers than competing Japanese brands, according to an analysis of consumer opinions collected from automotive review websites by Biz360, MarketingCharts reports.
The research, which aggregated a year’s…
