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Weblogs Inc. Health and Fitness Blog Launched

AOL’s Weblogs Inc. has launched a new blog on health and wellness, writes Micro Persuasion (via MarketingVox).

The That’s Fit group blog covers topics from alternative therapies to healthy habits to women’s health. “If something fits within the wide spectrum of healthy living, we’ll talk about it - from exercise and diet, to alternative therapies, organic living, inner growth, natural beauty, even eco-travel,” according to a post on the site.

That’s Fit is running Google text ads as well as display ads from pharmaceutical companies (including epilepsy drug Keppra), Target’s pharmacy, and others.

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TargetSpot Snaps up Ronning Lipset Radio

TargetSpot has acquired online streaming ad rep firm Ronning Lipset Radio in a move that will form the largest audio advertising network and streamline the buying of online radio spots, the companies say.

TargetSpot is an online system for creating,…

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Financial Times Group Revenue Jumps 11%

FT Group, publisher of the Financial Times, saw total revenue leap 11% for the first nine months of 2008. Circulation and ad revenue grew, as did revenue from interactive data.

Ad revenue was up 1% over the first nine months…

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Consumers Using Location-Based Services Jump to 486MM in 2012: eMarketer

Location-based services that allow marketers to connect with consumers wherever they are have long been considered the ideal in advertising. eMarketer is predicting that the opportunity will grow significantly in coming years, with the number of consumers using such services…

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Comedy Central’s ‘Chocolate News’ Parodies the ‘Afrocentric Perspective’

Comedy Central is building on the success of its two wildly popular fake-news programs, The Colbert Report and The Daily Show, adding a show called Chocolate News.

The new show will star David Alan Grier as the pompous host of…

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List Rental Prices Down, Use of International Lists Rises

Prices of list rentals are declining across the board and – for the first time ever - show a downward trend in every B2C and B2B category tracked, according to Worldata’s Fall 2008 List Price Index (see table), writes MarketingCharts.

Permission-based email…

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More Specialists Handle Custom Pubs, Big Companies Pay More

Custom publications are being increasingly produced by specialty editors and designers (73%) rather than by those in communications roles, according to a study conducted by the Custom Publishing Council (CPC) in cooperation with Publications Management, writes MarketingCharts.

The survey, “Staffing and Compensation:…

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