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Email List Prices Down

B2B email list prices in October have decreased an average of $4 per thousand compared with last October, but remains the highest-priced list rental category.

Tribune Co. Expands Reach of ‘Hoy Fin de Semana’

Hoy, Tribune Co.’s Spanish-language daily newspaper, has replaced its New York Saturday edition with Hoy Fin de Semana. The paper will have a distribution of 60,000 copies.

Portable, Wrapped Restrooms Contain LCD Monitors

Micro Target Media, an out-of-home media company, has introduced a new advertising platform, Micro Target Media Advertising Structures.

TechTarget Launches 5 IT Channel Sites

TechTarget has launched five IT channel sites targeting resellers, systems integrators, technology consultants, and other independent solution providers.

Equifax Acquires Data Management Services Firm

Austin-Tetra, a b-to-b data management services firm with a database of more than 30 million businesses, has been acquired by Equifax.

CC Launches Search for Next Progressive Talk Star

In a promotion likely to generate some press and raise the profiles of the entities involved, at least for the short-term, Clear Channel Radio, The Center for American Progress Action Fund, Jones Radio Networks, and MSS, Inc. plan to launch a nationwide search for the next Progressive Talk Radio Star.

Emmis: Profits up, Radio Revenue Down

Emmis Communications announced that its net income rose from $6.2 million a year ago to $110 million thanks to the sale of two of its television stations and one radio station, all of which closed during the quarter (Q2 of the company’s fiscal year 2007).

Bollore Deals Blow to Publicis, Buys into Breakaway Agency

Vincent Bollore, the French billionaire who has caused much turmoil in the hearts of Aegis stakeholders in the past year, has made another bold move that is bound to have another agency reeling.

PIB: Lad Mag Ad Pages Trending Downward

The latest figures from the Publishers Information Bureau confirm the fact that so-called “lad mags,” those publications that target young men with glossy spreads featuring juvenile humor and rampant product placements, are losing steam.

Nielsen to Add College Student Viewing to Sample

College students make up the bulk of out-of-home television viewing, and beginning in 2007, Nielsen will count them in its samples.

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Nielsen: New Database Fuses TV with Online Viewing Habits

Nielsen has begun working on a single, integrated sample that will simultaneously measure usage of TV and online viewing. The company has, in fact, already created a “fusion” database that matches people in the TV ratings sample with comparable people in the online sample, according to Nielsen CEO Susan Whiting.

Ad Messages Glow on Luminescent Billboards, T-Shirts

The luminescent strips that light emergency exits in planes and buildings have a new use, giving a bright new outlook to an old advertising medium.

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