AOL is launching a service in conjunction with the Kroger grocery chain, called Shortcuts, that allows manufacturers to distribute coupons on the internet without the need for users to print them out
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Winter escapees seeking a game of shuffleboard and a dip in the pool may instead see giant ads on the decks of Carnival cruise ships - and your client may think that’s swell.
The market for arugula and eco-friendly toilet paper may suffer as food prices soar.
Sports Illustrated’s archive, SI Vault, launches in beta this week with 150,000 articles, 500,000 photos and a slice-and-diceable search function that allows users to search for very specific criteria.
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On Friday, Clear Channel closed the deal to sell its 56 television stations to Newport Television LLC for $1.012 billion.
CBS has beaten other networks to debut the first post-strike new episodes of scripted shows.
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Comcast’s G4 Network is embarking on a year-long study aimed at understanding the particular psyche of the elusive 18-to-34 male demo.
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Reactrix has plans to include interactive commercial transactions in the capabilities of its digital displays.
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Google’s CEO predicts that his company will hold up well in a U.S. downturn and claims to believe that Microsoft’s proposed Yahoo buyout is bad for the internet.
Rupert Murdoch has made a deal Saudi Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal’s media company Rotana to launch two English-language satcasters in the Middle East.
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Consumer Reports is making a bold move to sell its magazine: advertising.
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Younger news readers, though less likely than average to read newspapers, are more likely to get news online, while heavy readers of newspapers are more likely than average to read online versions of print brands, according to a comScore Plan Metrix study, MarketingCharts writes.
YouTube.com accounted for one-third of the 9.8 billion videos viewed online in the U.S. in January, according to comScore’s Video Metrix. That total was down slightly from the more than 10.1 billion viewed during a record-breaking December 2007, writes MarketingCharts.
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