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Community Bloggers Invited to Submit to AmericanTowns.com

AmericanTowns.com is expanding its community coverage by adding blogs to its network of community webspaces, which AmericanTowns operates for each town in America.

XM Weds BlackBerry for Music, Comedy Programming

CrackBerry addicts who also can’t do without their satellite radio service now have another reason to cling lovingly to their gadget of choice.

CBS Radio, Last.fm Share Nicely Together

CBS Radio and Last.fm, the social music site purchased by CBS Interactive last year, will begin sharing audio content on the web.

Interep Files for Chapter 11

As the radio advertising slows - with a Wachovia analyst saying the best case scenario for radio might be zero growth this year - radio ad sales rep firms are feeling the pinch.

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Sony’s C-Spot Comes to Hulu, Crackle and More

In case the web doesn’t have enough comedy video outlets, more funnies are now available online with the launch of Sony’s new ad-supported, multiplatform comedy channel, dubbed C-Spot.

NBC, Fox Ink Mobile Ad Deals with JumpTap

NBC and Fox have inked deals with ad network JumpTap to target ads to mobile users based on prior search behavior

Top Canadian Web Rankings Issued for February 2008

Google Sites, having grabbed the top position in Canada for the first time in January, maintained that lead in February, according to comScore World Media Metrix data. Meanwhile, traffic to Canadian websites in the tax category jumped 17 percent to approximately 3 million unique visitors, MarketingCharts reports.

Hudson News Sacks Sport Advertiser Logos

Airports are an enormously popular space for out-of-home advertising, with new tactics - from interactive boards to out-of-home video networks to advertising in bars and on security bins - becoming available all the time.

Social Media Marketing Still Lacks Strong Metrics

Companies are adopting social media as a marketing tool, but they are struggling to find effective metrics, writes Paul Gillin (author of The New Influencers) in a report issued by the Society for New Communications Research (SNCR), MarketingCharts writes.

Prime Time Rates Drop 12% in Writers’ Strike; Fox Fares Best

The average cost of a prime-time spot dropped a mighty 12 percent during the writers’ strike.

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Gore Group Compares Global Warming Fight to Normandy and Civil Rights

Al Gore and the nonprofit Alliance for Climate Protection have rolled out a three-year, $300 million advertising campaign to mobilize Americans into pushing for laws and policies that can cut greenhouse gases.

Wal-Mart Gets Organic with New Fair Trade Coffee

Watch your back, Whole Paycheck: Wal-Mart’s entered the organic arena with a line of fair trade certified coffee.

Consumers Well Aware of Behavioral Tracking, Targeting - Don’t Like It Much

Consumers say they want relevant advertising but don’t want to be tracked in order to get it: 57 percent say they are not comfortable with behavioral tracking even if it’s done anonymously, according to a TRUSTe study conducted by TNS, writes MarketingCharts.

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