19 Dec 2007
| by Jacquie Bowser
LONDON - Facebook is suing Slickcash, a Canadian operator of adult websites, accusing it of unlawfully accessing its servers to steal data about its users.
19 Dec 2007
The digital medium prospered during 2006 as UK marketers ploughed money into web campaigns. More than 80% of the top online advertisers boosted their investment in the medium, with many viewing the channel as a way to acquire customers and build their brands. The Top 100 spent £257m on digital display...
19 Dec 2007
This may go down as the year in which digital truly entered the mainstream. Online adspend rose by £417m in the first half of 2007 to £1.3bn, accounting for almost 15% of total UK adspend. This prodigious increase across display, classified advertising and paid search is reflected in the league tables,...
18 Dec 2007
| by Nikki Sandison
LONDON - The proportion of older people to the overall online population is growing, with the opposite true for under 25s, according to research by Nielsen Online.
18 Dec 2007
| by Jacquie Bowser
LONDON - Match.com has created an application on Facebook that allows consumers to use its dating service directly through the social networking site.
17 Dec 2007
| by Staff
LONDON - Agency.com is offering a free hotel room this Thursday to whoever comes up with the best reason why they should have it, before the end of tomorrow.
17 Dec 2007
| by Nikki Sandison
LONDON - DatingDirect.com is turning the traditional dating stereotype on its head by putting women in control in a TV campaign directed by 'Desperate Housewives' and 'Sex in the City' producer Pam Thomas.
17 Dec 2007
| by Simone Barratt
Christmas is just around the corner and many ISPs are ramping up their anti-spam programmes to make sure that consumers inboxes are filled with only the messages they want to receive this festive season, writes Simone Barratt, managing director of eDialog.
17 Dec 2007
| by Daniel Farey-Jones
LONDON - Magazine publisher Hachette Filipacchi UK has launched a new website, Sugarscape.com, which it hopes teenage girls will use as a social bookmarking tool.
14 Dec 2007
| by Fiona Ramsay
LONDON - Online retailer WorldStores is launching its first customer magazine, WorldStores Essentials, produced by customer publishing agency Future Plus.