Ad Age: Continuing its efforts to expand online, Time Inc. today said it has bought the Web site Golf.com and the company that operates it, SirenServ. Terms were undisclosed. The move comes two weeks after Time Inc. united the Web sites of four magazines -- Fortune, Fortune Small Business, Business 2.0 and Money -- at CNNMoney.com in a bid to aggregate a larger mass of readers to offer advertisers. Time Inc. already …
They Do Great Work And The Perks Aren’t Bad Either
Chicago agency, Hadrian's Wall, is blogging. The entire staff of Hadrian's Wall is in Rome for a week, celebrating the shop's five-year anniversary. I don't know which item is bigger news. The latter, I suppose. …
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Putting Beer In The Cooler
Wharton: Can an industry that has spent a fortune on TV ads featuring mud wrestlers and talking frogs suddenly change its stripes to appeal to the wine-and-cheese, single-malt Scotch crowd? The makers of Budweiser and other brands of beer hope so. Frits van Paasschen, president and chief executive of Coors Brewing, told Knowledge@Wharton that his company supports an industry effort to enhance the beer category. "We …
SEO Humor Cracks Me Up
I bet you didn't know there was such a thing as search engine optimization (seo) humor. Surprise! There is. Yesterday, Steve Rubel said he was going to stop using Yahoo, because a senior executive there claimed Yahoo was content being number two in search, behind Google. Rubel only searches with winners. sem | antics picked up on this Rubelian revelation, and then delivered these nuggets to the …
Be Your Own Boss And Eat Free Subs For Life
Quizno's is 25. To commemorate our 25th Anniversary, we’re making it possible for 12 lucky people to achieve their own American dream by winning their very own Quiznos restaurant. Throughout 2006, there will be a variety of ways to vie for one of the restaurants, so keep checking quiznos25.com for new ways to win! …
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Sex Sells
USA TODAY: Sex.com, long coveted as potentially one of the most lucrative sites on the Web because of its catchy name, has been sold for about $12 million in cash and stock, a source familiar with the deal told Reuters on Monday. Escom, a group of anonymous buyers, said in a statement it had acquired the Web address Sex.com from Gary Kremen, chief executive of Grant Media and the founder of Match.com. Terms of the …
Heine Sounds Good
Ecast: Heineken, kicks-off their second nationwide advertising campaign on Internet jukeboxes throughout the United States via Ecast’s on-premise, interactive jukebox network. The campaign, which supports the 48th annual GRAMMY® Awards, will run on over 4400 broadband-enabled jukeboxes in bars and taverns throughout the country until Feb. 15th. The campaign features a Heineken micro-site, downloadable collections of …
Hey Boss, Back Away From The Camera
International Herald Tribune: According to a survey by Edelman public relations in New York, conducted recently in 11 countries, chief executives no longer command the trust they used to among consumers, and generally should not be pressed into service as media spokesmen. Edelman said the survey findings were consistent with other indications of a democratization of the business and media spheres, as the internet …
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