It was a big year for technology: Twitter and Facebook’s popularity exploded, while new smartphones, e-readers and a host of other gadgets cropped up to compete for our plugged-in affection. Read the rest of this entry »

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With All the Talk of CPMs Going to Zero, Here’s a Survey of Who’s Commanding Top Dollar Read the rest of this entry »

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Eat your heart out H1N1, gatecrashers and Aretha’s hat. According to Global Language Monitor — an algorithms company who used their Predictive Quantities Indicator to find their results — “Twitter” is the most-used word of 2009. Read the rest of this entry »

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Marketers  continue to reallocate spend from traditional media into online. Read the rest of this entry »

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Search engine Yandex has decided to close the top popular blog posts. Read the rest of this entry »

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Begun offer the new ad format – “showcases” that allows you to add colorful illustration in text ads. Read the rest of this entry »

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Site Ramblrer.ru stopped its work in the morning of Wednesday, September 2. Read the rest of this entry »

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Net loss Rambler Media Group under IFRS for the I half of 2009. amounted to 23 million rubles., Read the rest of this entry »

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The crisis severely affected the entire media business, because of the decline in business activity, advertisers have sharply reduced their budgets. Read the rest of this entry »

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