Beth Cox

Pompano Beach, FL-based Broadcast.com and Dallas-based Visual Data Corp. formed a business services, advertising and distribution partnership to create a new online travel video channel. Visual Data will provide travel-related video content for the channel and will sponsor the channel through the use of Broadcast.com’s multimedia advertising services. The channel will be hosted on the […]

Professional services firm KPMG LLP is teaming up with Ingram Micro , a wholesale distributor of technology products and services, to develop a virtual marketplace offering tech solution purchasing, fulfillment and distribution through a single site. The new site “forms a critical link in the technology supply chain by providing suppliers, distributors and resellers with […]

Microsoft Corp. “plans to quintuple” its electronic commerce unit by hiring 400 more employees, stepping up its efforts to sign additional small- and medium-sized businesses around the world, according to a published report. Half of the new employees will be based overseas, Microsoft spokesman Dan Leach told the Associated Press. The e-commerce unit, which currently […]

New York City-based DoubleClick Inc. said that Comedy Central Online has signed to become a member of DoubleClick’s Select Network of premium sites. “Comedy Central is an important addition to DoubleClick’s Entertainment category as it further extends our reach and offers advertisers cutting-edge content for effectively targeting consumers,” said Wenda Harris Millard, executive vice president […]

New York City-based iVillage Inc. signed a $1.7-million, year-long sponsorship deal with Glaxo Wellcome Inc. The campaign is designed to promote Glaxo Wellcome’s leadership position in the health market and increase consumer awareness of various disease categories. Glaxo Wellcome will build interactive resources that allow iVillage health network members to develop their own personalized health-awareness […]

Excite Inc. Monday launched the Excite Affiliates Network powered by San Francisco-based SmartAge, offering affiliates credits toward free online advertising in exchange for each page view of Excite content. The program allows anyone with a Web site to add elements of Excite’s content to their own site free of charge, the company said. Participating Web […]

San Francisco-based Adauction.com and Microsoft’s MSN LinkExchange signed a deal designed to enhance advertising opportunities for small businesses. The two companies have agreed to a deal in which Adauction.com will offer its customized auction services to create an automated system for selling selected ad space in the AdStore section of the LinkExchange Web site. Financial […]

Amazon.com led the list of top 10 banners ranked by reach for the week ending May 16, according to Nielsen//NetRatings, the Internet measurement service from Nielsen Media Research and NetRatings Inc. Amazon — Click on Shopping. Then click on Music and Video. Bonzi Software — Speed Up Your Internet Connection (large blue-gray) Lowestfare — Discount […]

Campbell, CA-based photo-sharing Web site PhotoLoft.com signed a rep agreement with Andover, MA-based online advertising network Adsmart, a subsidiary of CMGI Inc. “Advertising sales are a major component of our revenue plan,” said PhotoLoft.com CEO and President Jack Marshall. “This partnership with Adsmart has the potential to double our revenues overnight, with virtually unlimited potential […]

New York City-based interactive agency THINK New Ideas reportedly is on the block and already has four or five suitors, according to published reports. The Silicon Alley Reporter said management is “actively looking” to sell the company and has a number of interested buyers, according to sources in and around the company. One bidder is […]

Ann Arbor, MI-based Interactive agency Beyond Interactive signed an agreement with New York City-based affiliate marketer LinkShare to provide revenue-generating Internet marketing programs for its online advertising clients. LinkShare specializes in brokering affiliate programs to cross-refer customers between Web businesses to help them generate revenue for each other. LinkShare said it will benefit from having […]

An ISP in the state of Washington is suing a mortgage company that it has accused of flooding it with misleading junk e-mail in violation of a state law. The $6 million lawsuit, filed in Skagit County Superior Court in Mount Vernon, is against CTX Mortgage, a subsidiary of Dallas-based Centex Corp., according to the […]