Beth Cox

IBM and the five biggest U.S. record companies will soon sell albums directly to consumers via the Internet–on a trial basis. In part motivated by the rise in pirated recordings available free on the Net, IBM, BMG, EMI, Sony Music, Universal Music and Warner Music said they will experiment with allowing computer users to download […]

Discover Brokerage, a Morgan Stanley Dean Witter company, signed an interactive marketing agreement to sponsor the Investment Channel on Intuit Inc.’s Quicken.com, a personal finance Web site. The agreement also includes sponsorship of portions of the investment channels on sites to which Quicken.com provides financial content, as well as in- product advertising in Quicken 99, […]

New York City-based Candor led by Gordon Fenton, formed a strategic alliance with Hayes & Associates, a Silicon Alley based interactive consulting firm. Prior to founding Candor, Fenton was executive vice president and international creative director of Bates Worldwide. At Bates, Fenton was responsible for building and maintaining brands for various blue-chip clients. Before Bates, […]

SBC Interactive, the online publishing company of SBC Communications Inc., and Web ad network Flycast Communications Corp. signed an agreement in which SBC will deliver Web advertising solutions to local and regional businesses in its seven-state region. SBC Interactive operates Yellow Pages and information Web sites calledSMARTpages.com serving California, Texas, Missouri, Nevada, Oklahoma, Arkansas and […]

Internet advertising agency Quantum Leap Communications in Chicago has been awarded a digital assignment from accounting and consulting firm Ernst & Young LLP. Quantum Leap will be responsible for digital strategy, providing counsel to Ernst & Young in the areas of extranet information design, project design and implementation. BroadVision Inc., a provider of one-to-one applications […]

New York City-based NetCreations Inc. has been selected to build and manage an opt-in e-mail list for get2net, a provider of public Internet access units for airports. get2net will post registration forms on its pages to enable users to sign up for relevant opt-in e-mail lists, which will be managed by NetCreations. The get2net contacts […]

AT&T WorldNet Adopts Animated Cursor for Promo AT&T WorldNet Service is working with New York City-based Comet Systems to add color and animation to the computer cursor. Comet Systems’ Comet Cursor technology — which changes the appearance of a user’s cursor into any character or animated object — has been incorporated into AT&T WorldNet Service’s […]

Austin, TX-based Acuity Corp., a provider of Web-based customer interaction software, said that WebCenter Express 2.2 is now generally available and that 20 new companies have licensed the technology over the past six weeks. New to the 2.2 version of is a full range of self-help capabilities, including a searchable knowledge base and an internal/external […]

A study released by The Arbitron Company and Edison Media Research shows that online radio/audio listenership penetration has doubled in six months. Currently 13 percent of all Americans say they have listened to radio on the Internet. Six months ago, only 6 percent of the participants in the survey said that they listened to radio […]

Internet Profiles Corp. (I/PRO) launched the I/PRO Informer program, a value-added information service that is being offered to its customers to complement the auditing, measurement or research services they receive. For a limited time, program enrollment will also be open to Web leaders who are not current I/PRO customers. The company said that the program […]

Online measurement firm NetRatings said the online campaign offered by Victoria’s Secret Inc., including the promotion of an online fashion show featuring top models showing off underwear, is definitely working. Until last week, the traffic for this site registered so small on the NetRatings’ radar screen–less than a half percent–that it was not reportable, the […]

Burlington, MA-based Wep rep firm BURST! said it recorded a 258 percent increase in ad revenue over the previous year and turned a profit in 1998, after its third full year of business. The privately held company said it has grown to represent more than 2,500 unique, specialty-content Web sites and is recording a combined […]