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Web measurement firm NetRatings released the top 10 ad banners for the week ending Oct. 3. They were: Deja News: Who’s your favorite artist? Deja News: What’s your favorite TV show? GoTo.com: Type in what you’re looking for Autoweb.com: Get the best deal now! Next Card: Online Approvals 2.9% APR The Mining Company: The 500 […]

Young & Rubicam Inc. won a $15 million to $20 million marketing assignment from GeoCities. The Young & Rubicam companies that will work on behalf of GeoCities are Y&R Advertising (for consumer advertising research); Wunderman Cato Johnson (for advertising and relationship marketing); Landor (for corporate design); The Media Edge (for media research, planning and placement); […]

CASIE, the Coalition for Advertising Supported Information and Entertainment, handed out honors recently at the Association of National Advertisers Annual Conference, in Naples, FL. Top awards went to advertisers and their agencies in four categories: Best interactive product ads: Procter & Gamble (Scope) and Blue Marble ACG. Best interactive service ads: John Hancock Variable Life […]

Streaming media company RealNetworks Inc. took a shot at rival Microsoft Corp. Monday by sealing a deal with Netscape Communications Corp. to include its Real Player 5.0 in the Communicator 4.5 Internet suite. In addition to being bundled with Netscape’s browser, Real Player 5.0 will also be available on the Netcenter portal site. The companies […]

Jon Postel, 55, chairman of the Internet Assigned Number Authority, the government-contracted agency that oversees the domain name system, died Friday night after heart surgery in Los Angeles. Postel was recovering from heart surgery to correct a heart valve problem. Postel’s sudden death complicates the Clinton administration’s efforts to forge changes in the privatization of […]

Community Web site portal GeoCities Monday started using search engine technology from Inktomi Corp. Users will be able to perform both basic and in-depth searches sites inside the GeoCities network as well as across the Internet. Under basic GeoCities searches, more than 20 million GeoCities member pages will be indexed. By typing in words or […]

Coolsavings.com Inc. Monday sued competitor Emaginet Inc., charging the company with violating its patented method of targeted marketing. In the lawsuit filed in a Chicago federal court, CoolSavings charged Bethesda, Md.-based Emaginet with offering consumer and advertiser services that infringe on a patent it was granted for its method of distributing coupons over the Internet. […]

In another sign of the intensifying competition among the Internet portals, GeoCities Inc. plans to spend up to $20 million on a new marketing campaign. GeoCities announced Friday it has tapped New York advertising agency Young & Rubicam Inc. to spearhead the effort. Various Y&R subsidiaries will work on everything from advertising and relationship marketing […]

Arbitron NewMedia signed an agreement with Motorola subsidiary RadioWave.com, allowing Arbitron to use RadioWave software in tracking Internet listener reports for radio stations and other streaming audio outlets. Using RadioWave.com’s proprietary software to track Internet listening sessions, Arbitron will provide online and printed reports that will be available later in the year. As many as […]

Online real estate listing firm HomeSeekers.com posted a loss of $2.79 million for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1998, compared to a loss of $2.12 million in the prior year. Revenues increased to $1.67 million from $1.59 million for fiscal 1997. The net loss for the year was 50 cents per share, compared with […]

Ad network DoubleClick Inc. in New York posted third quarter revenues of $20.8 million, up from $8.2 million a year earlier, but its net loss jumped to $4.7 million, up from $2.1 million in the third quarter of 1997. The net loss for the third quarter of 1998 was $0.28 per share, compared to a […]

Rare Medium Corp. completed its plan to transform itself into a pure Internet company by selling its majority interest in air conditioning business Fresh Air Solutions (FAS) to an FAS management group. The management group paid Rare Medium $1.5 million, including cash of $1.125 million and a note for $375,000, and relieved Rare Medium of […]