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NTN Communications Inc. signed with Alternative Media NETworks LLC to sell advertising and sponsorships on the NTN Network. The NTN Network is an interactive television network that broadcasts to bars, restaurants and hotels, as well as NTN’s entertainment area on America Online. The NTN Network boasts more than 100 million impressions per month for its […]

WinStar Interactive in New York City, the online ad sales subsidiary of WinStar New Media, launched what it calls a new model for online advertising sales. Under this new approach, WinStar Interactive said it will represent a select list of large, branded Web properties across a combination of sponsorship packages, anchor tenant, e-commerce and other […]

Targeted e-mail services provider InfoBeat Inc. and I/PRO, the Web measurement and auditing services firm, signed an agreement to offer the Nielsen I/PRO “Email I/AUDIT” service to InfoBeat’s business clients. The service provides verification of circulation figures for publishers who offer marketers the ability to target and reach their subscribers via e-mail advertising. InfoBeat Express, […]

Online employment ad site The Monster Board said it signed an agreement to provide classified ads to CableSoft Corp., a provider of local, on-demand information for cable television viewers. The deal will provide The Monster Board with what it called “a powerful new distribution model reaching millions of job candidates via cable television.” CableSoft executed […]

AtWeb, Inc. today announced that it signed exclusive relationships with more than 100 ISP/Web Hosting companies to offer products and services to their customers. Under terms of the agreements, there will be a direct link from the home page of each partner’s site to the co-branded Web Site Garage service, run by AtWeb. Financial terms […]

The Australian government will not demand 64kbps ISDN services to be made available to every house and business in Australia, ignoring concerns about the congestion of the Internet in Australia and high cost of ISDN connections. A report released this week by the Australian Communications Authority (ACA) recommended that Telstra, the government-owned incumbent national telecommunications […]

Net Shepherd Inc. signed a $Cdn3.25 Million revenue contract with The McLellan Software Center LLC., to create what it calls “the world’s largest database of Internet content ratings”. McLellan Software’s “IconGuardIt” software will be applied to the database to create a high-performance, seven-day, 24-hour, rapid-response database system for Internet filtering. “This revenue contract will enable […]

Growth in the Internet-user population and the arrival of mainstream advertisers will push global spending for online ads to more than $15 billion in 2003, according to a new report from Forrester Research Inc. Cambridge, MA-based Forrester estimates that U.S. spending for Internet ads will grow from $1.3 billion in 1998 to $10.5 billion in […]

The publisher of the Web service Scour.net, a search engine and guide for finding audio, video and images on the Internet, began promotion of its unique, multimedia-finding capabilities. Created by Scour, Inc., of Los Angeles, Scour.net is one of the fastest growing sites on the Internet. Founded by five UCLA computer science students, Scour.net is […]

French companies plan to almost triple their spending on advertising on the Internet this year to an estimated $10.8 million from $4 million in 1997, French business daily La Tribune reported. Four in five of the 50 companies surveyed by Benchmark Group, a research company, were satisfied that advertising online was a worthwhile investment, Bloomberg […]

CMPnet launched a national magazine consumer advertising campaign featuring the tagline “Know More Now” and running in Fast Company, Time Digital, Time Magazine, Upside and CMP Media’s stable of business computing titles. The campaign, developed by New York agency Frankfurt Balkind, breaks in the August issue of Fast Company magazine with the first in a […]

InterVU Inc. signed a two year agreement with MovieFone Inc., a movie listing guide and ticketing service, to provide movie trailers and other film-related video to users of MovieLink.com. MovieLink.com offers movie showtimes, theater locations, other movie information and multimedia, and the ability to purchase tickets in advance. With the addition of InterVU’s network enabling […]