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AGENCY.COM said it appointed Monica Fried to the newly created position of Director of Marketing and PR. Fried, former Director of Marketing at GFT USA for EMANUEL/Emanuel Ungaro, will be responsible for directing AGENCY.COM’s external marketing efforts, and will oversee press relations and management of the corporate Web site. In her previous position at GFT, […]

Worlds Inc. in New York City, a pioneer in 3D Internet technology and creator of Worlds Chat, said that it has retained Middleberg & Associates as its public relations firm. The partnership coincides with the upcoming release of new music and business oriented 3D Internet services and products. “Worlds is currently positioning itself to capture […]

San Mateo, CA-based NetGravity released NetGravity AdServer 3.1, an upgraded ad management solution that includes support for rich media. The company said the new version is improved in areas such as reliability and scalability of the system, rich media support for network customers and ease of auditing ad performance reports. Said Rick Jackson, vice president […]

Streaming media company RealNetworks Inc. launched a Site Partner Program, designed to promote streaming media-enabled Web sites to new media advertising agencies. RealNetworks said the Web site resource program is designed to promote the placement of streaming audio, video and animation advertising on streaming media enabled Web Sites. The company said it will promote site […]

SF Interactive and Mediasmith said the two firms have won a joint assignment to handle interactive advertising for VeriSign, a provider of digital certificate solutions. The two firms, with expertise in interactive advertising and media placement, respectively, won the account after an extensive agency review. Billings were not disclosed. “We wanted to select a creative […]

Fresh from receiving more than $30 million from NBC last week for a stake in his company and its SNAP service, CNET CEO Halsey Minor said he was not surprised by Disney’s decision to take a 43% stake in Infoseek. Minor brought his rosy predictions about the future of electronic commerce to the PC Expo […]

The combination of all sites owned by Disney and Infoseek will reach nearly one-third of all Web site visitors. According to numbers obtained by InternetNews, the combined audience for all of the sites owned by the two companies is a total of 24.1 million web browsers; after projected duplicate traffic among the sites is eliminated, […]

Netword LLC in Arlington, VA, has been awarded a U.S. patent for its Netword System, a central registry of intuitive, memorable names that point to specific URLs, including those buried deep within Web sites. Networds can be used instead of URLs for direct access to 400 million pages on the Web, and for millions of […]

Streaming media provider RealNetworks and 24/7 Media said they will team up to create an ad network of rich media-enabled content sites. 24/7 will promote rich media ad placement utilizing RealNetworks streaming technology on the network of sites. The alliance expands the selection of online properties and campaign reach for advertisers placing rich media advertising, […]

The Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) said that its “Advertising Revenue Reporting Program” shows that total first-quarter spending on Internet ads reached $351.3 million. That’s an increase of 271% over the first quarter of 1997 and the eighth consecutive quarter of positive revenue growth. The report was presented by Coopers & Lybrand at the IAB’s annual […]

The Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) and the Internet Local Advertising & Commerce Association (ILAC) said at the IAB’s annual meeting in San Francisco that effective July 1 the two associations will merge. The merger will “better advance their common mission of maximizing the use and effectiveness of advertising on the Internet, the organizations said. “The […]

Datek Online in Iselin, NJ, an online brokerage firm, launched a multi-million dollar print and broadcast advertising campaign. The new campaign, which debuts in this week’s edition of Barron’s, promotes the benefits of online investing. “We are a fast growing online brokerage firm looking to gain market share, and what better way to do so […]