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Online coupon network H.O.T! Coupons in Garden Grove, CA said it entered a partnership with The QuikPages that will result in value- added services for the customers of both companies. Under the agreement, H.O.T! Coupons advertisers will have access to discounted services from The QuikPages, a developer and promoter of business Web sites. Financial arrangements […]

Emaginet a Bethesda, MD-based developer of Internet marketing applications, named Sandra Keeling-Wainwright as vice president of marketing. Keeling-Wainwright brings more than 18 years of advertising and interactive/digital marketing experience to Emaginet. She will be responsible for all aspects of Emaginet’s integrated marketing including strategy development, public relations, traditional and interactive advertising initiatives. Prior to joining […]

WaveTop, a consumer service of WavePhore Inc., announced launch plans for its home PC broadcast service that will deliver Internet programming via PBS television broadcast signals. WavePhore said the service will be officially introduced on Monday at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) convention in Las Vegas. The scheduled launch follows the company’s Beta 2.0 […]

Biztravel.com and Global Network Architects (GNA), a virtual communities developer, signed an exclusive agreement to provide high-speed, interactive travel reservation services worldwide. The Biztravel.com/GNA partnership will offer online airline, hotel, and car rental reservations via GNA’s various communities, beginning with Sheraton.Net, a personalized in-room communications service soon to be deployed in Sheraton hotels worldwide. Sheraton.Net […]

Adweek’s Interactive Quarterly has an interesting article that should be a must-read for smaller agencies that are starting to wonder why it’s so tough to show profitability in the online ad game. Entitled “Inside a $0 Billion Business,” the piece by Greg Farrell talks about everything from billing models to personnel costs, and even discusses […]

The U.S. Navy assigned its integrated advertising account to BBDO New York, following a mandatory review which began in July 1997. The Navy has been a client of BBDO since 1987. The new contract will run with option years through September 30, 2002. Billings were not disclosed. BBDO New York will continue to be responsible […]

Compass Interactive/NedStat BV in Holland, the developer of the Web measurement NedStat software, signed a contract with Area IP in Barcelona for distribution of the NedStat Pro and SiteStat software in Spain. Area IP will also be responsible for the NedStat Spanish Web site and provide support for the free NedStat Basic version. NedStat Pro […]

Arizona-based Homefair.com launched a new national advertising sales program and hired MapQuest’s ad manager, Bill Sedgwick, as vice president of advertising and sponsorship to lead the effort. In conjunction with the new advertising program, the company said it has signed agreements with a number of national and regional advertisers, including US West, Bank One, Ameritech, […]

Online vehicle sales operation Auto-by-Tel named the Grey Interactive unit of Grey Advertising to handle its integrated advertising and marketing communications account, with billings estimated at $20 million. And Internet retailer iMall named Friedland Jacobs Communications in Burbank, CA, to handle its account. Auto-By-Tel’s ad chores had been divided among an in-house team; RBI Communications […]

Lycos Inc. said it closed six new agreements in March totaling more than $30 million in advertising, sponsorship, and e-commerce fees. Of these deals, the CDnow sponsorship and e-commerce deal alone is valued at $18.5 million. CDnow will pay Lycos over a three-year period, including $16.5 million in cash and $2 million in stock. CDnow […]

When GartnerGroup came up with “Total Cost of Ownership” as a measurement that showed a growing problem with the expense of PC networks, the network computing vendors were among the first to claim they had an answer. But at the analytical service’s “Lowering TCO” conference in Palm Springs this week, the Java NC vendors were […]

In what it is calling a landmark legal victory, Playboy Enterprises, Inc. (PEI) announced today it won an Internet copyright infringement suit filed against San Diego-based Five Senses Productions. A federal judge in Southern California awarded PEI $3.74 million in damages in connection with the unauthorized use by Five Senses Productions of approximately 7,500 Playboy […]