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Gannett Co., Inc. Reports Preliminary Fourth Quarter and Full-Year Results

| February 3, 2009 | 2 Comments

MCLEAN, Va. – Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE: GCI) reported today that preliminary 2008 fourth quarter earnings per diluted share from continuing operations were $0.69 compared with $1.06 per share in the fourth quarter of 2007. The preliminary results for the quarter include $56 million in pre-tax severance expenses ($36.1 million after tax or $0.16 per [...]

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Yahoo! Reviews A Year in Search

| December 9, 2008 | 1 Comment

Through Billions of Searches in 2008, People Sought to Make Sense of the World Around Them, Witnessing a Year of Passionate Politics, Olympic Records, New Celebrities on the Rise and Market Meltdowns SUNNYVALE, Calif. – Yahoo! Inc (NASDAQ:YHOO) announced the most popular searches, themes, and trends as part of its 2008 Year in Review (yearinreview.yahoo.com), [...]

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Ad Ops Daily Briefs: November 21 2004

| November 21, 2008 | 0 Comments

- Yahoo! Breaks Audience Record and Wins 2008 Election! Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO) today released new comScore Media Metrix figures showing that Yahoo! News attracted 7.6 million unique users on Election Day, November 4, the largest single-day audience in online news history. Yahoo!’s Election Day victory caps a banner year for Yahoo!’s media properties, which served as [...]

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Gannett Co., Inc. Reports Third Quarter Results

| October 30, 2008 | 0 Comments

MCLEAN, Va. – Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE:GCI) reported that 2008 third quarter earnings per diluted share from continuing operations were $0.69 compared with $1.01 per share in the third quarter of 2007. The results for the quarter include $23.0 million in pre-tax severance expenses ($14.4 million after tax or $0.07 per share) related to reductions [...]

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Carat revises global ad spend growth forecasts for 2008 & 2009

| August 28, 2008 | 0 Comments

August 27, 2008 – Carat, the leading independent media communications agency, today issued revised forecasts for global advertising expenditure in 2008 and 2009. The worldwide prediction for 2008 is revised downwards by just over a percentage point from 6.0% to 4.9%. 2009 is also very slightly reduced, from 4.9% growth to 4.8%.

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DoubleClick Serves Into Silverlight to Power Video Advertising for NBC Universal Digital Media

| August 8, 2008 | 0 Comments

I barely got the time to bitch point out DoubleClick’s apathy in updating us, and they announced that their in-stream platform can now power video advertising in Silverlight 2 players, in addition to Flash, RealMedia, and Windows Media. The new feature doesn’t seem to have propagated in all DFP accounts yet, and the knowledge base [...]

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Creatives Showcase: The We8 Side of Coke

| July 30, 2008 | 0 Comments

I’ll be stepping away from the Eyeblaster creative zone (not that there’s anything wrong with that!) and bring to your attention a campaign that I have completely missed if it wasn’t for Martina at Adverblog.com to post about it: the We8 side of Coke. It’s not that I haven’t seen traces of this campaign (bumped [...]

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