Aptimus, Inc. Acquires High Voltage Interactive, a Leading Online Marketing Firm Specializing in Recruitment Solutions (Market Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

Northwest Natural Gas tries hand at online advertising (BizJournals)Northwest Natural Gas Co. is the latest local company to venture into online advertising.

Identify the Key & Niche Companies Operating in the World’s Online Advertising Industry (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)DUBLIN, Ireland—-Aug. 21, 2006–Research and Markets has announced the addition of Online Advertising - Global Strategic Business Report to their offering.

Unilever Gets Creative with Online Campaign (Indie Research via Yahoo! Finance)We’ve highlighted the fast-paced world of online advertising as well as the migration of content from print and television to online for subscribers on a number of occasions, but more and more companies are taking advantage of the unique characteristics of the Web to combine these two trends to create Web-based standalone ads that look and feel like original content.

socalTech.com)” title=”Interview with Bill Urschel, Founder of AdECN (socalTech.com)” style=”color:grey;display: block;clear:both;”>Interview with Bill Urschel, Founder of AdECN (socalTech.com)Serial entrepreneur Bill Urschel is the founder and CEO of Carpinteria-based AdECN (www.adecn.com), a company developing an online advertising exchange marketplace. The venture backed company has raised $5. (more)

Can AOL keep pace? (CNN Money)By our count, AOL has announced four let’s-fix-this-puppy plans in as many years. And almost all of them, despite great hype, have turned out to be fairly modest proposals.

Online ad market expected to grow annual 11% in next five years (Budapest Business Journal)The increase will come largely because of spending on search marketing, which shows ads to internet users based on the terms they enter into search engines. Hungary’s search marketing segment is expected to grow more than 60% to Ft 400 million in 2006.

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