Online ad market expected to grow annual 11% in next five years (Budapest Business Journal)

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

Aptimus, Inc. Acquires High Voltage Interactive, a Leading Online Marketing Firm Specializing in Recruitment Solutions (Market Wire via Yahoo! Finance)Aptimus, Inc. the Point-of-Action(TM) online advertising network today announced the acquisition of Sausalito, California-based High Voltage Interactive, Inc. The acquisition is a significant element of its strategy to bring a new class of transactional advertising to the world’s largest brands.

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)

Tempting the Traditional Coffee Drinker to Move Up (New York Times)Folgers is tiptoeing into the upscale shelf space this week with a line of premium coffee dressed up in shiny bags.

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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