The marketing dollars targeting potential consumers surfing the Web is set to rise for a fourth year, if the recent growth of online advertising continues apace.
In the first quarter, online advertising soared 38% as advertisers devoted a record $3.9 billion to target consumers on the Web, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

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Most business leaders who disdain maximizing profits and corporate values would be quickly shown the door.
For Jim Buckmaster, chief executive officer of Craigslist, the iconic community Web site that has steamrolled the publishing industry with free classified ads, such anti-establishment rhetoric is just another day on the job.
In his playbook, offers from other companies to […]

Yahoo! Inc. and eBay Inc. forged an alliance to challenge Google Inc.’s grip on the Internet.
Under the accord, eBay, the world’s largest Internet auctioneer, will use Yahoo! software exclusively to post ads on its Web site, the companies said Thursday. Yahoo!, which trails Google in online search and advertising, will in return exclusively use eBay’s […]

A new website that hoovers up two million classified adverts from newspaper websites around the UK claims it is helping to boost the flagging market.
US-based Oodle crawls the web for adverts placed on a variety of publishers’ sites and offers them to users through a single gateway.
A British version of the site launched last week, […]

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Pet and pet services classified ads online are creating new marketplaces where pet service providers, pet breeders, and pet owners are meeting and doing business 24 hours a day and seven days a week using the internet. According to the IAB (Internet Advertising Bureau) in a study sponsored by Price Waterhouse, Classified Advertising Spending […]

US-based classifieds provider Oodle has expanded into the UK with Oodle.co.uk. Oodle is actually a classified search engine rather than a classified service in itself. It aggregates listings from many other sources including Craigslist, Yahoo, and local newspapers. The company currently serves 127 U.S. cities and more that 200 U.S. university communities. The new U.K. […]

Sulekha.com, which unites both homeland Netizens and the worldwide community of NRIs (nonresident Indians), now holds 10 million pages of content, 95 percent of it created by users. It claims to be India’s leading site for classified ads and also its biggest blogging portal, stimulating such an outpouring of online rumination that Penguin recently brought […]