US online ad spend up, search and display still dominate

I feel compelled to point out that while social nets haven’t yet set the online advertising world alight, the business of advertising online is very much burning bright. This report by the internet advertising bureau shows that US internet ad revenues for the first six months of 2007 were just shy of a record breaking [...]

Social nets – not quite an ad man’s dream?

OK this is really interesting. Well, I think so. It’s the final session of the recent Graphing Social Patterns conference moderated by Michael Arrington from TechCrunch. Panelists are Jason Calacanis, Robert Scoble, Rodney Rumford and Dave McClure and what followed was an interesting discussion about the monetisation of social nets. As it stands, it does [...]

Charlie Brooker – bad PR for a career in TV (marvellous)