The IV Holdings Blog: Advertising Growth

Ad Revenue on the Web? No Sure Bet

Mon, 25 May 2009 08:54:00 GMT

May 25, 2009 Ad Revenue on the Web? No Sure Bet By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER SAN FRANCISCO — For anyone with a crazy idea for a Web business, the way to make it pay was once obvious: get a lot of visitors and sell ads. Since 2004, venture investors have put $5.1 billion into 828 Web start-up companies, and most of them are supported by ads, according to the National Venture Capital Association... [read more]

How To Make Money Online

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:00:27 GMT

Yet another excellent article published on Forbes by Maureen Farrell http://www.forbes.com/2008/12/19/make-money-online-ent-tech-cx_mf_1219moneyonline.html?partner=email Suleman Ali needed a change. So, in mid-2007, he left his programming gig atMicrosoftto start a company--any company. On a whim, he wrote an application for Facebook, the social networking Web site, called... [read more]

MENA Advertising Growth To Double In 2009

Sun, 14 Dec 2008 12:05:00 GMT

This is an interesting article that I came upon on Startup Arabia ----------------------------- Mohamed Marwen Meddah | December 10, 2008 – 9:08 pm | An industry report released byZenithOptimedia, a media-buying arm of one of the world’s largest advertising firms, Publicis Group, says 2009 advertising growth for the MENA region will grow by 10 percent, nearly the double of this year’s... [read more]