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Quick Hits: Is Drunk Ecommerce Up?, Facebook Ads and Self-Image, Google Sued Over Secure Shopping Concepts

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December 28th 2011
Author
Brian LaRue

ADOTAS - Yesterday, the New York Times reported on the patently self-evident fact that people are more inclined to spend money when they’re inebriated. (If you need stats, the article points to a study conducted by British comparison shopping site Kelkoo that says nearly half of respondents in the U.K. [...] more...

Quick Hits: Most Video Ad Clicks Happen in Evenings, Groupon Gives Discounts for Brick-and-Mortar Purchases, More

Written on
December 20th 2011
Author
Brian LaRue

ADOTAS – According to a new study conducted by ad platform TubeMogul (and reported earlier today by MediaPost), people are more likely to click on online video ads during the evening than any other time of day. Looking at 23 million impressions from preroll ads, the study found 26 percent [...] more...

Quick Hits: AdBlock Blocks Fewer Ads, Amazon Aces a Test of the Cloud

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December 12th 2011
Author
Brian LaRue

ADOTAS – AdBlock Plus developer Wladimir Palant announced last week the popular ad-blocking plugin is going to begin blocking fewer ads — at least in its default settings. AdBlock Plus 2.0 allows for “non-intrusive” ads — that is, ads that are static (preferably text-only) and, as such, have no audio or [...] more...

Google Set to Challenge Amazon by Combining Product Search and Shipping

Written on
December 5th 2011
Author
Brian LaRue

ADOTAS – According to both the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, who had spoken with insiders who weren’t authorized yet to speak on the record about the project, Google is working on a service that, for a fee, will ship and deliver products within a day after [...] more...

The Importance of Distinguishing Features in Online Branding

Written on
November 3rd 2011
Author
R. Paul Singh

ADOTAS – While we were writing some blogs at SocialNuggets, we thought of adding thumbnails of various tablets. Then started our search on Google and Yahoo! for images of various tablets. What we found was an utter lack of branding in the tablet marketplace — except in the case of [...] more...

Tablet App Development: One for All, Not One by One

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October 25th 2011
Author
Tamir Strauss

ADOTAS – Since the launch of the original iPad around two years ago, numerous manufacturers have entered the tablet market, mostly with fairly limited success. Various reports have highlighted that Apple currently commands around 80% of all tablet sales and Apple’s Q2 results saw the iPad overtake the Mac revenue [...] more...

Associations Rail Against Federal Online Sales Tax Bill

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August 2nd 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Yesterday we noted that Democrats in both houses of Congress had introduced versions of the “Main Street Fairness Act,” a federal framework for state governments regarding the collection of online sales tax. Amazon, which is bringing out the big guns for recently passed California online sales tax legislation, [...] more...

Congressional Democrats Introduce Amazon-Supported Online Sales Tax Bill

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August 1st 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – With Amazon and Sears Roebuck offering big thumbs up, Democrats in the U.S. House and Senate unveiled versions of the ”Main Street Fairness Act,” which would provide states with a framework for collecting sales tax on online purchases. eBay was joined by Electronics Retailing Association, the Computer and Communications Industry Association, [...] more...

PMA Urges California Voters to Support Amazon Tax Referendum

Written on
July 14th 2011
Author
Blue Phoenix Media

BLUE PHOENIX – Amazon was quick to fight back after California passed what many are calling the Amazon tax. If you haven’t been keeping pace, this is a measure that forces online entities like Amazon and Overstock.com to collect sales taxes from affiliates residing in those states where such laws exist, as [...] more...

How the Affiliate Tax Will Hurt CPA Networks

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June 30th 2011
Author
Pace Lattin

ADOTAS – There has been a great deal of discussion of all the Affiliate Tax laws being passed in the media. Unfortunately, thanks to a great spin campaign by companies such as Walmart, the discussion has been focused on how these new Nexus Tax laws will affect large companies like [...] more...



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