Archive for May, 2011

Ethics: Generating Ad Revenue from Stolen Content

Ethics: Generating Ad Revenue from Stolen Content

A worrisome trend in humor sites, stealing content and not providing citations, has been extending more and more into the world of web comics. Because they’re...

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Does Reading Profiles on Dating Sites Leave Time for Actual Dating?

Does Reading Profiles on Dating Sites Leave Time for Actual Dating?

I just finished reading Dan Ariely’s latest book, The Upside of Irrationality, which devotes a very interesting chapter to online dating. In his book, Ariely...

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Quick Tip: PRO Referral Analyics Dashboard Overview of Traffic Insights

Quick Tip: PRO Referral Analyics Dashboard Overview of Traffic Insights

Compete PRO Advanced has organized a number of pre-configured Traffic Insights to help you identify sources of traffic growth and decline by performance and domain...

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The Weekly Compete Pulse

The Weekly Compete Pulse

Hopefully wherever you are this weekend, the weather is nice so you can enjoy the holiday. If you’re stuck inside though, check out these links to some of...

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Nothing is Certain, Except Death and Taxes and Online Marketing

Nothing is Certain, Except Death and Taxes and Online Marketing

For most of us, tax season has come and gone. But there’s no need to be sad. As the old adage goes, it’ll certainly be back. Though the season has closed, we...

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Compete April 2011 Category Data for ‘News: Sports’ Shows Rise of BleacherReport.com

Compete April 2011 Category Data for ‘News: Sports’ Shows Rise of BleacherReport.com

Fast-Growing Online Publisher Is Firmly Entrenched as One of the Category Leaders BOSTON, MA–(Marketwire) - Compete, a Kantar Media company, today released...

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“Rapture-tising”: After the Weekend, We’re Still Here…

“Rapture-tising”: After the Weekend, We’re Still Here…

I love the term “rapture-tising,” which as far as I can tell was coined by Advertising Age in response to the ubiquitous advertising done by Family Radio,...

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Compete Releases Ranking of Top 50 Websites for April 2011

Compete Releases Ranking of Top 50 Websites for April 2011

NYTimes.com Declined in First Full Month With Paywall; Daily Deal Sites Continue to Thrive BOSTON, MA–(Marketwire) - Compete, a Kantar Media company, today...

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Webinar Replay: The Compete Online Retail 2011 Q1 Review

Webinar Replay: The Compete Online Retail 2011 Q1 Review

Jason Caine, Director, Client Services – Retail at Compete, and Damian Roskill, Managing Director, Marketing at Compete hosted a webinar last week on the...

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A Very ‘Pinterest’-ing Idea

A Very ‘Pinterest’-ing Idea

If I had a dollar for every time I wanted to put a virtual post-it on a website/image/link/idea/design/whatever, I’d be on my tropical island and not writing...

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