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Fifty-five percent of consumers want an ongoing dialogue with brands, according to a recent survey conducted by ExpoTV, exploring how direct consumer engagement creates brand advocacy. The survey also revealed that positive brand experiences can generate word-of-mouth buzz: more than 60 percent of those polled said they tell 10 or more people about the products they like while a third tell 20 or more people.

VisibleCampaign helps advertisers and their agencies understand the effectiveness of in-market campaigns and make better decisions about future video advertising investments. As part of its ongoing efforts to determine the true value of Internet video as an advertising medium, Visible Measures also announced today that it has agreed to conduct a series of joint projects in collaboration with Dynamic Logic, the leading digital advertising effectiveness research company.

Consumption of video content is expected to rise 25% to five hours per day by 2013, compared with the four hours now watched in 2008, according to Forrester Research. The firm suggests the increase will be driven by consumers watching programming of all grades via computers, mobile phones, portable media players and even digital photo frames.

Commission Junction, a division of ValueClick, Inc. (Nasdaq:VCLK), announced today that it is once again the affiliate marketing provider of choice for America's largest retail Web sites.

Marketers can expect to spend much more money online in the next five years. This also means consumers will be seeing more online ads, so marketers should get inventive with the process. According to a recent IDC study, online ad revenue will surpass $51 billion by 2012.

Three computer scientists from the University of Washington who set out to study how people use peer-to-peer networks got some unexpected results--hundreds of takedown notices accusing them of infringing the copyright to books, movies and TV shows like "Harry Potter" and "Battlestar Galactica."

As consumers become more familiar with video platforms, more and more are logging on. According to a recent comScore report, video views grew more than 60% from March 2007 to March 2008. Roughly 11.5 billion videos were viewed during the reporting period.

The PubMatic AdPrice Index revealed surprising weakness in monetization for the vast majority of Web sites. Large Web sites fared the worst while Small Web sites managed to maintain their monetization rates. eCPMs for large Web sites (more than 100 million page views per month) dropped dramatically by 52 percent from 38 cents in March to 18 cents April. Medium Web sites (1 million to 100 million page views per month) were nearly flat, with monetization dropping from 34 cents in March to 33 cents in April. Small Web sites managed to improve their monetization, increasing from $1.18 in March to $1.29 in April.

BEVERLY HILLS, CA--(Marketwire - May 2, 2008) - OVGuide.com, the Internet's most comprehensive guide to online video sites, including TV shows, movies, user-generated content and video games, today issued its April online video alert, identifying the most popular movie and television destinations, video genres and search terms.