Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the anthropological intersections of tech, politics & culture. So, has online advertising actually changed the density of ...

More than a quarter of all ads that Web surfers see are designed to play video, audio or animations--what's known as rich media--and that figure could grow to 40 percent by the end of 2003, according ...

Like many recent visitors to The New York Times' Web site, Mike Brittain was surprised to find an extra browser window loitering on his PC after he took his daily dose of news. The window, which held ...

— -- You see them on just about every website. They lurk at the side or the top of the page. Some are static, others blink, flash, even float across your monitor ...

Type “Grantham University” into Yahoo’s search engine, and what appears at the top of the page, above the actual search results, is not a link to Grantham’s home page but an ad for the University of ...

An online advertising trade group on Monday plans to unveil standards for bigger Web advertisements as it seeks to breathe new life into the battered industry. The Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) ...

Google is rolling out a new feature that allows the Google Chrome web browser to automatically unload web ads that use a disproportionate amount of system resources as part of an effort to reduce the ...

Just because you can do something doesn't mean, of course, that you should. With today's technology, for instance, it's possible to give people who read the National Enquirer online a chance to ...

If you had typed “Grantham University” into Yahoo’s search engine last week, what would have appeared at the top of the page, above the actual search results, was not a link to Grantham’s Web site but ...