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News of October 6, 2009
 Gunfight at the DMA Corral
 Q Interactive Buys Lead-Gen Firm Vente
 Open Rates Rise Again: Epsilon
 E-mail’s Tiny Ad Share Gets Smaller: IAB
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Gunfight at the DMA Corral

10/06/09

Oh, the irony. A dissident board member of the Direct Marketing Association has launched a campaign against the DMA using the one channel the organization has arguably struggled with most—e-mail.

Gerry Pike on Sept. 25 sent an e-mail to DMA members asking them to sign their proxy votes over to him. As far as Pike is concerned, the DMA hasn’t been serving its members and he’d like to change that.

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Q Interactive Buys Lead-Gen Firm Vente

10/06/09

Pay-for-performance ad network Q Interactive announced today it has acquired Vente—a company that specializes in permission-based behaviorally targeted e-mail marketing—from data giant Experian.

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Open Rates Rise Again: Epsilon

10/06/09

E-mail average open rates have edged up for the fourth quarter in a row, according to a study released today by marketing services provider Epsilon.

Average open rates—or the percentage of people who view e-mail with graphics turned on—were 22.2% in the second quarter of 2009, up slightly from 22.1% in the first quarter, according to Epsilon.

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E-mail’s Tiny Ad Share Gets Smaller: IAB

10/06/09

While overall U.S. Internet ad spending dropped by 5.3% to $10.9 billion from the first half of 2008 to the first half of 2009, e-mail ad spending became even more of a rounding error than it already was, according to a recent study by the Internet Advertising Bureau.

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