Advertising

Millennial Media posts loss in first quarter as a public company

2012-05-14 16:53:00

Millennial Media Inc., a Baltimore-based mobile advertising firm, posted its first quarterly results as a public company Monday. The results included a $4 million loss but were in line with Wall Street's expectations. The company reported revenues of...

Bootcamp Helicopters

2012-05-07 11:09:00

A duo based in Howard County is hoping their new business venture will take aspiring pilots and advertisers to new heights. Bootcamp Helicopters is the brainchild of pilot Robert Schapiro and marketing and advertising specialist Kyle Benham. The company,...

Sunday night TV is DVR overload

2012-04-27 14:00:00

With the arrival last week of HBO's "VEEP," it is official: Sunday night TV is out of control, but in a good way. Hard as might be to imagine in a medium that some characterize as having 10 million choices but nothing worth watching, Sunday nights now...

Delaney wins in 6th District primary

2012-04-03 21:16:00

A wealthy Potomac businessman whose very candidacy challenged state Democratic leaders won a hotly contested congressional primary in Western Maryland on Tuesday, setting up a battle for the seat in November that will help decide control of the House of...

New Grand Prix group is off to slow start

2012-04-04 17:21:00

With the second Baltimore Grand Prix less than five months away, organizers of the race have yet to sign key agreements, land sponsorship deals, launch a marketing campaign or start selling tickets. Downforce Racing LLC has not fulfilled three of five...

German gummi bear maker aims for bigger share of U.S. market

2012-04-07 13:34:00

Chew on this: Adults — not children — account for 65 percent of gummi candy consumption in the United States. And that appetite is growing, if Haribo of America Inc.'s sales are any indication. U.S. sales for the Woodlawn-based division of...

NFL relaxes rule on casino advertisements

2012-04-16 16:14:24

For decades, the NFL prohibited teams from accepting advertisements from casinos — and casinos couldn't woo the sport's rabid fan base as potential customers. But last week, the league relaxed its policy, allowing franchises such as the Baltimore...

If not the bottle tax, then what?

2012-04-22 05:00:00

Baltimore City has a serious problem with run-down, antiquated school facilities. They represent a major impediment to progress in improving the education of Baltimore children and a drag on the city's efforts to shake off decades of decline....

Baltimore advertisers have no beef with Rush Limbaugh

2012-03-07 05:11:00

Though national advertisers are fleeing Rush Limbaugh after he called a birth control activist a slut, Baltimore seems immune to the exodus. Executives at WCBM, 680 AM, the affiliate that airs the Rush Limbaugh show locally, said Tuesday that not a...

Sinclair aims to provide local TV news on the go

2012-03-11 00:00:00

The head of Sinclair Broadcast Group has a definite idea about television's future: It will be a mobile medium. And he doesn't need industry research to tell him so. David D. Smith, president and chief executive of the Hunt Valley-based broadcaster,...

Millennial Media readies for IPO Thursday

2012-03-28 14:40:00

Baltimore's Millennial Media Inc., one of the largest companies in the fast-growing mobile advertising industry, said it would launch its public offering on Thursday, with expectations of selling $132.6 million worth of shares on its first day on the...

Millennial Media's shares nearly double at IPO opening

2012-03-29 06:36:00

Millennial Media Inc., a Baltimore-based mobile advertising company, broke a years-long IPO drought in the city's technology sector and went public today on the New York Stock Exchange with an opening share price of $13.� Shares immediately shot up to...

Twitter is looking to make money from a new self-serve advertising system for small businesses.

2012-02-16 17:39:30

A supergraphic billboard along Pico Boulevard is among those at 12 locations that are at the center of a nuisance abatement lawsuit by the city in a long-running struggle to enforce outdoor advertising laws on February 26, 2010 in Los Angeles, California.

2010-03-01 08:31:57

L.A. s Sunset Strip, considered a premier venue for outdoor advertising, is dominated by Regency Outdoor Advertising s billboards. The company, owned by Drake and Brian Kennedy, is embroiled in allegations of political corruption involving the placement of some of its signs.

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