Online Ad Deals Hit $20 Billion Over Past Year in GOOGMSFT
By Silicon el 19-Aug-2008
Our friends at PaidContent have been counting up the dollars spent on online ad deals in the last year and change, and have come up with a really big number. According to PC's tally, an eye-popping $20 billion has been spent on 100 acquisitions from Q1 2007 through Q2 2008
That would include some fairly sizeable deals such as Microsoft's (MSFT) acquisition of aQuantive ($6 billion) and Google's (GOOG) acquisition of Doubleclick ($3 billion). Total VC dollars pouring into online advertising hit $2.1 billion spread across 160 investments.
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Following the Cannes Film Festival this past week, Bloomberg Japan is reporting that Capcom might be looking to capitalize on its hottest video game properties through various film deals. The str [..] 
The network TV upfronts -- the weeks-long sales cycle where the broadcasters try to sell 80% of their inventory for the next year, for some $9 billion -- begin next week. Online ads are often sold as part [..] 
Just look what Steve Chen and Chad Hurley have wrought: In the three years since they founded YouTube, investors have poured more than $8 billion into the online video business.
[..] 
Twitter's not going to make their money with advertising. So how can they be a Billion Dollar Company in a year?
Twitter should take full advantage of their messaging platform, [..] 
