<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/154fae10-f64f-40da-bc32-e5f40cea5da3/BCE3F633-1E67-4046-A2E9-747AA84FBAB7/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.marketingcharts.com/interactive/economy-shrinking-65-of-cmo-ad-budgets-as-money-shiftstoward-digital-6243/epsilon-cmo-survey-digital-interactive-spend-increase-september-2008jpg/" href="http://www.marketingcharts.com/interactive/economy-shrinking-65-of-cmo-ad-budgets-as-money-shiftstoward-digital-6243/epsilon-cmo-survey-digital-interactive-spend-increase-september-2008jpg/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.marketingcharts.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; 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font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.marketingcharts.com/interactive/economy-shrinking-65-of-cmo-ad-budgets-as-money-shiftstoward-digital-6243/epsilon-cmo-survey-digital-interactive-spend-increase-september-2008jpg/"><P>Nearly two-thirds (65%) of CMOs and marketing execs say their ad budgets will decrease because of the troubled economy, but more of their money will go toward digital/interactive marketing than before, <A href="http://http://www.epsilon.com/epsilonstatic/media/press/2008/09/08_cmo.html">according to</A> a <A href="http://www.epsilon.com/epsilonstatic/pdf/EPS_0808_CMO_SURVEY_03.pdf">survey (pdf)</A> from <A href="http://http://www.epsilon.com">Epsilon</A>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; 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