<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/1e2b43cb-5521-4d2c-8212-c8c9d7b5bea9/CCC02CB2-CA3A-4560-9F3E-0659EC8B41FB/" 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://i5invest.wordpress.com/2008/01/05/aol-continues-european-expansion-efforts/" href="http://i5invest.wordpress.com/2008/01/05/aol-continues-european-expansion-efforts/" style="font-size: 11px;">i5invest.wordpress.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://i5invest.wordpress.com/2008/01/05/aol-continues-european-expansion-efforts/"><P>In December AOL <A target="_blank" href="http://www.timewarner.com/corp/newsroom/pr/0,20812,1694184,00.html">announced</A> the launch of its sites and services for Web users in Poland. This is part of an ongoing effort to increase its presence in the European market. As an ad-supported company, AOL’s expansion is driven by the fact that the polish market is “growing faster than the U.S. with online advertising spending forcast to grow by 23% per year until 2011, when it will reach the 160 million euros mark, making it the 2nd-highest growth rate and 10th largest in Europe.”</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; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://i5invest.wordpress.com/2008/01/05/aol-continues-european-expansion-efforts/"><P>What’s interesting to see here is that while the social networking world is so often criticized for a lack of clear focus on how to monetize its offerings and sustain profitability, AOL is centering its decision on where to expand its offerings based primarily on potential markets’ ad spending projections.</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; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://i5invest.wordpress.com/2008/01/05/aol-continues-european-expansion-efforts/">Would a budding Web company look outside of its local market and decide to launch first in an environment that boasts higher growth and profit potential rates?</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/CCC02CB2-CA3A-4560-9F3E-0659EC8B41FB/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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