Article: Companies slow to jump on Internet advertising bandwagon

SAN FRANCISCO -- To address the nagging issue of how to make Internet advertising more effective and profitable, a group of advertisers and Web publishers formed an organization called FAST, or the Future of Advertising Stakeholders, last August.

But during a trade show on Internet advertising held here last week, FAST's chairman, Richard A. LeFurgy, joked that maybe the group should change its name.

"How about `not-so FAST,'" LeFurgy said. Meeting during the tech conference on Internet advertising and marketing, FAST members said that while they had made progress in the last nine months, much work remained to convince companies to spend their advertising dollars online. The mixed sentiment ...

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