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In a recent study, Forrester Research assembled a list of 53 agencies and then selected six top providers to evaluate in-depth based on their revenues, balance of services, and enterprise focus.
There’s lots of interesting information relating to the strengths and weaknesses of each of the six top providers and tips for selecting your own vendor. You can purchase the full report for $995. Congratulations to iProspect for coming out on top, once again.
One interesting snippet of information. I knew iCrossing had been growing like crazy, but didn’t realize they’d had totally blown past by iProspect.
Here’s the top 6′s revenue numbers from SEM.
360i – $12M (SEM revenues in 2005)
iCrossing – $31.3M
IMPAQT – $7M
iProspect – $14.7M
Outrider – $10M (estimated)
Reprise Media – $15M
Ask.com has taken its existing maps service, combined it with content from parent-company IAC’s CitySearch and Ticketmaster, stirred the ingredients and baked at 400F for 20 minutes. The result? A great new way to search for business, events, movies and maps using a new service called 
Reading SEOmoz’s 
Matt Cutts
I’m normally a fan of Elinor Mills stuff on CNET, but 
I have to admit, I’ve never heard of the company ClickShift, but WebTrends certainly has. The web analytics company has just announced the acquisition of the paid search optimization firm.
ClickZ also reports that iCrossing has acquired Newgate Internet, a company offering , paid search, reputation management and word of mouth services.
GSINC Ltd’s
