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The Wall Street Journal, “Asian Advertisers Crank up Ad Spending”, March 27th, 2000.

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Not high on the list, but coming on fast, were dot-com companies such as internet portals, which are trying to drum up visitors using the old-fashioned media of newspapers and TV. “That really started in the fourth quarter,” said Matthew Dodds, regional director of client service for U.S. ad agency FCB Worldwide, a unit of Chicago’s True North Communications. “But almost everyone seems much healthier these days.”