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Comedy Central Doubles Advertising Commitment On EverythingChristmas.com Web to Showcase South Park Holiday Merchandise.


SEATTLE--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Dec. 16, 1998--Comedy Central's South Park returns as an advertiser ad·ver·tise  
v. ad·ver·tised, ad·ver·tis·ing, ad·ver·tis·es

v.tr.
1. To make public announcement of, especially to proclaim the qualities or advantages of (a product or business) so as to increase
 on another of Milestone Media's Web sites, EverythingChristmas.com (http://www.everythingchristmas.com). Everything Christmas (tm) is a one-stop source for Christmas links, news and e-commerce, offering the best of the Web this holiday season with hundreds of sites categorized cat·e·go·rize  
tr.v. cat·e·go·rized, cat·e·go·riz·ing, cat·e·go·riz·es
To put into a category or categories; classify.



cat
 and described. EverythingChristmas.com, features Christmas ornaments Christmas ornaments are decorations (usually made of glass, metal, wood or ceramics) that are used to festoon a Christmas tree.

Ornaments take many different forms, from a simple round ball to highly artistic designs.
 and holiday merchandise showcasing characters from the hit animated TV show and merchandising merchandising

Element of marketing concerned especially with the sale of goods and services to customers. One aspect of merchandising is advertising, which aims to capture the interest of the segment of the population most likely to buy the product.
 phenomenon South Park (image available). Seattle based Milestone Media Milestone Media is a company best known for creating the Milestone comics imprint (that was published through DC Comics) and the Static Shock cartoon series. It was founded in 1993 by a coalition of African-American artists and writers (namely Dwayne McDuffie, Denys  recently ran a successful South Park campaign on EverythingHalloween.com where traffic was driven to the online Store at ComedyCentral.com, aiding in the strong sales of South Park Halloween masks online.

"Sponsoring the launches of these unique aggregate Christmas and Halloween Web sites has worked well for generating traffic, exposure and ultimately sales," said Larry Lieberman, Comedy Central Vice President. "We look forward to the growth of these sites in the holiday seasons ahead, as well as the introduction of future `Everything' sites."

Comedy Central doubled its commitment for banner and button advertising rotation throughout the EverythingChristmas.com site as compared to their campaign on EverythingHalloween.com.

The inaugural launch of Everything Christmas marks the third Web site from Milestone Media, producers of the popular millennial Web site Everything 2000 (R) (http://www.everything2000.com), and EverythingHalloween.com (http://www.everythinghalloween.com). EverythingValentine.com is due out in January.

EverythingChristmas.com, EverythingHalloween.com and Everything2000.com are Web sites from Milestone Media, an Internet media and commerce company of Seattle, Washington This page is protected from moves until disputes have been resolved on the .
The reason for its protection is listed on the protection policy page.
. Everything Web sites offer one-stop resources, shopping and information for seasonal milestones.

COMEDY CENTRAL, the only all-comedy network is currently available in over 55 million homes nationwide. COMEDY CENTRAL, a registered trademark of Comedy Partners, is a 50-50 joint venture of Time Warner Entertainment Company and Viacom. COMEDY CENTRAL's Internet address There are two kinds of addresses that are widely used on the Internet. One is a person's e-mail address, and the other is the address of a Web site, which is known as a URL. Following is an explanation of Internet e-mail addresses only. For more on URLs, see URL and Internet domain name.  is http://comedycentral.com.
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