August has been a busy month. Most people I know having been living out of suitcase and attending events or making their way to some exotic locale for vacation. I’m off for vacation this week, but here are a few things that are coming up in September and October.

I haven’t been on vacation or cycling in the French Alps as part of the annual Tour de France. Actually, I’ve been staying local and mobile, which was in sync with the SMX Local and Mobile conference in San Francisco last week.

Before you get ready to roll with any upcoming vacation plans, here are a couple of month end advertising updates.

Be sure to check out the promotion by one of our new advertising partners, Webloyalty.com, which recently launched a new affiliate program. It is offering double commissions for the entire month of June for all affiliates that sign up by May 31.

Next week begins the annual pilgrimage of performance marketers to San Francisco for Ad:Tech. The stage is set for one of the biggest interactive marketing event of the year and the Revenue sales and marketing team will be exhibiting in Booth 6481.

Welcome to 2008! We hope you found time during the holidays for some R&R and are excited about what lies ahead. It seems like the new year is off to a flying start and now that the annual SF local Maverick’s big wave surf contest is out of the way let’s get right down to the latest news related to your 2008 media plans and upcoming advertising opportunities here at Revenue.

With a flip of the switch we are on to December and holiday hoopla is in full swing with Hanukkah kicking off and 20 days to go until Christmas.

If you’re looking for a cool new personalized gift or party beverage check out Jones Soda and grab a case of their exotic holiday flavors including eggnog and latke soda. You have to try it.

As I mentioned in a previous post, we are working on delivering supplements for each issue of 2008. Beginning with the January/February issue Revenue will publish six advertising supplements and buyer’s guides for 2008.

I wanted to remind everyone that supplements are a highly effective way to showcase market trends, key players, new technology developments and companies worth watching. They are important opportunities for advertisers to reach their target market in a contextual editorial environment.

This week’s post comes from Ad:Tech New York, where the interactive and performance marketing industry has congregated for a week of education, networking and frolicking about in The Big Apple.

Day 1 kicked off on Monday with the opening of the Exhibit Hall featuring over 500 companies with extravagant booths, attention-grabbing props and fun giveaways that ranged from autographed guitars to iPhones to branded schwag. Conference goers filled their goodie bags and made the rounds through a maze of three floors while schmoozing with exhibitors.

I’ve been really busy wrapping up September and getting on with October. The change of season is in the air including post-season baseball, which jumped off with an exciting game between the Padres and Rockies on Monday night.

Our first pitch for October starts with today’s launch of our monthly newsletter - a must read and keeps you posted on updates from our Editor-in-Chief; new online content including 5 Questions with Bob Schober, President of Cartfly; Ask Jim Kukral; Inside Track; Industry Jobs; and upcoming Marketing Events.

In sports, the talk this week has been all about cloak and dagger espionage and illegal sign stealing by the Patriots, the best team in the NFL. It is yet another representation of the things teams, companies and people do to gain an advantage.

For the readers of Revenue spying is not focused on corporate espionage, but relates to businesses that use or sell spyware and adware products and how that impacts online marketing. We are doing our best to maintain best practices that don’t condone that kind of unethical behavior.