Over the years Lowe made no secret of his disdain for publicly held ad firms.

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One potential candidate is ValueClick, a publicly traded online marketing company that provides demographically targeted ad space to about 6, 000 advertisers and advertising agencies.

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One potential candidate is ValueClick (nasdaq: VCLK - news - people ), a publicly traded online marketing company that provides demographically targeted ad space to about 6, 000 advertisers and advertising agencies.

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