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"The ad volume isn't there.
Excluding the fifth week, classified ad volume dropped 1percentt and local ad volume fell 6percentt.
In February 2000, ad volume was 49.5percentt greater than it had been in February 1999.
The company expects ad volume to be down a similar amount in March.
But high-margin classified ad volume has come under pressure in recent years from Internet competitors like Monster.com.
Combined local and national ad sales rose 17percentt in September, the bureau reported, compared with September 2001, when ad volume was reduced by the terrorist attacks.
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Soutar admitted that a tough French market meant that ad volumes were about 10% down on where the company had forecast.
Those upfront, fixed costs are enormous, Mr. Mehdi acknowledges, but once Microsoft's search traffic and ad volumes rise, the financial picture could brighten quickly.
This trend is contrary to Google, where growth in ad volumes is offsetting the decline in ad prices.
When ad volumes return, Yahoo! will be a larger and stronger business than it was in the heyday of 1999.
A second opportunity is newspaper company Journal Register (21), owner of small papers in the Northeast with little or no competition and increasing ad volumes ahead.
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