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During the first six months of 2007, display advertising spending online grew 17.7 percent over the prior year. During the first six months of this year, that spending grew only 8 percent. The slowed growth is due to marketers simply spending less money online and off as overall advertising declined 1.6 percent over 2008's first half and 3.7 percent in the second quarter. [TNS]