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The Adotas Internet Advertising Features Section provides in-depth industry inspired stories from over 65 leaders of the Internet advertising marketplace. Internet advertising features encompasses everything from strategic analysis to gossip mongering related to the happenings of Internet advertising. Adotas is proud to provide multiple features weekly that cover the Internet advertising marketplace so you can remain informed and competitive.
Automakers Need to Become Better Conversationalists
ADOTAS — Today, many car buyers are making their purchases — or, at the very least, conducting substantial, decisive research — online from the comforts of their homes and offices. Prospective automobile buyers are no longer watching TV commercials, reading newspapers and walking into dealerships for all of their purchasing needs [...] more...
Affiliates can win in the media buy game
ADOTAS — One of the absolute coolest things about affiliate marketing is the fact that a single affiliate can take on a Fortune 500 company for ad space on a site like MSNBC. In Q2 of this year alone, affiliates inundated this and many other sites with arbitrage media buys. So [...] more...
Crowd-Sourced Ads: A Measured Response
ADOTAS — Want to know if an ad is resonating with your consumer? Why not ask them? With the innate social nature of the Web, it’s interesting that no one has pioneered the concept of crowd sourced advertising yet. Every year, marketers and brands spend millions on focus groups trying to [...] more...
Is the government coming for you?
DM CONFIDENTIAL — Given the marketing tactics that currently drive so much of the volume in the performance marketing space, articles headlining with “FTC Looks to Regulate Blogger Credibility” or “FTC Change in Endorsement and Testimonial Policy” should make any in our space’s heart palpitate a little faster and sit [...] more...
Customer Loyalty: How to Earn It
ADOTAS — There’s a saying in the business world: Customer acquisition is an investment, but profitability is built on customer retention. And with the economy in its current state, it’s more important than ever to keep the customers you have. When we surveyed our user base of engineering, technical, manufacturing and industrial [...] more...
FTC and behavioral targeting practices
ADOTAS — Although the FTC allows self-regulation by companies which practice behavioral targeting, it wants companies to do a better job of protecting consumers. If behavioral targeting practitioners do not inform consumers of being behaviorally targeted or misuse the information they collect, Congressional legislation or FTC regulation could be passed. Previously [...] more...
Trust Me – I’m a Professional … SEO
ADOTAS — At WebMetro we typically provide SEO Action Plans as part of campaigns. As the name implies, an SEO Action Plan is a strategic plan to achieve the ranking, traffic and return on investment objectives from the SEO campaign. Typically our SEO Action Plans are 90-days in duration, but [...] more...
Bing. You Are Now Free to Move about The Internet
DM CONFIDENTIAL — As one of the few people in the Internet world who still watches a lot of TV, last night I saw my first commercial for Bing. Today, as an experiment I decided to ask a few different people what they thought of Bing. A former Microsoft employee that [...] more...
An emerging direct digital marketing world
ADOTAS — In marketing, an approach that has staying power must tap into essential truths already defined in the consumer landscape. The latest essential truth is that consumers demand – and respond to – marketing message relevance. The disconnect between consumer demand for relevance and the ability of the marketer to [...] more...
Is green marketing here to stay?
ADOTAS — To answer this question there are several factors to consider. First, we must look through the consumer lens to evaluate the marketplace, consumer motivation and accessibility. Additionally, we need to understand how those factors impact the key players responsible for developing, distributing and promoting the products that fill [...] more...
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Trust Me – I’m a Professional … SEOADOTAS — At WebMetro we typically provide SEO Action Plans as part of campaigns. As the name implies, an SEO [...] more...
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Layoff Tracker
- AOL - 700
- Apple - 50
- Clear Channel - 2,800 total (1,000 currently)
- Google - 340
- IBM - more than 7,800
- Joost - about 90
- MySpace - in June, about 720
- World Avenue - 30 percent of workforce
- Yahoo - 2,220 total, about 700 currently
- Zango - closes, about 90, in addition to earlier layoffs
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