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Turbo-Charging a Do-It-Yourself Affiliate Marketing Strategy

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December 13th 2011
Author
Deepa Sureka

ADOTAS – If you ask several different people for advice on whether you should manage your own affiliate marketing program, you’re likely to get several different answers. In many cases, it comes down to the size of your company, your products, the volume of your online sales, and the skills [...] more...

Facebook’s Tracking Cookies and How the FTC Could Shake Off Privacy Fatigue

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October 11th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Looks like the Facebook legal team is going to have to earn its holiday bonus this year. Five class action lawsuits have been filed against Facebook alleging the company violated wiretap laws by setting tracking cookies that contained user IDs and followed browser behavior on sites integrated with the [...] more...

Remnant Inventory Pact Makes Yahoo!, AOL and Microsoft Strange Bedfellows

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September 14th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – “Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows,” comments jester Trinculo as he partners with man-beast Caliban and drunk butler Stefano in Shakespeare’s “The Tempest.” And certainly Yahoo!, AOL and Microsoft are witnessing miserable times in the display game as Google and Facebook take the lion’s share of the [...] more...

Google: Blood on the Playground

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August 8th 2011
Author
Uriah Av-Ron

ADOTAS – Over the weekend, MG Siegler wrote an excellent post about Google’s relationship with other technology companies entitled “With Google, There Will Be Bad Blood.” According to Siegler, Google is pissing off the tech industry because they’re trying to do everything while possessing the arrogance to think that they can. Reading [...] more...

Boosting Campaign Performance With Ad Networks

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July 28th 2011
Author
Jon Carmen

ADOTAS – Navigating the ins and outs of the ad network world can be a large and daunting task. We all wish we could simply launch a campaign and then sit back and watch it triumph effortlessly. Unfortunately, we all know that it’s just not that easy, and that there [...] more...

The New Display Ecosystem, Part I: A Few Words on HYPE

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July 20th 2011
Author
Mike Nolet

ADOTAS – It’s been four years since I wrote one of my most popular series of blog posts of all time — “The Ad Exchange Model” (part 1, part 2 and part 3). Since then a lot has happened. A whole slew of three letter acronyms has appeared: DSP, SSP, [...] more...

MySpace Is Now Specific Media’s Problem — or Advantage

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June 30th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – It’s official: MySpace is now Specific Media’s problem. Oh, and actor/singer Justin Timberlake’s, who also took an ownership stake and apparently is going to drive the creative vision for the company. He sings, he dances, he acts, he produces and he guides forlorn social networks back into popular [...] more...

RockMelt’s Social Browser Update Gets Boost From Facebook Partnership

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June 14th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – As first propagated by Brandt Dainow in a fascinating column on the future of social networking, I believe Facebook’s eventual goal is to become a core part of the Internet experience — to actually integrate its social functionalities into the web. One sign this may be the case is [...] more...

Everson Swears No Facebook Ad Network in the Works

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June 8th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – “We have no plans to build an ad network,” stated Carolyn Everson, Facebook’s recently anointed vice president of global sales, at Federated Media’s Conversational Marketing Summit yesterday during NYC Internet Week. “I don’t believe you,” Federated founder, chairman and event MC John Battelle snapped back with a smile. And [...] more...

DoubleVerify’s BrandShield Pinpoints Ad Blocking to the Page Level

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May 31st 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Verification mainstay DoubleVerify is taking ad blocking down to the page BrandShield 2.0, which the company claims can see through multiple levels of i-frames to identify ad placement 96% of the time. The tool is available for marketers and can be incorporated by ad networks, DSPs and [...] more...



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