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How Publishers Can Survive the Great Content Value Dilution

Written on
September 16th 2011
Author
Myles Younger

ADOTAS – A recent Wall Street Journal piece titled “Content Deluge Swamps Yahoo” paints a bleak picture for web publishers and the online media world in general. The article belabors the diminishing value of web content, citing falling CPMs and market share at Yahoo! and AOL, as well as challenges [...] more...

How Much For That Cookie in the Window?

Written on
August 4th 2011
Author
Randy Wootton

ADOTAS – The  greatest strength and the greatest weakness of the Internet as a marketing vehicle is its measurability. This is due, in part, because people can’t agree on what to measure. In the early days, everyone was excited about click-through rates (CTRs) and the first ads which could garner CTRs of 30% or more. Over time, [...] more...

Modern Online Ads Can Lead to ‘Black Swans’ for Brands

Written on
August 3rd 2011
Author
Byrne Hobart

DIGITAL DUE DILIGENCE – If there’s one way to sum up the resurgence of display advertising compared to search advertising in the last few years, it would be this: Display is finally a market. Like a financial security that can be split, swapped, sliced, diced, packaged, unpackaged, and hedged, ad [...] more...

Talkin’ About Our Lead Generation

Written on
June 9th 2011
Author
Jacqueline Causa

ADOTAS – It seems that throughout today’s marketing and advertising industry, every broker, manager, and digital specialist is trying to find a new workable lead-generation model. Coupled with tight budgets (due to a slow economy and a drive to show results and ROI), advertisers, brands, and mailers alike are less [...] more...

DigitalMoses: CPA Network… No, CPC!

Written on
May 6th 2011
Author
DM Confidential

DM CONFIDENTIAL: Performance marketing has always been about that — performance — which explains why historically, those servicing the sector, e.g., networks and aggregators focused on the furthest point along the funnel, namely a lead or a sale. It was a point of differentiation, and it lowered the risk as [...] more...

Lousy Facebook Ads Cost More? Inconceivable!

Written on
April 11th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – There are a lot of fascinating findings in the Efficient Frontier’s First Quarter 2011 Global Digital Marketing Performance Report, but the one that is going to get all the attention is that CPC Facebook ad prices have jumped by 40% quarter over quarter. Say wha? Facebook ads may not [...] more...

Injecting Search Optimization Strategies into Display

Written on
October 5th 2010
Author
Faria Hassan

ADOTAS – One of the draws to search advertising is “on the fly” optimization and now there’s no reason why it should be any different for digital display. Up until recently the main hurdle to display optimization was the lack of tools available to marketers. What tools existed were largely [...] more...

Arbitrary Be Thy Name, Facebook Ad Eval System

Written on
March 22nd 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – It’s a repeating nightmare of mine — I log into Facebook and an administer rejects me. Why? Apparently I’m irrelevant to the social mediascape. But I have so much more to plant on Farmville… Some lead-generation and direct-response marketers using targeting techniques have already seen this nightmare come true [...] more...

CPMs Shoot Up in Fourth Quarter on Rubicon Index

Written on
January 25th 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – While CPMs normally jump as the holidays roll around and retailers market like mad to attract consumers, the Rubicon Project reported a 34% hike in CPMs quarter over quarter during the fourth quarter on its Rubicon 20 Index. Rubicon believes this increase on the index, which measures CPM prices [...] more...

Display: A Medium Unsuited to the Message

Written on
January 7th 2010
Author
Timothy Hawthorne

ADOTAS – With the economy in recession and consumers examining their checking account balances more closely than ever, marketers have followed suit — spelling trouble for online display ads. In the first half of 2009, display accounted for only 34% of U.S. online ad spend. Of that, only 38% sold with [...] more...



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