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Get in Control with Paid Media: How PPC and Display Can Put You Back in the Driver’s Seat

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October 22nd 2012
Author
Daniel Laury

Ding ding! Let the bout begin. There’s a wrestling match for your ad dollars going on right now. The players — media giants Facebook and Google — are working up a sweat over who will command a greater share of paid media ad spend. SEMPO estimates that the North American [...] more...

How Local Is Your Global Marketing Strategy?

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June 28th 2012
Author
Bill Van De Laarschot

ADOTAS – In striving to accelerate a global online sales presence, many marketers fall into the trap of assuming it’s as simple as rolling out the same message, promotion, campaign or collateral in multiple markets. To get it right, marketers must approach international expansion with the goal of going “local [...] more...

Off-Duty: Adotas Goes to Its Own Event

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March 16th 2012
Author
Brian LaRue

ADOTAS - Last night, Adotas hosted its first industry event of the year, “Adotas Off-Duty: Spring Fling,” at Pranna, a chic Indian restaurant and bar in Manhattan. By all accounts, we showed all our guests a good time, at the risk of sounding overly self-congratulatory. The open bar that kicked [...] more...

Yahoo! and Gannett Expand Local Ad Partnership

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August 31st 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Following success in nine markets, Yahoo! and Gannett Broadcasting are expanding the local advertising partnership they formed back in June to all 19 of Gannett’s broadcasting markets by February 2012. In addition to the nine Gannett broadcasters selling Yahoo! advertising inventory, all of Gannett’s 81 newspaper sites also sell Y’s [...] more...

Got Funds? Yext Rounds Up Another $10 Million

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July 29th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Local business listing management service Yext has raised $10 million in a Series D round of funding led by WGI Group, the investment vehicle of former Right Media founder, President and CEO Mike Walrath. Oh, and he’s not just an investor — Walrath is the chairman as well, a [...] more...

Affiliate Summit Confidential With Missy Ward

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July 18th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Beware, New Yorkers — the affiliates are coming, and they’re coming in droves. From August 21 to 23, around 4,000 representatives of the performance marketing industry are expected to descend upon the New York Hilton for Affiliate Summit East (register here), the 18th affiliate conference hosted by founders Missy [...] more...

Rampant Places Scams Bad News for Google’s Local Outreach

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July 11th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Thanks to NYTimes’ The Haggler (aka, David Segal), I will not be using Google anytime soon to find a locksmith. Apparently a lot of local businesses (such as locksmiths) on Google Places aren’t that local — they’re call centers listing fake addresses and gaming Google’s algorithm to get [...] more...

MaxPoint Injects Neighborhood-Level Targeting Into Video Ads

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June 8th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS - MaxPoint has expanded its neighborhood-level targeting to the video space with a new solution that allows brands and retailers to target pre-roll and in-banner video ads to users within a specific mile radius of a retailer’s store or a place where a product can be purchased. Offering local display targeting at scale, MaxPoint claims [...] more...

Local Dailies Can Charge for Online Content, But They Bring in Pennies

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June 3rd 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – The newspaper industry has been suffering a long and painful decline, but the 1,390 U.S. local dailies hanging in there are dabbling in charging for online content. However, the revenue generated through subscription plans is not looking that impressive. We commented a few months ago that Gannett might be [...] more...

Twitter Ads Ain’t Doing It for SMBs

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May 18th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Twitter President of Revenue Adam Bain noted at the Ad Age Digital conference in April that 80% of Twitter’s 600 advertisers were repeat customers — and some of the names are pretty impressive: McDonalds, Starbucks, Verizon… But 600? That’s it? Strangely enough, the microblogger gets repeat business from major companies [...] more...



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