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Resonate Promises More Click-Throughs than Third-Party Methods

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December 15th 2011
Author
Brian LaRue

ADOTAS – Earlier this week, attitudinal targeting company Resonate Networks released its Insights Driven Media technology, which the company said delivered a 142 percent better click-through rate than Bluekai and 159 percent better than Exelate. (For some background on Resonate, see what Adotas wrote about them last fall, back when [...] more...

AdTruth Holds On To Customer Trust

Written on
December 7th 2011
Author
Sarah Novotny

ADOTAS – Our “online world” is changing at an exponential rate, each minute of every day and right beneath our fingertips. Devices used every day to access the Internet or to develop and store data are no longer just impersonal fixtures on a desk in an office building, university or [...] more...

Serving Two Masters: Balancing Consumers and Advertiser Needs in the Deals Space

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October 10th 2011
Author
Kara Trivunovic

ADOTAS – For daily deal businesses like Groupon, Living Social, and hundreds of others, serving two masters — advertisers who want to build brand loyalty and repeat business, and fickle subscribers who want relevant offers, not junk — is no easy task. With 685 (and counting) group sales and flash sale [...] more...

Hulu Gives Users Gong Power With Ad Swap

Written on
October 3rd 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – You know what would make Hulu’s new Ad Swap product perfect? A gong. Because there’s something about Hulu’s latest consumer-facing video ad service that reminds me of NBC’s infamous amateur talent show. Say I’m trying to watch the latest episode of FX’s “Archer”, but before I can get to the so-wrong-it’s-right animated [...] more...

FTC Patrolling for Non-OBA User Data Collection

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September 26th 2011
Author
Richard B. Newman

ADOTAS – It appears the FTC may, at long last, be realizing that curbing perceived targeted marketing abuses would likely lead to undesired and potentially disruptive consequences, including undermining the implicit bargain that drives the Internet — an exchange of value between consumers and content providers. The Commissioner for the FTC [...] more...

Email: Segmenting Subscribers

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September 8th 2011
Author
Wikus Engelbrecht

GRAPHICMAIL - Segmentation isn’t what happens when you peel an orange — it’s the practice of making your email messages more targeted to individuals by dividing your subscribers into groups of people with similar likes. Even if your whole audience is made up of people who are just dying to hear from [...] more...

Rocket Fuel Pumps Up Its Brand Booster

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August 22nd 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – On the heels of introducing its triple-layered brand shield, Rocket Fuel has introduced Brand Booster 2.0 built on top of its real-time targeting platform. In particular, Rocket Fuel has added cross-channel (display, video, social and mobile) capabilities and the option to employ multiple survey questions to its Real-Time Brand [...] more...

More Technical Details in KISSmetrics’ eTag Saga

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August 19th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – It looks like what appears on screen when a cat runs across the keyboard: VAR KMCID=’Z9iGGN1n1-zeVqbgzrlKkl39hiY’; if(typeof(_kmil) == ‘function’)_kmil(); That’s the contents of the global identifier variable KMCID set when a user hit any site using KISSmetrics’ tracking technology (such as Hulu or Spotify) before July 29 and the third-party [...] more...

Got Funds? Monetate Gets $15.1M for Targeting & Testing

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August 10th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Target-and-test hotshot Monetate continues to impress investors. Following a $5.1 million haul from December, the company has raised another $15 million in a Series B round led by OpenView Venture Partners Major retail clients clients including PETCO, Urban Outfitters and Brookstone use Monetate’s technology to concurrently run numerous targeted [...] more...

Interclick and ValueClick Feel Stock Market Shellacking

Written on
August 5th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – In case you haven’t been paying attention, the U.S. stock markets have been taking a shellacking lately, and if you thought the ad tech sector — with it’s ever-growing revenue and rapidly developing technology — would be immune, think again. On Thursday, the NASDAQ composite dropped 136.68 points yesterday for [...] more...



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